SBIR/STTR Research Award
BRDF Measurements for Spacecraft Materials Testing
Award amount
$1,250,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- BODKIN DESIGN & ENGINEERING LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2024-07-31
- Contract end date
- 2026-11-02
- UEI
- MTJSGGR6R9G4
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- AF231-0004
Research abstract
Bodkin Design & Engineering propose to build and install a BRDF measurement capability in to the Space Threat Assessment Testbed (STAT) at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC). It will be able to measure test materials while they are in the simulated space environment at cryogenic temperature. In this way the results will not be confounded by the influence of the atmosphere. It will be capable of providing data in the visible through long wave infrared; providing BRDF, Spectral BRDF, Polarization BRDF and Total Integrated Scattering using both broadband and laser sources.
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.
- Multi-Sensor Prototype for Non-Destructive Corrosion Evaluation and Characterization
- Pulsed Laser Lethality Effects for Missile Defense
- Rotor High Speed Imaging System
- Polynomial-Curved Bespoke Prescription Lens for Respiratory Protection
- Multi-Sensor Prototype for Non-Destructive Corrosion Evaluation and Characterization
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- In-Situ BRDF Measurement for Spacecraft Materials Testing
- In-situ BRDF Measurement System for Spacecraft Material Testing
- Multi-angle mesh for bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) measurement
Research funding history
56 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2025). Reported award amounts total $22,707,702. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration