Video by Jennifer B Bryant | Air Force Research Laboratory | 07.07.2025
AFWERX and SpaceWERX support small businesses through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, helping them navigate the federal acquisition process and connect with Air Force and Space Force customers. These programs provide funding and resources across multiple phases—from feasibility and prototyping to commercialization—while......
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 12.14.2017
Optical Sciences Corporation, a small business based in Huntsville, Alabama, specialize in hardware-in-the-loop simulations, and the testing of infrared sensors. Their infrared scene projector technology enhances the Air Force mission by improving their ability to test their sensors in their ground test facilities. With funding from the Air Force SBIR/STTR program, Optical Sciences......
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 12.04.2017
Participating in the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program has been a key part of CFD Research Corporation's growth. They've gone from a small two or three-person company in a basement, to about 105 employees and about a $20 million-dollar company largely through Air Force SBIR and other DoD SBIR programs....
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 12.04.2017
Through participation in the Air Force SBIR/STTR Program, Dynamic Structures & Materials, Inc. have developed a reliable cryogenic flow device that controls the flow of various gasses or fluids that it is both valve and a motor combined. It is inherently simple, and the simplicity means that it has low cost, and it also means that it has a low failure rate. DSM manufactures both the valve......
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 12.04.2017
With funding from the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research Program, Applied University Research developed the Near Field Velocity Measurement System, which is able to measure local air velocity around wind tunnel test articles that they put into large-scale wind tunnel facilities at Arnold Engineering Development Complex. The technology looks at light that’s scattered off of small......
Video by Oswaldo Delacruz | Air Force Research Laboratory | 03.27.2017
Some 360 different types of fasteners are used in F-35 construction to secure one surface to another—with thousands of holes waiting to be filled by the right fastener on every airframe. Traditionally, mechanics would mark the required fastener type on the fuselage with masking tape or a felt pen. To streamline the process, Michigan-based Variation Reduction Solutions Inc. (VRSI) led......
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 01.12.2017
Composite Support and Solutions, Inc., received SBIR awards and through the involvement of the Commercialization Readiness Program, CRP, the erected a composite tower at Hanscom Air Force Base. The tower is the first of its kind in the United States and allows the Air Force to mount antennas that enable officials at Hanscom to see from Cape Cod to Burlington, Vermont....
Video by Oswaldo Delacruz | Air Force Research Laboratory | 12.26.2016
In the late 1990s, the Air Force was looking for a system to transmit data from strain gauges and other sensors during weapons tests, as bombs or missiles were launched from aircraft. A small company in Ohio believed its new, wireless brainwave monitor might hold the key. With funding from the Small Business Innovation Research program, CleveMed transformed their wireless monitor into a......
