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5G Signature Tracking Mitigation via Cyber Deception
As military and government personnel increasingly rely on commercial mobile networks, the management of digital signatures has become a critical operational concern.
AI/ML for Next Generation of Missile Detection, Warning, Tracking, and Reporting
The purpose of this topic is to address a critical need within the U.S.
Agentic AI Based Cognitive Radar for GEOINT Mission
Agentic AI enables autonomous control of expert systems for desired information gathering or completing a task.
Agentic-AI, Schema-Driven Decision Management for Auditable Studies and Acquisition Decisions
This topic will prototype and demonstrate a schema-driven Decision Management (DM) foundation plus a governed agentic AI layer that turns messy decision requests into auditable, signer-ready Decision Packages.
Agentic-AI, Schema-Driven Decision Management for Auditable Studies and Acquisition Decisions
This topic will prototype and demonstrate a schema-driven Decision Management (DM) foundation plus a governed agentic AI layer that turns messy decision requests into auditable, signer-ready Decision Packages.
Architected Energy Dissipation Structures with Tunable Rigid-flexible Behaviors
The DoW requires lightweight protection materials for a variety of applications, including personal protection, vehicle safety, and shielding sensitive electronics.
Artificial Intelligence Performance Evaluation Tool
The proposed research effort aims to address critical gaps in the evaluation and validation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems within the Air Force by developing an Artificial Intelligence Performance Evaluation Tool.
Automated Combat Assessment at the Edge
Combat assessment (physical and functional) provides tactically relevant information for re-strike and re-planning.
Autonomous On Orbit Logistics and Sustainment Architecture
Space systems today are designed for single use and lack the ability to be maintained, repaired, or resupplied once deployed.
Bio-inspired Underwater Teams
Bio-inspired underwater vehicles have nearly matched the speeds and efficiencies of real fish.
Casualty Operations & Resource Prediction Software (CORPS)
The challenges underlying crisis medical response in austere and contested environments are significantly different than those underlying long-range planning or response in established theaters.
Compact Passive Radar
In contested A2/AD environments, active radar emissions act as beacons for adversary Electronic Warfare.
Counter Adversial GPS Jamming
Military and commercial missions rely heavily on the Global Positioning System (GPS), but GPS signals, due to their weak intensity and their need to travel considerable distances, are vulnerable to external interference such as jamming and spoofing.
Cyberspace Warfare for Space
The USSF’s defensive cyber operations mission is focused on the rapid integration of capabilities into the Defensive Cyber Warfare (DCW) pipeline to address unique and complex cybersecurity requirements for space systems.
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Minimally Invasive Remote Blood Collection Device for Free-Ranging Cetaceans
Navy bottlenose dolphins are valuable Fleet assets whose health and well-being are essential to sustaining mine countermeasures, port security, and object recovery missions.
Defect Metrology and Charge Trapping Dynamics in Transfer-Doped Diamond Transistors
Hydrogen-terminated (surface-channel) diamond transistors hold great promise for next-generation, high-frequency, high-power RF electronics and advanced communications due to diamond's high breakdown field and superior thermal conductivity.
Design of RoomTemperature THz and Infrared Sensing Devices Using Non-Toxic, Supply-Chain Secure Material Platform
Infrared sensing sits at an inflection point.
Development of Ultrafast Nonvolatile Memory Based on Sliding Ferroelectricity in Moiré Polar Homostructures
Twisted stacks of van der Waals (vdW) crystals can form moiré superlattices with polar domains whose dipoles are antiferroelectrically aligned and controllable by applied electric fields [1].
Engineered Microstructures for Enhanced IR Aperture Performance
The Navy has demonstrated within its laboratories that a composite ceramic exhibiting IR transparency can be produced with distinct phases, microstructural feature sizes below 100 nm in all phases, and porosity content below 0.1% on component parts as large as 0.4 inch in lateral dimension.
Expeditionary Solar Refinery for Direct Synthesis of Methanol Feedstock from Water and Air
Modern warfare tactics have demonstrated the need to shift toward small, specialized, dismounted tactical units which can operate free from the supply line.
Flightline Radio Network
Flight line operations at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) face increasing demands for more efficient, secure, and real-time communication systems to enhance aircraft maintenance, logistics, and operational performance.
Fuel-Flexible Spacecraft Electric Propulsion System
Spacecraft electric propulsion (EP) systems typically rely on noble gas fuels (xenon, krypton, argon) stored in high pressure tanks.
Ground and Air Launched Drone Swarms Create a Self-Protecting Perimeter Using Autonomous AI
Mobility Air Forces aircraft serve as the logistical backbone of the Department of War and operate as high-value assets in modern contested environments that can be significantly augmented with enhanced organic self-protection and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to maintain operational overmatch.
ICU-in-a-Box: Autonomous Extracorporeal Multiple-Organ Support Therapies
Severe hemorrhage is the number one cause of preventable combat deaths, followed by airway compromise (Eastridge, 2012), with increased artillery, thermobaric and incendiary munitions use (Remondelli et al.
Influence Benchmarks for AI Systems
This topic seeks to develop a simulated market as a test environment to characterize the latent behavioral preferences of AI systems.As warfighters increasingly engage with AI systems, particularly agents that rely on large-language models (LLMs), concern has arisen that the systems may encourage cognitive behavior in users that impart hidden biases, impair judgement, and ultimately degrade warfighting capacity.
Localization, Characterization, and Modeling of Freestream Disturbances in Hypersonic Wind Tunnels
Hypersonic ground-test facilities are critical for evaluating aerodynamic forces, aerothermodynamic heating, and boundary-layer transition (BLT) behavior on high-speed flight vehicles.
Low Noise & Low-SWaP High-Repetition Rate Mode-Locked Lasers for High-Speed Photonics
Mode-locked semiconductor lasers can support high repetition rates up to 100 GHz due to the high gain and fast gain recovery unlike in fiber lasers or doped dielectric gain medium lasers.
Low SWaP-C Tactical Awareness Payload for Proliferated, Agile Satellites (TAPPAS) for Space Domain Awareness
This D2P2 effort is to develop low Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) technology for an on-board sensing payload to provide local situational awareness.
Low-Cost Multi-Function Ku-Band RF System for Prompt Strike Weapons
Current multifunction radar systems for use onboard various types of small airborne platforms are prohibitively expensive to procure at scale, and this is especially true for systems engineered for use in demanding high subsonic regimes (peak velocity greater than Mach 3 but under Mach 5).
Monolithic Graphene–CMOS Broadband (UV-LWIR) Focal Plane Arrays for target detection in low-light conditions
The Navy continues to field multiple seeker technologies to detect, identify and engage targets in multi-domain operations through obscurants. However, you cannot detect something you cannot see.
New World Screwworm Networked Detection, Identification, and Surveillance System
New World Screwworm (NWS or Cochliomyia hominivorax) larvae infest the living tissue of warm-blooded animals.
Noninvasive Detection and Localization of Occult Hemorrhage
TThe goal of this development effort is to produce a noninvasive or minimally invasive capability that enables Role 1 medical personnel (specifically, a combat medic with no surgical or pre-operative imaging expertise) to rapidly detect, localize, and characterize the rate of life-threatening, occult, or non-compressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH) that cannot be precisely identified through routine clinical assessments available in the field.
Novel Radio Frequency Sensing Technologies
Detecting and mapping deep subsurface mineral deposits typically requires localized or low-altitude operations.
OPEN - Proliferated Low-Altitude Detection for C-sUAS
This DAF focused open topic seeks C-sUAS detect options for transition into the USAF and USSF, specifically supporting AFLCMC/ES and the JIATF 401 marketplace.
Quantum Memory for Secure Communication
The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a significant challenge to traditional encryption methods, potentially compromising the security of digital communications.
Resilient Integrated Photonic Transport In Denied Environments (RIPTIDE)
Future autonomous operations will occur in contested electromagnetic environments where traditional positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) references cannot be assumed.
Scalable Hard-mask materials with Improved Etch resistance and Low Degradation for Extreme-aspect-Ratio fabrication (SHIELDER)
Next-generation defense-relevant microsystem technologies, such as 3D integrated circuits, high-density memory arrays, MEMS inertial sensors and RF filters, and integrated photonic devices, rely on the precise manufacturing of extreme high-aspect-ratio features within a chip [1-3].
Scalable Processing of Large Area, Oriented 2-Dimensional Polymer Films
2-dimensional polymers (2DPs) such as covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an emerging class of materials which have displayed significant potential in applications ranging from catalysis, energy storage, dielectrics, nanofiltration, gas storage, and mechanically robust engineering materials.
Smart Manufacturing
The realistic near-to-mid-term serviceable addressable market for private 5G among U.S.
Smart Venues and Stadiums
The realistic near-to-mid-term serviceable addressable market for private 5G/6G-ready platforms among U.S.
Space Domain Operational Environment Assessment
With the acknowledgement of space as a warfighting domain in 2019, the U.S. Space Command was established as a geographic combatant command.
TRIAGE-X: Autonomous Casualty Triage and Treatment in Chemically Contaminated Mass Casualty Events
DARPA seeks innovative approaches to autonomous chemical, biological, radioactive, and nuclear (CBRN) triage that measurably improve casualty survival and increase the effective capacity of a medical response during CBRN disasters.
Telecom Band Geometric Amplifier
Present-day devices for amplifying telecom laser light mostly produce gain by incoherently pumping a medium (optically or electrically), or by coherently pumping a nonlinear medium with a laser.
Vision Language Model (VLM) for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target search and classification from Sensor Independent Complex Data (SICD)
Vision language models (VLMs) combine multimodal (Video, SAR and Infrared Imagery) data/imagery and generative AI models to understand and process video, image, and text.
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