SBIR/STTR Research Award
Commercial Solutions for Weather Forecasting
Award amount
$749,949Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- NEXTGEN FEDERAL SYSTEMS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-09-30
- Contract end date
- 2021-02-01
- UEI
- N1M7HLLHNSU9
- Solicitation number
- 18.2
- Topic code
- AF182-001
Research abstract
The proposed Soil Moisture Advancements from Research to Transition (SMART) solution will adapt IBM’s Physical Analytics Integrated Repository and Services (PAIRS) Geoscope and the Watson Agriculture Package commercial technologies and use them as the basis for a novel Machine-learning (ML) system. SMART will establish a containerized service to build and deliver machine-learned soil moisture datasets and implement a data science workflow to accelerate R&D of new ML-based weather products and tools. The objectives of this effort are to (1) Establish a Weather Data Science Lab (WxDSL) that will provide a domain for researchers to share data, algorithms, and results; (2) Provide a sustainable soil moisture product that is at least as good as SMAP Level 4 data products; (3) Provide trafficability relationships to soil moisture products using the WxDSL to work out new approaches to deriving trafficability; (4) Enable Independent validation and verification (V&V) and provide results.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Learning Architecture for Short-Term Forecasts of Cloud Characteristics Using Satellites (LAST FOCUS)
- Transitioning to an Innovative DSO Environment for SDRs (TIDES)
- Spacecraft Anomaly Resolution Knowledgebase (SPARK)
- Synthetic Natural Battlespace Environment Engine (SyNBEE)
- Machine Intelligence for Space Weather (MINTS)
Awards with the same topic code
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- Compact Hyper/Multi-spectral Infrared/Visible Imager Interface Electronics
- Commercial Solutions for Weather Forecasting
- Solutions for Enhanced Satellite-Based Weather Forecasting Capabilities of World-Wide Cloud Conditions
- Commercial Solutions for Weather Forecasting
- Commercial Solutions for Weather Forecasting
Research funding history
22 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2015–2024). Reported award amounts total $11,621,150. 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 Commerce
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