SBIR/STTR Research Award
Militarization and Hardening of the HELIX Software Defined Mesh Networking Radio for DAF Use-Cases
Award amount
$74,990Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- GRAFFITI ENTERPRISES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-11-03
- Contract end date
- 2023-02-02
- UEI
- SMA1QSAQPUM7
- Solicitation number
- X22.4
- Topic code
- X224-OCSO1
Research abstract
Graffiti Enterprises developed the Smart Radio and Mesh Rider to provide an ultra-reliable, long-range, high-throughput data link between drones and a control station. The Smart Radio and Mesh Rider solutions have been designed to enable drone swarms to operate autonomously with secure, redundant communication systems. Using a novel multipath routing technique, Mesh Rider overcomes the shortcomings of legacy mesh networks that are currently used by the Air Force. Additionally, Graffiti Enterprises developed the HELIX Smart Radio which is the only hex-band MIMO mesh radio designed for manned and unmanned use cases.
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.
- Low Probability of Intercept/Low Probability of Detection (LPI/LPD) Multi-band Mesh Networks
- TACFI Capability Package Phase II Proposal FA8750-22-C-0512 Sequential to AF19.2 001 Contract Number FA864920C0098
- Mesh Network Smart Radio Interface,?SDR with 5G LTE Networking
- Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need
- Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- 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
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2024). Reported award amounts total $6,029,308. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense