SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reduction of Structural Mass Fraction for Extreme Solar HALE Flying Wings
Award amount
$98,714Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- BALLY RIBBON MILLS
- Proposal award date
- 2007-11-06
- Contract end date
- 2010-01-31
- UEI
- NLCECNKKSUU8
- Solicitation number
- 2007.2
- Topic code
- SB072-044
Research abstract
The VULTURE Air Vehicle Program is an exploratory development program with the overall goal to develop and demonstrate the ability to deliver and maintain an airborne payload on station for an uninterrupted period exceeding 5 years using a heavier-than-air platform system. It is envisioned that this program will, at a minimum, develop and demonstrate advanced reliability technologies for air vehicles. Bally Ribbon Mills and Lockheed Martin have been developing lightweight, low cost structural concepts that apply three-dimensional woven pi-shaped woven preforms under IRAD and CRAD programs that when bonded into integrated composite structures offer significant reductions in airframe weight for High Altitude Long Endurance aircraft. The VULTURE Air Vehicle Program will research and develop technologies and systems which will enable the Military to deliver and maintain a 1000 lb, 5 kW airborne payload for an uninterrupted period exceeding 5 years with a 99+% on station probability.
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.
- Additive Insulative Layer for Thermal Protection System
- Characterize Automated Fine Unit Cell Preforms for Future Nose Tip TPS
- A Continuous and Automated Manufacturing Breakthrough, Securing a Robust Domestic Supply Chain of Affordable High Temperature Reinforcement for Hypersonic Thermal Protection System Applications
- Additive Insulative Layer for Thermal Protection System
- Characterize Automated Fine Unit Cell Preforms for Future Nose Tip TPS
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Passively Adaptive Wing Structures for High Altitude, Long Endurance UAVs
- Reduction of Structural Mass Fraction for Extreme Solar HALE Flying Wings
- Reduction of Structural Mass Fraction for Extreme Solar HALE Flying Wings
- Reduction of Structural Mass Fraction for Extreme Solar HALE Flying Wings
Research funding history
17 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2024). Reported award amounts total $7,237,175. 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