SBIR/STTR Research Award
Assured Replaceable Components Enabling Extension-of-Life (ARCEE)
Award amount
$249,942Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- TANGRAM FLEX INC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-08-25
- Contract end date
- 2023-01-25
- UEI
- CMERWGDQ4ME5
- Solicitation number
- X21.S
- Topic code
- AF21S-TCSO1
Research abstract
Secure, safe, and fully functional software upgrades will be a key enabler in the On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) market. This market will enable complex space systems to be upgraded while on orbit, extending their lifespans at a fraction of the cost of launching a replacement system. Under Orbital Prime OSAM Phase 3 “On-orbit Object Servicing” objective physical hardware replacement of components will occur enabling life extension of systems. However it is just as critical that when the hardware is upgraded that the on-orbit system’s software is also upgraded. Tangram Flex (Tangram) and University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) are working to ensure that U.S. Space Force (USSF) and commercial companies can rapidly, securely, and confidently upgrade on-orbit software components such that the system functions as intended and is cyber secure.
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.
- Modeling and Architecture Design for Continuous Assurance Testing with Scalability (MADCATS)
- Modeling and Architecture Design for Continuous Assurance Testing (MADCAT)
- Swappable Componentization via Integration Levying Lightweight Simulators (SCILLS)
- SCILLS: Swappable Componentization via Integration Levying Lightweight Simulators
- OFPs RAPIDLY CLONED ALLOWING SIMULATION (ORCAS)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- On-orbit AI-driven Automation for Range Characterization Analysis
- Biomimetic System for Autonomous On-Orbit Capture
- Development of an analysis tool for automatic defect detection during on-orbit additive manufacturing process
- Nautilus Capture Mechanism Configuration: A Study to Compare Tolerances of Electrostatic and Gecko-like Adhesion of Spacecraft Docking System for Long-Duration Space Missions
- REACCH: Adhering Arms Architecture for Unprepared Surface Capture
Research funding history
16 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2024). Reported award amounts total $6,381,820. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense