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THE INNOVATION LABORATORY, INC.

Portland, OR · Defense · Private

AI/ML algorithms for autonomous analysis of ADS-B aircraft surveillance data to detect anomalous behavior and characterize aircraft intent

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Sector
Defense
Headquarters
Portland, OR
Total capital
$12.1M
Federal grants
$5.3M
8 awards · 2015–2025
Rank in peer group#75 of 161
Private capital raised
None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
Federal contracts
$6.8M
29 awards · NASA, Defense
Rank in Defense#464 of 1442
Granted patents
None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.

Capital timeline

20082012201620202024FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $12.1M$1.6M$900K$900K$900K$900K
20082012201620202024FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $12.1M$1.6M$900K$900K

Latest events

  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Phase II SBIR - Turbulence-impact Collaborative Response System$900K
  • Federal contractNASA · Phase II SBIR - Turbulence-impact Collaborative Response System$900K
  • Federal contractNASA · FY24 SBIR Phase I- Turbulence-impact Collaborative Response System$150K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase I · FY24 SBIR Phase I- Turbulence-impact Collaborative Response System$150K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Phase II, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xai) For Air Traffic Management$900K
  • Federal contractNASA · Phase II, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xai) For Air Traffic Management$900K
  • Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase I: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xai) For Air Traffic Management$156K
Show 30 earlier federal awards
  • Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase II Controller-pilot Voice Communication And Intent Monitoring For Future Aviation Systems Safety$900K
  • Federal contractNASA · E014042 SBIR Phase 1 - Controller-pilot Voice Communication And Intent Monitoring For Future Aviation Systems Safety$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I Under Baa Army STTR 21.C$250K
  • Federal contractNASA · Patterns Of Life Geofencing Supporting Advanced Ariel Mobility$125K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Urban Airspace Mapping Capabilities for Designing Safe Urban Air Mobility Operations$125K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Aircraft Intent Inference based on Real-Time ADS-B Data Processing$1.6M
  • Federal contractDefense · Phase I Kick-off Briefing Material$150K
  • Federal contractNASA · On-demand Cost Situational Awareness For Urban Air Mobility$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · Technologies Enabling Urban Air Mobility All-weather Vertiport Operations$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · The Innovation Laboratory Seeks To Build A Software System That Executes A Virtual Marketplace For Urban Air Mobility (uam). The Virtual Marketplace Will Serve The Traveling Public With An On-demand System That Connects Multi-modal Modes Of Transportation In A Competitive Marketplace Environment Utilizing Forward Auctions And Reverse Auctions To Provide Cost Effective Transportation Of People And Goods. The Virtual Marketplace Will Shape The Uam Demand Datasets (location Of All Takeoff Points In$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · The Contractor Proposes To Develop A Proof Of Concept Cockpit Tool For Airborne Rerouting That Communicates Candidate Reroutes With Airline Operations Center Via The Faa Collaborative Trajectory Options Program Ctop Language. The Tool Would Facilitate Using Ctops Trajectory Option Sets Toss As The Means For Reroute Coordination Between Flight Crews, Dispatchers, And Air Traffic Service Providers, Taking More Constraints Into Account And Thereby Providing Increased Likelihood Of Atc Approval. By $125K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Turbulence Awareness via Real-Time Data Mining$750K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Innovation Laboratory, Inc., Proposes To Develop A Decision Support Tool (dst) For Strategic Guidance To Pilots For Mitigating Encounters With En Route Turbulence Hazards. Implemented On Either Commercial Off-the-shelf (cots) Electronic Flight Bags (efbs) Or Personal Electronic Devices (peds), And Standard Turbulence Data Formats, The System Is Designed To Increase The Likelihood Of Air Traffic Control (atc) Approval Of A Pilots Trajectory Change Request By Strategically Presen$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Propose To Create An Automated, Real-time, Remote Turbulence Detection And Diagnostics System For The National Airspace System (nas). The System Is Remote In The Sense That It Does Not Mount Any Sensors Onboard Any Aircraft, Nor Does It Add Any Software To Flight Deck (fd) Avionics Systems. The System Exploits Data Mining To Search Through Thousands Of Aircraft Surveillance Measurements In Real-time As Aircraft Fly In The Nas. We Propose To Use Automatic Dependent Surveillance ?$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Build Machine Learning Capabilities That Enables Improved Prediction Of Off-block Times And Wheels Up Times Which Are Critical Inputs To Nas Stakeholders. Nextgen Will Rely On Machine Learning Techniques Utilizing All Sources Of Useful Information In Order To Improve Predictive Accuracy And Reliability Of Flight Operations In The Nas. These Predictive Capabilities Will Support Real-time Optimization Of Surface Operations. We Use Machine Learning To Learn From Historical Data And$125K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Integrated Technologies Supporting Seamless Oceanic Transitions$750K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf In This SBIR Effort, We Integrate Existing Technologies To Create An Infrastructure That Is Ready To Leverage Emerging Technologies To Realize An Oceanic Trajectory-based Operations (tbo) Capability With Seamless Transitions To/from Domestic/oceanic Airspace. The System Includes The Processing Of All Forms Of Domestic/oceanic Airspace Surveillance, Including The Emergence Of Space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ads-b), Faa OCEAN21 Processing And Dynamic Airspac$755K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Integrate Existing Technologies And Build An Infrastructure That Is Ready To Leverage Emerging Technologies To Realize An Oceanic Tbo Capability That Is Seamless With The Domestic Air Traffic Operations And A Solution That Is Within The Near-term Horizon. Technologies Include Surveillance (both Traditional Ads-b And Space-based Ads-b) As Well As Domestic Weather RADAR And Other Weather Source (e.g., Goes Satellite Information), And A Probing Capability To Allow Oceanic Traffic $124K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Focus On The Passenger As The Key Stakeholder Of The Air Traffic Management (atm) System. Air Transport Is Only A Portion Of The Passenger Door-to-door Journey, Which Also Relies On Other Modes Of Transportation (a Taxi Ride, Bus Ride, Drive Over The Freeways, Rail, Or Other) To Complete The Journey. Transportation Modes Are Usually Studied Separately As If Not Interacting, Although They Are Intrinsically Coupled Through Passenger Transfers; In Fact, The Failure Of One Mode Disru$125K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Convective Induced Turbulence Detection in Oceanic Trajectory-Based Operations$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Innovation Laboratory, Inc., Proposes To Build A Tool To Estimate Airline Costs Under Tbo. This Tool Includes A Cost Model That Explicitly Reasons About Traffic Demand And Weather Conditions In The National Airspace System (nas), Mathematical Models For Weather Translation And Atm-impact, Line Of Flight Impacts Of Delay Propagation, Large Quantities Of Historical Nas And Airline Data ("big Data"), And Fixed And Variable Cost Accounting.$124K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Build Machine Learning Capabilities That Enables The Shadow Mode Assessment Using Realistic Technologies For The Nas (smart Nas) System To Synthesize, Optimize, And "auto-suggest" Optimized Traffic Management Initiatives (tmis). Multi Level Multi View (mlmv) Machine Learning Is Used To Identify Similar Historical Situations (days, Scenarios, Or Airport Conditions) In The Nas. Tmis Used In Historically Similar Situations Are Locally Modified To Optimize The Parameters Of The Tmi T$122K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf A Concept Of Operations For More Efficient Oceanic Airspace Using Trajectory-based Operations$150K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Propose To Form A Network And A Set Of Tools That Will Create A Shared Situation Awareness With Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Ground Control Stations (gcss) And Airline Dispatchers At Airline Operations Centers (aocs). Our Solution Is Motivated By The Collaborative Decision Making (cdm) Community In Commercial Aviation, Where The Cdmnet Was Created Back In 1997 To Facilitate Collaboration Between Airlines And The Federal Aviation Administration (faa). The Cdmnet Continues To E$124K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Build A Tool That Accelerates Research And Development (r&d) Aimed At Introducing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Into The National Airspace System (nas). In The Proposed Effort, Facet Will Form The Basis Of A Collaborative R&d Platform, An Environment Where Users Can Share Open Source Software Modules (software And Data Sets Developed To Reside Outside The Facet Application Programmers Interface (api)) Between Users At The Same Or Different Universities, So That Each User Can Be$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Build A System That Supports The Weather Information Needs Of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Planning To Fly In The National Airspace System (nas). This Weather Information Service Will Supply Information To UAS Ground Control Stations (gcss) From The Next Generation Air Transportation System (nextgen) 4D Weather Data Cube, The Single Authoritative Source (sas) For Aviation Weather Information, And Associated Modules Which Will Determine The Impacts That Weather Will Have On T$124K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Proposes To Build A Prototype Convective-induced Turbulence (cit) Hazard Detection System Based On Total Lightning Sensing As An Indicator Of The Location And Severity Of In-cloud Cit. Total Lightning Is The Combination Of Cloud-to-ground And In-cloud Lightning And Has Been Shown To Correlate Well With Storm Dynamics. Total Lightning Activity Will Be Measured Globally At High Temporal Resolution From Total Lightning Detectors Onboard Future Geostationary Satellites Such As The G$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · The Innovation Laboratory, Inc., Proposes To Use Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ads-b) Information As The Basis Of Atmospheric Wave And Turbulence Identification. Working In Conjunction With The National Center For Atmospheric Research (ncar), We Research The Feasibility Of Using The High Rate Ads-b Altitude Information To Detect The Presence Of Mountain Waves And Mountain Wave Turbulence (mwt) In The Vicinity Of Steep Terrain As Well As Atmospheric Waves And Turbulence From Other $125K
  • Federal contractNASA · Flexible Tube-based Network Control The Innovation Laboratory, Inc. Builds A Control System Which Controls The Topology Of An Air Traffic Flow Network And The Network Flow Properties Which Enables Air Traffic Management (atm) To Adapt To Hazardous Weather Constraints And Provide High Capacity Flows In The National Airspace System (nas). The Network Flow Organizer Automatically Adjusts The Flows Of Air Traffic With Respect To Weather Hazards And Special Use Airspace (sua) Constraints And Allows $100K
  • Federal contractNASA · We Build A Software Tool Which Enables The User (airline Or Air Traffic Service Provider (atsp)) The Ability To Analyze The Flight-level-by-flight-level Permeability Of Airspaces Constrained By Weather-hazards (turbulence, Icing And Convection). The Airspace Analyzer Automatically Determines The Space-time Boundaries Where Weather Hazards Constrain Capacity. The Solution Approach Is Based On An Algorithm Using Computational Geometry Techniques For Estimating The Directional Permeability Of An AI$100K

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What it has protected

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Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026

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Sources

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