SBIR/STTR Research Award
Automated Launch and Recovery of Un-tethered, Mini-Unmanned Underwater Vehicles from Unmanned Surface Vehicles
Award amount
$69,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- SEACORP, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2004-04-30
- Contract end date
- 2004-10-30
- UEI
- DMPKMH1MFSQ1
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- N04-127
Research abstract
Current development of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) includes the exploration of various mission capabilities. One mission capability desired of future USVs is mine hunting, using Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) to perform this task. Candidate USV/UUV future platforms to perform completely unmanned UUV launch, recovery, battery recharge, and data extraction of mine hunting include the Spartan USV and the REMUS UUV. REMUS UUV R&D test deployments to date have been from manned vessels. Similarly, USV R&D test deployments of the Spartan have not yet completely demonstrated the autonomous launch and recovery of a UUV, such as REMUS. SEA CORP will investigate the application of innovative technologies to perform the completely autonomous launch and recovery of a UUV from a USV. The SEA CORP solution will address four specific UUV processes required: Launch, Recovery, Data Extraction, and Make Ready. Reliability, cost, and producibility are key factors that will be investigated for this application.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Radio Frequency Spectrum Patterns of Life
- Digital Engineering - Perception System for Situational Awareness and Contact Detection for Unmanned Underwater Vessels
- (5) NAVY TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATION - Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Autonomous Behavior Development
- Rapid Prototype Portable Combat and Launch System
- Solid State Radar Emitter Identification
Awards with the same topic code
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- Automated Launch and Recovery of Un-tethered, Mini-Unmanned Underwater Vehicles from Unmanned Surface Vehicles
- Automated Launch and Recovery of Un-tethered, Mini-Unmanned Underwater Vehicles from Unmanned Surface Vehicles
- Automated Launch and Recovery of Un-tethered, Mini-Unmanned Underwater Vehicles from Unmanned Surface Vehicles
Research funding history
34 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2022). Reported award amounts total $15,529,883. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Education
Contractor profile
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