SBIR/STTR Research Award
RAPID: Airborne Visual Analytics (AVIAN)
Award amount
$1,499,969Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- UTOPIACOMPRESSION,CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2019-03-06
- Contract end date
- 2020-05-29
- UEI
- HR7PGAJ92Z97
- Solicitation number
- 18.3
- Topic code
- AF183-005
Research abstract
In this Phase II SBIR project, UtopiaCompression (UC) will adapt its stack of Visual Analytics technologies, including its commercial Maritime Visual Analytics (MVA) product, to an Airborne Visual Analytics (AVIAN) system for combat search and rescue (CSAR) missions. The AVIAN system uses a gimbaled camera sensor on board an unmanned aircraft to search an area for survivors on land or at sea. Computer vision and artificial intelligence algorithms detect, track, and authenticate humans. AVIAN is part of a future manned-unmanned CSAR CONOPS under development by the USAF. This CONOPS exploits automation to greatly improve CSAR relative to the conventional paradigm, in use for several decades.
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
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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