Develop a commercial technology to address Navy and USMC gaps regarding low-cost, NDAA-compliant heads-up displays (HUDs) with on-board 6 degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) tracking.
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Develop a technology to clean and potentially reverse fouling on Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) Tank Level Indicating (TLI) components in-place. The solution must function within fully compensated fuel tanks aboard DDG 51 class ships ...
Develop a material/system to increase the fire-resistance of joiner bulkheads on ships and compartment-level fire containment while meeting Navy requirements for weight, fit, cost, fire, smoke and toxicity.
Develop a dust-protected, water splash-resistant Input-Output Unit (IOU) capable of interfacing with legacy and modern equipment to send, receive, process, and route signals throughout the hull and superstructure of naval vessels.
Develop and demonstrate an super intelligence (SI)-driven signal processing framework that leverages high-dimensional spectral feature extraction, adaptive neural control loops, and secure human-machine teaming to detect, classify, and ...
Develop ultra-low latency audio data obscuration techniques optimized for Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications over Fifth Generation (5G) frequency bands to enhance the resilience and operational effectiveness of Command and ...
Develop and demonstrate a robust multi-user signal separation for tactical waveforms to improve the quality of likelihoods prior to being processed by soft-decision decoding algorithms.
Develop and demonstrate a modular software reference implementation of a government-specified tactical waveform on a Digital Transceiver to establish an open architecture that leverages novel processing to transition from legacy ...
Design, develop, and demonstrate a ruggedized, field-deployable vehicle forensics device capable of non-destructive, rapid data triage and extraction.
Develop and demonstrate a man-portable, self-contained nitrogen generator capable of producing high-purity (equal to or less than 99.5%) nitrogen at 1,800 to 3,500 pounds per square inch (PSI), operating strictly within a 120-volt, 25-Amp ...
Develop and demonstrate a ruggedized, multi-spectral imaging, 360-degree-capable camera system capable of integration into Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) periscopes.
Develop a distributed multispectral event-driven integrated sensing and communications capability that can timely provide robust detection of a wide range of objects and integrate into existing onboard sensors to expand operational ...
Develop an automated tool to cyber harden various platform instantiations built on a Linux operating system.
Develop a focal-plane array (FPA) fabrication process based on wafer-scale 3D-heterogeneous integration that enables a mid-wave infrared (MWIR) III-V detector epi-layer wafer to be directly bonded to a Silicon-based read-out integrated ...
1- Develop a platform agnostic fully autonomous Agentic SI swarm system suitable for multidomain naval operations (i.e., Sea, Air, Space, Land, and Cyber) with self-awareness for rapid operationally scalable response, namely ...
Develop an Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) Tactical Decision Aid (TDA) for surface and air sensors in maritime, littoral, and inland environments.
Develop an autonomous Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) reasoning agent that fuses passive and active acoustic detections with non-acoustic maritime situational data, environmental acoustic propagation context, and platform/target behavior ...
Modernize United States capabilities to produce ultra-low size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) tunneling magnetoresistive magnetometers with industry leading sensitivities.
Develop tools and/or techniques to improve characterization of the D-region ionosphere sufficient for skillful ionosphere model specification and forecast over climatology and that demonstrate the impact of improved methodology on ...
Develop simple-to-use water quality test kits or electronic sensors that require minimal training to enable personnel in the field to rapidly meet Technical Bulletin Medical 577 (TB-MED 577) requirements to certify potable water without ...
Deliver a rapid, high-strength thermoplastic patching capability for legacy thermoset composite airframes by developing the necessary interfacial enabling technologies to fuse the incompatible polymer systems.
Develop and demonstrate a scaled high density Rotating Detonation Combustor (RDC) that uses NATO F76 diesel fuel (MIL-DTL-16884R) and perform thermodynamic analysis on developed Navy RDC equipped shipboard gas turbine concepts to determine ...
Develop technology to use historic real-world satellite imagery and then rapidly (10 minutes or less) modify it to reflect a training scenario order of battle (aircraft, ships, vehicles, etc.) to allow imagery analysts to practice their ...
Develop an SI-enabled maintenance associate that delivers interactive, expert-level guidance for complex diagnostic and repair tasks at point of need, provides technicians historical context on specific vehicles or components being ...
Develop a collapsible, low-cost, fixed-wing Group 1 small uncrewed aerial system (sUAS) capable of autonomous intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions with a flight endurance of over one hour.