SBIR/STTR Research Award
Military Working Dog Hearing Protection/Active Communication System
Award amount
$498,687Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Health Agency
- Recipient company
- VADUM INC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-08-12
- Contract end date
- 2023-12-11
- UEI
- V1NUDAVNFVK1
- Solicitation number
- 17.2
- Topic code
- A17-132
Research abstract
Vadum and K9 Helm propose to combine Vadum canine Hearing Protection (HP) technologies (including both passive and active protection modes) with K9 Helm Military Working Dog (MWD) helmet technologies. The K9 Helm products provide several additional functions (beyond HP) including eye protection, muzzle functionality, and mounting points for other sensors. The combined functionality supports frequent MWD training demands (which may entail exposures to high-impulse sound sources, such as blank rounds and flash bang rounds), while reducing premature canine hearing loss. Combination of Vadum HP technology with K9 Helm technology will allow the dogs to train using an equipment configuration that is very similar to that used in actual combat operations. Additionally, the headset will help to protect dogs from loud sustained sounds that are typical of military transport modalities, such as rotorcraft.
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.
- Context Aware Machine Learning Signal System
- Volumetric Reconstruction of Combustion Dynamics with Multimodal Sensor Fusion
- Video Analysis of Drug & Human Smuggling Activities
- Cognitive Software Algorithms Techniques for Electronic Warfare
- LLM-based Analysis and Structuring of multi-modal C4 data with Explainable Reasoning from Trustworthy Adaptation and Generation
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Canine Communication and Auditory Protection System (CCAPS)
- Military Working Dog Hearing Protection/Active Communication System
- Military Working Dog Hearing Protection/Active Communication System
- Zeteo Canine Communication and Auditory Protection System (CCAPS)
Research funding history
99 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2025). Reported award amounts total $56,793,558. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security