GVD CORP — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A20-046
GVD CORP — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from Department of Defense in a technical approach.
- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $111,489. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $111,489
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A20-046
- Solicitation
- 20.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2020-06-19 → 2021-01-16
Description
To provide the warfighter with a self-cleaning, self-healing coating for optics, GVD Corporation and SCHOTT North America propose to develop a variation of GVD’s commercially successful polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, aka Teflon) fluoropolymer coating technology. This variation is superhydrophobic, and so any condensed moisture will roll off of the optic surface and perform a ‘self-cleaning’ of the surface. Due to the coating’s nature, any nicks or damage to the surface will have a ‘self-healing’ property and will not result in a reduction of its superhydrophobic behavior.