Akita Innovations is pleased to announce it was awarded a contract/s for the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of $151B. This contract encompasses a broad range of work areas that allows for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed… Continue Reading →

Akita Innovations was awarded an SBIR Phase II contract by Naval Sea Systems Command for the development of “AM of Textured Piezoelectric Ceramics” under Topic # N241-040.  This award follows the successful completion of a Phase I SBIR contract which demonstrated the feasibility of fabrication of textured piezoceramics by additive manufacture (AM).  In Phase II… Continue Reading →

Akita Innovations was awarded a SBIR Phase I contract by Strategic Systems Programs for the development of “High Sensitivity Piezo-Ceramic Materials for Hydrophone Devices” under Topic # N252-118.  In this Project, Akita will team with the Penn State Applied Research Laboratory to advance emerging highly sensitive piezoelectric ceramics for Navy applications.

In another project, Akita is working for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to optimize the formulation of and scale to pilot production levels a non-aqueous fluid that can be sprayed on chemically or biologically contaminated surfaces, such as vehicles, that will stick to the surfaces and accomplish a significant decontamination of the hazard, reducing… Continue Reading →

Akita Innovations was awarded a SBIR Phase II contract by Program Executive Office Ships for the development of “Permanent RF Transparent AN/SPY-1 Array Cover” under Topic #N231-033.  This award follows the successful completion of a Phase I SBIR contract and is intended to provide a prototype of an RF-transmissive, removable, and environmentally and mechanically protective… Continue Reading →

The goal of this 18-month project is to mature and advance a printable, low-loss dielectric ink that was invented at a university partner.  In this project, Akita is working with industry and university partners to refine the ink’s printability (viscosity and pot life) for use by several current printing technologies, to demonstrate printability using commercial… Continue Reading →

Akita Innovations was awarded a SBIR Phase I contract by the naval Sea Systems Command for the “Additive Manufacture of Texturized Piezoelectric Ceramics.” In this project Akita teams with an industry partner to develop a low-cost, flexible additive manufacturing technique to produce textured piezoelectric ceramics for undersea sensor applications.