Voyager Secures Sixteen Point Five Million Dollar DARPA Contract to Advance Tailorable Solid Rocket Motor Control Technology

Voyager Technologies has been awarded a sixteen point five million dollar DARPA Burn n’ Go Phase 2 contract to mature a propellant embedded control technology designed to give solid rocket motors tailorable, post manufacturing thrust control. The effort aims to improve performance, enhance manufacturing efficiency, and enable more flexible mission tailoring across multiple weapon systems, a priority area as the defense community seeks scalable propulsion solutions for high demand missile inventories.

Phase 2 Builds on Validated Architecture and Early Design Work

The award follows the completion of Phase 1, during which Voyager developed a conceptual system architecture, conducted trade studies, and produced preliminary designs to assess feasibility. The phase concluded with a Conceptual Design Review that validated the technical approach and cleared the path for hardware focused development.

Under the twenty month Phase 2 effort, Voyager will integrate its modeling and control systems expertise with propellant formulation and advanced manufacturing capabilities to build and validate proof of concept systems. The work will culminate in hot fire demonstrations of solid rocket motors with tailorable thrust profiles.

Focus on Industrialization, Scalability, and Real Time Health Monitoring

A major emphasis of the program is manufacturability at scale. DARPA’s Burn n’ Go initiative seeks propulsion technologies that can be produced rapidly, tailored after manufacturing, and integrated across multiple weapon systems without extensive redesign.

Voyager’s work includes developing post manufacturing control architectures and embedding structural health monitoring systems to enable real time performance assessment. These capabilities are intended to support rapid industrial transition, flexible procurement strategies, and large scale stockpiling.

Vertically Integrated Capabilities Support Rapid Technology Transition

Voyager highlighted its vertically integrated propulsion capabilities, which span advanced modeling, embedded control architectures, energetics formulation, precision manufacturing, and high consequence testing. This structure is designed to accelerate the path from concept to field ready propulsion technologies, an increasingly important requirement as the defense sector seeks to expand and modernize solid rocket motor production capacity.