SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra-Light Weight Energy Absorbing Armor
Award amount
$729,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- POWDERMET INC
- Proposal award date
- 2007-09-24
- Contract end date
- 2009-09-24
- UEI
- TK9JT3DMDW14
- Solicitation number
- 2006.2
- Topic code
- A06-214
Research abstract
This Phase II SBIR project will refine manufacturing processes to produce high strength, lightweight, low cost energy adsorbing integral composite armor and complete design configuration optimization for combined ballistic and blast performance. Powdermet has developed a product line of unique, high strength and modulus lightweight syntactic metallic microcomposites that were shown in Phase I to be capable of compltely adsorbing fragment energies at NIJ level III/IV at less than 1/2 the areal density of steel. Design trade-offs between ceramic tile ballistic performance, syntactic microcomposite density and strength, and inegral armor design and integration variations will be analtically and experimentally optimized.
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.
- Development of Anisotropic Sintered NdFeB Magnet Consolidation Capacity
- Rapid Net Shape Fabrication of Complex Shapes
- Rare Earth Free Motor Designs with MnBi
- Rapid Manufacturing of Sintered NdFeB Permanent Magnets
- Thermally Engineered Gradient Refractory Metal Matrix Hot-Structures for Hypersonics
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
123 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2024). Reported award amounts total $29,889,391. 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 Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation