SBIR/STTR Research Award
On-orbit AI-driven Automation for Range Characterization Analysis
Award amount
$1,900,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- WALLAROO LABS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-01-06
- Contract end date
- 2027-07-12
- UEI
- K4RMW2W34UE1
- Solicitation number
- X21.S
- Topic code
- AF21S-TCSO1
Research abstract
The purpose of the Orbital Prime research leading into this TACFI effort was to prove in a lab that the Wallaroo software platform could deploy, manage, and maintain satellite models at the edge on satellite hardware. This TACFI extension of the Phase II takes this research and development out of the lab and onto the satellite itself. This R/R&D effort will allow for the deployment and rapid iteration of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) directly on-orbit, significantly enhancing United States Space Force (USSF) mission capabilities within the space domain.
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.
- AI Automation in SDA TAP Lab Kill Chains
- Wallaroo: AI Sandbox Platform
- Adapting an AI Platform to Empower On-Orbit Servicing Assembly and Manufacturing
- Enhancing Sensor Intelligence with Machine Learning at the Edge
- Machine Learning Deployment Platform for Air Operations Center Mission Systems
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Biomimetic System for Autonomous On-Orbit Capture
- Development of an analysis tool for automatic defect detection during on-orbit additive manufacturing process
- Nautilus Capture Mechanism Configuration: A Study to Compare Tolerances of Electrostatic and Gecko-like Adhesion of Spacecraft Docking System for Long-Duration Space Missions
- REACCH: Adhering Arms Architecture for Unprepared Surface Capture
- R4 Use of Rotating Magnetic Fields to Detumble Irregular Asymmetric Space Debris-Like Objects
Research funding history
13 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2025). Reported award amounts total $8,538,959. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense