SBIR/STTR Research Award
Innovative Manufacturing/Materials in Hypersonic Thermal Protection Systems
Award amount
$899,940Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- UNITED PROTECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-03-27
- Contract end date
- 2026-09-28
- UEI
- MBJQM9EQS4Q6
- Solicitation number
- 22.2
- Topic code
- N222-127
Research abstract
The Thermal Protection System (TPS) materials for current hypersonic vehicles have limited structural capability in all-weather environments and a low level of manufacturing sophistication. Nanoshell Matrix Composites (NMC) are a class of materials being developed at United Protective Technologies to address the most difficult challenges faced in hypersonic environments. NMC materials allow the properties of dissimilar ceramics to be combined to produce new materials with advanced properties like tunable coefficients of thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, and emissivity. United Protective Technologies proposes to optimize the composition of the NMC nanopowders developed under Phase I to produce TPS materials with improved survivability and thermal shock resistance for hypersonic applications.
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.
- Solid High-performance Innovative Engine Lubrication for Durability (SHIELD)
- Portable Universal Lightweight Sustainable Energy (PULSE) Generator
- High Impedance Ferro-materials for use in Additive Manufacturing (HIFAM)
- Superior Wear-reducing Improved Friction Technology (SWIFT)
- NANO-COMPOSITE COATINGS FOR REACTION WHEEL BEARINGS
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Novel Advanced Hypersonic Thermal Protection Composite Produced by AM
- Toughened, Weather Resistant Carbon-Carbon
- Nano Matrix Composites for Advanced Thermal Protection
- Novel Advanced Hypersonic Thermal Protection Composite Produced by Additive Manufacturing
- Rapid Additive Manufacturing of Ceramic Matrix Composites via Electromagnetic Heating
Research funding history
25 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2026). Reported award amounts total $11,390,411. 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