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Orbital Composites, Inc.: SBIR & STTR awards
9 awards worth $7.29M to 1 companies since 2021 match these filters. Phase I tests an idea (usually a few hundred thousand dollars); Phase II builds it (often $1M or more).
Orbital Composites, Inc.'s federal contracts and grants · All SBIR & STTR awards
Awards by year
| Year | Phase I | Phase II | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | $1.97M |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 | $4.17M |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | $999.8K |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | $147.1K |
The latest year fills in over months: agencies report awards to SBIR.gov with a lag.
Latest matching awards
| Award | Company | Agency | Phase | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous Fiber Additive Manufacturing for Rapid Prototyping and Demonstration of Small UAS Designs · topic AFX20D-TCSO1 | Orbital Composites, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Air Force | SBIR Phase II | $1.90M | 2024-06-13 |
| Additively Manufactured Carbon-Carbon/Silicon Carbide Reusable Thermal Protection System. · topic AFX245-PCSO2 | Orbital Composites, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Air Force | SBIR Phase I | $70.4K | 2024-05-15 |
| 10x Faster and Lower Cost Manufacturing of Carbon/Carbon Composites for Hypersonics · topic AFX236-DPCSO1 | Orbital Composites, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Air Force | SBIR Phase II | $1.15M | 2023-08-30 |
| 3D Printed, Low-Cost, Radiation Hardened, CubeSats for Beyond-LEO Optical Imaging Missions · topic SF224-D027 | Orbital Composites, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Air Force | SBIR Phase II | $1.25M | 2023-08-15 |
| Stealth Communication via 3D-Printed Quantum Field Antennas · topic AFX235-CSO1 | Orbital Composites, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Air Force | SBIR Phase I | $75.0K | 2023-05-02 |
| Low Cost, Versatile Robotic ISAM Platform for Service, Assembly and Manufacturing of Antennas · topic AFX234-DCSO1 | Orbital Composites, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Air Force | SBIR Phase II | $1.70M | 2023-02-17 |
| Orbital Debris Removal System (ODRS) · topic AF21S-TCSO1 | Orbital Composites, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Air Force | STTR Phase I | $250.0K | 2022-08-30 |
| Mobile, Robotic, Continuous-Fiber 3D Printing of Low-Cost Attritable Aircraft Systems · topic AFX20D-TCSO1 | Orbital Composites, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Air Force | STTR Phase II | $749.8K | 2022-05-06 |
| Fast VTOL X-wing Tailsitter · topic AFX20D-TCSO1 | Orbital Composites, Inc. · California | Department of Defense · Air Force | STTR Phase I | $147.1K | 2021-04-19 |
Source: SBIR.gov award data (SBA) ↗, awards through 2026-08-28. Amounts are as agencies report them to SBA. SBIR/STTR contracts also appear in USAspending as ordinary awards; grants (NIH, NSF, DOE) appear as assistance. Open topics are posted by each agency; see Opportunities for contract notices.