NOTE: All Phase II awardees must have a Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) approved accounting system. It is strongly urged that an approved accounting system be in place prior to the AF Phase II award timeframe. If you do not have a DCAA approved accounting system, this will delay / prevent Phase II contract award. If you have questions regarding this matter, please discuss with your Phase I Contracting Officer.
All proposals must be submitted electronically at www.dodsbir.net/submission. The complete proposal – Department of Defense (DoD) Cover Sheet, entire Technical Volume with appendices, Cost Volume and the Company Commercialization Report – must be submitted by the date indicated in the invitation. The Technical Volume is limited to 50 pages (unless a different number is specified in the invitation). The Commercialization Report, any advocacy letters, SBIR Environment Safety and Occupational Health (ESOH) Questionnaire, and Cost Volume Itemized Listing (a-i) will not count against the 50 page limitation and should be placed as the last pages of the Technical Volume file that is uploaded. (Note: Only one file can be uploaded to the DoD Submission Site. Ensure that this single file includes your complete Technical Volume and the additional Cost Volume information.) The preferred format for submission of proposals is Portable Document Format (.pdf). Graphics must be distinguishable in black and white. Please virus-check your submissions.
AIR FORCE PHASE II ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM
On active Phase II awards, the Air Force may request a Phase II enhancement application package from a limited number of Phase II awardees. In the Air Force program, the outside investment funding must be from a Government source, usually the Air Force or other military service. The selected enhancements will extend the existing Phase II contract awards for up to one year. The Air Force will provide matching SBIR funds, up to a maximum of $750,000, to non-SBIR Government funds. If requested to submit a Phase II enhancement application package, it must be submitted through the DoD Submission Web site at www.dodsbir.net/submission. Contact the local awarding organization SBIR Program Manager (see Air Force SBIR Organization Listing) for more information.
AIR FORCE SBIR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENTS
The AF reserves the right to modify the Phase II submission requirements. Should the requirements change, all Phase I awardees will be notified. The AF also reserves the right to change any administrative procedures at any time that will improve management of the AF SBIR Program.
AIR FORCE SUBMISSION OF FINAL REPORTS
All Final Reports will be submitted to the awarding AF organization in accordance with the Contract. Companies will not submit Final Reports directly to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).
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14.1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Requirements
DFARS 252.227-7018(b)(8), Rights in Noncommercial Technical Data and Computer Software – Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (May 2013), allows Government support contractors access to SBIR data without company-to-company NDAs only AFTER the support contractor notifies the SBIR firm of its access to the SBIR data AND the SBIR firm agrees in writing no NDA is necessary. If the SBIR firm does not agree, a company-to-company NDA is required.
“Covered Government support contractor” is defined in 252.227-7018(a)(6) as “a contractor under a contract, the primary purpose of which is to furnish independent and impartial advice or technical assistance directly to the Government in support of the Government’s management and oversight of a program or effort (rather than to directly furnish an end item or service to accomplish a program or effort), provided that the contractor—
(i) Is not affiliated with the prime contractor or a first-tier subcontractor on the program or effort, or with any direct competitor of such prime contractor or any such first-tier subcontractor in furnishing end items or services of the type developed or produced on the program or effort; and
(ii) Receives access to the technical data or computer software for performance of a Government contract that contains the clause at 252.227-7025, Limitations on the Use or Disclosure of Government-Furnished Information Marked with Restrictive Legends.”
USE OF SUPPORT CONTRACTORS:
Support contractors may be used to administratively process SBIR documentation or provide technical support related to SBIR contractual efforts to Government Program Offices.
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Air Force SBIR 14.1 Topic Index
AF141-001 Non-Silicon and Non-Boron based Leading Edges for Hypersonic Vehicles
AF141-002 Epitaxial Technologies for SiGeSn High Performance Optoelectronic Devices
AF141-003 Variable Precision Filters
AF141-004 Radio-frequency Micro-electromechanical Systems with Integrated Intelligent Control
AF141-005 SMART Bandage for Monitoring Wound Perfusion
AF141-006 Shockwave Consolidation of Materials
AF141-009 Single Photon Sources for Free Space Quantum Key Distribution Systems
AF141-011 (This topic has been removed from the solicitation.)
