SBIR/STTR Research Award
CANTEAN Phase II
Award amount
$1,099,940Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Recipient company
- SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS COMPANY, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-12-22
- Contract end date
- 2022-12-21
- UEI
- C12TQVKF5413
- Solicitation number
- 18.2
- Topic code
- DTRA182-002
Research abstract
CANTEAN: Cave and Narrow Tunnel Exploration and Navigation is a flying system that employs low-SWaP sensors and processor for rapid navigation and mapping of unknown, subterranean areas autonomously.
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.
- Robust and Autonomous Management of Mission Systems (RAMMS)
- AI-Aided Design (A2D)
- ASTAR-ASP: ADS-B Signal Transmission Authenticity Reckoner with Advanced Signal Processing
- PATCHWork: Processing and Analytic Task Coordination across Host Workers
- 3DMAST: Multimodal Accurate and Robust Novel View Synthesis for Ship Classification
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Pegasus(TM) Mini
- Autonomous navigation through small, confined spaces
- Cooperative RF-Trail Based closed, confined, and constrained Environment Navigation System
- Autonomous navigation through small, confined spaces
- CANTEAN: Cave and Narrow Tunnel Exploration and Navigation
Research funding history
464 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2025). Reported award amounts total $186,567,405. 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, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security