SBIR/STTR Research Award
Enabling Arctic Operations with Small Uncrewed Aerial System Optimized for Cold Weather Environments
Award amount
$1,249,285Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- DARKHIVE INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-09-25
- Contract end date
- 2025-03-26
- UEI
- QP43KMDGUKZ7
- Solicitation number
- X22.4
- Topic code
- X224-OCSO1
Research abstract
To date, cold and harsh weather environments have proven challenging for all UAS. Strong winds, low-feature terrain, and temperatures below freezing significantly impact endurance, survivability, and navigation of small platforms in winter environments.
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.
- Continuing Development of Darkhive MASS-DE Capability
- FLEETFORGE DevMLSecOps for Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems
- Hands-free Integrated Digital Operations System (HI-DOS)
- Anti-Access Area Denial Small Uncrewed Aerial System Reconnaissance
- Modular Attritable SUAS Swarm-delivered Effects
Awards with the same topic code
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- Sustainable, Non-Incineration-based Destruction of Air Force Hazardous Waste Stockpiles : TACFI
- IRONCLAD: Integrated Resilient Operations for Naval Cloud and AI Deployments
- Advancing Trustworthy, High-Performance LLM Applications with Multimodal Data Access
- Armed Overwatch & sUAS Close Air Support Solution for Air Force Special Operations
- Runway Integrity Validation through Soil Moisture Measurements from a small UAS
Research funding history
10 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2022–2024). Reported award amounts total $8,520,126. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense
Contractor profile
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