AF141-012 Rapid Mission Planning for Desirable Viewing Conditions
AF141-013 Efficient Photometry
AF141-014 Decision Aid to Threat Identification and Intent Modeling
AF141-015 Strategic Collection for Rapid Return to Continuous Monitoring for Deep Space Wide
Area Search and Tasked Sensors
AF141-016 Persistent Wide Field Space Surveillance
AF141-019 Battlefield Airmen (BA) Mission Recorder
AF141-020 Improved Computerized Ground Forces for Close Air Support Training
AF141-021 Holographic Lightfield 3D Display Metrology (HL3DM)
AF141-023 Voice-Enabled Agent for Realistic Integrated Combat Operations Training
AF141-024 Adaptive Screen Materials for Image Projection
AF141-025 Adaptive Instruction Authoring Tools
AF141-026 Distributed Mission Operations Gateway
AF141-027 Operator Interface for Flexible Control of Automated Sensor Functions
AF141-028 Multimodal-Multidimensional image fusion for morphological and functional evaluation
of the retina
AF141-029 Mobile Motion Capture for Human Skeletal Modeling in Natural Environments
AF141-030 Synthetic Task Environment for Primary & Secondary Assessment in Trauma Care
AF141-031 Adaptive, Immersive Training to Counter Deception and Denial Tactics, Techniques and
Procedures (TTPs) for C4ISR Networks
AF141-032 Sharing of Intelligence and Planning Information for Multi-Agency Coordination
AF141-035 Expand Data Transfer Rates within Legacy Aircraft (ERLA)
AF141-036 Logistics Data Management, Error Handling, Corrective Action Framework
AF141-037 Laser for Airborne Communications (LAC)
AF141-038 Layered Virtualization Detection of Malicious Software Behavior (“Inception”)
AF141-039 Process Level Virtualization for System Assurance
AF141-040 Establishing and Maintaining Mission Application Trust in a Shared Cloud
AF141-041 Granular Compute Cloud Architecture
AF141-042 Protected Execution in Cloud Environments (PECE)
AF141-043 Fault Isolation in Hypervisors with Live Migration
AF141-044 Live Patching of Virtual Machines with Limited Guest Support
AF141-045 Conformal High-Efficiency Emitter Systems Enhancement (CHEESE)
AF141-046 Inverse Mission Planning of Aerial Communications Technologies (IMPACT)
AF141-047 Air Force Weather Mobile Application
AF141-048 Integrating Tactical Weather Sensors with Mobile Devices and the AF Weather
Enterprise
AF141-049 Command and Control of Dynamic Traffic Prioritization (C2DTP) to Enable Mission-
Responsive Crypto-Partitioned Networks
AF141-052 (This topic has been removed from the solicitation.)
AF141-054 Advanced Indexing and Search for Efficient Information Discovery
AF141-055 Enhancing Real Time Situational Awareness with Latent Relationship Discovery
AF141-056 Early Design Analysis for Robust Cyberphysical Systems Engineering
AF141-057 Living Plan
AF141-058 Architecture for Enterprise Anonymization
AF141-062 Lightweight Electric Wires and Cables for Airborne Platforms and Battlefield Air Force
Personnel
AF141-063 Modeling the Impact of Silica Particle Ingestion on Turbomachinery Life
AF141-064 Additive Metal Manufacturing (AMM) Process Development for Gas Turbine Engine
Component Repair
AF141-065 Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Methods for Aircraft Structural Integrity
AF141-066 Use more accurate aircraft usage data in predicting life and scheduling inspections
AF141-067 Structural Reliability Analysis
AF141-068 Generic Power/Propulsion Microcontroller for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
AF141-070 Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) Battery Electrolytes using Nonflammable, Room-Temperature Ionic
Liquids
AF141-071 Safe, Large-Format Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) Batteries for Aircraft
AF141-072 Fiber-Optic-Distributed Temperature Sensing System
AF141-073 Single-port Fiber-optic Probe for Imaging and Spectroscopy in Practical Combustion
Systems
AF141-074 Developing Failure Stability in High-Reliability Sensor Design and Applications
AF141-075 Improved Design Package for Fracture Mechanics Analysis
AF141-076 Modular Flexible Weapons Integration
AF141-080 Air Cycle Toolsets for Aircraft Thermal Management System (TMS) Optimization
AF141-081 Launch Vehicle Systems Intended to Execute Suppressed Trajectories for Hypersonic
Testing
