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TRITON SYSTEMS, INC.

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330 BILLERICA RD
CHELMSFORD, MA, 01824-4140
USA

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UEI: DA91DUWSMSQ7

Number of Employees: 126

HUBZone Owned: No

Woman Owned: No

Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No

SBIR/STTR Involvement

Year of first award: 1993

642

Phase I Awards

302

Phase II Awards

47.04%

Conversion Rate

$84,071,403

Phase I Dollars

$312,441,318

Phase II Dollars

$396,512,722

Total Awarded

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Coatings for Reliable Compact Rotary Engines

Amount: $146,323 Topic: N252-104

Rotary engines offer distinct advantages over piston-driven engines for powering UAVs, particularly due to their high-power density and lower maintenance requirements. However, in harsh marine environments, characterized by humid air with elevated salt and dust concentrations, Wankel-style rotary engines experience significant performance degradation. These conditions accelerate wear and abrasion, promote corrosion, and impair heat transfer, ultimately reducing engine efficiency, durability, and operational lifespan. To address these challenges, Triton Systems, Inc. (Triton) proposes the development of a novel multi-functional coating architecture designed to enhance the wear resistance, corrosion resistance, and thermal management of Wankel rotary engines used in UAVs operating in marine settings. During Phase I, Triton will employ its proprietary solid-state functionally graded material/coating deposition technology to design and fabricate a layered coating structure. This model-guided experimental approach will be informed by multi-physics simulations, allowing for rapid iteration and optimization of material compositions while minimizing the number of physical trials required. The coatings will incorporate functional materials that improve lubricity, resist oxidation, enhance wear resistance, and ensure thermal stability under extreme conditions. Coated test coupons will undergo rigorous evaluation using standardized methods to assess corrosion resistance, adhesion strength, wear behavior, and microstructural integrity. These tests will validate coating quality and ensure the metallurgical control needed to meet target performance metrics and component longevity. Triton will collaborate closely with a rotary engine OEM during Phase I to ensure alignment between coating properties, test protocols, and the OEMís pre-qualification requirements for material and process maturation. In Phase II, Triton will extend this partnership to include Navy and industrial end-users. The focus will shift to optimizing the coating process and validating the formulation through engine-level testing under realistic operational conditions. This strategic progression will position Triton to advance toward process qualification and integration into target platforms during Phase II enhancement and Phase III activities.

SBIR

Phase I

2026

DOD

NAVY

Pre and Post Weld Heating Innovations

Amount: $146,381 Topic: N252-106

Welding plays a crucial role in Navy and ship construction, enabling the creation of strong, watertight, and durable structures. It's used in a wide variety of applications, from welding the hull to attaching interior components. Heaters, specifically for preheat and post-weld heat treatment (PWHT), are crucial during ship welding to ensure structural integrity and prevent cracking. Preheating raises the base metal temperature before welding, slowing the cooling rate and reducing hydrogen embrittlement and cracking. Post-weld heat treatment further helps mitigate cracking and improves the weld's strength and ductility. Historically, heater bars could be repaired but recently the devices have changed from repairable tools to consumable products which are no longer durable or reliable, have an unpredictable operating life and have long lead times resulting in critical operations being forced to stop and wait for equipment to become free to continue the process, leading to delays throughout the entire shipbuilding process. As there is an urgent need for innovation in pre and post weld heating technology, Triton proposes to design, develop, transition and commercialize a novel additive manufacturing approach to manufacture electrical resistive heater bars with integrated temperature sensing, feedback control of heating rate, and temperature data logging.

SBIR

Phase I

2026

DOD

NAVY

Advanced Fretting Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Naval Aerospace Applications

Amount: $246,426 Topic: N25B-T032

The proposed efforts outline a computational method for predicting the fretting fatigue life of naval aero-structural components to improve durability, reliability, performance, and evaluate mitigation strategies. Existing models suffer from being overfit to empirical results, not being properly representative of realistic multiaxial loading conditions, and neglecting critical factors such as temperature effects and varying coefficient of friction. Triton’s model will provide a broadly applicable and scalable tool for the Navy to evaluate parametric influences on fretting fatigue, predict the performance of naval aero-structural components, and optimize mitigation strategies to prevent unexpected failures. In Phase I, Triton will tailor an advanced modeling framework to demonstrate accurate prediction of fretting fatigue in a representative component geometry with aerospace-relevant materials. In Phase II, Triton will optimize the model for performance accuracy, reliability and scalability – delivering a model prototype for demonstration. Testing will be completed to validate the model. Beyond Phase II, Triton will market the tool as a practical engineering asset for fretting fatigue evaluation and mitigation to both military and commercial markets.

STTR

Phase I

2026

DOD

NAVY

Biological Noise Modeling for Active and Passive Sonar System Performance Predictions

Amount: $999,734 Topic: N24A-T020

Triton Systems proposes to develop a biologic noise model compatible with Navy standard acoustic propagation models (CASS-GRAB and RAM). The model will be applicable for both active and passive sonar performance predictions including both impact of direct biological noise sources as well as scattering effects as a function of frequency.

STTR

Phase II

2026

DOD

NAVY

Ambient Acoustic Noise Cancelling for Military Boom Microphones

Amount: $246,424 Topic: N252-093

Communication systems in military aviation must contend with high noise environments, and clear communications require that noise is eliminated before reaching a listenerís ear. The main components of noise transferal are the listenerís environmental acoustic noise physically reaching the ear, and the other is noise picked up on a talkerís microphone that is then sent through the communication system to and played in a listenerís ear via a loudspeaker.Ý For clear multi-way communications, environmental noise must be removed at all listenersí ears, and noise must be mitigated at all talkersí microphones before insertion into the communication channel while preserving the intelligibility.ÝIn this work, Triton Systems, Inc. will provide a system to prevent ambient noise from entering the communication line as well as improving intelligibility in the challenging high noise environments of military aviation boom microphone usage.

SBIR

Phase I

2026

DOD

NAVY

Unmanned Aerial System for Tag Deployment in Marine Mammal Monitoring

Amount: $146,432 Topic: N242-097

In response to the Navy SBIR Topic N242-097, titled Unmanned Aerial System for Tag Deployment in Marine Mammal Monitoring, Triton Systems, Inc. will develop a compact, efficient, and cost-effective payload for deploying Type A biologging tags to be adapted onto a compact, NDAA-compliant, commercial-off-the-shelf unmanned aerial system. To meet topic requirements, the system will sufficiently propel the tag to be properly attached, have the precision to target specific locations on the animal, and be wind and motion compensated in aim to minimize operator workload and training. Furthermore, the system will identify specific features on individual animals and collect high-resolution imagery for further research and post-processing use. Triton’s solution will adapt existing aerial systems, sensors, mechanisms, and software into a suitable marine mammal tagging platform.

SBIR

Phase I

2025

DOD

NAVY

Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vehicle Fueling at Sea

Amount: $146,428 Topic: N251-032

Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vehicle Fueling at Sea: Develop a capability that will enable Large Unmanned Surface Vehicles (LUSVs) to conduct astern refueling operations from an auxiliary ship or platform while underway.

SBIR

Phase I

2025

DOD

NAVY

Carbon-Carbon Modular Structures

Amount: $146,414 Topic: N251-066

There is significant interest from all branches of the Department of Defense (DoD), in addition to several major Primes, for manufacturing capabilities that demonstrate rugged, high temperature resistant carbon-carbon (CC) composite thermal protection system materials for hypersonic missile systems and other defense applications. Many of the prototype vehicles being developed and demonstrated by the DoD rely on CC composites for structural performance under extreme aerothermal conditions. The rising demand for weapons that can travel at hypersonic speeds and evade tracking technologies is a major factor driving the global hypersonic weapons market and R&D sectors, such as the Conventional Prompt Strike program. As a result, increasing investments across the defense sector to strengthen defense capabilities to safeguard against foreign threats and ensure better homeland security continues to drive TPS material R&D. The long manufacturing lead times resulting from a combination of slow production processes and in-process part failures, in addition to evolving global threats necessitating ever-improving architectures for hypersonic vehicles creates a great need for improved manufacturing capability to create rapidly produced high- performance CC structures that allow for modularity of a hypersonic vehicle.In response, Triton proposes to adapt and refine its room temperature stable, high-yield prepreg and CC fabrication process for the rapid manufacture of modular, high density TPS materials. The novel matrix formulation composed of inexpensive, commercially available, and domestically sourced chemicals results in rapid densification by reducing the requirement for repeated reinfiltration cycles. With this formulation, we have produced shelf stable prepreg that requires no special storage (e.g., cold storage) and ensures uniformity and reproducibility during TPS manufacturing. The innovative multi-stage fabrication process rapidly produces rugged, high density CC parts that are highly machinable at all stages of the overall fabrication process, improving the versatility of these TPS materials for a variety of evolving hypersonics platform applications. This manufacturing capability lends itself to modular construction, and we will implement a previously demonstrated design to adjoin these modular carbon-carbon structures to produce high-tolerance architecture(s) for hypersonic vehicles.Ý

SBIR

Phase I

2025

DOD

NAVY

Flat Optic Micro Lenslet Array

Amount: $179,934 Topic: AF24B-T001

Triton Systems, Inc. along with our academic partner will develop a high performance microlens array based on a flat optics platform. We will demonstrate our design through simulation and testing to deliver flat optics which meet the Air Force’s stringent requirements by utilizing the team’s demonstrated history to refine high performance optics. We will fabricate microlens arrays and evaluate their properties to verify modeling accuracy. In a follow-on Phase II effort, we will enhance the arrays design to refine performances for broadband, focal distance, reduced pixel pitch to support Air Force, other DoD, and commercial applications.

STTR

Phase I

2025

DOD

USAF

Improved Heat Blanket Technology for Aircraft Composite Bonding Operations

Amount: $1,399,963 Topic: N242-072

Triton Systems proposes to develop, demonstrate, and transition a novel, flexible heater blanket capable of heating as far up to the edge as possible without hot spots or dead spots, regardless of the presence of heat sinks. The proposed heater blanket is intended to function at I-level repair facilities to improve the quality and reliability of heater blanket aircraft repairs. The focus of the Phase II effort is to further refine and build on the capabilities of the heater blanket demonstrated in the Phase I. This effort includes the development of additional blankets, of varying sizes, to evaluate the manufacturability, the scalability, and capability of the blankets to meet Navy requirements. Key areas identified from the Phase I are to focus on the design’s conformability, edge heating, temperature uniformity, high temperature performance, and ability to address localized heat sinks. Triton plans to continue performing lab scale testing across a range of materials, cure profiles, and geometry with input directly from the Navy repair depots. Furthermore, the proposed technology is planned to be evaluated through a series of repair processes to mimic the most demanding applications at Navy depot repair facilities. The depot repair will conclude concludes with the evaluation of a high-temperature hot-bonded repair of a Navy radome window.

SBIR

Phase II

2025

DOD

NAVY