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Two Phase I Awards Made by Air Force Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer ( Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer )

Portland, Oregon- Motusi Corporation (MOTUSI) partnered with George Fox University to test and validate their full-body-wearable, force-sensing platform for treatment of musculoskeletal injuries. MOTUSI’s platform independently tracks movements and forces on the body along with the center of motion as data for research in physical therapy, injury assessment, performance tracking, and occupational health and safety. 

The Academic Partnership Engagement Experiment (APEX) program, a

Dayton, Ohio - DAtAnchor won a $50,000 Small Business Innovation Research ( Small Business Innovation Research ) Phase I award in 2019 for their encryption, automated data governance and access control technology that simplifies the Department of the Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) compliance process for small organizations. The award-winning data-security technology was developed through a Research and Development project at The Ohio State University in 2019. Parallax Advanced Research’s Academic Partnership Engagement (APEX) program assisted DAtAnchor in navigating the process of applying for and winning the Small Business Innovation Research

Greenbelt, Maryland -- In 2021, MTI Systems won a $150,000 Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I award and a $450,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III award for its technology “ORBs through Multidomain 5G Network Connectivity.” In addition, MTI pitched another technology - FlowAgility, a proactive network controller for robust communications - at the Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center Pitch Day for Small Business Innovation Research Direct to Phase II and won a $1.5 million award. The Academic Partnership Engagement program, or APEX

Toledo, Ohio- The University of Toledo Institute of Applied Engineering Research (IAER) is working on advanced manufacturing with a focus on additive manufacturing. This venture is a result of the Adaptive Bio-Inspired Aerospace Structures Actuated by Shape Memory Alloys project led by the University of Toledo, The Ohio State University, and Case Western University and funded by the Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN). The OFRN is a program managed by Parallax Advanced Research in collaboration with Ohio State and funded by the Ohio Department of Higher Education.

The research team at IAER

Dublin, Ohio-- Asymmetric Technologies developed the IronClad Secure Flight Controller (SFC), which is a cyber-secure open-architecture flight controller for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with an on-board damage tolerant flight control and automated sense and avoid software suite. The technology research and development were conducted in collaboration with The Ohio State University, Ohio University, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Lockheed Martin and funded by the Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN). In July 2021, the U.S. Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program

Dayton, Ohio – On August 15, 2021, the Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) program awarded a total of $9.9 million to seven Ohio organizations and their collaborators to advance science and technology innovation to support U.S. national security initiatives. The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) funds the OFRN, which is focused on expanding Ohio’s research and development capabilities across the state’s academic institutions and businesses in support of Ohio-based federal partner needs, which promotes Ohio’s economic growth.

The recent OFRN Opportunity Announcement was formally

Columbus, Ohio -- Researchers at The Ohio State University collaborated with Potomac Research LLC in New Alexandria, Virginia to innovate an electronic hardware platform called the Entropy Extraction Device (EED), which uses a novel version of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF) technology for multiple purposes, including unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) security, supply chain verification, cryptographic keys generation, and authentication applications. This project is supported by the Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) Round 4 Sustaining Ohio’s Aeronautical Readiness and Innovation in the

Dayton, Ohio -- CAL Analytics, a company specializing in the development of automated and autonomous systems, will receive funding from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Office of Statewide Planning & Research to conduct research on “Open Framework Standards for A Combined Aircraft Sensor Network.” The research objective is to develop a means to detect and track lower altitude aircraft in Ohio.

Despite substantial progress made in the communications and navigation domains, the ability to provide accurate, robust, and scalable surveillance services, particularly for lower altitude

Hilliard, Ohio -- GhostWave, a radar company based in Hilliard, Ohio, has innovated advanced radar technology to combat real-world drone related safety and security issues. While its first project, backed by Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) funding, was focused on preventing mid-air collision of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with manmade and natural objects, for its second OFRN project, the company is preparing to test a stronger ground-based radar system with wider range. The technologies, which are patented by The Ohio State University, were researched and developed under the OFRN Rounds

On June 23, 2021, Event 38 Event 38 Unmanned Systems Inc. successfully tested the first flight of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) E450 at the Event 38 field in Richfield, Ohio under the Federal Aviation Administration’s Part 107 flight rules. The flight was 20 minutes in duration and completed the objective of determining the best endurance cruise speed. The Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN), administered by Parallax Advanced Research on behalf of the Ohio Department of Higher Education, supported the development of the UAS E450 by facilitating the academic-industry-government collaboration