SBIR/STTR Research Award
HIGH EFFICIENCY HYPERVELOCITY RAILGUN LAUNCHER
Award amount
$54,761Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1991Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- IAP RESEARCH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- WBU3RUKH8DY8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSED EFFORT ARE TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY, REDUCE POWER SUPPLY SIZE, AND SHOW HYPERVELOCITY FEASIBILITY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILGUNS. OUR APPROACH IS TO USE A NOVEL CONFIGURAITON OF HIGHLY COUPLED CONDUCTORS WHICH RESULT IN NEAR ZERO RESIDUAL MAGNETIC ENERGY IN THE RAILGUN, AT PROJECTILE LAUNCH. SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS CONCEPT WILL GREATLY IMPROVE RAILGUN EFFICIENCY, LEADING TO MUCH SMALLER POWER SUPPLY SIZE. THE APPROACH WILL WORK FOR HYPERVELOCITY, AS WELL AS FOR LOWER VELOCITY LAUNCH REGIMES.
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.
- SiC-Based High Voltage Capacitor Charging Innovations
- Field effects in processing lightweight materials with superior mechanical properties and microstructures
- Innovative, shock-load resistant Pulsed Power supply.
- Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) Fault Detection, Localization, and Isolation
- Affordable Point of Use Conversion (PUC) Module for 400Hz Power System Applications
Research funding history
85 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2017). Reported award amounts total $21,413,397. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation