{"id":61716,"date":"2019-08-30T23:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kleos-wins-air-force-sbir-contract\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T23:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:17:34","slug":"kleos-wins-air-force-sbir-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kleos-wins-air-force-sbir-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Kleos Wins Air Force SBIR Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kleos Space<\/strong> has been awarded a <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contract with a focus on \u201cInnovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies\/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a program that encourages small businesses to engage in US Federal Research\/Research and Development (R\/R&amp;D) that has the potential for commercialization. The special US Air Force SBIR topics, developed in partnership with the <strong>Air Force Research Laboratory, National Security Innovation Network<\/strong> and <strong>AFWERX<\/strong>, are experiments to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and transition rate of the SBIR program. Through a competitive awards-based program, SBIR enables small businesses to explore technological potential and provides the incentive to profit from commercialization.<\/p>\n<p>Kleos was successful in its presentation of the Kleos\u2019 Scouting Mission under AF192-001 and is participating in Phase I of the program. Phase 1 is to be completed by 23 Oct 2019 with delivery of a report including technical feasibility, financial sustainability and meeting defense needs serving as a gateway to a Phase 2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kleos Space has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contract with a focus on \u201cInnovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies\/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need\u201d. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a program that encourages small businesses to engage in US Federal Research\/Research and Development (R\/R&amp;D) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}