UNITED PROTECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N222-127

UNITED PROTECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$139,858
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
N222-127
Solicitation
22.2
NAICS
Place of performance
NC
Period
2022-11-28 → 2023-05-29

Description

The Thermal Protection System (TPS) materials for current hypersonic vehicles have limited structural capability in all-weather environments and a low level of manufacturing sophistication. Nanoshell Matrix Composites (NMC) are a class of materials being developed at United Protective Technologies to address the most difficult challenges faced in hypersonic environments. NMC materials allow the properties of dissimilar ceramics to be combined to produce new materials with advanced properties like tunable coefficients of thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, and emissivity. United Protective Technologies proposes to adapt the NMC technology to produce TPS materials for hypersonic applications.