SBIR/STTR Research Award
Intelligent Resolution Upscaled Sensor (IRUS)
Award amount
$1,999,986Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- RPX TECHNOLOGIES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2024-11-13
- Contract end date
- 2026-07-02
- UEI
- WKCVE6C9KBJ4
- Solicitation number
- 24.4
- Topic code
- A244-025
Research abstract
The Intelligent Resolution Upscaling Sensor (IRUS) project aims to advance thermal imaging technology for the U.S. Army's unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by developing a low-cost, lightweight longwave infrared (LWIR) camera system. This innovative project utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the resolution of thermal images in real-time, converting lower-resolution imagery to higher-resolution output, thereby offering significant improvements in image quality without the associated increase in size, weight, and cost.
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.
- TITAN: Thermal Imaging Technology with Affordable NPUs
- Detection and Recognition of Airborne Chemicals Onboard (DRACO) a SUAV
- Chroma-Therm: Advanced LWIR Multi-Band Imaging System
- Embedded IR (embIR) EO/IR with an Agile Radio for Interfacing Unmanned Systems (ARIUS)
- Detection and Recognition of Airborne Chemicals Onboard (DRACO) a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- A Low Cost, Dual-Use LWIR HD Camera Core
- Scaling the Pixel from 24um to 12um Using the Low Cost and High Volume Manufacturing Process LAMP (Large Area MEMS Platform)
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2017–2025). Reported award amounts total $5,996,009. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense