Atolla Tech, Inc.

Atolla Tech, Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Cedar Park, Texas, develops LIDAR-based sensor systems and machine-learning algorithms for unmanned aerial system detection and precision agriculture applications, competing as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides across Department of Defense research programs and civilian agricultural grants.

The company's award footprint splits between defense and agricultural technology. On the defense side, Atolla Tech holds a $1.9 million firm fixed-price definitive contract from the Department of the Army (awarded April 15, 2026, with performance through October 15, 2027) for high-fidelity LIDAR-based UAS detection for tanks using real-time waveform analysis, performed in Rockville Centre, New York. The company also completed a $250 thousand Army SBIR Phase I award (September 2024) for detection, classification, and defeat of small unmanned aerial vehicles, and holds a $103,608 Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I purchase order (awarded January 9, 2025) for identification and classification of small UAS in the millisecond range, with an ultimate completion date of April 17, 2025. An earlier $49,992 AFRL STTR Phase I contract (October 2021) pursued an advanced system to detect, classify, and defeat small UAVs. On the agriculture side, the company received a federal grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (awarded July 1, 2023, completed June 30, 2024) to develop a LIDAR and machine-learning system for real-time assessment of pollination efficiency in crops, with live tracking of pollinator species and automated generation of a pollination visitation index for growers. The company has also received grants from the National Science Foundation in support of its sensor and data analytics work.

Customer concentration is split between the Department of the Army (2 awards, $2.1 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (2 awards, $154 thousand combined potential value), with the Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the National Science Foundation, and NSF's Division of Industrial Innovation each placing one award. Eight awards total, with one award ($1.9 million) facing recompete in the next twenty-four months. The company operates as a prime on all awards with zero subcontract footprint, focusing exclusively on total small business set-asides across SBIR, STTR, and grant vehicles in applied research and development.