SBIR/STTR Research Award
Additively Manufactured, Micro-structured, Tungsten-alloy Penetrators (AMMTAP)
Award amount
$249,920Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-02-11
- Contract end date
- 2025-08-12
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 24.4
- Topic code
- A244-054
Research abstract
The U.S. Army needs to replace depleted uranium ammunition with a safer, sustainable material. The unique material properties of Depleted Uranium (DU) make it highly suitable for armor piercing ammunition. DU’s high density of 19.07 g/cm3 delivers high kinetic energy, and its unique Adiabatic Shear Banding (ASB) properties cause rounds to “self-sharpen” as the round penetrates a material. In order to meet the Army’s needs, Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will develop the Additively Manufactured, Micro-structured, Tungsten-alloy Penetrators (AMMTAP), a kinetic penetrator round with internal micro-structures engineered to replicate the shear banding properties of DU with a high-density material.
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.
- Off-axis Laser Event Recorder (OALER)
- TFLN Interconnect for Gigabit-rate Environment Ruggedization (TIGER)
- Advanced Ruggedized Modulators for Onboard Receivers (ARMOR)
- Modular Bypass Valve for Solid Fuel Ramjets
- Bio-inspired Energy Dissipating Structures for Enhanced Airdrop Capabilities
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Additive Manufacturing for High-Density Materials
- Optimized Additive Manufacturing of Tungsten Alloys
- Additive Manufacturing High Density Materials with Locally Controllable Deformation Properties
Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. 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, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency