SBIR/STTR Research Award
HELIKITE ELEVATED PLATFORM - TEST RELAY
Award amount
$747,908Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- CAROLINA UNMANNED VEHICLES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2004-08-25
- Contract end date
- 2006-08-25
- UEI
- DWQ3HXGRTFZ6
- Solicitation number
- 2003.1
- Topic code
- AF03-243
Research abstract
The Air Force requires a new cost effective methods of deploying a test relay capability over long ranges. To meet this need Carolina Unmanned Vehicles, Inc. will develop the Helikite Elevated Platform - test Relay (HEP-TR), consisting of a small tethered blimp mounted in a special Carrier that allows operation by only two people. It can be towed by a HMMWV or other small vehicle. Other HEP-TR payloads can include communication relay equipment, COMINT / SIGINT receivers or Electro-Optic / IR sensors.
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 Aerostat System – Deployable Communications Network (LAS-DCN)
- HELIKITE ELEVATED PLATFORM - TEST RELAY
- Helikite Elevated Platform
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
4 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2007). Reported award amounts total $987,044. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense