The Catalyst Accelerator team invites early-stage companies with innovative technologies pertaining to this call to apply to the Spring 2022 Catalyst Accelerator.
Donor Name: US Space Force
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Accelerator
Type of Entity: Startups and Small Businesses
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/05/2022
Size of the Grant: $15K
Details:
The USSF is seeking companies with innovative technologies that will accelerate development of this hybrid data architecture and ensure the movement of the data happens for USSF in real time, near-real time.
Advances in technologies pertaining to how and where data is moved, processed, stored, and secured in a multi-level secure environment are some specific items that are relevant to the USSF future architecture.
Topics of Interest
- Ingest of data in any format
- Edge processing and distributed processing to enable rapid, near real-time analysis and response
- Trusted access to common data storage
- Integration of commercial and government data sources
- Management of data resources across the architecture
- High Performance Computing capabilities
- Optimized or new modulation techniques
- Virtualized hardware to achieve lower cost and better performance computing
- Commercial cryptographic systems for cyber resiliency
- Blockchain technologies & applications
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Funding Information
- Participating companies are funded $15K to participate in the Accelerator. This funding is provided by a grant from a Corporate Sponsor.
- Each participating company will receive $5K per month of the Accelerator. The final check will be sent out once deliverables have been submitted. Deliverables include, but are not limited to, customer discovery logs, business development documentation, Demo Day pitch deck, and dutiful participation in cohort sessions for the 3-month duration.
Criteria
- The Catalyst Accelerator is a defense and national security industry accelerator, headquartered on the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation (CCTI) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Each Catalyst Accelerator cohort has unique and specific focus areas determined by the United States Space Force and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Startups and small businesses that match the focus areas for that specific cohort should apply to the accelerator.
- If you have funding or not, the key component is your ability to provide a solution for the designated problem statement for the specific accelerator cohort. The selection process is focused around determining the best strategic and technological fit between the applicant, the Air/Space Force, and our industry partners.
Requirements
- Startup or small business focused on technology relevant to the problem statement
- Startup or small business with under 50 employees (ideally)
- Ability to attend in-person programming every other week Tuesday through Friday
For more information, visit Catalyst Accelerator.
