TURNAROUND FACTOR, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SOCOM232-003
TURNAROUND FACTOR, INC. — 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 $174,954. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code SOCOM232-003 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $174,954
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Special Operations Command
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- SOCOM232-003
- Solicitation
- 23.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2023-08-04 → 2024-03-10
Description
Warfighters need batteries capable of operating power hungry devices for longer missions while reducing the weight they must carry. USSOCOM’s 16Ah / 500 Wh/kg goal in a PRC-148 sized pack is ambitious — approximately double the existing options on the market. Thankfully, there are several cell technologies that exist at the lab/prototype level, and a handful that will be mature enough in the short term to supply USSOCOM with this capability. The TRL alone of these cell technologies is not enough - there needs to be the production capability and industry interest to ensure these cells can be manufactured at scale. TAF’s feasibility will assess the art of the possible, and document in detail all options that may meet or exceed the minimum performance, including TRL and PRL estimates, and result in a final recommendation on what TAF will build in the Phase II.