SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Autonomous Securing Vehicle (AASV) System Phase II
Award amount
$990,449Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2008-08-28
- Contract end date
- 2010-08-28
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 2007.1
- Topic code
- N07-026
Research abstract
The current procedure for securing aircraft to a Navy flight deck is both manpower intensive, as measured in “blue-shirt billets”, and equipment intensive, requiring up to eighteen TD-1B chain tie downs per aircraft. As emerging Navy trends and tactics move towards reduced shipboard manpower and increased reliance on unmanned assets, Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) introduces a pathway to new technology which will allow autonomous securing without manual installation of wheel chocks and chains. PSI’s concept uses tug-tractor deployed autonomous vehicles for aircraft landing gear docking and magnetic clampdown to the flight deck. Additionally, PSI’s Autonomous Aircraft Securing Vehicle (AASV) system poses minimal impact to aircraft hardware, ship hardware, and ship operations.
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.
- Off-axis Laser Event Recorder (OALER)
- TFLN Interconnect for Gigabit-rate Environment Ruggedization (TIGER)
- Advanced Ruggedized Modulators for Onboard Receivers (ARMOR)
- Modular Bypass Valve for Solid Fuel Ramjets
- Bio-inspired Energy Dissipating Structures for Enhanced Airdrop Capabilities
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Aircraft Anchoring Device (AAD)
- Aircraft Securing System
- Autonomous Aircraft Securing Vehicle (AASV) “Horseshoe Crab” Robot for Flightdeck Applications
Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency