BARRON ASSOCIATES, INC. — Department of Commerce SBIR Phase II: 8.2.13
BARRON ASSOCIATES, INC. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Commerce.
- Amount
- $399,997
- Agency
- Department of Commerce · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- 8.2.13
- Solicitation
- NOAA2018-2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2019-06-27 → 2022-06-23
Description
NOAA is pursuing sustained, in-situ sensing technology to support improved atmospheric modeling of the upper ocean boundary environment, including the air-sea interface, during turbulent storms. Improved atmospheric modeling in this critical region will lead to better forecasting and support NOAA's mandate to protect property and save lives. Small, unmanned aircraft, equipped with atmospheric sensors, can utilize powered, guided flight to perform sustained atmospheric sampling at consistent altitudes in the critical storm region. The goal of this effort is to meld a dropsonde's sensing and expendable deployment attributes with a UAV's guided flight capability. Barron Associates is proposing to develop an atmospheric-sensor UAV that, like a dropsonde, can be tube-deployed from NOAA aircraft into remote regions.