POWERFILM INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A18-067
POWERFILM 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 $149,986. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code A18-067 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $149,986
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A18-067
- Solicitation
- 18.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- IA
- Period
- 2018-05-23 → 2020-10-31
Description
The modern Military has an ever increasing need for power, in particular light weight portable power with high power densities and decreased deployed foot print. Currently packable panels are made from low efficiency light weight Amorphous Silicon or carbon fiber backed crystalline silicon. The weakness of the amorphous silicon technology resides in the power conversion efficiency (watts per unit area), while the carbon fiber backed crystalline silicon cells lack field durability and flexibility. The solution to this problem is to take the benefits of the two different technologies and combine them to produce a solar fabric that has high power conversion and ultra flexibility.