UTOPIACOMPRESSION,CORPORATION

Los Angeles, CA · Robotics · Private

Landmark Placement and Navigation (LPN) system for GPS-denied autonomous vehicle localization

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Updated Oct 23, 2026 · utopiacompression.com

Sector: Robotics
Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA
Total capital: $48.2M

Federal grants: None on recordNo awards found in SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF or DoD records.
Private capital raised: None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
Federal contracts: $48.2M; 112 awards · Defense, NASA, Interior; Rank in Robotics#4 of 544
Granted patents: None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.

Capital timeline

Latest events

Apr 2026Federal contractDefense · BASE$1.4M
Dec 2025Federal contractDefense · Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (shield) Initial Order.$500
Apr 2025Federal contractDefense · Base Award For A SBIR Phase II Topic #N234-P05$1.4M
Apr 2025Federal contractDefense · Fourth On-ramp For Enterprise-wide Agile Acquisition Contract (ewaac) Vehicle.$1K
Nov 2024Federal contractDefense · Multi-sensor Perceptions & Situational Awareness (mpsa) & Deep Learning Surface Object Classifier (dlsoc) Software Afloat Test$1.1M
Mar 2024Federal contractDefense · Kickoff Briefing$175K
Sep 2023Federal contractDefense · Tem Interface/interoperability$975K

Show 105 earlier federal awards

Aug 2023Federal contractDefense · Cooperative Operation Of Assets Using Intelligent Reinforcements (co Air) To Enhance The Collaborative Combat Aircraft (cca) Capability$1.2M
Nov 2022Federal contractDefense · Ground Asset Navigation Using Aerial Guidance In Contested Environments$75K
Jun 2022Federal contractDefense · Integration Of Training Effectiveness Measurement Software With Member, Operations, Training, Analytics And Report Platform And Performing A Training Effectiveness Study$750K
May 2022Federal contractDefense · Robust Target Handoff In A Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm In Global Position System-denied Environments$1.2M
Mar 2022Federal contractDefense · Long Range Passive Ranging And Collision Avoidance For Unmanned Aerial System$2M
Mar 2022Federal contractDefense · Vehicle Routing And Localization Infrastructure Placement In Global Positioning Systems Denied Areas$750K
Feb 2021Federal contractDefense · Integration Of Training Effectiveness Measurement$50K
Jan 2021Federal contractDefense · Optimal Intruder State Estimation And Avoidance With Optical Sensors$150K
Jan 2021Federal contractDefense · Vehicle Routing And Localization Infrastructure Placement In Gps-denied Areas$150K
Sep 2020Federal contractDefense · Portable 3D Ultrasound Technology For Diagnosis Of Traumatic Brain Injury (tbi)$250K
May 2020Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$1.5M
Feb 2020Federal contractDefense · Research And Development SBIR Phase II$1.7M
Feb 2020Federal contractTransportation · UAS Baa Contract Award$286K
Jan 2020Federal contractDefense · Portable 3D Ultrasound Technology For Diagnosis Of Traumatic Brain Injury.$25K
Nov 2019Federal contractDefense · Phase I Kick-off Briefing Material$150K
Sep 2019Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$140K
Aug 2019Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$960K
Mar 2019Federal contractDefense · Airborne Visual Analytics (avian)$1.5M
Feb 2018Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II Topic N161-020 Igf::ot::igf$565K
Sep 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Small Business Innovative Research Phase I Contract For Advanced UAV And Mortar Detection And Tracking Algorithms For Low Signal-to-noise Ratio And Cluttered Environments.$100K
Sep 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR Phase I "identification Of Taxonomy In The Field Using Deep Learning" Darpa$175K
May 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ct::igf Dhp STTR 16.C PH1 #H16C-005-0040$150K
Oct 2016Federal contractInterior · Igf::ot::igf Distributed Beamforming For Air/ground Communications$100K
Sep 2016Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf, Research And Development Onr SBIR Phase II$689K
Jul 2016Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf STTR II - STTR II Robust Moving Target Handoff In GPS Denied Environments$750K
Jun 2016Federal contractDefense · Progress Report SBIR Pi Igf::ot::igf$150K
May 2016Federal contractDefense · Igf::cl::igf Domain Adaptive In-situ Target Recognition (daitr)for Mine Hunting$964K
May 2016Federal contractHomeland Security · Igf::ot::igf SBIR FY16 Phase I Award$100K
Sep 2015Federal contractDefense · SBIR Pi R&d. Igf::ot::igf$80K
Sep 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Darpa Phase II Entitled, "vision Based Sense And Avoid Soulution For Small UAS"$2M
Aug 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR Phase 1$100K
Jul 2015Federal contractDefense · Status Report Igf::ot::igf$80K
May 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf - STTR I - Robust Moving Target Hand-off In Gps-denied Environments$150K
Jul 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Phase II SBIR Contract Title: A Novel Video Based Adaptive Intelligent Hemispherical Threat Detection System$500K
Feb 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Joint Transport And Routing Optimization For Adaptive Satellite Networks$748K
Dec 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Base$1.0M
Oct 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf High Efficiency Space Infrared Data Compression$150K
Sep 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Intelligent Cooporative Control For Urban Target Tracking With Uavs$750K
Aug 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR I - Accurate Uncertainty Estimation For Computer Vision Based Geo-location$150K
Aug 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf A Visual Perception System For Postern Sense And Avoid$150K
Jul 2013Federal contractDefense · Technical Data For A Feasibility Study Under SBIR Ph I Topic Advanced Medical Microelectronics$150K
Apr 2013Federal contractDefense · Neumet-co: A Neuroimaging Augmented Meta-cognition Model To Predict The Decision-making Capabilities Of Warfighters$750K
Apr 2013Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I - A123-109-0152$100K
Nov 2012Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Maneuverless Monocular Passive Ranging SYSTEM-M2PARS$350K
Sep 2012Federal contractDefense · Phase I SBIR For Topic Variable Acuity Hemispherical Threat Detection For Remotely Operated Weapons Systems.$150K
Jul 2012Federal contractDefense · Joint Transport And Routing Optimization For Adaptive Satellite Networks$100K
Jul 2012Federal contractDefense · Hybrid Discourse Anal For Hierarchical Social Group Id&int$150K
Jun 2012Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I - Reconstruction Algorithms For High-energy Ct Images Of Rocket Motors$150K
Apr 2012Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$150K
