Entheleon Technologies, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF191-005
Entheleon Technologies, Inc. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $823,238
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- AF191-005
- Solicitation
- 19.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2019-08-02 → 2021-08-02
Description
Wireless bandwidth is precious on the battlefield. This presents a particular problem in transmission of HD digital video from edge devices such as UAVs. Entheleon Technologies has developed a state-of-the-art video compression codec that can reduce the bandwidth required to transmit video by up to 90%. The focus of this proposed work is to deploy Entheleon's video codec to hardware environments - computers, sensors, and radios - relevant to USAF. The work is sponsored by the AFRL to test the performance of codec implementations for a drone swarm development program. The work will also develop custom codecs for the MQ-9 digital communications IPT to address challenges with mult-cast transmission of aerial intelligence data and visual telemetry for take-off and landing operations. This work also supports the MQ-9 wing of the California Air National Guard, enabling multi-cast transmission during firefighting and disaster relief efforts.