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AFWERX held a virtual trade show called Engage Space in September 2020 that received more than 800 proposals.
AFWERX was created in 2017 to improve the Air Force’s relationship with the private sector and make the military a more attractive customer for entrepreneurs and investors.
AFWERX officials indicated up to $100,000,000 could be invested in Space Prime over the next year.
AFWERX Phase 1 SBIR awards provide $50,000 for studies and Phase 2 and Phase 3 follow-on contracts can be worth up to $3,000,000.
In 2020 AFWERX awarded about $700,000,000 in Small Business Innovation Research contracts to small businesses.
AFWERX is uniting the ingenuity of Spark, AFVentures, and Prime with the expertise of the Air Force and Space Force.
The AFWERX program of the United States Air Force has launched SpaceWERX, a technology accelerator office in Los Angeles.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson launched AFWERX on 2017-07-21, during a visit to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
Descartes Labs received a Direct to Phase II AFWERX contract in July 2020 to create a single source of truth for the Air Force by fusing together multi-sensor data.
AFWERX selected HawkEye 360 as one of the top 26 participating teams out of 809 total teams in the EngageSpace challenge on 2020-10-15.
AFWERX selected HawkEye 360 as one of 178 top participating teams from The AFWERX Space Challenge to exhibit at EngageSpace on 2020-09-29-30, 2020.
Xage Security began working with AFWERX in late 2019 under a Phase One SBIR contract worth about $50,000.
Xage Security won a $743,000 Phase Two Small Business Innovation Research contract from AFWERX to develop, evaluate, and prepare a data protection strategy for the U.S. Space Force.
AFWERX selected Benchmark Space Systems as one of 178 participating teams from the AFWERX Space Challenge to exhibit at the EngageSpace virtual event on 2020-09-29-30, 2020.
The AFWERX contract vehicle was open for government organizations to use until 2020-09-30.
AFWERX was launched by the U.S. Air Force in 2017 as a dual-purpose technology accelerator program focused on commercially viable companies with dual-use technologies.
AFWERX established a contract vehicle as part of the event to allow Department of Defense users to immediately gain access to developing technologies presented by the 30 selected companies.
On 2020-08-18 Viasat was one of 30 industry teams competitively selected by the U.S. Air Force AFWERX program to virtually demonstrate new and emerging capabilities.
The $44,500,000 Air Force contracts include a one-year AFWERX deal to demonstrate launch technology and an agreement with the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium to conduct three demonstrations of an RS1 vehicle variant and deployable ground infrastructure in 2022.
The Air Force Small Business Innovation Research program released a pre-solicitation notice on 2019-12-10 through the AFWERX technology accelerator.