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How a small AI firm won a $1.79M Air Force STTR Phase II
A lean AI firm won a $1.79M Air Force STTR Phase II, cutting proposal time roughly 65% with GovHub.
Illustrative scenario. An anonymized, representative example grounded in public federal award data (SAM.gov / FPDS) — it shows the kind of outcome GovHub is built to enable, not a claim about a specific named company.
- Contract value: $1,794,424
- Timeframe: ~4-week proposal cycle
- Time saved: ~65% faster
The challenge
STTR Phase II proposals are among the most technical and competitive in federal contracting — demanding a rigorous technical approach, a commercialization plan, a detailed work breakdown, data-rights assertions, and compliance with layered SBIR/STTR rules, DFARS clauses, and intellectual-property requirements. As a small research-focused team, the firm faced a tight timeline with little bandwidth for proposal production.
How GovHub helped
GovHub pulled historical SBIR/STTR award data and successful Phase II examples for similar AI and document-technology topics, benchmarked pricing and technical approaches, and auto-generated compliant sections — technical volume, commercialization strategy, and work breakdown — while scoring the draft in real time against STTR requirements and DFARS. Internal company data and research-partner information were integrated automatically, and the AI surfaced win themes around generative-AI innovation and DoD mission impact.
Results
- Won the competitive STTR Phase II award
- Proposal development time cut roughly 65% — from a typical 10+ weeks to about four
- Strong technical evaluation score
- Validated the core technology and opened further DoD and dual-use commercialization