AF141-082 Development of Approaches to Minimize Icing in Aircraft Heat Exchanger/Condenser
Applications
AF141-083 Smart Aircraft Conceptual Design in Multidisplinary Design Optimization
AF141-084 Radiation Model Development for Combustion Systems
AF141-086 Lightweight Detachable Roll Control System
AF141-087 Additive manufacturing of Liquid Rocket Engine Components
AF141-088 Lowest Lifecycle Cost (LLC) Expendable Launch Vehicles
AF141-089 Electric Propulsion for Orbit Transfer
AF141-091 Physics-based modeling of solid rocket motor propellant
AF141-092 Advanced Integrity and Safety Assurance for Software
AF141-093 Development and Verification Tools/Processes for ASICs and FPGAs
AF141-094 Algorithm Based Error Estimation & Navigation Correction
AF141-096 Radiation Hardened Cache Memory
AF141-097 Next Generation Rad Hard Reduced Instruction Set Computer
AF141-099 Power Aware GPS User Equipment
AF141-100 Secure Time delivery Military GPS receivers in challenged RF environments using
existing wireless infrasructure
AF141-101 Multi-Processor Array for Multi-Parametric Sensing in Cubesat DoD (or Air Force)
Space Missions
AF141-102 M-code External Augmentation system
AF141-105 Algorithms for IR data
AF141-106 Innovative Technologies for Operationally Responsive Space
AF141-107 Improved AFSCN FCT Simulator
AF141-108 Forecasting of Solar Eruptions using Statistical Mechanics, Ensemble, and Bayesian
Forecasting Methods
AF141-109 Adaptive antenna structures
AF141-110 Compact precision Atomic clock
AF141-111 GPS receiver cryptography key delivery leveraging NSA’s Key Management
Infrastructure (KMI)
AF141-113 Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) Compliant GPS Receiver for
GEO
AF141-121 Satellite Threat Indications and Notification (TIN) in support of Space Situational
Assessment
AF141-122 GPS PNT Flexible Satellite
AF141-123 Advanced Algorithms for Non-Resolved Space Based Space Sensing
AF141-124 Space-based RF Emitter Detection and Localization Using Field Programmable Gate
Arrays
AF141-125 GaN Technology for GPS L-band Space Power Amplification
AF141-126 Optical System for Precision Atomic Clocks and Stable Oscillators
AF141-129 Mid-wave Infrared (MWIR) Illuminator for Ground and Small Unmanned Aircraft
System (SUAS) Targeting
AF141-130 Miniature line-of-sight optical stabilization for hand-held laser marker/designator
AF141-131 Electromagnetic Radiation Effects on Weapons and Energetic Materials
AF141-132 Wide Field of View High Speed Strap Down Stellar Inertial Instrument
AF141-133 High Performance Angular Rate Sensors for Compact Inertial Guidance without GPS
AF141-134 Integrated Opto-Electronic Components for Multiaxis Inertial Measurement Units
AF141-135 High Performance Accelerometers for Precision Attack Weapons
AF141-136 Dual Mode Seeker/Sensor -LADAR/RF
AF141-137 Divert and Attitude Control System Technologies for Small Missile Applications
AF141-138 High Density Carriage Technology Innovation
AF141-139 MWIR Seeker-Sensor for Strap Down Weapon/SUAS applications
AF141-141 Weapons Effects FRMs for Contact or Embedded detonations in Fixed Targets
AF141-142 Plug and Play for Architecture for Modular Weapons
AF141-143 Data Analysis and Mining for Penetration Environment Dynamics (DAMPED)
AF141-144 Cooperative RF Sensors
AF141-145 Electromagnetic Effects in Energetic Materials
AF141-151 Engineered Process Materials for Casting of Aerospace Components
AF141-152 Uncertainty Quantification in Modeling and Measuring Components with Resonant
Ultrasound Spectroscopy
AF141-153 ITO Repair on Transparencies
AF141-154 Conformal Conductivity Probe
AF141-156 Vibration Stress Relief
AF141-157 Galvanic Corrosion Prediction for Aircraft Structures
AF141-158 Durable, Low Friction Coating for Variable Speed Refueling Drogue (VSRD)
AF141-159 Portable Drill-Fastener
AF141-160 Abrasion Resistant Coating on Composite Substrates
AF141-161 Remotely Controlled Exhaust Coating Defect Mapping System
AF141-162 Methods to Enable Rapid Qualification of Additive Manufacturing Processes
AF141-163 Fabrication of aberration-free gradient index nonlinear optical materials
AF141-164 Programmable Accelerated Environmental Test System for Aerospace Materials
AF141-165 Standard Test Method for Prepreg Resin Impregnation Level
AF141-166 Aircraft Fastener Smart Wrench
AF141-167 Realistic Test Methods for Aircraft Outer Mold Line Treatment Materials
AF141-168 Chrome-Free Room Temperature Curing Fuel Tank Coating
AF141-169 Automated Surface Microstructure Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Process for
Aerospace Materials
AF141-170 Efficient shaping or reshaping of complex 3D parts using engineered residual stress
AF141-172 Reliable and Large-Scale Processing of Organic Field Effect Transistors for Biosensing
Applications
AF141-173 High Index of Refraction Materials for Printed Applications
AF141-174 Computational Tools to Virtually Explore Material's Opportunity Space from the
Designer's Workstation
AF141-175 Advanced sub-scale component high temperature multi-axial test capability
AF141-177 Near Real-Time Processing Techniques for Generation of Integrated Data Products
AF141-178 Topographic/HSI Active Transceiver (TOPHAT)
AF141-179 Imaging Techniques for Passive Atmospheric Turbulence Compensation
AF141-180 FLIR/3D LADAR Shared Aperture Non-mechanical Beam Steering
AF141-181 Enhanced Compute Environment to Improve Autonomous System Mission Capabilities
AF141-182 Real Time, Long Focal Length Compact Multispectral Imager
AF141-183 Robust Hyperspectral Target Reacquisition Under Varying Illumination Conditions and
Viewing Geometry
AF141-184 RF Photonic Multiple, Simultaneous RF Beamforming for Phased Array Sensors
AF141-185 Methodologies for Predicting Dormant Missile Reliabilities
AF141-186 Advance Tracking Algorithms to Meet Modern Threats
AF141-187 Increased Radio Frequency (RF) Sampling & Radar Architecture Upgrades
AF141-190 SATCOM Wideband Digital Channelized Receiver with Low-cost Silicon Technology
AF141-191 (This topic has been removed from the solicitation.)
AF141-192 Affordable E-band Radiation Hardened Mixed Mode Microelectronics
AF141-193 V-Band Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier with Extended Output Power
AF141-194 Noise Canceling Rad Hard Extremely High Frequency (EHF) Low Noise Amplifier
AF141-195 Characterization of Atmospheric Turbulence for Long Range Active Electro-Optic
Sensors
AF141-196 Hybridization Techniques for Ultra-Small Pitch Focal Plane Arrays
AF141-197 Novel Signal Processing for Airborne Passive Synthetic Aperture Radar
AF141-198 Aperture Synthesis for Partially Coherent and Passive Illumination
AF141-199 Optical Isolator for Infrared (IR) Applications (2-15 micron)
AF141-203 Improved LHE Zn-Ni and Cd Plating Process
AF141-204 Improve Energy Source for NDI Equipment Tools
AF141-205 Non-Destructive Inspection for Medium Caliber Gun Barrel Fatigue Crack
AF141-206 Nonparametric Recurrent Event Data Analysis
AF141-207 Residual Stress Determination for Cold Expanded Holes
AF141-208 Material and Process Specification Optimization
AF141-209 Dimensional Evaluation of Aircraft Fuel Cells
AF141-210 Economic Alternative to Wc-Co HVOF Composition for ID Applications for Landing
Gear
AF141-211 Enhanced Fuel Cells From Wastewater Treatment (Bacteria Generated System) as a
Renewable Energy Source
AF141-212 Environmentally Friendly Stripping of Low Hydrogen Embrittlement (LHE) Chromium
Plate
AF141-213 Method for Evaluating Candidates for Additive Manufacturing (AM) Processes
AF141-214 Beyond Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognosis Fault Tolerant Control of Aerospace
Systems
AF141-215 Corrosion- Preventative, Super-hydrophobic Coatings for Landing Gear
AF141-222 Hot Surface Ignition Apparatus for Aviation Fuels
AF141-223 Aircraft Wheel-Tire Dynamic Interface Pressure
AF141-224 Modeling Fuel Spurt from Impacts on Fuel Tanks
AF141-225 Advanced Infrared Emitter Array (AIREA)
AF141-226 Real Time Static and Dynamic Flight External Loads Analysis
AF141-227 Rule-Based XML Validation for T&E (RuBX)
AF141-228 Arc jet Test-Article Surface Recession Rate Monitor
AF141-229 Non-Intrusive, Seedless Global Velocimetry for Large Scale Hypersonic Wind Tunnels
AF141-230 Large Scale Combustion Air Heater Laser Ignition System
AF141-231 Alternative Approach to Contact Type Analogue Data Slipring
AF141-232 Temperature-Compensated Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) for use in Nitrogen
Environments of Large-Scale Blowdown Hypersonic Facilities
AF141-239 (This topic has been removed from the solicitation.)
