NORTH AMERICAN WAVE ENGINE CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SB173-005

Description

The Defense Advance Research Project Authority (DARPA) is seeking a capability to produce 500 Flying Missile Rails (FMRs) a month. Providing such a capability is challenging because one must simultaneously come up with a design for a FMR that meets mission requirements while being able to be mass produced. The North American Wave Engine Corporation (NAWEC) can provide a solution that will meet the government’s requirements. NAWEC believes that one of the key barriers to the ability to mass produce FMRs is the expensive and complex propulsion systems that are likely to be attached to them. Jet turbine propulsion systems that are likely to be used in other designs contain numerous moving parts which makes mass-production difficult. NAWEC proposes using its proprietary pulsejet technology as the basis of an innovative FMR design to dramatically reduce manufacturing times of FMRs. NAWEC believes that reductions in manufacturing times derived from the ease of production for the powerplant will make a 500 unit a month production rate possible. NAWEC’s technology is able to meet these goals because our technology, a valveless pulsejet, contains no moving parts and is essentially a hollow tube.