SBIR/STTR Research Award
ACCELERATOR CONCEPT
Award amount
$55,445Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1986Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- InterScience, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- MTL5E2H5J946
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPRESSION PROJECTILE ACCELERATOR THAT CAN MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATION AS KINETIC ENERGY WEAPON IS PROPOSED. THE PRINCIPAL VIRTUE OF THE PROPOSED CONCEPT, IN ADDITION TO SIMPLICITY AND HIGH EFFICIENCY TYPICAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHER CONCEPTS PRESENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT IS ITS EXPECTED RELIABILITY DUE TO THE FACT THAT, IN CONTRAST TO RAIL GUNS, CURRENT FLOW OCCURS ENTIRELY OUTSIDE OF THE BORE; AND IN CONTRAST TO COAXIAL TYPE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS, IT IS CAPABLE OF ACCELERATED TO 20 KM/SEC IN A DISTANCE OF A FEW METERS. THE PRINCIPAL ELECTROMAGNETIC ELEMENT EMPLOYED IN THE CONCEPT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN DEVELOPED FOR OTHER APPLICATIONS AND HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE CAPABLE OF RELIABLE OPERATIONS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PHASE I PROGRAM IS TO FURTHER DEVELOP THE CONCEPT BY MAKING USE OF THE EXISTING DATA BASE ON THE BASIC ELEMENT TO ESTABLISH THE TOTAL FEASIBILITY OF THE PROPOSED CONCEPT AND DETERMINE THE OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE THAT CAN BE REALIZED FROM THESE TYPES OF DEVICES.
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.
- Ultra Wide Field of View Night Vision Goggles with Spherical Sensing
- Portable Biometric System (PBS) for Identity Dominance
- Portable Biometric System (PBS) for Identity Dominance
- Ultra-wide Field-of-View Endoscope for White Light and Narrow Band Imaging
- C-View Semi-rigid Endoscope for Urological Applications
Research funding history
84 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1984–2011). Reported award amounts total $18,838,228. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration