SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low-Observable Remote Sensor Deployment
Award amount
$69,409Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- CONTINENTAL CONTROLS AND DESIGN, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-03-22
- Contract end date
- 2004-09-22
- UEI
- MHCHJNK9XN76
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- N04-014
Research abstract
We propose "Airplane in a Tube" - an unmanned aerial vehicle with folding wings, capable of being launched from a sonobuoy dispensor from any altitude. Using GPS navigation and dead reckoning when GPS is denied, it can glide to a destination, release payload, then using an electric motor and LiOn batteries travel several additional miles before ditching. The airframe is based on Swift, which has successfully flown under electric power after launch from a mortar tube.
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 Self-Start System Demonstration for T56 Engine Driven Aircraft
- Dual Imager Augmented LIDAR
- Perfect Timing Imaging Seeker
- Integrated High Power Generation for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle
- Innovative Solutions for Multi-Rotor Flight Endurance
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Precision Aerial Delivery of Sonobuoys (PADS)
- Precision Aerial Delivery of Sonobuoys (PADS)
- Autonomous Air Vehicle for Remote Standoff Sensor Deployment Capable of Using Sonobuoy Launchers
Research funding history
47 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1997–2024). Reported award amounts total $13,140,887. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration