SBIR/STTR Research Award
Lightweight Track Technology - P4419
Award amount
$124,989Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MATERIALS SCIENCES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-01-09
- Contract end date
- 2019-11-08
- UEI
- GKJZWMKKWWX4
- Solicitation number
- 18.2
- Topic code
- N182-095
Research abstract
The Marine Corps is seeking a lightweight, advanced track for upgrading the Amphibious Assault Vehicle. The challenge is to use material technology to engineer a system capable of not only reducing weight but also reducing noise and vibration and lowering the cost of production and lifecycle maintenance. Although continuous, non-pinned, rubber track has found uses in agriculture and lower-performance tracked vehicle applications, the Marine Corps is seeking new technologies to enhance the performance of the AAV on land and water. MSC will meet the challenge by using an elastomer system which allows for unique processing and reinforcement design that could not be performed using vulcanized rubber.
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.
- Acoustically Transparent Underwater Curing Adhesive - P4952
- Topology Optimized Metamaterials via AM of Refractory High Entropy Alloys for Extreme Temperature Deployment - P4955
- Domestic, Low-Cost Pitch Carbon Fiber for High Temperature Applications - P4945
- Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) Risk Toolset - MSC P4804
- Low-Cost Sharrow Closed-Loop Contra-Rotating Rotor Set (S-CRP) - P4953
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Lightweight Track Technology
- Lightweight Track Technology
- Lightweight Track Technology - Scot Forge / Mich Tech
Research funding history
223 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2025). Reported award amounts total $77,459,684. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation