SBIR-STTR Award

The main objective of this project is the development of a novel energy system for emplaced munitions that can reliably meet its relatively low power requirements of the order of 10 mW for a period of 30 days and that could also provide several high-pulsed power requirements of the munitions that are around 1 second long and no more than 500 mA on demand over this period. The proposed energy system is provided with a long-run reserve battery to provide the required low power and several thigh power reserve batteries that are individual initiated to provide the required high-power pulses. The energy system is provided with a “smart energy management” system, which is used to control the generation, storage and flow of electrical energy on demand and to minimize the total munitions energy consumption as thereby the overall energy system size. The proposed energy system is configured and packaged for minimal susceptibility to EMI and EMP. The use of reserve power sources ensures shelf life of over 20 years, shock survivability of over 100,000 Gs, and meeting the military operational and storage temperature requirements of -65 to 165 deg. F.

The main objective of this project is the development of a novel energy system for emplaced munitions that can reliably meet its relatively low power requirements of the order of 10 mW for a period of 30 days and that could also provide several high-pulsed power requirements of the munitions that are around 1 second long and no more than 500 mA on demand over this period. The power system must be capable of being highly miniaturized, must integrate energy management functions, such that it would minimize overall energy consumption during the required 30 days power budget, must be fully compatible with currently available manufacturing processes, must be gun hardened to withstand setback and set-forward and balloting shocks and flight induced vibration, must have a shelf life of over 20 years, and must be safe and meet all military operational and storage temperature requirements of -65 deg. F to 165 deg. F. Such a power system is also ideal for use in extended range munitions in which the power requirement fluctuates highly during the relatively long duration of the munitions flight and operation.