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Award ID | Description | Recipient | Total Value | Awarding Agency | Funding Agency | Set Aside | NAICS | PSC | Award Date | Start Date | End Date | |
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| ENHANCING AND PRODUCTIZING THE DVMR RAD-HARD DIGITAL AI COPROCESSOR | MENTIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC. | $2,499,575 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541713Research and Development in Nanotechnology | AJ14GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY R&D SERVICES; GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; R&D ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES | Feb 3, 2026 | Feb 10, 2026 | May 9, 2027 | ||
| FY23 SBIR PHASE III - TESTING NEUROMORPHIC ARCHITECTURES FOR HIGH CAPACITY/LOW-POWER AI IN SUB-ORBITAL FLIGHT | MENTIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC. | $1,170,068 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541715Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) | AJ14GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY R&D SERVICES; GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; R&D ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES | Sep 20, 2023 | Sep 20, 2023 | Apr 25, 2026 | ||
| EO14042 SBIR PHASE II LUNAR SEQUENTIAL - NEUROMORPHIC CHIP FOR SENSING, SITUATIONAL AWARNESS, AND DECISION MAKING IN RADIATIVE ENVIRONMENTS | MENTIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC. | $4,567,449 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541715Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) | AJ14GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY R&D SERVICES; GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; R&D ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES | Sep 28, 2022 | Sep 28, 2022 | Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| RADIATION HARDENED IN-MEMORY COMPUTING FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS | MENTIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC. | $181,000 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541715Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | Sep 9, 2020 | Sep 9, 2020 | Jun 10, 2022 | ||
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REALIZED THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY VIABLE SOLUTION TO IMPLEMENT PERCEPTION, ENABLE PILOT ASSISTANTS AND EVENTUALLY FULL AUTONOMY TO UAS. CURRENTLY, MANY UAS HAVE SOME KIND OF CONVENTIONAL COMPUTER VISION (CV) HELPING THEM IN OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE OR TARGET ACQUISITION. INTERESTINGLY THOUGH, SINCE 2012 DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS (DNN) HAVE DRAMATICALLY OUTPERFORMED CONVENTIONAL CV ALGORITHMS IN THOSE TASKS AND PUSHED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) LIMITS IN A VARIETY OF OTHER APPLICATIONS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED, TO OBJECT RECOGNITION, VIDEO ANALYTICS, DECISION MAKING AND CONTROL, SPEECH RECOGNITION, ETC. UNFORTUNATELY, THE COMPUTATIONAL POWER REQUIRED FOR REAL-TIME DNN OPERATION CAN STILL ONLY BE DELIVERED BY BULKY, EXPENSIVE, SLOW, HEAVY AND ENERGY-HUNGRY DIGITAL SYSTEMS LIKE GPUS. THIS IS WHY MENTIUM IS DEVOTED TO DELIVERING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIELD OF MACHINE LEARNING HARDWARE ACCELERATORS, AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THIS PROJECT, INTO THE DEEP LEARNING HARDWARE ACCELERATORS FIELD. EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND PHASE I RESULTS CONFIRM THAT OUR HARDWARE CAN DELIVER 100X TO 1000X GAIN IN SPEED AND IN POWER EFFICIENCY COMPARED TO OTHER STATEOF- THE-ART ACCELERATORS. OUR FINAL PRODUCT WILL BE ABLE TO ANALYZE, IN REAL-TIME, BIG DATA STREAMS COMING FROM CAMERAS, SENSORS AND/OR AVIONICS AND TO CATEGORIZE (CLASSIFY) THEM FOR THE PURPOSE OF DECISION MAKING OR OBJECT LOCALIZATION TO ACHIEVE BETTER NAVIGATION AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN UAS. THE SAME HARDWARE PROCESSOR WILL BE DEPLOYABLE IN THE AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEMS, FOR REAL-TIME DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION-MAKING. ALL WITH MORE THAN 10X REDUCTION IN COST AND POWER CONSUMPTION. THIS DISTRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY IS BASED ON AN ANALOGCOMPUTATIONAL CORE, EXPLOITING THE MEMORY DEVICES TO CARRY OUT THE COMPUTATION AT A PHYSICAL LEVEL. ANALOG COMPUTATION IS INHERENTLY FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENT THAN THE DIGITAL ONE, WHILE THE IN-MEMORY COMPUTATION REMOVES THE DATA TRANSFER BOTTLENECK. | MENTIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC. | $1,129,356 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541715Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | Jul 20, 2018 | Jul 20, 2018 | Jun 10, 2022 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IS DRIVING THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AS WELL AS PERMEATING EVERY ASPECT OF OUR DAY-TO-DAY LIFE. FROM BIG DATA ANALYSIS TO LANGUAGE ANALYSIS AND REAL TIME TRANSLATION, FROM SPEECH RECOGNITION TO IMAGE RECOGNITION. THE LATTER IS A POWERFUL AND QUITE GENERAL APPLICATION WITH A SCOPE THAT SPANS FROM MEDICAL IMAGING TO AUTONOMOUS DRIVING AND TO MILITARY APPLICATIONS. MENTIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC., SPUN FROM A UC SANTA BARBARA RESEARCH LAB IN THE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT IS COMMITTED TO EMBRACE THE AI REVOLUTION STRONG OF THE EXPERIENCE OF ITS TEAM IN THE NEUROMORPHIC HARDWARE FOR AI. INDEED, WE WILL DEVELOP A NEUROMORPHIC CHIP ABLE TO DO HIGHER THAN REAL-TIME IMAGE RECOGNITION AND/OR OBJECT CLASSIFICATION ON BOARD THE UAS. THE CHIP WILL USE 1/100TH OF THE ENERGY WHILE REACHING 100X IN SPEED COMPARED TO STATE OF THE ART. THE TEAM ALREADY HAD DEMONSTRATED 1000X AND 1/1000TH ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A SMALLER SCALE EXPERIMENTAL DEMO. FROM THIS EXPERIENCE UCSB HAS A PATENTED TECHNOLOGY LICENSED BY MENTIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC. THANKS TO THIS TECHNOLOGY AND ITS DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THIS PROJECT, THE NEUROMORPHIC CHIP WILL EMPOWER THE UAS WITH COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS ENABLING AUTONOMOUS GUIDANCE, DECISION MAKING AND COMPLEX IMAGE PROCESSING, WHILE KEEPING THE POWER CONSUMPTION LOW. | MENTIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC. | $116,707 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | Jun 8, 2017 | Jun 9, 2017 | Dec 8, 2017 |