SBIR/STTR Research Award
Acoustic Vector Sensors that Achieve Affordable Array Directivity
Award amount
$239,834Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- QORTEK INC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-06-06
- Contract end date
- 2023-09-05
- UEI
- TLD8L3APDZM3
- Solicitation number
- 22.1
- Topic code
- N221-070
Research abstract
As anti-submarine warfare (ASW) technologies expanded rapidly during the Cold War, towed array systems such as Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System (SURTASS) were deployed with outstanding success at detecting submarines. Later TB-29(A) and TB-34 along with the Multi-Function Towed Array (MFTA) have further increased detection capabilities. This proposal aims to reduce the cost of vector sensor integration by utilizing QorTek’s innovative textured TX101 piezo ceramic material. A significant cost driver besides material cost is mechanical complexity. QorTek aims to reduce touch labor by employing deign for manufacturing techniques. The program objective is to integrate OAT telemetry electronics into the propose low cost vector sensor.
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.
- Scalable High Frequency Transmit/Receive Array for Multiple Unmanned Underwater Vehicle and Torpedo Applications
- Modernized Sonar Transmit Electronics
- Flow Exposed Conformal Array Acoustic Elements
- Second Order Acoustic Vector Sensors
- Open Architecture Telemetry First Level Multiplexer with Array Power Distribution
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Acoustic Vector Sensors that Achieve Affordable Array Directivity
- PZT Based Low-Cost Acoustic Vector Sensors
- Directional Acoustic Communications Transmitters
Research funding history
136 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1996–2025). Reported award amounts total $62,777,779. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration