AVEC Engine Licensee Wins US Navy Phase II SBIR Contract for New Marine Engine

AVEC Corporation

announced today an AVEC licensee is the winner of 2011 SBIR Phase II to increase engine efficiency while reducing engine weight. Most diesel marine engines are based on industrial engines with little regard to total weight or size. Phase II SBIR award winner EngineTec, Inc., will further advance the linear drive engine concept. Douglas Hahn, president of EngineTec, Inc., has been a technical consultant for AVEC for the last five years and his team was instrumental in bringing the AVEC Workhorse engine to the demonstration phase. It was this same technology that gave Douglas Hahn the idea to reduce size and weight for military applications.