SBIR/STTR Research Award
Fabrication Approaches for the Production of ALON Domes
Award amount
$1,402,740Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- SURMET CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2005-06-07
- Contract end date
- 2008-12-31
- UEI
- P559PBN6LX76
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- SB041-002
Research abstract
The dome for the Joint Common Missile (JCM) program is required to have a patterned metal mesh buried between inner and outer dielectric layers. Surmet’s approach is to adhesively bond inner and outer ALON shells together, with a metal grid buried at the interface. The bonding and fabrication processes required to produce JCM dome prototypes are currently being demonstrated on the phase I effort. The goal of the proposed Phase II effort is to refine the various processes to yield several fully compliant prototypes for evaluation by the JCM program.
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.
- Develop and Demonstrate Improved Transparent Armor for Army Systems
- Closing Army-Identified Supply Chain Gaps for Aging Weapon Systems
- Developing Qualified Source for DLA Identified NSN
- Improved Method for Optical Fabrication of Conformal ALON Sensor Windows
- Improved Curved Transparent Ceramic Structural Components for Vehicle Armor
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
117 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2025). Reported award amounts total $45,025,722. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Homeland Security