This $1,950,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021), will fund Ensemble Government Services, LLC to develop an advanced analytics service to enhance the accessibility and usability of NOAA's Whole Atmosphere Model-Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (WAM-IPE) model for satellite operators and space situational awareness providers. The key objectives of this...
This $1,300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA SBIR Program (CFDA 11.021) will enable Orbotic Systems Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to continue the development of its WIND (Wind Ion Neutral Density) instrument. The WIND instrument is designed to generate real-time, global ionospheric-thermospheric neutral density and wind ion data to support space weather forecasting and space debris mitigation efforts. Building upon...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $349,932 SBIR Project Grant to NextGen Federal Systems LLC, a minority-owned small business and certified HUBZone firm, to develop the "Machine Intelligence for Space Weather" (MINTS) capability. The MINTS project will create a software package, coupled database, and machine learning workflow to support streamlined evaluation and research-to-operations transition of space weather machine learning models. This award...
This federal Project Grant award of $524,364 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, with an award date of August 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of January 31, 2025, will fund the development of a continuous data processing system to transform raw magnetic field data from the existing MAGSTAR magnetometer network into actionable, mission-relevant, and validated space weather data products.
The proposed system...
This $1,298,986 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program will fund the development of "XtremeCast", an innovative system that integrates global ensemble weather forecasts with an AI-driven post-processing model to provide skillful probabilistic forecasts of compound extreme weather events at extended lead times. The solution aims to help electric utilities better manage the impacts of...
This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) provides $252,810 to Anysignal Inc. to conduct a feasibility study for using their Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) software-defined radio platform, named IRIS, to capture global navigation satellite system radio occultation (GNSS-RO) data.
The primary objective is to assess the viability of leveraging IRIS, which is currently a...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) provides $1,300,000 to Space Environment Technologies, LLC to develop an instrument called NOMAD that will remotely observe nitric oxide (NO) in the Earth's upper atmosphere. The goal is to provide improved characterization and prediction of the timing, intensity, and impact of space weather events on critical...
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 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) provides $350,000 in funding to Care Weather Technologies Inc. to develop VEERY, a nanosatellite-based scatterometer system. The goal is to significantly enhance global ocean surface vector winds (OSVW) monitoring by achieving a near-hourly refresh rate, addressing critical gaps in understanding atmospheric phenomena like...
Intellisense Systems Inc. was awarded a $399,983 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to support the ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENT AND DATA (NOMAD) SYSTEM. The award period runs from February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2023.
Through this funding, Intellisense Systems Inc. will provide research and development services focused on weather-related technology and...