SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Capability Portable Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Removal System for Naval Aircraft
Award amount
$799,986Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGIES OF TENNESSEE
- Proposal award date
- 2024-08-06
- Contract end date
- 2026-02-13
- UEI
- E6CUK8AP7PY1
- Solicitation number
- 16.2
- Topic code
- N162-104
Research abstract
The 162-104 project showed the FODBot to be a reliable and robust mechanical system for FOD clearing apron areas that is easy to use. The current design is well received by marine-corps personnel for basic FOD cleaning tasks. This follow-on effort proposes to enhance the Mechanical FODBot system with these major advancements, 1) Autonomous (unmanned) capabilities on the proven FODBot platform and 2) advanced FOD detection and geo-tagging system to enable creation of a FOD digital twin (a digitally-generated replica of each piece of FOD – containing key information about that FOD) that is generated in real-time and 3) integration into an existing airfield command and control system (Moog’s Digital Airfield Solutions)???????
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.
- High Capability Portable Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Removal System for Naval Aircraft
- High Capability Portable Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Removal System for Naval Aircraft
- STTR Phase II: Development of a Remote Climbing Robot for Automating Welding Processes in the Shipbuilding Industry
- STTR Phase I: Development of a Remote Climbing Robot for Automating Welding Processes in the Ship Building Industry
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
5 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2024). Reported award amounts total $2,199,223. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation