MATSYS INCORPORATED — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF182-087
MATSYS INCORPORATED — 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 $3,400,218, this is a large obligation for typical SBIR Phase sizing — worth reviewing for scope breadth and teaming opportunity.
- Topic code AF182-087 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $3,400,218
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- AF182-087
- Solicitation
- 18.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2019-11-08 → 2020-11-08
Description
MATSYS proposes to develop high density and high strength reactive materials (RMs) with a high energy density to enhance warhead performance, especially during penetration and post-penetration of air-delivered munitions. The specific intent is to fabricate structural surrogates for conventional steel components of the munition body to significantly enhance their lethality. The proposed structural reactive material (SRM), consisting of several elements or compounds and capable of participating in an energetic (exothermic) chemical reaction, will radically alter weapons effectiveness, providing an asymmetric advantage in defeating a variety of targets in highly contested spaces. Our approach will combine our expertise in multi-component alloy design and high energy milling/mechanical alloying (MA) of powder blends with our unique expertise in instrumented-Hot Isostatic Pressing (i-HIP) to develop a next generation of tunable high density SRMs. The proposed material system will use a blend of several elemental powders, typically consisting of equiatomic concentrations, to prepare a high entropy alloy (HEA) with high strength, high density and high energy density. MA will be used to prepare the HEA. The existence of different powder materials will allow for tailoring of the mechanical and reactive properties of the material to meet the requirements for material density, strength and energy density.