SBIR/STTR Research Award
Innovative Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Detection and Identification Technology for Military Turbine Engines
Award amount
$321,914Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Prime Photonics, LC
- Proposal award date
- 2015-07-09
- Contract end date
- 2017-07-30
- UEI
- FBH9F54NF743
- Solicitation number
- 2009.3
- Topic code
- N093-183
Research abstract
Prime Photonics will refine and demonstrate a FOD detection system on the first stage fan of a F402 engine. The FOD detection system will increase the safety of aircraft operations by providing the ability to identify the occurrence of FOD allowing for remediation of any damage which may have been caused. The FOD detection system is based on the FOCIS sensor technology, a case mounted optical blade tip timing sensor. The system to be tested includes optical probes, laser instrumentation, data acquisition hardware, and analysis software. Furthermore, the implementation of the sensing system requires minimal modification to the engine. This new capability will enhance the safety and reliability of the AV-8B fleet, and ultimately other aircraft platforms, by providing data which can be used to eliminate engine failures resulting from undetected damage caused by FOD.
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.
- Zero Foreign Object Damage (FOD): Inlet Debris Monitoring System (IDMS)
- Neuromorphic and Optical Constellation Tracker for Unstable spacecraft Attitude correction (NOCTUA)
- Debris Trajectory and Classification (DTAC) System
- Non-Intrusive Fiber-Optic Boundary Layer Profile Measurement System
- Multi-Phase Flow Interrogation System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Foreign Object Damage Detection With The Prime FOCIS System
- Foreign Object Damage Detection With The Prime FOCIS System
- Innovative Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Detection and Identification Technology for Military Turbine Engines
Research funding history
67 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2023). Reported award amounts total $23,259,179. 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, Department of Transportation