SBIR/STTR Research Award
GateKeeper Buoy
Award amount
$68,949Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2005-06-29
- Contract end date
- 2005-12-29
- UEI
- MXT5BGZX32S3
- Solicitation number
- 2005.1
- Topic code
- N05-077
Research abstract
The Station Keeping GateKeeper Buoy being proposed by SARA, Inc. uses a revolutionary MHD generator to power the required FORCEnet communications equipment and the propulsion unit required for station keeping. It uses a dual buoy design, where the surface buoy contains the communications equipment and the propulsion device to enable station keeping inside the desired watch circle. The towed device is submerged and houses the MHD generator, which draws its power from the opposing motion of the two buoys transferred via the connecting tether. The focus of this proposal will be on the feasibility study in the design of the desired buoy hull forms and that of the smaller scale MHD generator. SARA currently has 2 SBIR Phase II projects for the larger scale (100 kW) MHD generator based OWEC devices and is confident that a smaller version of this generator could be designed for this application.
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.
- SPAROW for Drone Tracking
- Tomographic High-Energy Laser Measurement Apparatus (THELMA) for Non-Contact HEL Beam Profiling
- SARA Proposal 003-2025-9220 - High Power Microwave Phase Shifter STTR Phase I
- Persistent Airbrn CUAS Surveil (PANCAS)
- DMEA241-003 Ultra-high Voltage Reliability Test System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Station-Keeping Gateway Buoy
- Station-Keeping Gateway Buoy
- Station-Keeping Gateway Communications Buoy 'Gatekeeper'
- Station-Keeping Gateway Buoy
- Station-Keeping Gateway Communications Buoy 'Gatekeeper'
Research funding history
183 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2025). Reported award amounts total $77,383,618. 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, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce