SBIR/STTR Research Award
Safe, High-Power Battery for Sonobuoys
Award amount
$142,491Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MAX POWER INC
- Proposal award date
- 2009-09-08
- Contract end date
- 2011-02-01
- UEI
- HFK8T7NPC9S8
- Solicitation number
- 2009.2
- Topic code
- N092-110
Research abstract
• The Navy has established a need to update the present high power sonobuoy power source used in Air Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) Systems. Present technology for the ASW sonobuoy battery utilizes a primary Lithium/SO2 battery chemistry which is capable of providing 20, 10 second pulses drawing 5500 W of power at 65 V. The existing system offers a low cost, high power solution, however concerns have been raised over the safety of this chemistry. Under high rates of discharge, the SO2 cell generates excessive amounts of heat which cause the cells to vent, releasing toxic fumes to the surroundings. MaxPower offers a baseline Li/MnO2 cell system as replacement for the Li/ SO2. Unique in this baseline cell are the cathode formulation and superior solution properties that can sustain high discharge condition. We showed equivalent pulse data showing that the Li/MnO2 cell system can meet the established power requirements, and we will validate this capability at the full size cell hardware level.
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.
- Lithium Vanadium Pentoxide Reserve Battery for Missile Guidance Set for Minuteman III ICBM
- Lithium Vanadium Pentoxide Reserve Battery for MK21 Reentry Vehicle for Minuteman III ICBM
- Liquid Ammonia Reserve Batteries for Electronic Fuzing
- Safe High Performing Rechargeable Military Battery
- Long Endurance, High Power Battery
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Safe, High-Power Battery for Sonobuoys
- Safe, High-Power Battery for Sonobuoys
- Safe, High-Power Battery for Sonobuoys
Research funding history
48 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1997–2023). Reported award amounts total $22,243,131. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration