The Department of the Army awarded a $12,326,468.26 firm-fixed-price Delivery Order to Compound Eye Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop the Visual Inertial Distributed Aperture System (VIDAS) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. This SBIR Phase II award supports research and development of passive, GPS-denied mapping and positioning capabilities for autonomous systems. Compound Eye Inc. has received multiple SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contracts from the Department of Defense to advance innovative electro-optical sensors and data fusion technologies. The company also holds two significant Indefinite Delivery Vehicles (IDVs) with the Department of the Army, including a $15 million SBIR Phase II Catalyst program and a $1.56 million Other Transaction Agreement for prototyping multi-spectral sensors, data fusion software, and augmented reality displays to enhance soldier vision and targeting systems.
Generated 10/16/24, 9:11 AM