UNI Robotics Inc., doing business as Air Space Intelligence, has been awarded a $74,582 firm fixed price purchase order from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. This contract is associated with the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I solicitation and has a total small business set aside designation. Under this award, Air Space Intelligence will deliver artificial intelligence technologies for airspace awareness and defense, helping the...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Misram LLC, a certified women-owned small business, for the development of an edge artificial intelligence platform for space and unmanned aerial imagery intelligence. The $1,249,393.00 contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II, which is set aside for total small businesses. Misram LLC's Spectronn division has prior experience in...
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...
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.'s Space and Intelligence Systems Division was awarded an $11.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on September 11, 2024, for Next Generation Processing and Exploitation capabilities. The contract, which extends through November 10, 2026, will be performed in Westgate, New York, and was awarded without set-aside designation, indicating competition among large businesses. This award originated from AFRL's Broad...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to Edgesource Corporation, a small business based in Alexandria, Virginia. The contract is for the provision of small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) to enhance personnel safety during ICE investigations. The contract has a ceiling value of $515,611.20 and a period of performance through November 21, 2025. Edgesource Corporation is an experienced...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $179,994 firm-fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Interactive Aptitude LLC, a small business based in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The "AUTONOMOUS SPACE TRAINING FOR ROBUST OPERATIONS AND EDGE-DRIVEN GROWTH IN EXPERIMENTATION (ASTROEDGE)" contract aims to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms with diverse, high-quality space situational awareness data. The...
This is a $2,853,314 definitive contract awarded by the Department of Defense National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Space And Intelligence Systems Division for the development of advanced point cloud visualization capabilities. The contract is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee arrangement without a set-aside designation. The solicitation originated from a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory, seeking technologies and techniques to...
This is a firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense to Forward Edge AI Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business in San Antonio, Texas. The contract, valued at $3,131,332.72, is for digital transformation services and does not have a set-aside designation. Forward Edge AI Inc. specializes in responsible and inclusive artificial intelligence solutions leveraging blockchain technology, and has executed numerous SBIR Phase II and III contracts across...
Fibertek, Inc., a small business photonics manufacturer based in Herndon, Virginia, was awarded an $818,763.42 firm fixed-price contract by NASA's Goddard Space Center on August 29, 2024, for a Phase A concept study on the Edge Laser Engineering Test Unit (ETU) and Beam Dithering Units (BDU) in support of the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) mission. The contract, which carries an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2026, was issued under the 2023 Earth System Explorers Announcement of...
Aerocine Ventures, Inc. has been awarded a $699,112 firm fixed-price purchase order contract by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct research on edge artificial intelligence change detection capabilities for unmanned aircraft systems. The small business set-aside award is being issued under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program to further develop technology initially researched under Phase I for analyzing imagery data in...