SBIR/STTR Research Award
Hands-Free Eyes-Free Voice-Directed Inspection and Reporting System (VDIRS)
Award amount
$74,987Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- COBALT SPEECH AND LANGUAGE, INC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-10-31
- Contract end date
- 2023-02-04
- UEI
- K5JQNU7MK9K9
- Solicitation number
- X22.4
- Topic code
- X224-OCSO1
Research abstract
The Voice-Directed Inspection and Reporting System (VDIRS) will use Cobalt’s Virtual Maintenance and Testing Assistant (VMTA) to enable maintenance technicians to use their voice to take notes, fill in forms, confirm the completion of each step in a system inspection workflow, and proceed to the next step in the overall process. Paired with an optional AR headset, the technician can take pictures or short videos to enhance the documentation and data. By using the VDIRS management console, technicians can collect analytics to measure the effectiveness of the VDIRS. VDIRS hands-free capability can improve technicians’ productivity, reduce errors, improve safety, and shorten training time by eliminating manual data entry and look-up time on laptops, handheld devices, or paper forms.
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.
- Hands-Free Voice-Directed Inspection and Reporting System (VDIRS)
- Voice-enabled Virtual Assistant to Integrate Immersive Augmented Reality Training with Flight Line Operations
- Virtual Maintenance and Training Assistant for Voice and Natural Language Access to Technical Documentation
- Conversational Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Inspection
- Virtual Training Assistant and Assessment Application Using an Adaptable Knowledge Graph Repository
Awards with the same topic code
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- 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
8 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2024). Reported award amounts total $3,210,851. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense