The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $500,000 firm fixed price contract to Distat Co for the development of a mobile software tool for counting small objects using computer vision and machine learning technologies. The contract is being performed under a Small Business Technology Transfer program award to deliver research supporting the laboratory's efforts in object detection and recognition. Distat Co will perform the work in Kennett Square,...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $50,000.00 Firm Fixed Price purchase order contract to Pilot Ai Labs, Inc., a small business, for an Object Detection Feasibility Study under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. Pilot Ai Labs specializes in computer vision and deep learning solutions for edge devices, and has previously provided engineering services as a subcontractor on other Department of the Air Force contracts. This...
This $100,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Distat Co, a self-certified small disadvantaged and woman-owned small business. The contract is for the development of augmented reality software to be used in training applications related to safety checklists, hydraulic testing, and engine fuel systems. This award is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract, indicating it is part of a larger STTR program focused on...
The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters awarded a $165,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Deep Ai Solutions LLC. The contract is for the development and implementation of a machine learning/artificial intelligence model to detect and discover anomalies and vulnerabilities for the agency's ASIAS program. The work will be performed in Voorhees Township, New Jersey over a six-month period concluding in December 2023. No set aside designation or...
This is a $1,036,690 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc., a minority-owned small business based in Bolingbrook, Illinois. The contract is for the continued development of "High Speed Image Processing in Heavily Degraded Environments Using a Machine Learning Classifier," building on the company's previous SBIR Phase I work. The contract is a Firm...
Dynamic Object Language Labs Inc. has been awarded a $1.76 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to further develop Context-Driven Active-Sensing for Repair Tasks II. This definitive contract, set aside for total small businesses, will support continued research at the company's Haverhill, Massachusetts location through August 2025. The work directly builds upon findings from an earlier Phase I STTR, aiming to advance...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $3 million Other Transaction Agreement to Robotic Services Inc., doing business as Aerial Applications, to develop and deliver a bundled unmanned aerial vehicle hardware system with analytics software. The system will utilize photogrammetry and vegetative analysis tools to support environmental management activities. A key component is VAST, an artificial intelligence search engine for analyzing physical data captured...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate awarded a $199,890.00 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to Analytical AI, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the Recursive Evaluation of Security in Soft Targets (RESIST) with Lookback and Lookforward/Phase 2 project. This contract is not set aside. The RESIST project aims to develop AI-powered solutions to rapidly identify threats for homeland security applications. Analytical AI has previously delivered...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to the University of Illinois for the second phase of a research project on using laser triangulation and deep neural networks (DNNs) for railway safety inspections. The contract has a ceiling value of $986,941.00 and a completion date of September 30, 2025. The initial research phase developed methods to apply AI to laser-based data to detect track changes impacting safety. This second...
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate awarded a $498,070 Other Transaction Agreement to Lauretta Ai LLC for the Detection of Passenger Anomalous Activity at Screening Stations Using Artificial Intelligence Running on Standard CCTV Cameras/Phase 3 Project. Lauretta Ai LLC, located in Arlington, Massachusetts, will utilize artificial intelligence to analyze footage from closed-circuit television cameras at screening stations in order to detect anomalous passenger...