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24 June 2024

Supply Tools & Updates

Meet Eco: Our AI engine that is growing exponentially!

Eco is here to revolutionize your experience and is seamlessly integrated into numerous of our apps. Eco assists in content writing and analysis, company and capability discovery, and ultimately frees up more time in your day.

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Upcoming Events

Unlocking Collaborative Innovation: Discover DEFENSEWERX Hubs

Join this enlightening webinar featuring HSWERX, SOFWERX, and ENERGYWERX hubs. This event is designed to bridge connections and foster innovation among industry, academia, government, and national labs, helping you discover new ways to collaborate with government partners. Learn how these partnerships can open business opportunities and contribute to our nation's security.

26 June 2024

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Letterkenny Army Depot's Depot Days

Letterkenny Army Depot is interested in expanding their strategic public private partnerships and is hosting this event to develop potential opportunities to team with a small business interested in entering or expanding their portfolio within the Defense Industrial Base.

09 July 2024

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SOFWERX Tech Tuesdays

Tech Tuesday is a forum designed to specifically identify and discover Transformational levels of technology. On behalf of USSOCOM, SOFWERX uses this forum to engage Industry and Academia to pitch their unique capabilities to USSOCOM and/or other interested government partners.

Every Tuesday

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LANDWERX Tech Thursdays

LANDWERX, a non-profit organization partnered with Landus Cooperative, is a platform to bring together innovators and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to solve Farmer-Owner challenges.

Every Thursday

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DON SBIR/STTR Program Option Topics Ask Me Anything (AMA)

Join the NavalX Southern Maryland Tech Bridge for a hybrid, in-person and remote participation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY (DoN) 24.4 Open Topic Ask Me Anything (AMA) on June 26th at 11:30 AM (EST)! The program includes presentations from topic authors representing three participating Systems Commands and a live Q&A discussion.

26 June 2024

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NCMS Technology Showcase FRC East

In collaboration with the Eastern North Carolina (ENC) Tech Bridge, Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), and Craven County Economic Development, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) is hosting a Technology Showcase at the Riverfront Convention Center of Craven County July 15-18 in New Bern, North Carolina.

16 July 2024

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AFVentures Open Topic: Weekly Webinar Series

This event is open to Small Businesses and Government. Attend this weekly webinar hosted every Thursday at 12pm EST to learn about AFVentures Topics and Q&A about the AFVentures program!

Every Thursday

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Our Ecosystems

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Ratio Ecosystem's: what's in it for you?

Advantages of a Ratio Ecosystem:

• Boosted awareness
• Improved participation
• Accelerated problem-solving
• Enhanced collaboration and networking
• Public relations benefits
• Cost efficiency
• Access to specialized expertise (new talents and capabilities)

Commercialization Opportunities

Optical Flight Motion Simulator

A cost effective and compact method of enhancing performance of a 5-axis Flight Motion Simulator (FMS). A series of angularly varying elements, referred to as “Risley elements” are used to provide a changing angle of incidence to the test article while maintaining a fixed field of view of the projector provide high angular accuracy and high-speed performance.

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Scalable Body Armor System

Modular body armor system allows exchange of soft or hard panels based on situation needs. Traditional body armor used by law enforcement is usually worn under an officer's clothes and contains handgun-rated ballistic panels.

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Magnetic Breakaway Mount for Tools & Equipment

The magnetic breakaway mount provides ready access to tools while increasing safety if tools caught on environmental hazards.

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Peel-and-Adhere Photonic Crystal

A low-cost photonic crystal film that can be fastened to a curved or flat surface by an adhesive substance for the purpose of altering the optical properties of the surface.

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High Resolution Enhancement for 3D LiDAR Systems

The actuated, 3-D spinning sensor device can be added to a LIDAR system to create high resolution 3-D composite images.

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Hexagonal Efficient Coordinated System (HECS)

HECS, an AFRL/RW patent that enables production of higher resolution digital images by utilizing a hexagonal formation. The enhanced images are able to retain their original file size and thus do not require additional storage space.

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Rescue Basket

An improved rescue basket to be used in search and rescue operations capable of safely, holding two adults and drastically improving recovery time in an environment where every second counts.

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USAF96 Steel

AFRL/RW has developed a Low Alloy High Performance Steel commonly referred to as “USAF-96”. This carbon steel composition does not contain Tungsten (W) or Cobalt (Co) and contains low amounts of Nickel (Ni) and can be manufactured through a variety of standard, commercial production techniques, including air-melt production.

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Plasmonic-Photonic Biomimicking Sensor for Airborne Agent Detection

AFRL/RW has modeled a small form factor, reusable sensor to detect the presence of various airborne agents. This novel technology is an alternate approach to the “smellicoptor” that was designed to use moth antennas to detect airborne chemicals.

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Touch-Based Tracking System and Method

AFRL/RW has developed a touch-based tracking system and method which allows real-time fusion of data from human and machine sources, filtered through a graphical user interface (GUI) to enable target tracking in a complex environment.

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USAF96 Steel

AFRL/RW has developed a Low Alloy High Performance Steel commonly referred to as “USAF-96”. This carbon steel composition does not contain Tungsten (W) or Cobalt (Co) and contains low amounts of Nickel (Ni) and can be manufactured through a variety of standard, commercial production techniques, including air-melt production.

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Open Challenges & Innovation Opportunities

Challenges are funded opportunities within Ratio Ecosystems for members to explore and engage with.

Continuous open submissions:

If you don't see a challenge

that matches your products

or services, no worries.

Please register, update your company profile, and join any of our Ecosystems that need your help solving their problems and challenges!

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Jerry McQuoid

Customer Experience Officer

Ratio

540.419.4215

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