Success Stories

The U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Program leveraged their relationship with Orbital Research’s state-of-the-art drone weaponization systems to enable the Army to deliver innovative solutions that boost Soldier performance and resolve critical mission challenges in utilizing aerodynamics and advanced control systems.

Mayflower Communications aims to enhance Global Positioning System capabilities for U.S. Army Soldiers in contested environments. With support from the  Army Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Program, the company develops advanced GPS technologies to ensure Soldiers have reliable position, navigation and timing data when GPS is unavailable.

Pratt Miller Defense’s Trackless Moving Targets program is revolutionizing Army range training with support from the U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Program. Army SBIR funding served as a catalyst for the technology’s development, creating a path for transition that will see the TMT training system implemented at Army and National Guard training centers beginning in summer 2025

LiquidPiston, supported by Army innovation programs, is poised to transform the U.S. Army’s capabilities as the company delivers compact, heavy-fuel-capable rotary engines and hybrid electric power systems to Soldiers, setting new standards for power density and performance in military applications.

Reliable position, navigation and timing is essential for U.S. Army Soldiers to safely and effectively maneuver and communicate. TRX Systems, winner of the Army xTech Program’s xTechSearch 3 competition, now fields its technology – the Dismounted PNT System Generation II, also known as DAPS GEN II – as a program of record  for the Army to provide Soldiers a continuous stream of PNT information, even when GPS is unavailable.

Kate Williams, right, LEAD director of strategic management, talked shop with Big Mac Enterprises, LLC, an awardee of the Army SBIR Shop Tools and Enablers Open Topic, at the DoD Maintenance Symposium in December 2024 (Credit: Letterkenny Army Depot).

David Wible, a welder at Letterkenny Army Depot, demonstrates the cold spray advanced manufacturing initiative Feb. 2. Cold spray is an additive, solid-state thermal spray that can restore a component’s critical dimensional features that have been lost due to corrosion, wear or mechanical damage. A cold spray machine can deposit layers of material onto parts to fill in cavities and coat surfaces, and since the process doesn’t require high heat to bind the materials, repairs can be performed on thermally sensitive components. (U.S. Army photo by Pam Goodhart)

Genesis Systems ‑– a finalist in xTechSearch 5 in 2021 and winner of xTechEnergy Resiliency in 2022 – deployed its WaterCube® solution to the U.S. Army in August 2024.