SBIR/STTR Research Award
Additive Friction Stir Deposition for In-Space Manufacturing
Award amount
$749,972Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- IERUS TECHNOLOGIES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2021-07-30
- Contract end date
- 2023-07-29
- UEI
- H1ZRXJKFZ4K7
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_20_P2
- Topic code
- Z3
Research abstract
IERUS Technologies proposes to investigate the use of Additive Friction Stir Deposition (AFS-D) to robotically fabricate and repair large structures in the external space environment. The AFS-D process provides a new path for repairing and additively manufacturing metallic structures. AFS-D produces fully-dense, near net-shape structures in open atmospheric conditions. IERUS Technologies also proposes to investigate the integration of its Vision System for inspection of AFS-D fabricated components. IERUSrsquo;s Vision System is designed to verify dimensions of post processed in-space manufactured components.
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.
- Carbon-Carbon Structures with Embedded Electronics
- Optimized Over-the-Horizon Radar (OTHR) Waveform and Processing
- Radar Innovation Testbed
- Next-Generation Electromagnetics and Quantum Design Software
- High-Fidelity Isogeometric Aerothermoelastic Analyses of Hypersonic Behavior
Research funding history
98 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2012–2025). Reported award amounts total $53,981,727. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration