SBIR/STTR Research Award
Lightweight Long Duration Warm Gas Upper Stage Rocket Motor ACS
Award amount
$124,481Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- VALLEY TECH SYSTEMS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2014-12-22
- Contract end date
- 2015-07-21
- UEI
- XADCKF4YLAZ3
- Solicitation number
- 2014.2
- Topic code
- MDA14-002
Research abstract
A multi-pulse Upper Stage Rocket Motor with long inter-pulse capability will enhance the Next Generation BMDS interceptor targeting capability. Valley Tech Systems has conceptualized a new lightweight, low power and long duration solid propellant gas supplied ACS that is enabled by our Hot Gas Valve technology. Phase I SBIR system trades and concept design activities will provided technical transition plans for the follow-on Phase II prototype development and hot fire testing. 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.
- Improvements to Weapon System Readiness Assessment Vehicles (WSRAV)
- Entry and Decent System Technology – Phase I SBIR
- Lightweight Structural Metamaterials for Second and Third Stage Rocket Motors
- Advanced Exo-atmospheric Propulsion and Control Systems
- Kinematic Reach/Containment
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Materials Design Improvements
- Lightweight Hybrid Ablator/Aerogel Insulator for SM-3 TSRM, Phase II
- Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Materials Design Improvements
- Further Enhancement of Non-Eroding Throat Liner Technology to Enable TSRM
- Water-washout tooling for improved high- to very-high-temperature manufacturing of SM-3 TSRM composite motor cases
Research funding history
33 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2021). Reported award amounts total $24,841,746. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration