SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Continuous and Automated Manufacturing Breakthrough, Securing a Robust Domestic Supply Chain of Affordable High Temperature Reinforcement for Hypersonic Thermal Protection System Applications
Award amount
$500,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Logistics Agency
- Recipient company
- BALLY RIBBON MILLS
- Proposal award date
- 2023-08-21
- Contract end date
- 2024-08-21
- UEI
- NLCECNKKSUU8
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- DLA231-D07
Research abstract
The loom developed by the BRM team is the most advanced and versatile loom ever built by BRM. The servo control of all movements in the weaving operation, combined with BRM’s experience of weaving novel structures is a true game changer, advancing BRM’s ability to supply woven preforms which were unobtainable until now. Now that the loom is built and a proof of concept has been woven on the loom (TRL 4), BRM would like to team up with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) on a direct to Phase II effort, to support a materials and process (M&P) engineering effort to transition the innovative process into a production capability to support the Department of Defense (DoD) and provide materials to develop future U.S. defense modernization priorities.
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.
- Additive Insulative Layer for Thermal Protection System
- Characterize Automated Fine Unit Cell Preforms for Future Nose Tip TPS
- Additive Insulative Layer for Thermal Protection System
- Characterize Automated Fine Unit Cell Preforms for Future Nose Tip TPS
- 3D Woven Pi Preform with Integrated Fillets
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Domestic Needled Preforms for C/SiC Composites
- Flight Qualification of Alternative Leading Edges
- Aerospace Grade Silica fabric for Thermal Insulation
- Automated Through Thickness Reinforcement for Affordable & Robust High Temperature Composite Structures
- Accelerated Processing with Geometry-Specific Pyrolysis Heating Profiles for Production of C-C Hot Structures
Research funding history
17 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2024). Reported award amounts total $7,237,175. 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