SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Development of Micro Thruster Actuators for µUAV Applications
Award amount
$699,940Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Tanner Research, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-01-29
- Contract end date
- 2005-04-30
- UEI
- X7KGA99EEDX5
- Solicitation number
- 2002.1
- Topic code
- MDA02-041
Research abstract
Tanner Research is proposing the advanced development of embedded arrays of micro thruster airflow actuators for use by DARPA in controlling µUAV airframes. Developing embedded airflow actuators will be leveraged by Tanner's four years of experience with integrating nano-scale energetics and MEMS-based devices for use in detonators, thrusters, initiators, gas generators, safe and arm and fuzing applications. Tanner's current micro-scale thruster devices integrate with microelectronics for digital control. As a detonator device, Tanner's design only requires 50 µjoules at 3vDC for initiation. Two MEMS-based fabrication processes comprise the high risk/high reward aspects of the program: the miniaturization of the existing micro thruster concept for implementation at very large array scale; and, the development of mass fabrication/loading techniques to demonstrate manufacturability.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Research funding history
185 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $49,118,132. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration