MELD MANUFACTURING CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: NASAH5.02
MELD MANUFACTURING CORPORATION — 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 $1,500,000, this is a large obligation for typical SBIR Phase sizing — worth reviewing for scope breadth and teaming opportunity.
- Topic code NASAH5.02 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $1,500,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- NASAH5.02
- Solicitation
- 1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2021-01-12 → 2023-01-12
Description
MELD®, also known as Additive Friction Stir, has been identified as a potential method for the production and repair of naval components. This effort will explore opportunities and potential challenges of adoption at the shipyard by demonstrating uses of value, developing process maps for multiple alloys, and delivering equipment and training to a shipyard for further experimentation. The efforts for sample fabrication and characterization will deliver data sets for baseline activity to write specs for MELD and provide sufficient training and equipment to allow the Navy to pursue additional efforts to qualify the process.