NANOSONIC INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: DLA152-001
NANOSONIC INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $100,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- DLA152-001
- Solicitation
- 2015.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2015-09-30 → 2016-09-29
Description
The DLA Distribution Acquisitions Office acquires supplies and services for Defense Distribution Depots worldwide, such as packaging materials and equipment to support the DOD distribution network. NanoSonic is a small materials company that has worked to demonstrate the feasibility of manufacturing ground-breaking nanomaterials as environmentally friendly, safe, high performance products for defense prime customers. Our recent focus has been on delivering affordable, reliable, and innovative discrete parts as a certified green supplier. NanoSonic proposes to demonstrate an affordable method for the production of discrete, 3-dimensional fire blocking parts to DLA Aviation with our Phase II and procurement partner, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Cost-effective innovations in durable 3-D ceramic parts production have been inadequate to date. For example, 3-D printing requires significant up-front investment and is limited in materials input and its utility to produce ceramic parts. NanoSonic offers a highly affordable alternative: Polymer Derived Ceramic (PDC) Additive Lamination of 3-D fire blocking structures with fine features. NanoSonic shall increase the MRL from 45 during Phase I via customer approval, and to MRL7 during Phase II via cost reduction. Phase III shall be achieved upon DLA distribution of NanoSonics 3-D ceramic aerospace parts and aviation packaging materials at the DOD EMALL.