SBIR/STTR Research Award
Long-Range Low-Cost Precision Delivery Vehicle
Award amount
$1,798,286Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- BLUE AETHER INC
- Proposal award date
- 2024-08-19
- Contract end date
- 2025-09-19
- UEI
- JE7ZPDMVGU16
- Solicitation number
- 24.1
- Topic code
- AF241-D019
Research abstract
The resurgence of Great Power Competition (GPC) and the fast pace of technological innovation in a stringent budgetary constrained environment necessitates a profound transformation to conduct strategic cargo delivery to support Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO). The current logistical methods of employing guided or unguided parachutes: Do not provide sufficient lateral offset. Are not accurate enough. Are not cost-effective. Will not survive in an Anti-Access Aerial Denial (A2AD) environment. This proposal aims to design and deliver a prototype precision delivery vehicle called BoomSlang Non-Kinetic (NK) that can conduct a ramp exit from a CV-22 or C-130 or equivalent and transverse over 200 nautical miles and deliver under a Circular Error Probability (CEP) of 200 meters of its intended target with a $30K unit cost target.
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.
- BoomSlang Maritime - A Low-Cost, Expendable Sonobuoy-Launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- HardKill: A Low-Cost Mobile Counter-UAS Solution for Expeditionary and Contested Environments
- Print, Assemble, and Deliver: A Low-Cost Airborne Attritable Precision Delivery System
- Attritable Airborne Precision Delivery System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Low-Cost Long-Range Airdrop Delivery
- Silent Arrow Contested Logistics System with 200 Nautical Mile Range (CLS-200)
Research funding history
5 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2023–2025). Reported award amounts total $4,500,123. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense