ONTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: DLA152-001
ONTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where Department of Defense funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- At $1,800,000, this is a large obligation for typical SBIR Phase sizing — worth reviewing for scope breadth and teaming opportunity.
- Topic code DLA152-001 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $1,800,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- DLA152-001
- Solicitation
- 15.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OR
- Period
- 2022-09-08 → 2024-09-07
Description
This project, Lithium Battery Deactivation/Render Safe, will develop and demonstrate technology to transform live or damaged batteries into inert items on an mobile-pilot scale suitable to process batteries in a relevant environment. The project will build upon successful developmental work supported through EERE DE-EE0008475 “Elimination of Class-9 Hazards in Lithium-ion Recycling”, and the DLA Phase II project which demonstrated Technical Readiness Level 6 capability in-house at OnTo Technology, LLC for the treatment and validation of battery deactivation from Seattle Transit Bus batteries, Nissan Leaf electric vehicles (EVs), Ford C-Max EV, Ultima-related EV batteries, a crashed Tesla battery, internet technology applications, and defense-application batteries. OnTo’s successful Phase II Made-in-America Battery Recycling Prize demonstrated technical validation of elimination of self-heating in accelerated rate calorimetry testing through Sandia National Laboratory. Technical Approach: The project will (1) construct and demonstrate a mobile deactivation processor based upon OnTo’s patented deactivation technology for use on electric vehicle and energy storage end-of-life batteries and (2) develop process control, personnel training programs, and mobility features to improve the battery deactivation technical readiness level (TRL7).