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SBIR/STTR Success Stories

SBIR/STTR Success stories will be utilized by reporting to OUSD R&E in Advana, the SBIR/STTR Newsletter, Outreach and for reporting to MDA leadership to highlight all the stellar work that's being done with our small business community.

Recent Successes

Below are a few success stories from MDA's SBIR/STTR program. Want to share your story here? Complete this form.

	VALT (Vertical Air-Breathing Launch Technology) The VALT (Vertical Air-breathing Launch Technology) flight system incorporates high-speed air-breathing and rocket propulsion that dramatically reduces weight, size and cost of hypersonic flight platforms. The primary technological innovation is the use of reusable/recoverable low-cost components...Read more...
	RTSync Early detection and prediction of faulty behavior of new software that causes high costs and enormous effort before real commissioning requires big capital investments and longer periods of setup time for test and evaluation. With the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) non-real-time simulation platform technologies developed during this STTR project, such detection and prediction cost and time can be significantly reduced up to 95% on virtual machines computing infrastructure. Read more...
	Nanohmics Inc. Nanohmics developed process design kits (PDKs) for the manufacture of printable ceramic paints and inks as well as PDKs for depositing and printing layers of these materials to form RF components. In particular, this effort resulted in maturing methods for integrating ceramic materials into some of the existing process streams of the flexible electronics industry. Read more...
	8D Photonics, LLC This project builds on 8D Photonics' time-resolved microwave reflectance technology to rapidly measure the quality of the FPA wafers nondestructively at cryogenic temperatures. We have delivered two full-wafer mappers to the industry to be integrated into their production lines. Read more...