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OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Microelectronics OBJECTIVE: Develop a turnkey system to measure the thermal conductivity and thermal boundary resistance of wide bandgap semiconductor films, interfaces, and substrates. DESCRIPTION: Future military platforms will require high-power converters for propulsion, sensors, and directed energy systems. The power densities for these converters nec ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Microelectronics, Biotechnology TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Sensors, Chem Bio Defense OBJECTIVE: Develop, demonstrate, validate, and produce aerosol particle collectors which are Size, Weight, and Power + Cost compatible with microsensor platforms and capable of being produced using advanced manufacturing techniques. DESCRIPTION: Small, low-power, low-cost, netwo ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Hypersonics; Network Systems-of-Systems; Trusted AI and Autonomy The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), 22 CFR Parts 120-130, which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services, including export of sensitive technical data, or the Export Administration Regulation ( ...

The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services. Offerors must disclose any proposed use of foreign nationals, their country of origin, and what tasks each would accomplish in the statement of work in accordance with section 5.4.c.(8) of the solicitation. Addition ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Integrated Network System of Systems, Directed Energy OBJECTIVE: Develop compact chip-scale blue laser systems with high beam quality useful for machining and propagation. Advances based upon the coherent beam combining of diode lasers of high brightness are sought. DESCRIPTION: Laser systems in the infrared have a long history of development for both DoD ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Hypersonics The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), 22 CFR Parts 120-130, which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services, including export of sensitive technical data, or the Export Administration Regulation (EAR), 15 CFR Parts 730-774, which controls dual use i ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): FutureG; Integrated Sensing and Cyber; Trusted AI and Autonomy OBJECTIVE: Design and develop a fully autonomous robotic solution where a multi-robot team in a communication-degraded and GPS-denied environment can complete a mission with minimal human supervision under extreme environmental conditions. DESCRIPTION: It is well known that the future battlefie ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Sustainment; Trusted AI and Autonomy OBJECTIVE: Design and develop a data access tool that can determine if a part could be and should be produced via additive manufacturing (AM). These disciplines can include, but are not limited to the following: engineering design, manufacturability, producibility, testing, and machine learning to develop expert-guided a ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Hypersonics The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), 22 CFR Parts 120-130, which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services, including export of sensitive technical data, or the Export Administration Regulation (EAR), 15 CFR Parts 730-774, which controls dual use i ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Microelectronics OBJECTIVE: Design, fabricate, and demonstrate electrically small antennas with enhanced bandwidth going beyond the fundamental bounds dictated by Chu’s limit. The proposed electrically small antennas should involve dispersion engineered matching loads using tailored dispersive materials or circuits that will allow tailoring the bandwidth ...