Project Grant 20253361045026
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $649,979 Project Grant under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to Primelabs LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business. The grant will fund the development and commercialization of a low-cost, smartphone-based multispectral imaging (MSI) system integrated with artificial intelligence (AI) software. This system is designed to provide real-time insights into the...
- This $175,000 federal project grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program will fund the development of an innovative AI-based post-harvest food quality and safety monitoring system by Interlink Electronics, Inc. The project aims to integrate next-generation printed toxic gas sensors with data fusion and smart analytics to create a low-cost sensor platform for...
- This $274,550 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive federal grants program (CFDA 10.310) will fund the development of innovative sinusoidal-illumination imaging (SII) technology for enhanced quality detection of poultry. Mississippi State University will assemble a benchtop SII platform and evaluate its efficacy for characterizing and detecting...
- This $175,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program supports the development of a new technology called HELIOCLEAN by Heliowave Technologies Inc., a small disadvantaged business based in College Station, Texas. The HELIOCLEAN system utilizes advanced biosensing reagents and a portable device to enable rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection of...
- This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) provides $174,706 to Innovative Automation Technologies, LLC to develop a proof-of-concept for the "CoopAEye" - a low-cost camera system that offers complete visual coverage and edge AI processing capabilities for commercial poultry houses. The...
- This $165,507 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) supports the development and validation of an affordable, handheld quantitative fluorometer and colorimeter system. This technology will enable rapid, field-based enumeration of E. coli and antibiotic-resistant E. coli in agricultural water samples, providing a more accessible alternative to...
- This $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Industrial Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), funds the development of a rapid, simple, and low-cost Salmonella detection and quantification test. Secure Food Solutions, Incorporated will optimize a multi-layer 96-well microplate method to demonstrate 90% sensitivity and specificity for Salmonella in raw poultry and processing environment samples within 15 hours without pre-enrichment. They...
- This two-year, $999,824 project grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture will support Intralytix Inc.'s efforts to optimize the application of its Salmonella-targeting phage product SalmoFresh in poultry processing facilities. The goals of the award made under the American Rescue Plan Centers of Excellence for Meat and Poultry Processing and Food Safety Research and Innovation Phase III program are to design a customized spray system for applying SalmoFresh, test its...
- This $650,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) aims to develop an advanced, real-time platform for verifying the effectiveness of surface sanitation processes in food processing environments. The key research objectives are: 1) Developing a biomimetic surrogate interface combined with vibrational spectroscopy and machine learning to predict sanitation...
- The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Cirrus360 LLC $998,552 under the American Rescue Plan Centers of Excellence for Meat and Poultry Processing and Food Safety Research and Innovation Phase III federal grant program (CFDA 10.243) to develop an edge computing platform and dashboard to support small and medium-sized poultry and meat processors. Cirrus360 will deploy a low-cost edge network with wireless sensors, cameras, and machine learning-based...
This USDA NIFA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I award of $174,923 to Safetyspect Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, aims to develop the Contamination Sanitation Inspection (CSI) System. The CSI System is a groundbreaking solution that leverages fluorescence imaging, edge computing, and deep learning to enable real-time detection of fecal contamination in poultry production without requiring a darkened environment. This innovation addresses the critical industry need to enhance poultry inspection accuracy and efficiency, thereby protecting consumer health and strengthening the credibility of poultry producers. The project's objectives include finalizing system customization, deploying initial software, completing comprehensive data collection, training preliminary contamination detection models, and building image classification models to differentiate fecal contamination sources and detect invisible contaminants correlated to the occurrence of Salmonella and Campylobacter. This initiative aims to set a new benchmark for food safety standards through collaborations with academic institutions and research entities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $174.9k | 8/20/25 |