SBIR/STTR Research Award
Autoencoder Compression Enhancements for Undersea Sensor Data (ACE4USD)
Award amount
$699,985Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- DANIEL H WAGNER ASSOCIATES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-01-28
- Contract end date
- 2026-01-28
- UEI
- S699ATX27YK4
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- N231-038
Research abstract
The overall objective of this Phase II project is the development of Autoencoder Compression Enhancements for Undersea Sensor Data (ACE4USD): data compression algorithms that will improve the U.S. Navy's undersea warfare capabilities. ACE4USD will be designed to achieve perceptually lossless compression, meaning a compressed sonar image retains all features of the data needed for human analysis. This will enable efficient and effective underwater transmission of sonar snippets deemed mine-like by some Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithm. In particular, by achieving maximal perceptually lossless compression, ACE4USD simultaneously increases the number of ATR detections that can be adjudged while an uncrewed sonar vehicle is underway, and decreases the likelihood that ATR detections are improperly classified.
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.
- Optimal Planning for Minefields with Advanced Capabilities (OPMAC)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Acoustic Contact Localization (AIM4ACL)
- Autonomous Platfrom evaluation and Optimization Software TooL (APOSTL)
- Distributed Data Fusion for Collaborative Automatic Target Acquisition
- Intelligent Tactical Assistant for Active SONAR (ITAAS)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Learning a Basis to Compress Underwater Media
- Perceptually Lossless Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Sensor Data Compression
- Perceptually Lossless Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Sensor Data Compression
Research funding history
224 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2025). Reported award amounts total $78,332,248. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation