SBIR/STTR Research Award
Lightweight Thermally Protective Integrated Missile Airframe Composite
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- EDWARD POPE DR
- Proposal award date
- 2009-03-27
- Contract end date
- 2009-09-27
- UEI
- HPX4PC9TMCV5
- Solicitation number
- 2008.3
- Topic code
- MDA08-020
Research abstract
In this MDA Phase I SBIR program, MATECH/GSM (MG) proposes to demonstrate its revolutionary low cost, high temperature ceramic fiber and fiber processing technologies for non ablative structural TPS systems for the next generation of high supersonic missiles. Through prior SBIR programs, MG has developed novel, low cost preceramic polymers and processing technologies for producing SiOC and ZrOC ceramic fibers and formed ceramic fiber components. These ceramic fibers, depending on preceramic polymer chemistry, offer service temperatures ranging from 2550°F to 5000°F and can be formed both before and after pyrolysis into structural insulative shapes suitable for nose cones, fin leading edges, and fuselage body structural insulation systems. This new technology offers a promising new method for solving TPS issues on high supersonic vehicles.
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.
- Flexible TPS Materials
- High Yield SiC Preceramic Polymers
- Affordable Materials and Coatings for Pressure Gain Combustion
- SiNC-1400X Ceramic Fibers and CMCs for Unique High Temperature Applications
- Low Thermal Conductivity Fiber for Solid Rocket Nozzle Insulation
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Lightweight Thermally Protective Integrated Missile Airframe Composite
- Advanced Missile Materials and Process Technologies
- Lightweight Thermally Protective Integrated Missile Airframe Composite
- Carbon-Carbon/Carbon Foam/Aerogel Process for Integrated Aerostructure TPS
- Hybrid SiC-SiC/C-SiC Thermal Protection Structural Material
Research funding history
70 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1996–2021). Reported award amounts total $25,404,453. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services