BLACK RIVER SYSTEMS COMPANY, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF221-D015
BLACK RIVER SYSTEMS COMPANY, 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 $1,249,890 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code AF221-D015 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $1,249,890
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- AF221-D015
- Solicitation
- 22.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NY
- Period
- 2022-08-18 → 2024-11-18
Description
Data driven AI/ML approaches are emerging as a dominant method for addressing difficult problems, and both academia and industry are providing state-of-the-art solutions to many problems in technical and scientific domains. These communities make many of these reference implementations accessible, leading to opportunities for the overarching community to leverage existing work and spur innovation. A similar approach within the DoD community will provide similar benefits to mission relevant problems. For this proposed effort, Black River will create interfaceable repositories containing state-of-the-art algorithm implementations using the Streamlined ML Model Integration Software Toolkit. These interfaces will provide role-based opportunities for developers, curators, and operators for accelerated research, development, and application of data driven approaches. We will deploy into a cloud environment, conduct a survey of existing artifacts and use cases, develop reference implementations, and perhaps most importantly develop and demonstrate an enhanced user interface. This piece is critical, as most existing capabilities are geared towards developers, while ultimate mission utility comes with engaging operators. The core innovation on this effort will be the translation of role-based requirements into the interface to support the defined use cases. This will include enhancing the developer interface and creating both a curator and operator interface.