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LOS GATOS, California – Cambrian Works announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a Direct-to-Phase II contract in the amount of $1,779,778.57 focused on Alternate Position Navigation and Time (A-PNT) technologies 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. The DAF began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018 which expanded the range of innovations the DAF funded and as of December 12, 2024, Cambrian Works has started the next step of its journey to create and provide innovative capabilities that will strengthen the national defense of the United States of America.
“This opportunity from AFWERX allows Cambrian Works to show how in-space networks can be used to provide new and novel methods for sharing and synchronizing time across clusters of spacecraft and within constellations. This contract will allow us to demonstrate new resilient, precise, and always available time synchronization approaches to support US defense missions and dual use commercial applications.”
-Victor Aguero,CEO and Co-Founder
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.
About Cambrian WorksCambrian Works is pioneering foundational infrastructure and technology for the nascent space economy. The Cambrian Works team is addressing the need for seamless information sharing between industries, companies, and the terrestrial and space domains. Working to provide real-time, resilient, multi-orbit, self-healing mesh networking solutions that expand the Internet we enjoy on Earth, Cambrian Works is overcoming the communications constraints between the ground and space.
With this robust and resilient data infrastructure, Cambrian Works empowers an in-space, robotic workforce that can operate collaboratively or be controlled from the ground, while also providing the building blocks for the machine-to-machine future in space, including network data flow visualization and management across constellations and multi-orbit regimes.
Cambrian Works is made up of radical engineers and programmers with diverse industry experience, joined by their shared goal of forging an in-space economy that enables ideas to flourish, pushing forward a Cambrian explosion of new opportunities in space.
About AFRLThe Air Force Research Laboratory is the primary scientific research and development center for the Department of the Air Force. AFRL plays an integral role in leading the discovery, development, and integration of affordable warfighting technologies for our air, space and cyberspace force. With a workforce of more than 12,500 across nine technology areas and 40 other operations across the globe, AFRL provides a diverse portfolio of science and technology ranging from fundamental to advanced research and technology development. For more information, visit www.afresearchlab.com.
About AFWERXAs the innovation arm of the DAF and a directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory, AFWERX brings cutting-edge American ingenuity from small businesses and start-ups to address the most pressing challenges of the DAF. AFWERX employs approximately 370 military, civilian and contractor personnel at four hubs and sites executing an annual $1.4 billion budget. Since 2019, AFWERX has executed over 6,200 new contracts worth more than $4.7 billion to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and drive faster technology transition to operational capability. For more information, visit: www.afwerx.com.
Company Press Contact:Simon LeeCOO, Co-Founderinfo@cambrianworks.com
