SBIR/STTR Research Award
Transformational Close Air Support
Award amount
$98,427Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Dragonfly Pictures, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2009-02-23
- Contract end date
- 2009-10-31
- UEI
- H1ZTP7T8TK33
- Solicitation number
- 2008.2
- Topic code
- SB082-061
Research abstract
Research is proposed to investigate the feasibility of developing an HMMWV based Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System (VUAS) with laser designator and target geo-referencing capability to provide Close Air Support (CAS). Shoulder fired missiles have pushed US aircraft so far away from the CAS customer that he needs to find a replacement for the aircraft. As CAS aircraft stand off farther from the small unit commander they drive up complexity, training, response time, equipment weight, and costs involved in CAS. To transform CAS, DPI proposes to develop a multi-functional VUAS that operates in the near earth environment with on-board weapons. Innovations in flight controls, path planning, weapons management, and autonomous weight management are required to deliver this capability to the small unit commander.
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.
- Dodge Underneath for Collision-Avoidance Kit for Tethered UAS (DUCK TeUAS)
- Real-Time Sensor Data Processing and Compression Performed On-board Unmanned Multirotor Aerial Relay (UMAR)
- Aerostat Communications Relay from Unmanned Surface Vehicle
- Real-Time Sensor Data Processing and Compression Performed On-board Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
- Aerostat Communications Relay from Unmanned Surface Vehicle
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
21 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2022). Reported award amounts total $12,765,265. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense