PROGENY SYSTEMS, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: N122-113
PROGENY SYSTEMS, LLC — 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.
- Obligated amount $1,499,190 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code N122-113 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $1,499,190
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- N122-113
- Solicitation
- 12.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2019-04-12 → 2021-04-15
Description
Available energy for undersea systems is often a limiting system design constraint. Commercial battery capacity is less than desired and certain battery chemistries such as Lithium-based have inherent safety risk. Many cells cannot operate at high pressure and added pressure vessel housing size and bulk make their use impractical. Additionally, fiber optic data transmission from remote sensors can is not practical with the inability to transmit useable energy over fiber. L3 Open Water Power has developed a revolutionary high-energy density pressure tolerant intrinsically safe aluminum-seawater power source particularly suited for undersea power. Based on the aluminum seawater cell design developed under N04-053 Phase II, Open Water will develop a more powerful aluminum alloy to provide requisite power using less volume, with optimized pack voltage output to minimize conversion efficiency losses. Progeny Systems Corporation will develop a complementary secondary battery to meet system peak power demands, integrate the primary and secondary batteries as a sonobuoy self-deploying autonomous long endurance deep ocean power module, and conduct lab and ocean testing to demonstrate power supply performance. Ten sonobuoy long endurance deep ocean power modules will be delivered to the Navy for independent evaluation.