AF141-243 Advanced Space Antenna for GPS
AF141-244 Distributed Sensor Management for RSO Detection, Classification and Tracking
AF141-245 L-Band Wide Bandwidth High Performance Diplexer, Triplexer, and Quadruplexer
AF141-248 Improved satellite catalog processing for rapid object characterization
AF141-250 64MB+ Radiation-Hardened, Non-Volatile Memory for Space
AF141-251 On-Orbit Reprogrammable Digital Waveform Generator for GPS
AF141-252 Positioning, Navigating, Timing, Communications, Architecture, Mission Design
AF141-253 Disruptive Military Navigation Architectures
Air Force SBIR 14.1 Topic Descriptions
AF141-001 TITLE: Non-Silicon and Non-Boron based Leading Edges for Hypersonic Vehicles
KEY TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Materials
OBJECTIVE: Identify and demonstrate a new material system with suitable material properties to realize the advanced leading edges for use in reusable or long flight time hypersonic vehicles.
DESCRIPTION: Air Force-relevant applications include but not limited to sharp leading edges, rocket nozzles, throats and engine combustion parts are key components that enable hypersonic flight. These leading edges and high temperature parts experience high temperatures over 2200°C at > Mach 8 flight conditions in high altitude air environment, resulting from aerothermally induced high heat flux. They further experience high ambient fluid velocities, mechanical vibrations, and thermal stresses from severe heat flux gradients and thermal shock. The materials that can survive such extreme conditions even for short exposure intervals are currently very limited. The state-of-the art high temperature fiber reinforced composites, including C/C, C/SiC and SiC/SiC composites, cannot meet the challenges. Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramics (UHTC) materials based on refractory metal diborides (HfB2 or ZrB2) and containing optimum silicon carbide concentration (in either bulk or CMC form) have demonstrated the best performances to date. However, these alloys are still not thermal shock resistant enough for reliable use in a cyclic environment. In addition, they suffer from accelerating oxidation and ablation above 1800°C due to volatilization of the glassy component. They also suffer tendency for spallation of the crystalline oxide partly due to phase transformations. The current UHTC technologies seem to have reached their limits, so new alloys are needed to address the property improvements required for the near future. Innovative material designs and possibly new fabrication technologies must be identified to enable applicability to advanced sharp leading edges for hypersonic vehicles. The next generations of ultra high temperature materials need to form high-density, stable crystalline oxide phases and they should not contain volatile phases. These materials will also need to have high thermal shock resistance (i.e., requiring high temperature strength of 100 Ksi, fracture toughness exceeding 7 MPam1/2 and thermal conductivity exceeding 50 w/m2K).
PHASE I: Identify candidate material systems and validate a proof-of-concept solution. Complete preliminary evaluation of the material performances with adequate laboratory evaluation approaches. This will require limited thermal-mechanical property evaluation from room temperature to at least 1600°C. Oxidation and thermal shock resistance should be assessed torch testing in air up to 2200°C.
PHASE II: Expand on Phase I results by further improvements to the material and its properties database using experiments that simulated condition of hypersonic flight. Identify and develop a cost-effective manufacturing process and produce the hardware designs for a four-inch long leading edge and provide a description for commercialization that takes into account civilian use for land-based power turbines, nuclear industry and nuclear medicine, and range of wide band gap electronic materials systems.
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