SBIR/STTR Research Award
Carbon Foam Lightning and Thermal Protection System
Award amount
$149,997Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- TOUCHSTONE RESEARCH LABORATORY, LTD.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-12-22
- Contract end date
- 2015-07-21
- UEI
- FBK3WT3XQVH8
- Solicitation number
- 2014.2
- Topic code
- MDA14-014
Research abstract
Touchstone proposes to build on past thermal protection system (TPS) efforts and develop an innovative lightweight and low-cost system that provides protection from lightning strikes as well as from heat and atmospheric debris. This will be accomplished by utilizing a lightweight carbon foam (CFOAM) as the foundational material and varying the properties of the foam through choice of precursor and processing methods. Electrical and thermal modeling will be used to determine the optimal combination of materials, and these will be tested at the sub-scale laboratory level. Results will be compared to existing methods of lightning protection in order to demonstrate improvement. Approved for Public Release 14-MDA-8047 (14 Nov 14)
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.
- Lightweight Aluminum Composite Lifting Technologies
- MetPreg Fiber Reinforced Aluminum for Hard Upper Torso Spacesuit Components
- Faraday Shielding for Critical Infrastructure
- Establishing a Domestic Tungsten-Rhenium Wire Supply
- Lightweight Structures for Future Interceptors
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Grounding Multilayer Missile Coating for Lighting Strike Mitigation
- Carbon Foam Lightning and Thermal Protection System
- Weight Optimized Mitigation to Direct Effects of Lightning Strike on a Missile Body
- Grounding Multilayer Missile Coating for Lightning Strike Mitigation
- Carbon Foam Lightning and Thermal Protection System
Research funding history
104 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2025). Reported award amounts total $38,514,559. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation