SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low Drag 2.75 Inch Rocket and Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) Launchers
Award amount
$79,272Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- PIASECKI AIRCRAFT CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2011-05-31
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- E11VKLMGHB65
- Solicitation number
- 2011.1
- Topic code
- N111-018
Research abstract
The proposal describes a solution to the challenge presented in SBIR Topic N111-018 for a Low Drag 2.75 Inch Rocket and Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) Launchers. The Phase I approach is to develop and validate through prototype engineering, a Low Drag 2.75"Launcher. PiAC will hypothesize different approaches to respond to the topic requirement, namely our concept 60X4006 Low Weight Low Drag, (LWLD) 4-shot, and 60X4008 Low Weight Low Drag (LWLD) 19-shot launchers. PiAC will develop a trade study matrix effort on differing drag reduction approaches. Decision metrics will be developed and applied to arrive at an appropriate down-select from the trade study concepts. The final solution will be compatible with the LAU-61/68 systems for complete mechanical interoperability. The resulting Phase I effort will feed a Wind Tunnel test to validate the Weight and Drag Savings. Additionally, the ability of the launcher to be fabricated will be studied under Phase I. The best solution from the trade studies will be the basis for the follow on Phase II research.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Aerodynamic Rotating 2.75 Inch Low-Drag Lightweight Launcher
- Low Drag 2.75 Inch Rocket and Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) Launchers
Research funding history
53 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1990–2024). Reported award amounts total $68,459,273. 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 Energy