SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
Award amount
$99,991Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Logistics Agency
- Recipient company
- ADVANCED CERAMICS MANUFACTURING, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2015-09-26
- Contract end date
- 2016-09-25
- UEI
- LABTNV8MK6M6
- Solicitation number
- 2015.2
- Topic code
- DLA152-001
Research abstract
A new approach to manufacturing is needed to streamline the logistics of maintaining legacy aircraft. Recently, Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing (ACM) developed a water soluble tooling technology (FastCore) that can reduce the cost of Fiber Reinforced Plastics (FRP) composite components. The FastCore family of products allows ACM to rapidly create water soluble mandrels for composite manufacturers. The challenge is to transition to high rate production. ACM can manufacture production or replacement parts within a very short lead time, provided we can improve our manufacturing processes that involve water removal. The objective of this Phase I proposal is to determine the technical and commercial feasibility of using microwave technology to cure tooling in minutes instead of days, significantly increasing our throughput capacity dramatically reduce cost. This will allow discrete composite parts to also achieve faster production rates and reduced cost.
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.
- High Entropy TPS Materials
- High Temperature Removable Tooling
- SiC/SiC Produced by R3 Conversion
- Additive Manufacturing of TPS Materials
- High Entropy TPS Materials
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Thermal Controls for Uniform and Consistent Material Quality in DED Additive Manufacturing Processes
- Repeatable and Scalable Innovative Production Methods for DLA Critical Supply Chain Products
- Lithium Battery Deactivation/Render Safe
- Reverse Engineering and Source Approval for Aerospace Components
- Low Cost Carbon Fluoride Active Materials for BA-5790/U and Conformal Wearable Lithium Batteries
Research funding history
43 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2025). Reported award amounts total $16,140,993. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy