FROM CONCEPT TO CAPABILITY AT THE SPEED OF MISSION
Harnessing 350,000 small businesses to row the boat together.
America's most asymmetric advantage isn't a weapons system. It's the engine of small businesses that design, prototype, and build technology the government can't produce on its own.
The SBIR program was designed to harness that engine — but the process around it has calcified into a maze of disconnected portals, siloed data, and compliance friction that kills momentum between award and deployment. Concepts stall. Teams never form. Brilliant prototypes die in compliance purgatory. The innovation pipeline doesn't have a technology problem. It has an evolution problem.
SMALL BUSINESS TECH BECOMES WARFIGHTER CAPABILITY.
This isn't another aggregator. EVO is the operating system for small business defense innovation. It's the missing connective tissue between an idea and a fielded capability.
Apollo EVO is the platform where SBIR technology actually evolves — from first discovery through teaming, proposal, prototype, authorization, and operational deployment. SBIR solicitations from every agency, searchable and filterable by domain, phase, award range, and timeline. A vendor directory where companies showcase capabilities and find complementary partners for teaming. Side-by-side comparison to assemble the right team before the submission deadline. AI-powered proposal feedback that catches compliance gaps and sharpens language before you submit.
Problems EVO
Solves
Authorization Pipeline Acceleration
The number one reason SBIR technologies die between Phase II and Phase III is the ATO wall. Companies build brilliant prototypes, win awards, then discover they need 18 months and a half-million dollars in compliance work before anyone can use it. EVO eliminates that gap. Integrated with Apollo DPI, the platform walks companies through security evidence collection from the moment they start building — connecting source code repos, cloud environments, vulnerability scanners, and identity providers into an authorization package that evolves alongside the prototype. When the award comes, the evidence is already there.
conquer THE VALLEY OF DEATH
Phase I companies don't know how to get to Phase II. Phase II companies can't find teaming partners for Phase III. Every transition is a cliff — different rules, different expectations, different agencies — and most companies navigate it blind, burning months figuring out what changed. EVO maps the entire SBIR lifecycle into a single progression. Where you are, what's required, who's done it before, and what to do next — surfaced automatically based on your stage, your domain, and your history on the platform.
illuminate the Unseen Intelligence Layer
A living map of who's building what, who's teaming with whom, and which technologies are closest to operational deployment. For government, that means visibility into the industrial base that doesn't exist today — not just who won awards, but who's actually ready to deliver. For small business, it means the free market finally has the connective tissue to compete at scale. Our adversaries don't have this. Capitalism, free markets, and public-private partnership are how we win in a technology age — and EVO is the platform where that evolution happens.
Ecosystem Integration and Orchestration
The organizations already connecting government to technology: accelerators, defense venture platforms, trusted community managers. They all run their own tools, their own pipelines, their own vendor lists. None of them talk to each other. Every new program stands up its own discovery process from scratch. EVO is designed to plug into existing ecosystems, not replace them. Any organization managing a community of builders can deploy EVO as the shared infrastructure layer — defining problem sets, curating vetted vendors, facilitating teaming, and tracking technology maturation from concept through authorization. One platform underneath many communities, each with its own mission focus, its own trusted network, and its own operational rules. The result: government defines the problem. The ecosystem self-organizes around the solution. And instead of fifty disconnected programs each hunting for the same small businesses, there's a single connective layer where supply meets demand at scale.
