PacMar Technologies LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N141-058

PacMar Technologies LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$149,936
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
N141-058
Solicitation
2014.1
NAICS
Place of performance
HI
Period
2014-05-05 → 2015-09-05

Description

The proposed effort will address the problem of deploying and retrieving a tow body in rough wave conditions from a small craft or large ship. The approach makes use of a material newly available to the U.S. Department of Defense. The material is drop stitch fabric, whose use was restricted by the Berry amendment. The concept for this project is to make a structure to deploy and retrieve tow bodies from inflatable drop stitch panels. The structure will be sufficiently rigid to support tow bodies, but compliant to preclude damaging the tow bodies by impact.