Belleau Labs

SPECTRAL ENERGIES LLC

Department of Defense · SBIR

AI-Readiness Score
9/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
3/5
Awardee Quality
4/5

Award

$1,649,522
Award amount
Award date
FA910124PB068
PIID

Awardee

28
Total awards
$43,594,882
Total $ won
7.6/19
Avg AI score
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Description

SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE II - VERSATILE APTU COMBUSTION SYSTEM HEALTH MONITORING SENSOR SUITE TOPIC NUMBER: AF231-0001

Score Rationale

The award title and topic (APTU combustion system health monitoring) contains zero explicit AI/ML terminology—no mention of computer vision, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, or machine learning. 'Health monitoring' could theoretically involve ML-based diagnostics, but the description reads as sensor hardware/physics-based instrumentation (spectral analysis implied by company name). Problem framing is identifiable (aircraft propulsion thermal management) but lacks operational context or success metrics. Awardee name 'Spectral Energies LLC' suggests a specialized physics/engineering firm rather than legacy defense integrator, but this is a small SBIR award ($1.65M) for what appears to be sensor hardware, not AI development.

Source

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