About $3.00M to Illumination Works — both the solicitation topic and the proposal number survive in the description, marked sequential Phase II (Air Force)

1The proposal number is written in

The description carries the solicitation topic number AF221-DCSO1 and the proposal number F2S-19474 alike. The topic number says which solicitation was answered; the proposal number points to the individual proposal submitted against it.

Among the 222 federal spending records this site holds as of 2026-09-01, many carry only a solicitation number, leaving which proposal it answers unknown. Where the proposal number survives, room opens to trace the relationship with other proposals under the same solicitation. How detailed a record runs depends on the practice of the awarding office.

2The stage called sequential Phase II

The description states plainly that this is a sequential Phase II SBIR. The arrangement runs a first phase to show possibility and a second to carry it toward a product, and here the second phase is laid on once more.

It is a way of attaching further money to development that one Phase II does not complete. The amount, about $2,999,411, exceeds the seven Army open-topic awards this site holds as of 2026-09-01, which run from $1,887,290 to $1,900,000. Amounts rising with the stage can be read from that.

3The subject survives as a name

The end of the description carries a name and a function: AI-driven automation and the generation of insight. Where many records leave the content of a firm unrecorded, this one lets what is being built be read.

Of the 222 federal spending records this site holds as of 2026-09-01, 23 carry SBIR or STTR in the description. Under one arrangement, records carrying only a solicitation number sit alongside records carrying a proposal number and the name of the subject. Aggregating across fields means assuming the level of detail is not uniform.