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A 35 lb sensor and edge-AI kit that mounts on any operations vehicle and produces audit-ready ASTM D6433, 23 CFR 490, AASHTO, and PROWAG deliverables on one mobilization. The roadway, the sidewalk, the curb ramps, and the markings, in the same scan.
How it's different
Every ARAN-class incumbent is roadway-only, van-bound, and collect-then-cloud-post-process. LAIRA Rig is what an AI-first sensing platform looks like in 2026.
A single LAIRA Rig drive captures the roadway, the sidewalk, and the curb ramps in the same continuous scan. Every ARAN-class incumbent is roadway-only. Sidewalks and curb ramps are a separate procurement, today.
Every measurement carries a citation chain back to the standard it satisfies. The output is a section condition report a State DOT QA reviewer or a Willits-class consent-decree monitor can audit line by line.
NVIDIA-accelerated inference on-device, under 200 ms per frame. New distress classes, new standards, new export formats push to the fleet over the air. The operator does not return to base for a firmware update.
The platform
All three tiers publish to the same ESRI feature service with an accuracy_tier field on every record. One schema, three input pipelines, no migration.
Who it's for
Sidewalk + curb-ramp PROWAG geometry in the same pass as your 23 CFR 490 pavement deliverable, on a kit that runs on your existing maintenance fleet.
Read the brief →Stop paying a services provider per-lane-mile. Mount LAIRA Rig on your own field crews and own the data layer. Pre-bid baseline becomes a moat.
Read the brief →One Rig, one mobilization, one deliverable for the airfield, the installation road network, and the connecting PROWAG sidewalk and curb-ramp ROW.
Read the brief →Continuous-scan, dated, geo-stamped sidewalk and curb-ramp condition evidence. Auditable on the 120-day class-member-access clock.
Read the brief →The pedestrian-exposure data layer LexisNexis Location Intelligence doesn't cover. Per-address, dated, API-delivered.
Read the brief →Every parking lot, every sidewalk, every curb ramp, every entrance across a portfolio. One rig run, one dashboard, every property.
Read the brief →In deployment
We ask them to be the first reference in their tier — and our tier (roadway + sidewalk + markings, one rig run) has no incumbent.
Active via 88 OSS / AFCEC / SBIR-AFWERX channels for FY26. Letter of Agreement signed; straight-buy + annual service preferred under SAT and P-card thresholds. Path to broader DAF airfield-management community via the 1C7X1 functional.
Airfield + groundside inspection running on operator drives since 2025. 3–7× more anomalies detected vs. manual. 50%+ reduction in field validation time. Featured in Esri's 2026 case study.
Letter of Intent for Airwai as a registered subcontractor on a SBIR D2P2 commercialization vehicle supporting Navy / FAA airfield inspection requirements. Execution pending.
Sidewalk-robot fleet generates passive sidewalk imagery at scale. Vision Lite ingest produces geo-tagged PROWAG detections published to ESRI. Validates the sensor-agnostic platform thesis.
Honesty block
Stated upfront, before the buyer asks. Borrowed from the D6433 matrix §9.
Next step
The pilot is an audit-ready D6433 + 23 CFR 490 section report against the corridor or parking lot of your choice, with the per-section data delivered to your ArcGIS feature service.
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