SBIR/STTR Research Award
Investigating the Feasibility of Long-duration, Stratospheric Station-keeping with a Rapid-Response, Low C-SWaP ISR Balloon
Award amount
$58,950Program 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
- 2022-11-03
- Contract end date
- 2023-02-04
- UEI
- GRZESSY9KZC4
- Solicitation number
- X22.4
- Topic code
- X224-OCSO1
Research abstract
This solution proposed under the scope of this Phase I SBIR is a long-duration, low C-SWaP, stratospheric ISR remote sensing balloon with a novel ability to station-keep for several days or weeks above target AOIs in contested operational environments. Such a system does not exist today, and would provide unique value across several DAF and DoD agencies and applications. While station-keeping with a stratospheric balloon in much heaver weight classes (i.e. >50bls of payload mass) has been demonstrated for DoD applications, a much smaller stratospheric station-keeping balloon system with significant mass constraints (i.e.
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
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- 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
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