The Department of Energy is slated to award 256 grants worth a combined total of $53M to 211 small businesses to support research and development efforts.
AI.Reverie has received a contract from AFWERX, the U.S. Air Force’s innovation arm, to refine computer vision models to support Department of Defense intelligence-gathering missions.
Geospark Analytics has secured a $1.5M contract to help the Department of Defense automate forecasts on risk and threat intelligence via artificial intelligence technology.
Remediant, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company, has participated in a 10-weekDcode initiative that seeks to incorporate technological offerings from the private sector to government efforts.
Meagan Metzger, founder and CEO of Dcode and an advisory board member at Booz Allen Hamilton, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on Defense News that the Department of Defense and other federal agencies seeking to rapidly deploy commercial technology platforms should collaborate with private sector partners with experience screening tech companies for government contracts.
Simba Chain has received a $200K grant from the Department of Defense to create a proof-of-concept system for securing exchange of research, development and scientific information.
Real-Time Innovations has received additional funds worth $500K to help the Department of Defense bolster cybersecurity and address standardization gaps.
The U.S. Air Force has selectedSteampunk to provide a design approach that allows developers to modernize applications with boosted speed and a human-centric approach.
Falkonry has secured an increase in strategic funding from the U.S. Air Force through the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.
Slingshot Aerospace has received a $1.5M Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and another $1.5M in funds from venture capital firms ATX Venture Partners and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund to accelerate the development and deployment of an artificial intelligence-based platform. Slingshot EDGE is designed to help warfighters glean insights from data using AI and provide them situational awareness capability in order to facilitate the decision-making process on the battlefield, the company said Thursday.
Simba Chain has secured a five-year, $9.5M contract from the U.S. Navy to field a blockchain-based messaging and transaction suite for the Department of Defense.
Fluree has received a contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop a blockchain-based technology platform for the service branch and the Department of Defense to secure communications during command-and-control operations.