SBIR/STTR Research Award
Hardware Modifications for a Rapid-response, Low-cost Stratospheric-balloon-based Mesh Networking Solution
Award amount
$74,637Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- URBAN SKY THEORY INC
- Proposal award date
- 2023-05-03
- Contract end date
- 2023-08-03
- UEI
- GRZESSY9KZC4
- Solicitation number
- X23.5
- Topic code
- AFX235-CSO1
Research abstract
This proposed Phase I SBIR effort will involve a hardware feasibility, modification, and integration effort to develop a low-cost, rapidly deployable, stratospheric mesh networking communications solution by pairing Urban Sky’s existing stratospheric Micr
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.
- Stratospheric Persistent Real-time C4ISR for Arctic Domain Awareness
- Ultra-long-duration Super Pressure Microballoon
- Achieving a Production Capability Capacity of ~1,000 Stratospheric C4ISR Microballoons per Month and the Advanced Development of Navigation Capabilities Utilizing Altitude Control
- A Novel Guided Descent System for Precisely Returning Microballoons & Payloads from the Stratosphere in a High Drag, High Altitude Environment
- Developing Advanced Flight Trajectory Modeling for C4ISR Stratospheric Microballoon Station-keeping Missions
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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- 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
16 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2025). Reported award amounts total $33,998,834. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration