SBIR/STTR Research Award
POST ATTACK AIR BASE RECOVERY OPERATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN A VERY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT.
Award amount
$49,543Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1985Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- FOSTER-MILLER, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- XDF1FRDG8KK4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
POST ATTACK AIR BASE RECOVERY OPERATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN A VERY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT. WITH PREMIUMS PLACED ON MINIMIZING BOTH THE TIME AND NUMBER OF PERSONNEL REQUIRED WHILE MAXIMIZING PERSONNEL SAFETY, ADAPTATION OF ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY TO SOME OR ALL OF THE TASK MAKES SENSE. INSTRUMENTATION CAPABLE OF RECOGNIZING, MEASURING AND QUANTIFYING THE DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A BOMB CRATER IS A NECESSARY PREREQUISITE TO AUTOMATING THE ACTUAL REPAIR PROCESS. THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF MAPPING CRATER DIMENSIONS. A SYSTEM WILL BE DEVELOPED WHICH WILL BE CAPABLE OF DETERMINING THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF CONCRETE UPHEAVAL AS WELL AS THE VOLUME OF OPEN VOID IN THE CRATER. UPON COMPLETION OF THIS PHASE I EFFORT A SENSOR SYSTEM DESIGN WILL BE GENERATED, FOR INTEGRATION WITH THE RRR EXCAVATOR, THAT IS CAPABLE OF DETECTING AND MEASURING BOMB DAMAGE CRATERS IN THE POST ATTACK ENVIRONMENT.
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.
- Electromechanically and Sensor Enhanced Endoscopic Tools
- Novel Hydrogel-Based System for Hemorrhage Control
- Self-Assembling System for Targeted Nanodelivery of Proteins (STOP)
- Clean Burning Waste Gasifier to Produce Tar-Free Gas for Internal Combustion Engines
- High Temperature Ionic Liquid Lubricant for Advanced Aircraft Turbine Engines
Research funding history
924 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2006). Reported award amounts total $172,256,128. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency