SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low-Cost Autonomous Kinetic Energy (KE) Penetrator Payload for EX 172 Cargo Round
Award amount
$69,997Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2003Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Tanner Research, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- X7KGA99EEDX5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Precision-guided autonomous munitions concepts are immediately adaptable for use in a low-cost kinetic energy penetrator deployed from the EX 172 Cargo Round projectile. Feasibility of implementing an autonomous KE penetrator concept can be demonstratednear-term using gun-hardened micro components developed for exo-atmospheric miniature interceptors. Tanner Research is proposing to integrate MEMS-based spectral seeker and thruster components (using deflagrating energetics) as key enabling technologies toimplement an autonomous KE penetrator. The smart KE penetrator is presumably fired from the upgraded 5
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.
- Compact Sensor for Non-Destructive Propellant Mechanical Property Evaluation
- Title: 270V DC Add-on Upgrade for CMBRE
- Radiation Performance Improvements for EFIs
- Retrofittable Probe Latching Detection Concepts for Unmanned Aerial Refueling
- Novel Subminiature Assembly, MEMS Ultrasound, for implementation of SDPSS
Research funding history
185 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $49,118,132. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration