SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Fiber Optic and Electrical Cable Diagnostics
Award amount
$79,991Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MANAGEMENT SCIENCES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2013-11-25
- Contract end date
- 2014-05-25
- UEI
- GNV6LTBBN381
- Solicitation number
- 2013.2
- Topic code
- N132-114
Research abstract
Tyco Electronics Connectivity Defense and Aerospace (TE) is a leading supplier of mil-spec fiber optic (FO) connectors used in ship"s wiring plants, In a Navy SBIR, our company, Management Sciences, Inc. (MSI) worked with TE and developed a portable automated test equipment (ATE) for fast and efficient troubleshooting of harnesses. The portable ATE operates at the rate of about 4 seconds per conduit compared to several minutes for single conduit testers. We propose research leading to production of an automated inspection system that automatically inspects, tests, and documents fiber optic (FO) conduits of a ship"s cable plant. The technology will interface to FO cable connectors and automatically inspect for factory and installation defects. This new technology shall include all necessary instrumentation for operating as an automated system that inspects and documents the location and nature of the fiber optic wiring plant problems or defects. (A separate proposal is presented for inspecting electrical wiring plants which have an entirely different problem space.)
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.
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- Cybersecure Wireless Integrated Low-Probability-of-Detection Networks
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Universal Embeddable Technology for Fiber Optic and Electrical Cable Diagnostics
- Universal Embeddable Technology for Fiber Optic and Electrical Cable Diagnostics
Research funding history
83 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2025). Reported award amounts total $35,277,261. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy