SBIR/STTR Research Award
Autonomous Draft Determination (ADD)
Award amount
$239,937Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- OPTO-KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2021-07-13
- Contract end date
- 2023-02-03
- UEI
- RJH6GQUD3BT5
- Solicitation number
- 21.1
- Topic code
- N211-076
Research abstract
The Navy requires draft determination measurements to be conducted regularly as a part of maintaining the safety and stability of the US fleet. Existing methods are labor intensive, sensitive to weather conditions, dangerous for humans, and are frequently experience costly delays. We will provide the Navy with a Robust Autonomous and Precise Image-based Draft Determination (RAPIDD) solution that will enable a drone equipped with deep learning algorithms to reliably conduct draft determination surveys while keeping humans out of harms way. Our method will provide 1/16” of measurement accuracy and will operate under various weather conditions (e.g., winds up to 20 knots).
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.
- CAS sensor for ISRU propellant production
- Threat Detection from Space in the UV-IR (TD-UVIR).
- A Generalized Mobile Target Tracking (MTT) Solution for Loitering Munitions
- Optical probe for static pressure measurements in vitiated flows for ground test facilities
- In-line, real-time gas sensor utilizing a novel, multi-modal spectroscopy concept
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Robust Autonomous Precise Image-based Draft Determination (RAPIDD) Phase II
- DroneDraft Autonomous Ship Draft Determination
Research funding history
180 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2025). Reported award amounts total $90,018,148. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce