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BlueFoot announces it has completed a SBIR Phase 2 contract that focused on developing an innovation strength scoring capability. This capability enables innovation strength benchmarking at the company and technology-level, further automating corporate due diligence using risk-based patent analysis for the Department of the Air Force (DAF). About BlueFoot ­­ BlueFoot’s market intelligence platform empowers technology-based due diligence. With its proprietary data science and AI, BlueFoot automatically correlates patent, financial, and market data to understand the global market map of companies in a bespoke technology area. BlueFoot enables the benchmarking of companies’ relative innovation strengths in that bespoke technology area as well. Used by the financial sector, corporate IP departments, and the government, BlueFoot is a must-have software tool for automated corporate due diligence. For more information, visit www.bluefoot.ai . About AFRL The Air Force Research Laboratory is the primary scientific research and development center for the Department of the Air Force. AFRL plays an integral role in leading the discovery, development, and integration of affordable warfighting technologies for our air, space and cyberspace force. With a workforce of more than 12,500 across nine technology areas and 40 other operations across the globe, AFRL provides a diverse portfolio of science and technology ranging from fundamental to advanced research and technology development. For more information, visit afresearchlab.com . About AFWERX As the innovation arm of the DAF and a directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory, AFWERX brings cutting-edge American ingenuity from small businesses and start-ups to address the most pressing challenges of the DAF. AFWERX employs approximately 325 military, civilian and contractor personnel at six hubs and sites executing an annual $1.4 billion budget. Since 2019, AFWERX has executed 4,697 new contracts worth more than $2.6 billion to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and drive faster technology transition to operational capability. For more information, visit afwerx.com .

BlueFoot announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Phase 2 in the amount of 1.25 Million USD focused on automated due diligence using risk-based patent analysis to investigate its potential to fill capability gaps in the Department of the Air Force (DAF). The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered 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 DAF began offering 'The Open Topic' SBIR/STTR program in 2018 which expanded the range of innovations the DAF funded and now on February 3rd, 2023, BlueFoot will start its journey to create and provide innovative capabilities that will strengthen the national defense of the United States of America. About BlueFoot BlueFoot provides an AI-based market intelligence platform that combines patent, financial, and M&A data. It correlates these multiple data sets (patent, financial, and M&A data) using data science, to answer fundamental questions and provide automated due diligence related to patent and innovation strategy. BlueFoot serves corporate IP departments and the defense sector, and is expanding to technology transfer, venture capital, and financial institutions. For more information, visit www.bluefoot.ai . About AFRL The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is the primary scientific research and development center for the Department of the Air Force. AFRL plays an integral role in leading the discovery, development, and integration of affordable warfighting technologies for our air, space, and cyberspace force. With a workforce of more than 11,000 across nine technology areas and 40 other operations across the globe, AFRL provides a diverse portfolio of science and technology ranging from fundamental to advanced research and technology development. For more information, visit: www.afresearchlab.com . About AFWERX AFWERX, a program office at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), connects innovators across government, industry and academia. Through innovation and collaboration with our nation’s top subject-matter experts and harnessing the power of ingenuity of internal talent, by expanding technology, talent, and transition partnerships for rapid and affordable commercial and military capability. Additional information is available at: https://www.afwerx.com/ . About AFVentures AFVentures invests in emerging technologies to scale Department of the Air Force capabilities, strengthening the US industrial base that empowers Airmen and Guardians by incentivizing private, for-profit investment in national security interests. Our success is achieved by connecting novel commercial solutions with defense problem sets, de-risking Airmen and Guardian initiatives to fill capability gaps and transition technologies. Learn more at https://afwerx.com/afventures-overview/ .