SBIR/STTR Research Award
Mobile Lightweight Folding/Expandable (LIFE) Bridge
Award amount
$1,499,957Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-06-23
- Contract end date
- 2028-06-23
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 23.2
- Topic code
- N232-079
Research abstract
Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop a lightweight, portable, rapid deploying hinged bridge system. Existing mobile bridges are big, heavy, expensive, armored and transported by Abrams class vehicles. The PSI solution provides gap crossing for a new era of smaller independent vehicles without committing large, dedicated resources. PSI’s mobile Lightweight Foldable/Expandable (LIFE) bridge solution is transported within weight and volume constraints or towing capacity of the MTVR. The LIFE bridge can be deployed and retrieved within 5 minutes, and can support loads for MLC-60 standards to span a 15 m gap.
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.
- Bio-inspired Energy Dissipating Structures for Enhanced Airdrop Capabilities
- Off-axis Laser Event Recorder (OALER)
- Scalable, Controllable Inductive Arrays for Weld Heating
- TFLN Interconnect for Gigabit-rate Environment Ruggedization (TIGER)
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Lighter Faster Deployable Assault Gap Crossing System
- Lighter Faster Deployable Assault Gap Crossing System with ADI
- Mobile Lightweight Folding/Expandable (LIFE) Bridge
- Rapidly Assembled Portable Tactical Operations Ramp (RAPTOR)
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