Apr 2012Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$150K
Apr 2012Federal contractDefense · Enhancing Coop Cont W Hierarchical Intel&learning$150K
Apr 2012Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$80K
Feb 2012Federal contractDefense · Status Report$150K
Sep 2011Federal contractInterior · Title: Sensei- Sensing Emotion Non -invasively For Software-based Educational Instruction$750K
Jul 2011Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I (O111-H03-3021)$150K
Apr 2011Federal contractDefense · Mobility-aware Disruption-tolerant Opportunistic Routing (mador)$100K
Mar 2011Federal contractDefense · Darpa STTR Phase I Contract.$1.4M
Mar 2011Federal contractDefense · Osd 10.2 SBIR I$100K
Mar 2011Federal contractDefense · SBIR 1 - Context Aware Routing And Management Architecture(carma) For Airborne Networks$100K
Feb 2011Federal contractDefense · Generative Waveform Agnostic Gateway (genwag) Architecture$745K
Jan 2011Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$100K
Jan 2011Federal contractDefense · Performance Of Work In Accorance With$1.5M
Jan 2011Federal contractDefense · SBIR, Phase II Contract$750K
Dec 2010Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I$70K
Dec 2010Federal contractDefense · Integrity Management For Mixed Critical Unmanned Air Vehicle$100K
Oct 2010Federal contractDefense · Custom Computer Programming Services$70K
Sep 2010Federal contractDefense · Object Recognition$730K
Aug 2010Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$732K
Jun 2010Federal contractInterior · SBIR 101-002 - Sensei-sensing Emotion Non-invasively For Software-based Educational Instruction$149K
Apr 2010Federal contractDefense · Mda SBIR Phase I$100K
Apr 2010Federal contractDefense · Small Business Innovation Research Program Ph I: Utopia Compression$70K
Feb 2010Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phi/utopia Compression$70K
Feb 2010Federal contractDefense · Darpa SBIR Phase I$99K
Jan 2010Federal contractNASA · In Support Of Nasa's Vision For Space, The Goal Of This Project Is To Research And Prototype A Multi-component Localization System Which Uses Radiometry And Vision For Global Pose Estimation In Selenographic Coordinates. The Radiometry Based Pose Localization Alone Will Exhaustively Study The Combination Of Satellite Networks And Terrestrial Networks To Extract The Maximal Information For The Purpose Of Localization. The Vision System Will Use Terrain Matching Allowing For A Global Pose Estimati$100K
Jan 2010Federal contractDefense · Laser Technologies Adapted For UAS Sense And Avoid (saa) Applications.$100K
Jan 2010Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$100K
Jan 2010Federal contractDefense · Darpa AY79/00$99K
Dec 2009Federal contractDefense · Darpa SBIR Phase I$99K
Nov 2009Federal contractInterior · SBIR 9.2 Phase I "wearable Smart Battery For First Responder Applications"$100K
Sep 2009Federal contractDefense · Phase II Base Effort-topic N08-T032 "a Software Thin Layer For Robust Wireless Communications In Challenged Environments"$497K
Sep 2009Federal contractDefense · Performance Of Work In Accordance With$736K
Jun 2009Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$100K
May 2009Federal contractDefense · Eo/ir Due Regard Capability For UAS Based On Intelligent$750K
Mar 2009Federal contractDefense · Matoc$750K
Mar 2009Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$100K
Mar 2009Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase 1, #A082-136 - Multi Stream Scalable Pattern Driven Video Codec For Tactical Wireless Networks$70K
Feb 2009Federal contractInterior · H-SB07.1-005 Responder Wireless Physiological Monitoring Device Phase II$825K
Jan 2009Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase 1, Topic # A08-059$120K
Dec 2008Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$100K
Sep 2008Federal contractDefense · Scientific & Technical Consulting$99K
Jul 2008Federal contractDefense · Learn To Trust Thy Neighbor: Proactive Trust Mgt Syst (ptms)$100K
Jul 2008Federal contractDefense · First Status Report$70K
Jun 2008Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$70K
May 2008Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I Topic A08-013$120K
May 2008Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I Topic No. A08-014$70K
Apr 2008Federal contractDefense · Mobility Aware Topology Control (matoc) For Airborne Network$100K
Apr 2008Federal contractDefense · Space Based RADAR On Board Proc$750K
Mar 2008Federal contractDefense · Research$70K
Mar 2008Federal contractDefense · Eo/ir Due Regard Capability For UAS Based On Intelligent$100K
Nov 2007Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$450K
Oct 2007Federal contractInterior · SBIR 7.1 Second Generation, Fully Networked Smart Medical Vests$100K
Jun 2007Federal contractDefense · Real Time Motion And Range Estimation Of Dynamic Scene Using Monocular Video$1.2M
May 2007Federal contractDefense · Basic$600K
Dec 2005Federal contractNASA · Intelligence Based Multi Resolution 3D Visual Modeling For Unmanned Vehicle$600K
Apr 2005Federal contractDefense · 200507!000146!5700!FA8651!DET 1 Afrl/mnk !FA865105C0107 !a!n! !y! ! !20050426!20070422!112136572!112136572!112136572!N!UTOPIACOMPRESSION Corporation !11150 Olympic Blvd STE1020!LOS Angeles !CA!90064!44000!037!06!LOS Angeles !los Angeles !CALIFORNIA!+000000374984!N!N!000000749968!AC56!RDTE/WEAPONS-MANAGEMENT Support !A5 !weapons !000 !* !541710!E! !3! ! ! ! ! !202$1.0M

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

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Sources

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