SBIR/STTR Research Award
Improved Hearing Protection and Voice Communications for the Warfighter
Award amount
$99,933Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- CREARE LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-02-06
- Contract end date
- 2020-01-25
- UEI
- JDKYAKDT4TT6
- Solicitation number
- 18.3
- Topic code
- A18-151
Research abstract
Communication and hearing are critical to the warfighter: threats must be heard, identified, and localized; a squad leader’s commands must be heard and interpreted. Hearing and communication are both challenged by battlefield noise, whether by continuous noise from one’s vehicle or by impulsive noise from incoming or outgoing fire. The Army seeks new advances in battlefield tactical communications technology. Creare proposes to adapt its U-Comm technology to meet the needs of mounted and dismounted soldiers. In Phase I, we will demonstrate the feasibility of our approach to enhance a warfighter’s lethality and survivability. In Phase II, we will ruggedize the system and quantitatively evaluate its effectiveness through laboratory testing and field demonstrations.
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.
- Improving Signal-to-Noise in Military Boom-Mounted Microphones
- A Defect and Damage Inspection Tool for Incoming Part Inspection
- Data Processing and Analysis Framework for Infrastructure Planning to Promote Active Transport
- Portable Hydrogen Filling System for Expeditionary Advanced Bases
- Low-Cost Closed-Loop Cryogenic Cooler for High Power Optics
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Improved Hearing Protection and Voice Communications for the Warfighter
- Wearable Integrated Speakerless Sound Protection using Electrostimulative Resonance (WISSPER)
Research funding history
1,365 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $507,020,394. 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 Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Department of Commerce