ZE Government Solutions Airforce contract sees platform deployed on indoor drones

PHILADELPHIA – ZE Government Solutions (ZEGS), the wholly owned subsidiary of AI-based gun detection leader ZeroEyes, announced that its recent AFWERX SBIR Phase I contract with the Department of the Air Force (DAF) has found a focus for their software with indoor drones.

On August 10 the company announced that the integrated solution will combine ZEGS’ AI-based object detection video analytics with confined space unmanned aircraft system (UAS) platforms. This will proactively provide operators and force protection teams with crucial situational awareness according to ZEGS, enabling them to rapidly respond to threats in indoor and confined locations that are unsuitable for traditional UAS platforms.

“Aerial footage from a UAS system can be a valuable asset when assessing a threatening situation,” said Mike Lahiff, CEO and co-founder of ZeroEyes, parent company of ZEGS. “These platforms, especially when equipped with advanced technology like our proactive AI-based gun detection solution, can provide actionable intelligence before a dangerous incident occurs and improve military personnel’s decision making.”

This contract is made possible due to the partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX  to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) process by accelerating the small business experience through a faster proposal to award timelines, changing the pool of potential applicants by expanding opportunities to small business and losing bureaucratic overhead by continually implementing process improvement changes in contract execution. 'The Open Topic' SBIR/STTR program was first offered by the DAF in 2018 which expanded the range of innovations the DAF funded.

Security Systems News has been covering ZEGS since the company first began operations in the second quarter of this year. This news comes on the heels of the SBIR Phase I contract focused on edge deployment of artificial intelligence to investigate its potential to fill capability gaps in the Department of the Air Force (DAF) that ZEGS was granted on July 28, 2023.

Learn more about ZEGS at ZeroEyes.com.