SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of Toroidal Propellers for Torpedo and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) Applications
Award amount
$146,423Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- TRITON SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-07-23
- Contract end date
- 2026-01-19
- UEI
- DA91DUWSMSQ7
- Solicitation number
- 25.1
- Topic code
- N251-043
Research abstract
Triton Systems will use analytical methods and computational fluid dynamics to characterize and optimize a toroidal propeller set to increase the top speed and efficiency of the MK 54 torpedo by more than 10%., while meaningfully decreasing the acoustic signature. The counter-rotating propeller set will be a drop-in replacement for the existing MK 54 propeller design, staying inside the required volume limits and meeting or exceeding current performance characteristics and working with the current torpedo propulsion system. Triton will leverage innovative construction methods to achieve lower per unit cost at scale. ÝThe program will result in a proposed phase two design that is lower cost than the existing design with better performance.Ý
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.
- Coatings for Reliable Compact Rotary Engines
- Pre and Post Weld Heating Innovations
- Biological Noise Modeling for Active and Passive Sonar System Performance Predictions
- Ambient Acoustic Noise Cancelling for Military Boom Microphones
- Advanced Fretting Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Naval Aerospace Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Development of Toroidal Propellers for Torpedo and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) Applications
- Silent Waters
- Low-Cost Sharrow Closed-Loop Contra-Rotating Rotor Set (S-CRP) - P4953
- Injection-Molded Contrarotating Composite Propellers for Torpedo and UUV Applications
- DROP IN REPLACEMENT OF TOROIDAL PROPELLERS FOR TORPEDO AND UUV (UNMANNED UNDERSEA VEHICLES)
Research funding history
927 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2026). Reported award amounts total $388,500,403. 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 Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation