Collaboration of laboratory, device companies, and system developer
The topic understandably describes two phases, the first for exploratory research, and the second for product development and prototyping. Conducting research on battery fires in the first phase could require a laboratory function to initiate cell runaway and measure effectiveness of countermeasures. The second phase of design and build with testing would require skill sets different from a laboratory to build hardware. It could be the case that no single entity has all these functions in-house. Is it desirable to have a collaboration of companies / entities such as a laboratory, a sensor company and a development company to integrate the work?
Mark Rimkus
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Raj Wagley
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This project is a phase 1 SBIR project, but the main point for second part of the project is to have a conceptual design, not a working hardware. However, collaboration is always desirable.
If Phase 2 SBIR project is awarded separately from the Phase 1 SBIR project later, then different skill sets are required.