ASA(ALT) – Army SBIR|STTR Program

Lighter, Low-Cost Family of Bidirectional Inverters

During a recent analysis, the U.S. Army identified a critical need for improved energy management by 2040. Specifically, there is a gap in the availability of lightweight, cost-effective inverters that can handle power transfer in both directions—from AC to DC and DC to AC—at varying capacities (60 kW, 30 kW, and 10 kW). These inverters are essential for future tactical vehicles to efficiently manage power between generators and onboard systems.

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Water at the Point of Need

The U.S. Army requires the production of a portable, compact, and lightweight means to produce potable water at the point of need from salt, brackish, and freshwater sources to sustain small Security Forces Assistance Brigade (SFAB) teams for an extended durations in austere environments. Developing a lightweight potable water production capability located at the point of need would significantly reduce the logistics tail of the warfighter and support current distribution shortfalls.

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Advanced Manufacturing of Engine Cooling Fans for Wheeled Vehicles

The Army (DOD, allies, and partner nations) lack a common understanding of the necessary components (technology and/or software) needed to resource an expeditionary Advanced Manufacturing capability capable of ad hoc design, fabrication, data transfer, assembly, quality assurance to fabricate complex Class IX repair parts.

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Enhanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Training Capability

This topic seeks to provide Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technicians the capability to conduct a comprehensive, interactive training to enable identification and clearance of explosive and other hazards from friendly and adversary major weapons platforms currently unavailable to the institutional training base or operational force due to physical location, low density, or higher priority physical system testing requirements.

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Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Ready Synthetic Radio Frequency (RF) Data

The objective of this SBIR topic is to advance methods for generating and labeling synthetic data representing various classes of Radio Frequency (RF) signals. This synthetic data will support the training of Electronic Support and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) models aimed at enhancing automated detection, characterization, and identification (DCI) of Signals of Interest (SoI).

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Equipment Rigging with Augmented Reality / Computer Vision

The Aerial Delivery field has a systemic shortage of personnel at Skill Level 1 positions across all COMPOS that places the mission of packing personnel parachutes, large cargo parachutes, and rigging of equipment at risk of mission failure. This topic aims to deliver wearable, augmented reality and/or computer vision devices to non-Parachute Rigger Soldiers to increase technical capabilities for rigging their unit organic equipment, thus reducing overall Army Parachute Rigger requirements.

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Large Language Model Course of Action Analysis

The objective of this research topic is to explore Boyd’s Observe, Orient, Decide and Act Loop with the goal of finding disruptive courses of action in a multi-domain environment that allow warfighters to impact both the rate of engagement with a competitor, but also the rhythm of engagement that allow our commanders and warfighters to leverage both the complexity and dynamism inherent in a multi-domain operation to create decisive wins through strategic surprise.

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Apparatus & Method to Certify Properties of Infrared Optical Materials

The objective is development of an apparatus and process for certification of the index of refraction of infrared transmitting optical materials. Surprisingly, the infrared optics industry does not certify the index of their materials on a batch-by-batch basis.

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Dynamic Generative Large Language Model for Continuous Situational Awareness

The proposed SBIR topic aims to advance the capabilities of large language models by addressing critical challenges and enhancing functionalities relevant to military applications, particularly within the U.S. Army.

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Battery Focused Open Topic

This open topic accepts both Phase I and Direct to Phase II submissions. Phase I proposals are accepted for a cost up to $250,000 for a 6-month period of performance and Direct to Phase II proposals are accepted for a cost up to $2,000,000 for a 24-month period of performance.

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