SBIR/STTR Research Award
CVC SiC: The Low Cost Pathway to High Performance, Lightweight Mirrors
Award amount
$748,426Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- TREX ENTERPRISES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2005-06-20
- Contract end date
- 2007-06-19
- UEI
- RN43FYPYNKP4
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- MDA04-086
Research abstract
This program targets manufacturing improvements for the production of high performance SiC optical mirrors using Trex’s patented chemical vapor composite (CVC) process. The end result will be a rapid, robust, and scalable method for making stiff, lightweight SiC optics suitable for insertion into various DoD programs, with special emphasis on space-based cryogenic surveillance applications. The Phase II technical objectives are to deliver a lightweight ribbed CVC SiC mirror designed and manufactured to the STSS program specifications as defined by Raytheon (STSS Prime) and to increase the maturity and scale of Trex’s manufacturing process. To meet these objectives, Trex will design and fabricate a 500 mm aperture mirror for testing with our partners at ITT.
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.
- Metalens Solar Compass (MLSC)
- Millimeter Wave Imaging Radar (MIR) for Identification of Human in Degraded Visual Environments
- Rotor High Speed Imaging System (RHIS)
- CNS for Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessels
- CNS for Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessels
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Development of a Laser Micromachining Process for the Fabrication of SiC Mirrors
- Development of a Laser Micromachining Process for the Fabrication of SiC Mirrors
- Low-Cost Manufacture of Lightweight Mirror Systems
- CVC SiC: The Low Cost Pathway to High Performance, Lightweight Mirrors
Research funding history
103 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2025). Reported award amounts total $44,634,758. 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