Orlando, FL, October 14, 2024 –Helicon Chemical announced today that the company has been awarded multiple contracts valued at $10M to continue to develop the effectiveness of their metallized binder and to scale its production. Helicon has received new awards from the United State Navy, the United States Air Force, the United States Army, and the DoD’s National Security Innovation Capital initiative.
“These awards are significant as they are a testament to the importance of the work Helicon has been doing to improve solid rocket motor performance in particular, and improved energetics materials in general, for the DoD and the various services, said Dr. David Reid, Helicon’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer. “These awards will allow us to continue to our products and to continue the process of scaling them to meet the needs of our Defense Infrastructure Base (DIB).”
Helicon’s awards come in the form of Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project, Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer project, and Other Transactional Agreements. As the growing demand for solid rocket engine makers and propulsion technology continues to sky-rocket, Helicon believes it’s well positioned to help leaders across industry and government reach needed capability and capacity goals by helping to address supply chain challenges in the DIB.
“Almost every provider in both the energetics and solid rocket motor field, has needed someone to propose an ‘Open Architecture for Energetics Solution’. Our approach from the beginning was to develop products and partnerships that allow Helicon to have the unique ability to work with everyone in this domain who are demanding increased performance right now”, said Jack Sarnicki, Helicon Chemical Chief Operations Officer. “Our focus is on how to make these systems better in order to outperform our adversaries while at the same time addressing well identified weaknesses within the DIB supply chains.”
Helicon’s patented technology allows for the rapid modernization of current armaments and future hypersonic weapons systems — aligning with one of the DoD’s top R&D priorities. The binder will help increase speed, lift and overall mission effectiveness of propulsion systems.
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