This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (#11.021) will provide $524,364 to Sun Dog Scientific LLC to develop a continuous data processing system. The system will transform raw magnetic field data from the existing MAGSTAR magnetometer network into actionable, mission-relevant, and validated data products for real-time space weather monitoring and reporting. The system will generate...
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...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to American Veritas Engineering LLC. The purpose of this funding is to develop low-cost, micro dual-polarization Doppler weather radars that can be deployed at the community level to supplement NOAA's NEXRAD network and improve severe weather monitoring and response, particularly in rural areas. The award aims to leverage advances in solid...
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...
This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II grant award of $1,950,000 to Ensemble Government Services, LLC will develop an 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 24-month project include: 1) customizing the density...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459) to Windborne Systems Inc., a small business based in Palo Alto, California. The funding supports the development of four key capabilities for Windborne's Global Sounding Balloon (GSB) platform: A dropsonde capable of measuring temperature, relative humidity, pressure, and wind speed/direction that can be deployed from the GSB....
Ensemble Government Services, LLC, a certified 8(a) digital consultancy, was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) SBIR Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop a proof-of-concept neutral density monitoring and alert service for commercial satellite operators. The project will extract, functionalize, analyze, and store daily data from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center's WAM-IPE model to generate global average...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $499,955 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Project Grant to develop an Aircraft Detection 360 Camera and Microphone Array. The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Under the NOAA SBIR Program (CFDA 11.021), which seeks to stimulate technological innovation to meet federal research needs and increase private sector commercialization, the awardee will deliver an aircraft detection system utilizing...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to Care Weather Technologies Inc. to develop VEERY, a nanosatellite-based scatterometer system. The goal of this Phase I project is to demonstrate the feasibility of key improvements to Care Weather's attitude determination and control systems (ADCS), radio, and radar technologies, paving the way for a future VEERY pathfinder mission to...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $524,928 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to L'Garde, Inc., a small, Asian-Pacific American-owned company located in Tustin, California. The purpose of this 6-month grant is to advance the technology and manufacturing readiness of L'Garde's vectored solar sailcraft, known as the SOLSTICE vehicle, from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 to TRL 6. This effort aims to...
This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) provides funding to Anysignal Inc., a small business in El Segundo, CA, to conduct a feasibility study for using an Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) software-defined radio platform to collect global navigation satellite system radio occultation (GNSS-RO) data. The $252,810 award will support a systems-level assessment of the IRIS ISAC platform's capability to capture GNSS-RO data and enable real-time data transfer, with the goal of enhancing NOAA's weather and space weather products by improving coverage, revisit rate, timeliness, and data volume. Key deliverables include a proposed data processing architecture, modeled satellite and operational costs, and an evaluation of the IRIS platform's viability for GNSS-RO collection compared to NOAA requirements. The award has a performance period from August 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025.