SKYWAYS AIR TRANSPORTATION INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF203-CSO1
SKYWAYS AIR TRANSPORTATION INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $47,775
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- AF203-CSO1
- Solicitation
- X20.3
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2021-02-04 → 2021-05-07
Description
At Skyways and for the last 3 years we've been working on a fully autonomous, AI-driven, hybrid electric VTOL and long-range UAV focused on transportation. We have built over 20 UAVs and flown over 1100 flights. Our latest V2.5 vehicle is able to transport autonomously 20 lbs of cargo and with over 300 miles in range. Skyways is on contract with the US Navy for this weight category and we have a commercial customer in the Oil&Gas industry (autonomous resupply of offshore platforms). This proposal is focused around the technical feasibility of a larger aircraft able to carry up to 100 lbs of cargo 400 miles away. We will leverage our experience in building and flying smaller vehicles in the real world with existing customers, as well as the entire software flight stack we've built for full autonomous transportation.