The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $149,913 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Project Grant to Arete Associates of Northridge, California. The grant period runs from September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022 to support infrared polarimetric wave imaging (I-PWI) for passive remote sensing of sea state. The NOAA SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector to meet federal research needs and increase...
Hydronalix Inc. received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop NOAA AERIELLE SONAR UAS from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector to meet federal research and development needs and increase commercialization of innovations. Under this award, Hydronalix Inc. will provide products...
The awardee, Toyon Research Corporation, was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system to automatically process infrared video to detect and classify marine mammals. Using a novel deep neural network architecture developed at Toyon based on the latest artificial neural network research, the awardee will train their...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Black Swift Technologies LLC a $395,601 project grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program to enable beyond line-of-sight unmanned aircraft system operations through a diverse-source global positioning system. The two-year project beginning February 2021 will develop technology to supplement GPS signals and allow unmanned aircraft to operate safely outside of a pilot's visual line of sight. The NOAA SBIR program...
This $149,800 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, doing business as Blacksea Technologies, in developing technologies to help protect endangered marine mammals from ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements. Through its Small Business Innovation Research Program, NOAA aims to stimulate technological solutions to federal research needs. Under this award beginning September 2021 and set to conclude in...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Airmettle Inc. a $300,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to explore integrating in-situ analysis capabilities for multi-dimensional data stored in Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) into its real-time smart data lake solution. The SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation and commercialization of federally funded research by small businesses. Under this...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,950,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to Ensemble Government Services, LLC. The grant funding will support the development of an analytics service to make NOAA's Whole Atmosphere Model-Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (WAM-IPE) model more accessible and useful for satellite operators and space situational awareness providers. The project aims to enhance...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $349,896 Project Grant to Jaia Robotics Inc. under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) on Sep 1, 2023. The grant funds the development of an air-deployable version of Jaia Robotics' JaiaBot hybrid uncrewed surface/underwater vehicle. The JaiaBot system is designed to collect atmospheric data during descent and then gather near-surface and subsurface ocean data, including current vectors,...
This $149,872 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021), aims to develop a community-driven marine coastal data ecosystem. Cell Matrix Corporation will create a participatory sensor network and scalable cloud service to support geospatial object and database queries. A mobile app will motivate mariners to interact and provide timely geospatial feature updates. The viability of an...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $149,882 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Project Grant to the International Association of Virtual Organizations, Incorporated doing business as Iavo Research and Scientific. Under this award, Iavo Research and Scientific will develop and test a custom optical character recognition and text extraction application using OpenCV, Tesseract, and PyTorch. The application aims to improve NOAA's ability to...