SBIR/STTR Research Award
Metal Matrix Composite Insensitive Munitions Technology
Award amount
$99,997Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- TOUCHSTONE RESEARCH LABORATORY, LTD.
- Proposal award date
- 2005-09-12
- Contract end date
- 2006-03-12
- UEI
- FBK3WT3XQVH8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- MDA05-T006
Research abstract
The overall objective of the proposed effort is to develop a solid rocket motor case based on metal matrix composites that will support compliance with insensitive munitions (IM) requirements while maintaining or increasing rocket motor performance. The Phase I effort will focus on developing physics-based models and designs of IM-compliant metal matrix composite solid rocket motor cases. Phase II activities will further demonstrate and validate the model predictions and IM case technology developed in Phase I and address scaling issues. During Phase III, the technology and methods developed during the prior phases will be implemented into solid rocket motors that are required to be IM compliant.
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.
- Lightweight Aluminum Composite Lifting Technologies
- MetPreg Fiber Reinforced Aluminum for Hard Upper Torso Spacesuit Components
- Faraday Shielding for Critical Infrastructure
- Establishing a Domestic Tungsten-Rhenium Wire Supply
- Lightweight Structures for Future Interceptors
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Metal Matrix Composite Insensitive Munitions Technology
- Foamed Composite Cases for Solid Rocket Motors with Insensitive Munitions
- Foamed Composite Cases for Solid Rocket Motors with Insensitive Munitions
- Insensitive Munitions Technology
Research funding history
104 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2025). Reported award amounts total $38,514,559. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation