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Silverthread Awarded Phase III Contract From Air Force

Silverthread, a Boston based software economics company, was recently awarded a Phase III SBIR contract by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Simulators Program Office in recognition of its successful collaboration with the Air Force SBIR/STTR Program. This award is a major milestone for Silverthread on its mission to expand its capabilities beyond analyzing software architecture to becoming a proactive developer tool that instills software quality from inception.

“Our experience with SBIR has been phenomenal and it has exposed Silverthread to incredible R&D opportunities,” says, Dan Sturtevant, CEO at Silverthread. “We continue to believe in the Air Force’s mission of coupling focused R&D efforts with deployable real world applications.”


This news comes in the wake of prior SBIR success, including:

  • SBIR I: Awarded in 2016

  • SBIR II: Awarded in 2018

To learn more about Silverthread’s successful partnership with the Air Force SBIR/STTR program, visit  https://www.sbir.gov/node/1542717. For more detail on Silverthread’s previous SBIR awards visit https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1410417 and https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1597095.


About SBIR

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a competitive awards-based program designed to support scientific excellence and technological innovation. The SBIR program encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) that has the potential for commercialization. Through the investment of Federal research funds, high-tech innovation is stimulated and the United States gains entrepreneurial spirit. Learn more at https://www.sbir.gov/.

Silverthread Awarded Phase III Contract From Air Force
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