This topic accepts Phase I proposals submissions for a cost up to $250,000 for a 6–month period of performance.
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Explosion Proof Collaborative Robots
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Is the opportunity to establish the scientific, technical, commercial merit and feasibility of your proposed innovation.
Shop Tools and Enablers Open Topic
To equip artisans with technology that enhances operational capabilities, their breadth of logistical support, and property accountability. Proposals should allow for the flexibility of artisans to respond to mixed model production and innovations that enable artisans to execute ergonomically challenging tasks. There is a need for technologies that equip artisans with standard yet flexible enduring technologies to sustain air missile defense and power generation systems, ensuring that assets are returned to combat swiftly.
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Reverse Engineering Equipment Open Topic
As equipment ages and global events interrupt critical supply chains quickly, creating solutions for components that integrate well without impacting system performance is necessary. This topic aims to source and develop robust, versatile, and cyber-secure technologies that can be utilized for this task. The objective is to leverage innovations that ensure operational readiness and effectiveness in diverse and resource-constrained settings. Such technological advancements will fortify military readiness and potentially influence civilian sectors where infrastructure is limited.
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Mobile Sustainment Tools Open Topic
This solicitation aims to equip our forces with technology that enhances their operational capabilities and logistical support, allowing them to maintain a strategic advantage even in the most resource-scarce locations. Proposals should address the ease of deployment, energy efficiency, and the ability to perform under extreme conditions.
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Advanced Pyrometallurgical Feedstock Processing to Produce Germanium
Current methods vaporize Ge from the feedstock (Zn ores) to produce a fume (condensed vapors) followed by leaching and precipitation that yields a 1 to 15% Ge. This topic seeks processes which can yield > 60% Ge concentrates, which in turn can be purified and zone melted to produce ingot forms.
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Additive Manufacturing for High-Density Materials
This topic accepts Phase I proposals submissions for a cost up to $250,000 for a 6-month period of performance.
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Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML) Focused Open Topic
This open topic accepts both Phase I and Direct to Phase II submissions. Phase I proposals are accepted for a cost up to $250,000 for a 6-month period of performance and Direct to Phase II proposals are accepted for a cost up to $2,000,000 for a 24-month period of performance. All submissions most address the following 6 AI sub-fields: Synthetic data generation in a format applicable to a given situation that is not obtained by direct measurement. This includes visual, textual, video, geospatial, and sensor data.
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Hybrid Electric Powertrain, Power and Propulsion Systems (HEPPS) Open Topic
This open topic accepts both Phase I and Direct to Phase 2 submissions. All submissions most address the following 6 sub-fields
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Automated and Modular Forward Deployed Biomanufacturing Unit for Warfighter Field
Point of need (PON) food production may sustain units deployed in contested logistics (CL) environments and reduce class I logistics burden. Research initiated by DARPA and the DoD Manufacturing Innovation Institutes has identified novel methods to utilize PON resource processing that can maintain military dominance in a contested or denied logistics environment.
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Dynamic Synthetic Tissues for Medical Simulation and Training
Human patient simulators leverage unreliable mechanical air bladders, anatomically inaccurate synthetic tissues (Hannay et. all, 2022; Lee et. all, 2021; Norfleet et. all, 2015), and often do not accurately show a patient progression or regression during treatment.
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