SBIR/STTR Research Award
PteroDynamics – Transwing UAS for Tactical ISR
Award amount
$74,797Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PTERODYNAMICS INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2022-11-01
- Contract end date
- 2023-02-04
- UEI
- EWV7H2E5VY27
- Solicitation number
- X22.4
- Topic code
- X224-OCSO1
Research abstract
PteroDynamics (Ptero) has developed a unique transwing VTOL UAS platform that folds its wings during flight to transition between a rotorcraft configuration optimized for takeoff/landing and a fixed-wing configuration for flight. The Transwing design is unlike any other VTOL, having an aerodynamic profile that enables greater lift-to-drag ratios (up to 20:1) to significantly increase the sUAS range, endurance, or payload capacity not capable by any other VTOL sUAS system (ranges up to 700-980 miles). The Transwing design also allows for a much smaller ground footprint than similar fixed-wing designs while retaining VTOL capability.
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.
- Developing the X-P5 Transwing UAS for Autonomous Agile Combat Logistics within INDOPACOM
- Developing eVTOL UAS for Extending Tactical Communications Networks
- PteroDynamics – Transwing UAS for Tactical Logistics
- PteroDynamics – Transwing UAS for Long-dwell Communications Relay
- Transwing UAS
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- 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
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2023). Reported award amounts total $2,772,425. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense