SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Speed Metal 3D-Printing
Award amount
$74,998Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2022-11-04
- Contract end date
- 2023-02-04
- UEI
- LJJ5XAB5VNG1
- Solicitation number
- X22.4
- Topic code
- X224-OCSO1
Research abstract
There are a multitude of metal 3D-printing technologies on the market today. While many of these technologies provide significant advantages in certain areas, they all share two points in common: they are slow and size-limited. This limits the usefulness of these technologies for all but the slowest, highest-value applications. IO is proposing to adapt its high-speed high-tolerance CBAM technology for the 3D manufacture of metal composites. Early feasibility studies have shown that parts can be made using the CBAM process, though many details remain to be studied before commercialization.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- High-Volume Low-Cost Long-range Fixed Wing UAS with near-conflict Distributed Manufacturability
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- Additively Manufactured Embedded Wiring Harnesses
Awards with the same topic code
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- Sustainable, Non-Incineration-based Destruction of Air Force Hazardous Waste Stockpiles : TACFI
- IRONCLAD: Integrated Resilient Operations for Naval Cloud and AI Deployments
- Advancing Trustworthy, High-Performance LLM Applications with Multimodal Data Access
- Armed Overwatch & sUAS Close Air Support Solution for Air Force Special Operations
- Runway Integrity Validation through Soil Moisture Measurements from a small UAS
Research funding history
19 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2021–2025). Reported award amounts total $10,837,515. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense