The federal Project Grant award of $650,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program supports the development of the GeoFire Real-Time Wildfire Alert System (WAS) by Micro-Precision Technologies, Inc. This technology uses a high-density sensor network to track the location and growth of individual wildfire cells in real-time, providing early detection and accurate tracking of wildfires. The...
Skyward LTD received a $174,998 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an edge-computing device and machine learning algorithms to process aerial imagery of wildfires in real time. The SBIR program aims to support technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds. Under this award, Skyward will benchmark hardware, software, and machine learning...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.212 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program) provides $174,874 to Near Space Labs Inc. to validate the use of stratospheric imaging as a methodology for wildfire monitoring. The project, which runs from July 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025, aims to develop commercially viable products and technologies to address...
This $650,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program supports the development of the PyreCAst platform, an advanced wildfire forecasting and risk management tool. The project aims to enhance wildfire prediction capabilities by integrating cutting-edge weather-fire models and statistical methods to provide more reliable and detailed predictions of fire behavior. By...
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $175,000 under the Small Business Innovation Research Program to Gearjump Technologies LLC from July 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023. The funding supports development of the Remote Autonomous Detection System, a novel surveillance platform to cost-effectively detect the invasive Red Imported Fire Ant species. The platform integrates microfluidics, electronics, and digital algorithms to autonomously attract, capture, and positively identify fire...
Geometric Data Analytics Inc. received a $174,836 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to improve wildland firefighting capabilities. Funded through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212), Geometric Data Analytics will place satellite-connected sensors in remote wildfire regions to gather and release real-time environmental data to...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $599,000 Project Grant to Bludot Technologies Inc. under the Small Business Innovation Research Program/Small Business Technology Transfer Program (SBIR/STTR Program, CFDA #10.212). The grant will fund the development of a managerial system to increase economic development capacity for rural jurisdictions from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The SBIR/STTR Program aims to stimulate technological...
Application Insight, LLC was awarded a $649,693 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to develop a high pressure chemical delivery system for aerial application platforms from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The SBIR/STTR programs are intended to support technological innovation through the investment of...
The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to Agrofocal Technologies, Inc. under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The funding supports the development of Agrofocal's real-time crop monitoring system that can be mounted on any vehicle to provide high-resolution, under-the-canopy images of crops. This system enables farmers to monitor crop health,...
The federal Project Grant award, with ID 20243353041955, was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The purpose of this $175,000 award is to develop a capability for a persistent, high spatial and temporal resolution L-band radar platform to be integrated on a high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) uncrewed aerial...