SBIR/STTR Research Award
Technology Transitioning of Phase II Scalable Adaptive Fiber-Array Elements (SAFARE)
Award amount
$1,699,619Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- MV INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2016-11-30
- Contract end date
- 2020-09-29
- UEI
- KGLMBKHC38M5
- Solicitation number
- 12.B
- Topic code
- AF12-BT13
Research abstract
The ongoing SAFARE STTR Phase II effort is focused on improving essential components for the high-energy coherently combined, fiber-based phased-array laser weapon system prototypes developed under the DARPA Excalibur program and significantly reduce system size, weight and required electrical power (SWaP). Fiber-array based laser weapons technology promises high power efficiency and reduced SWaP, making them appealing for many military platforms. The proposed enhancement will further increase the energy efficiency, reliability, and adaptability of these laser systems while reducing maintenance costs by creating modular, replaceable subcomponents. These upgrades greatly increase usability for DoD directed energy applications, while closing technology gaps for their entrance into the commercial laser manufacturing market.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Laser Additive Manufacturing of Seven Thousand Series Aluminum Aircraft Components (LAM-STAAC)
- Test Article Printing with Laser Additive Manufacturing (TAP-LAM) for Threat Surrogate Target Production
- Scalable Adaptive Laser Array for Additive Manufacturing (SALAAM)
- Wide-Area Laser Additive Manufacturing in Metals with Adaptive Beam Shaping (WALAM-ABS)
- Control & Optimization of Multiple Illumination Characteristics (COMIC) of A Pulsed Fiber Array Laser System For Active Imaging Through Fog
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Technology Transitioning of Phase II Scalable Adaptive Fiber-Array Elements (SAFARE)
- Scalable Adaptive Fiber-Array Elements (SAFARE) for Directed Energy Phased Arrays
- Transition to the Next Generation High Power Phased Array Transceivers
- Intra-Subaperture Adaptive Optical (ISAO) System
- Subaperture Adaptive Optics for directed energy phased arrays
Research funding history
34 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2011–2018). Reported award amounts total $20,432,756. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense