SBIR/STTR Research Award
Secure 5G Sidelink - Air-Gapped 5G Connectivity
Award amount
$109,357Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PRIVATE TECH INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-03-18
- Contract end date
- 2025-05-12
- UEI
- U42VNM49XD15
- Solicitation number
- X24.E
- Topic code
- AFX24E-TPCSO1
Research abstract
Cape has built a functional prototype that mitigates many of the most serious threats to privacy and anonymity on commercial cell networks. The company is launching its beta capability, running full featured on commercial cellular infrastructure Spring 2024. Conducting research on how to adapt sidelink multi-hop mesh-networking communications addresses critical AFSOC and DAF customer requirements and will allow the force to use this capability sooner than they would be able to without this research available to inform development priorities.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- CAPE - STRATFI, Sequential SBIR Phase II
- Unlinkable Payments Using Zero Trust 5G Networks
- Zero Trust Solutions on 5g Mobile Networks to Enable Secure and Non-attributable Use of Commercial Cell Services
- Censorship Evasion Strategies on 5G Mobile Networks to Enable Secure Cell Services in Contested Environments
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Object Detection in Full Motion Video in support of High Value Target Dynamic Targeting
- Identification and classification of small-UAS in the msec range
- Project ARES (Advanced Reconfigurable & Evolving Swarm) A Quantum-Secure Generative AI for Robust and Adaptive Drone Swarms
- Autonomous Robotic Trimming with Precision Operations for Base Maintenance
- Orbital Staging of Assets
Research funding history
5 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2023–2025). Reported award amounts total $8,679,478. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense