ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N151-061
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CORPORATION — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Obligated amount $149,760. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $149,760
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N151-061
- Solicitation
- 2015.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MD
- Period
- 2015-07-06 → 2016-11-06
Description
An innovative system called In-Water Container Lifting System (IWCLS) is proposed for lifting ISO shipping containers floating in the open ocean to the decks of Advanced Force Sea-Basings and other vessels of opportunity. It fills a gap in enabling technology for lift-on/lift-off heavy container transfer in high sea conditions up to sea state 4. The IWCLS is essentially a telescopic ramp based container launching and recovery system. The system is very compact and can be fit into an ISO twenty-foot equivalent (TEU) container. It meets all the US heavy-lift aircraft transport and airdrop parameters. The system is highly automated and can self-erect with support from a very minimal number of personnel and two small crafts. It carries its own power source that it can self-erect and then lift at least four containers. The telescopic ramp can accommodate vessels with different freeboard up to at least 10 meter.