TDA RESEARCH, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N192-045

TDA RESEARCH, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$139,999
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
N192-045
Solicitation
19.2
NAICS
Place of performance
CO
Period
2020-01-06 → 2020-11-06

Description

TDA Research Inc., and its industrial clothing manufacturing and collaborator propose to develop, manufacture and sell a simple, comfortable, lightweight, durable cooling shirt that will keep ordinance disposal personnel cool and comfortable during bomb disposal activities that protects them against heat related illness. The shirt uses a minimum of consumables. TDA’s cooling shirt technology has been patented (U.S. 9,635,889 Bl, Cooling Garment, May 2, 2017) and is currently at Technology Readiness Level 3 (TRL-3). By the end of Phase I, we will have tested a prototype shirt on a sweating manikin and will be at TRL-4. By the end of Phase II, we will have fabricated and tested several optimized cooling shirts that will be TRL 7 prototypes. These will be delivered to the Navy for testing. Successful development of TDA’s cooling shirt will result in technology transition where shirts are procured by the Navy.