OST: Airgility Wins National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Award, $225K

Gained Critical Knowledge from SBIR/STTR Proposal Lab Overseen by OST Global Solutions.College Park, MD, September 19, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Airgility, a leading designer & manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has won a National Science Foundation Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award for "intelligent cloud-based advanced manufacturing services." Airgility, while seeking to leverage 3D printing "as thoroughly as possible for actual manufacturing and higher productivity" to produce its drone vehicles directly out of 3D printing machines as final goods, is developing algorithms to manage the end-to-end process of advanced manufacturing.The result of the SBIR Phase I work is to orchestrate open-ended digital design with open-ended manufacturing while retaining productivity.Airgility was a participant in the innovative SBIR/STTR Proposal Lab, overseen by OST Global Solutions and the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), and supported by Maryland Small Business Development Center (SBDC), under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) FAST Grant."We're extremely proud to have won this NSF SBIR Phase 1 award," said Airgility's CTO and Co-Founder Evandro Valente. "This is an important validation of the current success and future potential of our leading-edge manufacturing processes and best-in-class products."The NSF SBIR program follows a highly competitive review process where applications are awarded based on both intellectual merit and broad impact. Airgility's NSF SBIR award was made ...Full story available on Benzinga.com