SBIR
Abstract
The set-aside program for small business supports mission-oriented R&D with the goal of providing advanced capabilities to the Warfighter and commercializing those technologies, resulting in a vibrant small business innovation base supporting economic growth and technology innovation. The SBIR program contributed to the readiness and modernization of the Joint Force and improved operational capabilities through 164 innovative research projects in the following areas: •Special Operations:Color Night Vision; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Durability; Tactical Data Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination; Field Cooling and Storage for Blood and Pharmaceuticals; Standoff Chemical Detector; •Strategic Capabilities: Hypersonic Electro-Optical Seeker; High Acceleration and Hypervelocity Inertial Measurement Unit; High-Resolution/High-Sensitivity Video Seeker; •Logistics:Additive Manufacturing for Improved Survivability and Cost Reduction; Reverse Engineering for Alternative Sources of Supply; Nutrient-Dense Soldier Food Bar Ration; NanoSonic Seals for Supply Chain Management; Tamper Resistant/Anti-Counterfeit Package Labelling; •Missile Defense: Ballistic Missile Defense System-Level Simulation Optimization; Distributed Real-Time Information Assurance Management Technologies; Divert and Attitude Control Systems; Debris Modelling; •Defense Advanced Research Projects:Hybrid Off-Road Motorcycle; Tools for Understanding Human Social Systems; Gun-Launched Integrated Guidance, Navigation and Control System; Load Bearing Thermal Protection Structure for Hypersonic Flight; •Advanced Small Arms Ammunition: Techniques for Caseless Ammunition; Active Noise Control for Small Arms Ammunition; Conductive Propellant Additives for Electrical Ignition; Small Arms Neural-Network Automatic Target Classification System; •Cybersecurity: Cyber Deception for Network Defense; Cyber Defense Ranking and Prioritization of Attack- related Events; Cyber Physical Security for Tactical Systems; Network Isolation of Industrial Control Systems; and •Geospatial Intelligence: Machine Learning to Suppress False Alarms in Automated Target Recognizers; Automated Assessment of Urban Environment Degradation for Disaster Relief and Reconstruction. Emerging Results from SBIR Investments in FY 2019 include: •DLA COVID-19: Pulsed Plasma Treatment for Rapid In-Between-Patient Disinfection of Non-Invasive Ventilation Systems and Personal Protection Equipment After COVID-19 Use; •DARPA: U.S.-based Secure Embedded L4 Microkernel (seL4) Center of Excellence; Design Tools for Hardware Trojan Detection and Mitigation •U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM): Indirect Fire Aiming Device; Handheld or Body-worn Hidden Chamber Detection; Radio Frequency(RF) Optical Front-End Receiver; Spectrum Aware Wideband Interference Rejector; •NGA: Adversarially-learned Labels using Activity and Reward Models; Object Counting using Unified Latent Representation; •SCO: High Velocity Gun-Launched Projectile and Sabot Structures; and •OSD: High Energy Density Spirally Wound Silicon Anode Lithium-ion (Li-ion) Batteries; Spirally-Wound Silicon Anode Cells for •Enabling Longer Mission Runtime. The Congressionally directed reorganization of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the subsequent reprioritization of DoD research will result in the following areas receiving the bulk of future resource commitments: •Artificial Intelligence: Improve algorithms, address data quality, optimize human-machine coordination and disrupt adversaries’ efforts; •Autonomy: Address teaming of autonomous systems; machine perception, reasoning and intelligence; human and autonomy systems trust and interaction; •Communications: Addressing high-performance, low power embedded processing and developing algorithms for self-configuring, self-healing and resource allocation; •Cyber: Address behavioral issues, develop self-securing networks and develop methodologies to assess cyber effects and consequences; •Directed Energy: Address power scaling, jitter reduction, laser size and weight, adaptive optics, beam propagation and target tracking; •Hypersonics: Address high temperature materials, hypersonic vehicle manufacturing, air breathing propulsion and hypersonic guidance and control systems; •Microelectronics: Develop domestic capabilities through small business investments; •Quantum Sciences: Address quantum clocks and sensors, quantum communications technologies and develop enabling technologies for quantum computing in the areas of cryogenics and photon detection; and •Space: Developing Low Earth Orbit nano-satellites for missile warning, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, navigation and communications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 75d8b5526190e870d0d2ccf208d084d4