SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of an Active Submersible Thermal Protection System for Hot/Cold Water Environments
Award amount
$69,994Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2009-05-18
- Contract end date
- 2010-03-18
- UEI
- YR8FJBGXWRR1
- Solicitation number
- 2009.1
- Topic code
- N091-078
Research abstract
Current submersible thermal protection technology is not capable of meeting the requirements of very cold water or hot water operations in a Shallow Water Combat Submersible. Thermal protection equipment for divers in these situations will be expected to operate for durations in excess of 8 hours in temperatures below 37ºF as well as temperatures above 90ºF. Mainstream has proposed an active thermal protection system that can be easily utilized as either a heating device and a cooling device without reconfiguring the system. The proposed system will be diver-mounted and will have minimal volume and weight characteristics.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Rapid ASCENT Propellant Loading Operations
- On-Demand Repair Part Manufacturing with MRAM
- Extremely Uniform, High Quality, and Isotopically Pure SiC Epiwafers for Quantum
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Untethered Diver Cooling and Heating System
- Untethered Diver Cooling and Heating System
- Untethered Diver Cooling and Heating System
Research funding history
518 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $184,860,329. 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 Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency