GREENSIGHT INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: HR001121S0007-23

Description

GreenSight proposes to develop the Secure Advanced Attrittable Aerial Asset (SA4) aircraft, an ultra low cost but high performance SUAS designed for be used in a variety of advanced swarm combat CONOPs. SA4 combines high performance with low cost by taking advantage of novel manufacturing, tooling and material selections. The aircraft is designed for low cost manufacturing, with a simplified low parts count approach that facilitates compact packaging, transportation and field setup of large swarms of aircraft, transported in standard CONEXs, from 25 to 100 units. The aircraft has a modular payload bay intended for factory or depot integration of a variety of swarm-centric payloads weighing up to 15 lbs. SA4 takes advantage of GreenSight's novel integrated avionics, communications and power electronics to further reduce cost and reduce weight. GS's localization-enabled mesh radio enables formation flight, further boosting the system's range and endurance. SA4 is all electric, taking advantage of the logistical and design flexibility of electric propulsion, but still delivering on objective performance in range, loiter endurance, and dash airspeed/time. SA4 is designed with an integral rapid take off feature that can incorporate either a pneumatic or rocket launch option. Pneumatic can be used for development, testing or commercial applications where reuse of the aircraft is desirable. Rocket propulsion offers the lowest cost per aircraft for true single use missions. GreenSight's SA4 design has potential to offer 1-2 orders of magnitude reduced cost over existing similarly sized airframes (45 lbs AUW), with practical manufacturing scalability up to volumes over 100k units per year.