Award Data

The growing complexities of Naval air platforms have adversely affected maintenance operations. Particularly, the Navy is faced with mounting challenges in the interoperability of siloed data repositories: Maintenance crews have limited, often delayed, and mostly incomplete access to adequate data to perform their tasks. To address these gaps, Aptima and its partners, Apex Analytics Group and ASEC ...

Sonalysts proposes to develop PING!, a fun and engaging browser-based serious game for team Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) at sea and on shore training that targets AN/SQQ-89A(V) sonar operators with progressively challenging tactical scenarios. As teams compete for the best scores, they can focus on proficiencies in which they need the most work, based on integration with the Moodle Learning Managem ...

Navy unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) must perform long-duration underwater missions and survive cyber-attacks without external support. During these missions, the UUV is exposed to external and embedded cyber threats. A successful cyber-attack can cause loss of the UUV and its sensitive information. Existing defenses must be complemented with new mechanisms to protect application-level software ...

In response to the Navy’s need for a solution to provide detection and reaction to external and embedded cybersecurity attacks at the application level in real time, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop the Cyber Attack Detection and Response Software tool (CADRS). CADRS will integrate deep learning (DL) with the cyber sensors’ data to provide the tool with the artificial inte ...

Oceanit proposes a Phase I project to develop and validate an adaptive approach to detect and react to external and embedded cybersecurity attacks at the application layer in order to secure and maintain maritime-based information communication operations involving autonomous submerged vehicles.

Resilience to evolving cybersecurity threats continues to be a high priority across Navy tactical and nontactical systems. Protecting these systems is a complex, daunting, technology challenge. Presently, a multilayered, defense-in-depth strategy is used to identify cyber-attacks and protect the core assets of a system, namely its data, from being compromised. Existing security tools and practices ...

To address Air Force’s need for a micro-single target tracking ground-to-air radar system for use on an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) to significantly increase target tracking coverage over water, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (ISI) proposes to develop the new Tracking Radar Array for Single Airborne Target (TRASAT). The TRASAT implements a novel radar architecture that combines a compact rad ...

To address the Air Force’s need for a micro-single target track (STT) ground-to-air radar system for use on unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to improve target tracking over water ranges, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop an advanced Ground-to-air over Horizon Single Target Tracking (GHOST) Radar. GHOST is a compact, lightweight, and low-power sensor that directly fits in ...

The objective of this project is to develop human intelligence-inspired algorithms that exploit multi-modal sources of low and high quality data to achieve a series of objectives such as detection, localization, tracking, and classification. A Bayesian model-based hierarchical adaptive decision making (HADM) algorithm will be developed which includes multiple levels of decision making organized in ...

CTI will develop a concept for a multiplayer serious game to maintain and enhance AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 (“SQQ-89 ") operator skills., establishing feasibility through modeling and analysis of the game design. In this multiplayer game, up to four “non-player characters” (NPCs), human roles filled by artificial intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous agents, will complete the SQQ-89 crew complement whe ...