SBIR/STTR Research Award
Highly Autonomous Adaptation for UAVs
Award amount
$139,994Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- UTOPIACOMPRESSION,CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2019-09-17
- Contract end date
- 2020-03-24
- UEI
- HR7PGAJ92Z97
- Solicitation number
- 19.2
- Topic code
- N192-062
Research abstract
UAVs tasked in complex, uncertain environments need the ability to act dynamically and autonomously to changing conditions. Deep reinforcement learning can play a critical role in the decision making process, melding the mission/tasking parameters, scene understanding, and human-in-the-loop inputs for intelligent autonomous navigation that is robust in the face of latency, broken communication, and threats. UtopiaCompression proposes to use the latest advances in deep learning, including reinforcement learning, to support the DoD in this mission.
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.
- Intelligent Visual System for Maritime Applications
- Intelligent Visual System for Maritime Applications
- Ground Asset Navigation using Aerial Guidance in Contested Environments
- CO AIR - Cooperative Operation of Assets using Intelligent Reinforcements to enhance the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) capability
- Robust Target Handoff in a UAV Swarm in GPS-Denied Environments
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Deep reinforcement learning based unManned ARiel VEhicLes (D-MARVEL)
- Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Deep reinforcement learning based unManned ARiel VEhicLes (D-MARVEL)
Research funding history
121 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2025). Reported award amounts total $42,524,603. 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, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy