biodesigns, Westlake Village, California, was awarded a $999,822 firm-fixed-price Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for the delivery of a socket diagnostic tool for the manufacture and fitting of custom sockets for upper-limb prostheses.
Randall Alley, CP, CEO of biodesigns, was a primary socket consultant for DEKA Innovative Solutions, Manchester, New Hampshire, on its arm system, dubbed the Luke Arm, as part of DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2007 (RP 2007) program, but this is biodesigns’ first DARPA contract. The HiFi Interface™ and HiFi Imager™ System, created by Alley, is the platform technology for this contract and was also used in DEKA’s studies of its Luke Arm.
