BlueFoot Inc. Completed U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase 2 Contract
BlueFoot completed a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract to study and develop applications of its Patent Data Analysis Capabilities for the US Air Force.
[DATE], 2024 – BlueFoot announces it has completed a SBIR Phase 2 contract that focused on developing an innovation strength scoring capability. This capability enables innovation strength benchmarking at the company and technology-level, further automating corporate due diligence using risk-based patent analysis for the Department of the Air Force (DAF).
About BlueFoot
BlueFoot’s market intelligence platform empowers technology-based due diligence. With its proprietary data science and AI, BlueFoot automatically correlates patent, financial, and market data to understand the global market map of companies in a bespoke technology area. BlueFoot enables the benchmarking of companies’ relative innovation strengths in that bespoke technology area as well. BlueFoot also uncovers FITT (Foreign Influence in Technology Transfer) Risk to identify threat actors (both companies and persons) that transfer patents and technologies to entities in adversarial nations. Used by the financial sector, corporate IP departments, and the government, BlueFoot is a must-have software tool for automated corporate due diligence.
About AFRL
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is the primary scientific research and development center for the Department of the Air Force. AFRL plays an integral role in leading the discovery, development, and integration of affordable warfighting technologies for our air, space, and cyberspace force. With a workforce of more than 11,000 across nine technology areas and 40 other operations across the globe, AFRL provides a diverse portfolio of science and technology ranging from fundamental to advanced research and technology development. For more information, visit: www.afresearchlab.com.
About AFWERX
AFWERX, a program office at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), connects innovators across government, industry, and academia. Through innovation and collaboration with our nation's top subject-matter experts and harnessing the power of ingenuity of internal talent, by expanding technology, talent, and transition partnerships for rapid and affordable commercial and military capability.
Additional information is available at: https://www.afwerx.com/. The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) process by accelerating the small business experience through a faster proposal to award timelines, changing the pool of potential applicants by expanding opportunities to small business and losing bureaucratic overhead by continually implementing process improvement changes in contract execution. The DAF began offering 'The Open Topic' SBIR/STTR program in 2018 which expanded the range of innovations the DAF funded.
About AFVentures
AFVentures invests in emerging technologies to scale Department of the Air Force capabilities, strengthening the U.S. industrial base that empowers Airmen and Guardians by incentivizing private, for-profit investment in national security interests. Our success is achieved by connecting novel commercial solutions with defense problem sets, de-risking Airmen and Guardian initiatives to fill capability gaps and transition technologies. Learn more at https://afwerx.com/afventures-overview/.
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