METROLASER, INCORPORATED — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF231-0001
METROLASER, INCORPORATED — 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 $179,856. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code AF231-0001 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $179,856
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- AF231-0001
- Solicitation
- 23.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2023-06-21 → 2024-03-21
Description
The Air Force, as well as the Army and Navy, is developing hypersonic missiles, which are nonnuclear offensive weapons that fly faster than five times the speed of sound and spend most of their flight in the Earth’s atmosphere. Such missiles are intended