SBIR/STTR Research Award
Sentinel: Automatic LPU for Ejection Seat Aircraft
Award amount
$249,995Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- LUNA LABS USA LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-03-24
- Contract end date
- 2026-03-25
- UEI
- M6JVSYRQRYM9
- Solicitation number
- 23.2
- Topic code
- N232-089
Research abstract
The current Life Preserver Units (LPU) for Fixed Wing Ejection Seat Aircraft are equipped with FLU-8B/P inflators that initiate inflation automatically upon sensing water immersion. The FLU-8 design was deployed in the early 1980s and is positioned to be updated. Further, logistical constraints to secure the battery and other components has reduced procurement availability for fleet maintainers. Therefore, there is a need for an innovative and affordable LPU inflation assembly compatible with the LPU-23D/P and LPU-36A/P that NAVAIR can reliably source. To address this need, Luna Labs USA, LLC is developing the Sentinel automatic inflation system for Fixed-Wing Ejection Seat Aircraft.
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.
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Rapid Auto-Inflation Safety Equipment
- Automatic LPU for Ejection Aircraft
- Chemical Auto Inflator for Life Preserver Units
- Rapid Auto-Inflation Safety Equipment
Research funding history
116 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2015–2025). Reported award amounts total $67,780,099. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security