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High Efficiency Shelter Lighting Utilizing Solid State Illumination Technology

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W911QY-05-C-0022
Agency Tracking Number: A043-214-0919
Amount: $119,977.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A04-214
Solicitation Number: 2004.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2004-12-13
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2005-06-13
Small Business Information
7200 Highway 150
Greenville, IN 47124
United States
DUNS: 621970383
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Mark Heimerdinger
 Project Manager
 (812) 923-9591
 mheimerdinger@SHOT.com
Business Contact
 Mark Deuser
Title: President
Phone: (812) 923-9591
Email: mdeuser@SHOT.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The Army currently uses fluorescent lighting that is large, heavy, extremely inefficient, and expensive to illuminate deployable shelters. Because the light fixtures can't be rolled up with the portable shelter, they must be individually removed and stowed separately for transport, further compounding the logistics problem. Using a combination of commercially available and internally-developed power management technology, SHOT proposes a systems-engineered approach to this lighting problem. Our lighting system is expected to employ commercially available lighting technology that is more energy efficient, reliable and cost effective than traditional lighting systems. Moreover, the system is projected to provide performance superior to incandescent and fluorescent technologies. It also is anticipated to have the flexibility and capability to use multiple energy sources that are commonly available in remote locations and under combat zone conditions. It will be battlefield-ready for multiple shelter applications, and capable of being used in all types of climates and geographic locations. Our end-product is expected to be an integrated solution that is dependable, reliable, and easy to assemble and reconfigure. Our Phase I research effort will enable us to explore and engineer the subsystems, and then begin to integrate those subsystems together to demonstrate the feasibility of our lighting system.

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