Reliable, Conformable, Wearable Sensors

AFWERX · AFWERX TACFI · AFWERX

AI-Readiness Score

12/25

Pathway Speed

4/5

Timeline Realism

3/5

Problem Framing

2/5

AI / ML Fit

1/5

Award + Transition

2/5

Award

$1,469,781

Award ceiling

SUNRAY SCIENTIFIC INC.

Awardee

Posted August 16, 2022

Description

Under the proposed special sequential SBIR Phase II project (TACFI), SunRay Scientific will expand and advance the research/research and development (R/R&D) efforts of flexible hybrid electronics beyond the current SBIR Phase II research focus to mature the core material technology for processability, reliability, and robustness in e-textile wearable and conformable electronic sensor products for DOD applications and needs. Maturation efforts will be structured and demonstrated by focusing on two interdependent objectives for hybrid flexible electronics: 1) Updating the design, building, integration, and testing of a First Responder Blanket - E-Textile System to measure ECG and respiration rate, and 2) Conduct additional testing to establish critical user database relative to military specific applications and environments. The result will be the establishment of an enabling material and manufacturing process optimized for achieving highest flexible/conformable production yields

Score Rationale

The TACFI pathway is a legitimate fast-track instrument that scores well, but the core work is materials science and manufacturing process maturation for flexible electronics — AI/ML is essentially absent from the problem statement, making this the lowest scorer; sensing hardware and yield optimization are not AI-shaped problems. Problem framing is weak for an AI lens: success criteria reference 'user database' and 'production yields' but no clear metrics, no data pipeline, and no end-user decision loop that would benefit from ML. At ~$1.47M the award ceiling sits just above the $1M threshold but there is no explicit production transition pathway named beyond vague 'maturation' language.

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