SBIR/STTR Research Award
EA Seat Optimization Platform: Biofidelic tool for model-informed EA device design
Award amount
$139,993Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED
- Proposal award date
- 2020-07-22
- Contract end date
- 2021-05-20
- UEI
- SJHFCDGKJJC5
- Solicitation number
- 20.A
- Topic code
- N20A-T001
Research abstract
Ground vehicle underbody blast events pose a significant threat to warfighters; therefore, there is a need to develop energy attenuating (EA) seats to mitigate these injuries. Many of the current technologies were primarily designed for the 50th percentile male. To address this critical need, Luna Innovations will investigate how anthropometric variability and changes in posture affect injury, develop a tool to accurately predict injury, and use this knowledge to optimize EA seat design to protect the full range of warfighters.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Optimized Energy-Attenuating Seat Design for Ground Vehicles
- Optimized Energy-Attenuating Seat Design for Ground Vehicles
Research funding history
994 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2026). Reported award amounts total $336,438,763. 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, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency