SBIR/STTR Research Award
Surface-Borne Time-of-Reception Measurements (STORM)
Award amount
$99,991Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- INVOCON, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2010-01-29
- Contract end date
- 2010-07-29
- UEI
- LZQCQX2HPGN5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- A1.10
Research abstract
Invocon proposes the Surface-borne Time-Of-Reception Measurements (STORM) system as a method to locate the position of lightning strikes on aerospace vehicles. Initially developed as a hypervelocity impact location system, the baseline technology lends itself to simple adaptation for lightning location. It uses Time-Of-Arrival (TOA) measurements of the charge wave front imparted on a structure to triangulate the location of lightning attachment. Additional capability can be added to the triggering circuitry that will characterize the lightning strike in order to increase situational awareness for flight crews and provide maintenance crews with information vital to determine the health of an aircraft. This is particularly important for new airframes manufactured from composite materials that have not be fully characterized over the full lifetime of the aircraft.
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.
- Hypervelocity Impact Detection, Location, and Assessment for Thermal Protection Systems
- Wireless Intra-vehicle Sensor Package for Enhanced Reliability (WISPER)
- Hypervelocity Impact Detection, Location, and Assessment for Thermal Protection Systems
- Health Interrogation for Space Structures (HISS)
- Wireless Sensor Network for Flight Test
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Machine-Learning & QMU for Multi-Fidelity Analysis of Scramjet Operability
- Non-Intrusive Computational Method and Uncertainty Quantification Tool for Isolator Operability Calculations
- Online Sensing Techniques for Detection of Aircraft Electrical System Anomalies
- In-Flight and Pre-Flight Detection of Pitot Tube Anomalies
- A Unified Nonlinear Adaptive Approach for Detection and Isolation of Engine Sensor, Actuator and Component Faults
Research funding history
55 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2019). Reported award amounts total $12,310,094. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services