SBIR/STTR Research Award
Destruction of Chemical/Biological Warfare Agents using a Portable Microwave Emitter
Award amount
$749,981Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-06-18
- Contract end date
- 2006-06-18
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 2003.1
- Topic code
- AF03-065
Research abstract
PSI proposes a program for the development of a system to generate, transmit and apply pulsed microwaves to biological agents on aircraft surfaces. The system will produce fields up to 100 kV/m over an area of 100 cm^2 at a frequency of about 3 GHz or 8 GHz and deliver the radiation at distances to 3 M. In Phase I, a 500 kW, 2.8 GHz laboratory system was assembled and tested against a biological agent simulant, Bacillus thuringiensis. Those tests showed kill-factors of log 5 and demonstrated the effectiveness of diazoluminomelanin (DALM) as a means of kill enhancement. A prototype Phase II system was designed. In Phase II, the system will be fabricated and tested both in the laboratory and the field.
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.
- Off-axis Laser Event Recorder (OALER)
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- Advanced Ruggedized Modulators for Onboard Receivers (ARMOR)
- Modular Bypass Valve for Solid Fuel Ramjets
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Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. 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 Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency