UNITED PROTECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF221-DCSO1
UNITED PROTECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, 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.
- Obligated amount $781,929 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code AF221-DCSO1 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $781,929
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- AF221-DCSO1
- Solicitation
- X22.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NC
- Period
- 2022-05-02 → 2023-08-07
Description
Gears are critical components for all military and civilian aircraft systems. The maintenance burden of wear, micro pitting and scuffing on these gears in military aircraft and support equipment is a costly impairment of mission readiness. Through a hybrid thin film deposition process which combines gas, solid and liquid precursors, a new level of molecular manipulation has been achieved which allows for new and novel surface physics altering coatings to be deposited at production levels. Using these techniques, United Protective Technologies has developed next-generation nanocomposite high-performance coatings that are currently in use on thousands of components for the automotive, aerospace, industrial manufacturing, and defense industries. In this D2P2 effort, UPT will build from these coating architectures and develop and optimize a next generation super-lubricous nanocomposite coating that reduces friction and wear by more than a magnitude to minimize gear failure and maximize service lifetime for Air Force gearbox components allowing warfighters to focus on missions, not maintenance. This is a BLUESKY Submission.