FIFTH GAIT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF182-070
FIFTH GAIT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where Department of Defense funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- Obligated amount $749,872 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code AF182-070 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $749,872
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- AF182-070
- Solicitation
- 18.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2020-07-29 → 2022-10-29
Description
Fifth Gait rapidly prototyped and completed the Standalone Standard Space Environment Workbench (S3EW) demonstration during this Phase I based upon our Phase I/III SIRE2 (Space Ionizing Radiation Environment and Effects) Toolkit developed for the Missile Defense Agency. We plan to extend this capability during Phase II focusing on software development of the environment and effects models that are already in our practice noting that these models meet AFRL requirements. The Fifth Gait team includes Dr. Jonathan Fisher (PI), Dr. Jim Adams (the creator of CREME86), his graduate student (Zachary Robinson, a PhD Candidate at the University of Alabama at Huntsville), Jonathan Z. Fisher (Fifth Gait’s lead software engineer) and Applied Research Associates (Mr. David Hope, our senior software engineer). Fifth Gait Technologies recently completed V1.5 of the Space Ionizing Environments and Effects (SIRE2) toolkit that provide many of the attributes requested by the AF182-070 SBIR Topic. SIRE2 was developed by enhancing NASA licensed technology via an MDA Phase I and III SBIR. SIRE2 provides legacy satellite and new arbitrary trajectory (i.e., missile/space vehicle) assessments with new state of the art environment models. SIRE2 also includes the new state of the art MSSREM Solar Particle Model.