Industrial AI pioneer Throu ghPut.A I announces it has been awarded its second SBIR Phase III contract focused on ThroughPut.AI Implementation for Aircraft Availability Optimization to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force DAF. 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 faster proposal to award timelines, changing the pool of potential applicants by expanding opportunities to small business and eliminating bureaucratic overhead by continually implementing process improvement changes in contract execution.
SBIR Phase III is the stage of bringing an SBIR-funded technology or innovation from the lab into the commercial market, utilizing non-SBIR federal funding for commercialization. Key aspects include sole-source contracts , which allow the government to award contracts directly to the originating small business without formal competition, and a 20-year SBIR Data Rights protection period.
The ThroughPut team is proud to assist logistics and aircraft maintenance Airmen at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in achieving improved fleet health and aircraft availability for increased mission readiness of their aircraft and equipment by preventing Downtime for Parts , said Seth Page, COO of ThroughPut.ai, This Phase III SBIR award leverages our patented AI software platform to enable predictive replenishment of parts with realistic lead-times, identification of supply chain bottlenecks, and recommendations for optimal operations solutions. Furthermore, it standardizes unit level demand signals and creates a real feedback loop between Enterprise Supply and Local Base Operations.
