Birmingham-based Analytical AI has been selected to receive a $1.25 million grant.
Th company was selected by AFWERX, an Air Force Research Laboratory Directorate, for a Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant focused on the research, development and deployment of an artificial intelligence-enabled perimeter security system to investigate its potential to fill capability gaps in the Department of the Air Force.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfer process by accelerating the small business experience through what it claims to be 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.
Analytical AI, which was founded in 2018 and has been in Innovation Depot since January 2019, is garnering contracts and developing high-tech projects for government entities and hopes to eventually deploy its non-sensitive projects on the civilian market to provide additional income to continue growing the company.
Its founders say its goal is to make the world a safer place. Analytical AI is led by two of the co-founders Mark Froehlich, CEO, and Thomas Anthony, CIO. The multi-disciplinary team works with AI and security screening.
The company also graduated the NSIN EDI Propel Cohort for mentoring and training young HUBZone companies to work with the DoD.
