SBIR/STTR Research Award
Power Generation and Storage for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV)
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Excellatron Solid State, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2009-12-01
- Contract end date
- 2010-08-27
- UEI
- MXAGWND3CC79
- Solicitation number
- 2009.2
- Topic code
- OSD09-EP2
Research abstract
Current micro air vehicles (MAV) are limited to 30 minutes of operation due to capacity of the 100 g battery they carry. Next generation MAVs utilizing an advanced power system envisioned in this project will increase the mission duration to at least 90 minutes using a 130 g battery. This increase in mission duration will require an increase in energy storage density from 125 wh/kg to 403.8 wh/kg. Advanced solid state batteries have the potential to deliver an energy density of 799 wh/kg, which would allow a MAV to achieve the objective of at least doubling the mission duration. Excellatron has years of experience developing solid state thin film battery (SSTFB) technology and is using insights gained from that experience to develop the higher performance and lower cost advanced solid state batteries.
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.
- A High Energy, High Power all Solid State Battery
- Smart Miniaturized Power Supply
- Long Life Energy Storage Systems for Shipboard Sensor Applications
- Long Life Energy Storage Systems for Shipboard Sensor Applications
- Energy Storage Systems for Very High Altitude Very Long Endurance Solar Aircraft
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High-Energy Lithium-Ion Battery Technology to Extend Mission Duration of USAF Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS)
- Power Generation and Storage for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV)
- A Novel Nanomaterial-enabled Hybrid Power System
- New Power Source for Micro Aerial Vehicles
- Power Generation and Storage for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV)
Research funding history
20 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2013). Reported award amounts total $5,620,494. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy