Tucker Innovations Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N141-045
Tucker Innovations Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $148,952
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N141-045
- Solicitation
- 2014.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NC
- Period
- 2014-07-14 → 2015-11-30
Description
The proposal seeks to significantly automate the process of producing parts requiring multi-axis milling of sculpted surfaces as required by the Navy for hydro-shapes such as propellers. Harnessing recent university research involving the application of graphical processing units as inexpensive super-computing, a new subtractive 3D printing process will be applied. Phase I will work with the Navy to produce G-code mill programs in a format the Navy can import into third party CAM software packages. This unbiased verification will confirm to the Navy that the technology is suitable to its needs. A subsequent phase II effort would target the actual production of real parts via these mill programs as well as expansion of the automation to include part inspection.