DPI has been awarded twenty Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants, including a Phase 3 SBIR.
SBIR research topics have included autonomous flight and obstacle avoidance, realtime predictions/use of limited sensor data, small UAV design for long-range missions, autonomous medevac, and other important projects.
Program | Agency | Title | Phase |
SBIR | Army | Long Range UWB Demonstration via UAV Relay at C4 ISR Net Mod E14 | |
SBIR | Navy | Aerostat Communications Relay from Unmanned Surface Vehicle | |
SBIR | Air Force | Intelligent Course of Action (ICOA) Generation for Air Vehicle Self-Defense | |
STTR | Navy | Realtime Determination and Prediction of Aircraft Trajectories Using Limited Sensor Data | |
SBIR | DARPA | Detecting and Tracking Multiple Moving Objects from a Moving Platform | |
SBIR | DARPA | Detecting and Tracking Multiple Moving Objects from a Moving Platform | |
SBIR | DARPA | Path Planner for Dynamic Environments | |
SBIR | DARPA | Path Planner for Dynamic Environments | |
SBIR | Army | Helicopter Hostile Fire Indicator (HFI) Sensor Development | |
STTR | Navy | Modeling of Small-scale Tilt-rotor Unmanned Air Vehicles | |
SBIR | Army | SUAV/SUGV Based Automated Geo-location and Hand-off | |
SBIR | Army | SUAV/SUGV Based Automated Geo-location and Hand-off | |
SBIR | DARPA | Transformational Close Air Support | |
SBIR | DARPA | Transformational Close Air Support | |
SBIR | ARMY | Unmanned Ground & Air System for CBRNE Contaminated Personnel Recovery | |
SBIR | Army | Unmanned Ground & Air System for CBRNE Contaminated Personnel Recovery | |
SBIR | OSD | UAV – Combat Medic Collaboration for Resupply & Evacuation | |
SBIR | OSD | UAV – Combat Medic Collaboration for Resupply & Evacuation | |
SBIR | Navy | Aerostat Communications Relay from Unmanned Surface Vehicle | |
SBIR | Air Force | Real Time Data Processing |