CONTINUOUS SOLUTIONS INC — Department of Defense STTR Phase II: N16A-T012
CONTINUOUS SOLUTIONS INC — STTR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
Phase II STTR 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 $2,208,794, this is a large obligation for typical SBIR Phase sizing — worth reviewing for scope breadth and teaming opportunity.
- Topic code N16A-T012 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $2,208,794
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase II
- Topic
- N16A-T012
- Solicitation
- 16.A
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OR
- Period
- 2021-02-23 → 2023-10-11
Description
Through existing STTR N16A-T012, Continuous Solutions (CS) and Purdue University are developing a product line which consists of Common Mode (CM) current-mitigating Bus-Bar Based Common Mode Inductors (B3CMI) and AC Common Mode Shorting Networks (ACSN). These products are installed on the DC (B3CMI) or AC (ACSN) interfaces of power converters. The DC-rail-inline B3CMI adds significant CM impedance at high frequencies, while passing DC differential mode current with negligible resistive impedance. The ACSN shorts CM currents to ground at a 3-phase AC interface, while providing a very high differential mode impedance that blocks AC current from flowing into ground. When employed in modern power systems using high-percentages of switching power converters, both devices promise significant reduction in CM currents emitted by switching-mode power converters (SMPS) and thus mitigate their adverse effects. In addition, Continuous Solutions is developing common mode test and characterization devices, termed the Active Line Impedance Stabilization Network (ALISN) and the precursor Passive Line Impedance Stabilization Network (PLISN). The PLISN is a simplified version of the ALISN that characterizes the CM behavior of power converters only considering the discrete frequencies generated by the converter itself. The ALISN characterizes the CM behavior of power converters over all continuous frequencies. The ALISN and PLISN are intended to 1) help diagnose problematic common mode behavior in power converters and 2) provide verification that installed power converters and system can comply with planned common mode specifications.