CU AEROSPACE L.L.C. — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: N19B-T025
CU AEROSPACE L.L.C. — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I STTR feasibility signal
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- Obligated amount $146,491. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $146,491
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- N19B-T025
- Solicitation
- 19.B
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- IL
- Period
- 2019-08-23 → 2020-05-04
Description
This STTR project proposed by CU Aerospace (CUA) and research partner the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will provide innovative thermal management systems-level analysis tools to the Navy, enabling detailed investigations of air platform thermal management issues associated with electronics loads (e.g., avionics/radar upgrades for military aircraft). The Phase I effort focuses on: (i) developing a suitable surrogate system-of-systems (SoS) thermal management architecture, (ii) producing custom block models for aircraft sub-systems, (iii) developing analysis-of-alternatives tools, and (iv) applying the adapted toolkit components to make preliminary SoS simulations linking generator loads to the oil and fuel -based cooling system. The proposed Phase I option period will extend the base period work by converting relevant models to compiled code and developing a graphic user interface design with input on workflow from the Navy. The Phase II effort will develop a higher quality and higher fidelity SoS model of a more detailed Navy architecture (based on inputs from NAVAIR/industry); the CUA-UIUC team will work with the Navy to develop and solve a candidate aircraft thermal architecture problem of interest in order to demonstrate the services which can be provided with the modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) software package.