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United States Air Force S&T identifies five strategic capabilities: 1) Global Persistent Awareness,  2) Resilient Information Sharing, 3) Rapid, Effective Decision-Making, 4) Complexity, Unpredictability, and Mass, and 5) Speed and Reach of Disruption and Lethality. Project OWL’s X22.4 SBIR Phase 1 proposal herein describes research and development that specifically responds to USAF S&T strateg ...

Founded in 2019, Maxwell Labs has combined materials science with state-of-the-art machine learning technology to deploy an entirely new class of intelligent cooling solutions. The company product portfolio includes Radiative Cooling Coatings, Radiative Heatsinks, and Thermal Compounds. Current product applications are focused on effective and sustainable cooling technologies in the computing and ...

A majority of aerospace components, particularly aircraft engines, have coatings applied to them to both enhance functionalities and enable sustainment (multiple overhaul and repair cycles).  Coatings provide a platform to sustainment and as such is the key step during overhaul operations at DoD depots.  Thermal spray is a key process for both OEM and repair/overhaul sustainment operation.   T ...

Quantum computers (QC) in the hands of adversarial nation states could devastate the U.S. and its national security systems if post-quantum cryptography (PQC) that resists code-cracking is not implemented in time since PQC deployment across national security systems is expected to take up to 20 years to complete. Meanwhile, adversaries are gathering encrypted data that they intend to exploit once ...

Contagion Monitor™ (CM) is a patented mathematical approach that predicts the virality of strategic influence campaigns. The CM identifies objects propagating through Graphika’s social media network maps and can thereby enhance overall situational awareness of public social media data, enable more efficient decision-making, and foster earlier (potential) intervention by the Air Force. Graphi ...

Hebbia is the world’s most advanced AI for extracting insight from unstructured data, allowing users to surface content and insights 10X faster and 57% more accurately than traditional search tools. Hebbia interacts with users via natural language and a simple user interface- answering questions vs requiring complex queries. Hebbia’s ML enables massive scale - delivering results in millisecond ...

Aclid is adapting its commercial platform for Air Force needs. End-users will receive early warnings when human error risks the creation of a novel or existing biothreat. At the same time, end-users will be alerted if nefarious actors attempt to generate a man-made biothreat anywhere in the world. Aclid is a proprietary software platform that ensures security and safety for synthetic biology work, ...

Wallaroo will solve an Air Force need by streamlining ML model production for Air Operations Center mission systems (AOCs).  AOC mission systems require next-gen AI/ML capabilities to modernize the ingestion of vast quantities of data, address a broad range of threats, and reduce decision-making and system reaction time. The ability to produce near real-time predictions while handling high th ...

Assured Information Security, Inc. (AIS), in collaboration with Colorado State University (CSU) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), proposes a second (or sequential) Phase II of the Byte-Taint Resonance Imaging (ByteRI) STTR effort. This iteration of the ByteRI program will expand upon the binary analysis and program behavior analysis concepts identified in the original effort and ...

Large-scale military and civilian planning problems are (1) distributed – decision-making is spread across multiple organizations, including organizations that must employ information that they are unable or unwilling to share; (2) heterogeneous – the domains of optimization and local criteria for optimality differ – and (3) hierarchical – higher levels of authority solve abstract versions ...