SBIR/STTR Research Award
KestrelX UAV and Cruise Missile Threat Replication Aircraft
Award amount
$725,053Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- KESTRELX LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2021-10-21
- Contract end date
- 2022-10-21
- UEI
- MFGHL1LNJ6L4
- Solicitation number
- X21.1
- Topic code
- AF211-DCSO1
Research abstract
Relatively cheap drones and cruise missiles [inexpensive Group II through IV UAVs and unsophisticated, slower cruise missiles (<0.5Mach)] have developed much faster and far more inexpensively than our Defense Acquisition Countermeasures. Our existing defe
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
2 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2022–2024). Reported award amounts total $2,346,737. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense