SBIR/STTR Research Award
Power for hypersonic vehicles using thermionics
Award amount
$74,542Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SPARK THERMIONICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-05-02
- Contract end date
- 2023-08-04
- UEI
- KRKLH5NVNW95
- Solicitation number
- X23.5
- Topic code
- AFX235-CSO1
Research abstract
Spark thermionics proposes to revolutionize power in hypersonic vehicles, vastly increasing flight time and payload volume and weight by harvesting existing high temperature waste heat streams Development of hypersonic capabilities is “the highest technic
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.
- Affordable Integrated Surface Modification of Ceramic and Refractory Substructures with UHTCs for High Temperature Resilient Thermal Protection System
- Hybrid power using thermionics
- Power for hypersonic vehicles using thermionics
- Thermionics for Hypersonics
- Thermionic energy conversion for hypersonics
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
17 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2017–2025). Reported award amounts total $8,078,623. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy