DRA was awarded its first Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract in 1993 from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to support electronic warfare related research. A second SBIR was soon-after awarded to DRA to develop an Optical Flow algorithm to detect motion in dynamic scene imagery.
DRA received additional SBIRs from AFRL and delivered increasingly robust algorithms and other capabilities to the U.S. Air Force. DRA has achieved a 50% commercialization rate for technology developed under the SBIR program while the National average for commercialization is 10%. DRA has been awarded the Small Business Award for Excellence by the Small Business Administration.
DRA received additional SBIRs from AFRL and delivered increasingly robust algorithms and other capabilities to the U.S. Air Force. DRA has achieved a 50% commercialization rate for technology developed under the SBIR program while the National average for commercialization is 10%. DRA has been awarded the Small Business Award for Excellence by the Small Business Administration.
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Thank you for your interest in DRA, a Veteran Owned Small Business founded in 1986 and celebrating our 30th Anniversary of delivering high quality engineering solutions for our customers. At DRA we tackle tough problems by creating innovative solutions.
Examples of our solutions include developing a capability to map electrical current flow in the human brain for a university research project (Phantom Skull), creating a sensor that will allow unmanned air vehicles to fly autonomously in the National Airspace (Sense and Avoid), and developing numerous unique pieces of hardware for our special forces (KeCo Switch and Power Harvesting).
Examples of our solutions include developing a capability to map electrical current flow in the human brain for a university research project (Phantom Skull), creating a sensor that will allow unmanned air vehicles to fly autonomously in the National Airspace (Sense and Avoid), and developing numerous unique pieces of hardware for our special forces (KeCo Switch and Power Harvesting).
DRA engineers apply the systems engineering process to design, develop, test, verify and validate system delivery to meet user requirements. This is particularly applicable to projects where a final hardware or software product deliverable is the end state of the effort and is to be transitioned to the warfighter.
DRA, using state of the art design tools such as SolidWorks 3-D, designs and fabricates custom sensor housings for a variety of aircraft that meet FAA requirements. This provides DRA with the capability of mounting sensors in the nose, tail, luggage door and/or belly of the aircraft and includes two racks for instrumentation.
The DRA Digital Image Recorder is designed to meet the demanding needs of high-speed/bandwidth digital image recording with no image degradation. The reconfigurable architecture is compatible with a large array of camera interfaces and peripheral processing cards to support a variety of applications.
Under a Quick Response Program initiated by the Secretary of the Air Force, DRA designed, developed and manufactured the KeCo RF switch which provides the capability to switch between two separate RF antennas sharing a common radio without the need for the operator to manually detach one of the antennas from the radio before attaching the other.
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