SBIR/STTR Research Award
Mobile Bead-Breaker for F-35 Tires
Award amount
$70,018Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Robotire, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-05-04
- Contract end date
- 2023-08-04
- UEI
- VF15M1TLF9K4
- Solicitation number
- X23.5
- Topic code
- AFX235-CSO1
Research abstract
The average lifespan of an F-35 tire is 10 landings. With upwards of 144 aircraft in rotation, Luke AFB Tire and Wheel Shop services 20 tires per day. The frequency of tire changes needed for aircraft readiness coupled with the amount of manpower to maint
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.
- Robotire Heavy Duty Automated Tire Changer - TACFI
- Robotic Tactical Tire Changing Vehicle (RT2V)
- RoboTire Robotic F-35 Warehouse Mounted Tire Changing Station
- Automated Vehicle Maintenance and Servicing using Robotic Computer-Vision Tire Changing Containers
- AUTOMATED VEHICLE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING USING ROBOTIC COMPUTER-VISION TIRE CHANGING CONTAINERS
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Development of a Semi-autonomous Handheld Robotic Device to Enable Rapid Vascular Access By Non-specialists in Austere Environments
- Evitado TACFI
- AI for Adaptive 3D Infrastructure Design in Navy Engineering
- Smart Thermal Protection Systems for Hypersonics
- Sub-THz Reflectarrays: An Alternative Architecture for Enhanced Array Scaling with 3D Heterogeneous Integration for DoD ELGAR Use Cases
Research funding history
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2023). Reported award amounts total $2,818,613. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense