SBIR/STTR Research Award
Lightweight On-Orbit Gimbal Systems
Award amount
$749,760Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- HARDRIC LABORATORIES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2006-06-22
- Contract end date
- 2007-12-22
- UEI
- D6WNHJKLW158
- Solicitation number
- 2004.4
- Topic code
- MDA04-132
Research abstract
The gimbal elevation ring, also made with AlBeMet 162, It will be manufactured from a Near Net Shape (NNS) Hipped block of material. The technical objectives of this portion of the Phase II are as follows: a. Provide structural analysis of the gimbal elevation ring and drawings revised to reflect wall thickness accounting for the change in material. b. Thermal, Structural, and Pointing & Stabilization analysis for the gimbal elevation ring. The Phase II team evaluated the concept of producing the Gimbal Elevation Ring using the AlBe Weld method and determined that due to the cost of tooling the project would exceed the $750K Additionally the associated risk of successfully producing a part of this complexity utilizing AlBeWeld with this method on a part with eight weld is very high. When full production commences MDA must be assured that the structural and thermal requirements for the two components are compatible at assembly and installation.
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.
- Advanced Lightweight Metal Matrix Composite Segmented Optic Manufacture
- Lightweight On-Orbit Gimbal Systems
Research funding history
3 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2010). Reported award amounts total $940,470. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration