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The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Simulators Division awarded $10M in AFWERX Small Business Innovative Research Phase II contracts to 10 companies selected through a two-day pitch day to identify technologies that could help improve aircrew training, the service said Monday.

Cybersecurity company Tortuga Logic will work to advance its technology for securing microelectronic devices under a $12M Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract from the U.S. government.

The Air Force’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program announced at the AFWERX Accelerate event that it will release the first open topic for fiscal year 2021 on Jan. 14, in coordination with the Department of Defense. The first open topic will run through Feb. 18 and the second and third open topics will be released respectively in May and September next year and close 30 days after.

The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX unit has issued a request for information on commercial wearable technologies that could help detect COVID-19 infections early and send alerts to users by providing insight into heart rate fluctuations, oxygen levels and other biometric data.

The U.S. Air Force's AFWERX organization has named HawkEye 360 among the top 26 participants that will advance into the next phase of an interactive challenge to transform the space innovation landscape.

Denim Group has secured a follow-on contract under the U.S. Air Force's AFWERX program to help the service branch speed up the accreditation and delivery of mission software through the use of a vulnerability resolution tool. The company said Tuesday its ThreadFix platform will move on to Phase II of AFWERX's Small Business Innovation Research program after demonstrating its potential to accelerate software development under the initial phase of the SBIR contract awarded in January.

Xage Security has received a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to provide a blockchain-based security platform to the U.S. Space Force to help the service enforce access control and protect data from cyber threats across military and civilian assets. 

The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX innovation arm is accepting applications for a new challenge focused on identifying energy production and sustainability approaches to support Department of Defense missions through 2045.

Viasat has presented a satellite communications networking technology during a recent virtual event that was hosted by the U.S. Air Force's AFWERX outfit and featured presentations from 30 industry teams.

Dcode has secured a Small Business Research Innovation contract from the U.S. Air Force's AFWERX organization to build a dual-use technology to support the government innovation process.

The U.S. Air Force's AFWERX organization has selected the more than 350 teams worldwide to participate in an open showcase and present ideas on how the service branch can innovate installations. Companies, research laboratories and academic institutions from around the globe will take part in the Base of the Future challenge, AFWERX said Friday.

Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky subsidiary has received a contract to support the U.S. Air Force's efforts to monitor COVID-19 activity at military bases through the company’s proprietary geospatial intelligence technologies.

Bluescape has received a contract to help the U.S. Air Force adopt a virtual work platform for data sharing and collaboration under phase 2 of the Small Business Innovation Research program.

AI.Reverie has received a contract from AFWERX, the U.S. Air Force’s innovation arm, to refine computer vision models to support Department of Defense intelligence-gathering missions.

Orbital Insight has secured a tentative Small Business Innovation Research II contract through the AFVentures Strategic Financing effort to help the U.S. Air Force trace anomalies worldwide via geospatial and artificial intelligence data sources.