BRANCH TECHNOLOGY, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF191-005
BRANCH TECHNOLOGY, INC. — 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 $49,980. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $49,980
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- AF191-005
- Solicitation
- 19.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TN
- Period
- 2019-03-06 → 2019-06-04
Description
Branch Technology has developed a revolutionary method of large-scale Freeform 3D-Printing for construction called Cellular Fabrication (C-FAB) that brings unprecedented design freedom, resource stewardship, and manufacturing efficiency to the construction arena. By combining prefabrication and additive manufacturing, C-FAB will enable cost and time savings for Air Force end-users while also allowing for fabrication of geometrically complex, large-scale components that cannot be economically produced with normal methods. In order to bring this technology to the Air Force, robotic, autonomous, and deployable (RAD) factories for 3D-printed construction will be developed that produce modular, finished construction components that can be shipped to any job-site for rapid installation. RAD factories can be established at any US military post and would serve both domestic and forward operating bases with end-to-end construction solutions. The operational adaptability that Air Force users would experience from RAD factory deployment will assist with both combat and noncombat missions by enabling greater on-site efficiency, autonomy, and independence from outside-contractors for construction projects. Branch and its diverse team of architects, engineers, physicists, programmers, and industrial designers have already had success in the non-defense sector with nearly $3 million in project sales and nearly $8 million in investment.