SBIR/STTR Research Award
Clandestine UAV for Precise Deployment of Communication/Sensor Packages
Award amount
$749,371Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2001Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- K1L1BZLNPWC4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
In its 1999 SBIR solicitation, DARPA requested ideas for a Clandestine UAQ (CUAV) that could covertly deliver small packages in advance of military operations. Aurora Flight Sciences was awarded a Phase I contract in May 2000. During Phase I Aurora has(1) performed a range of trade studies and selected a unique vertical takeoff and landing UAV configuration, (2) developed optical guidance strategies that use
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.
- RApid Verification and Validation Techniques (RAVVT)
- Aerial Aquatic Ordnance Removal Vehicle (AEQUOR-V)
- Spacecraft Swarm Coordination and Planning Tool
- Vertical Lift by Series Hybrid Power
- Tool for Collaborative Autonomy
Research funding history
172 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1990–2017). Reported award amounts total $52,953,955. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce
Contractor profile
AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION
Historical federal award activity, when published, is on that contractor profile. Matched by UEI only.
Agency intelligence
NAICS intelligence
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