SBIR/STTR Research Award
Arctic Small Uncrewed Aerial System (sUAS)
Award amount
$74,901Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- DARKHIVE INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2022-11-01
- Contract end date
- 2023-02-04
- UEI
- QP43KMDGUKZ7
- Solicitation number
- X22.4
- Topic code
- X224-OCSO1
Research abstract
The YELLOWJACKET MK1A is a low-cost (under $10K per unit) modification to the Darkhive MK1 and is designed to support arctic sUAS operations for both the military and public safety communities, capable of sustained operations in -40 degree F temperatures and wind speeds up to 20mph sustained and 30mph gusts. Innovations in battery chemistry, component hardening, frame design, and low-feature terrain visual-inertial navigation for GPS-denied environments will all be required to meet user needs.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Continuing Development of Darkhive MASS-DE Capability
- Enabling Arctic Operations with Small Uncrewed Aerial System Optimized for Cold Weather Environments
- FLEETFORGE DevMLSecOps for Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems
- Hands-free Integrated Digital Operations System (HI-DOS)
- Anti-Access Area Denial Small Uncrewed Aerial System Reconnaissance
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
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