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OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Space Technology 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 ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Microelectronics OBJECTIVE: This topic seeks to develop a super-resolution thermal metrology tool to enable accurate characterization of semiconductor materials and devices, and wide bandgap and ultra-wide bandgap materials and devices, in particular, at nanometer length scale. DESCRIPTION: Radar and communication systems are ubiquitous in both military a ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Materials, Microelectronics OBJECTIVE: The objective of the Wearables at the Edge to Augment Readiness (WEAR) SBIR topic is to develop a secure and lightweight framework for real-time analysis of sensory data from wearables to monitor warfighter health and readiness at the edge. DESCRIPTION: Wearable technology is now fundamental to all areas of t ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Computing and Software OBJECTIVE: Extend the scientific Python programming ecosystem to incorporate a rich set of matrix and tensor operations supported by a compilation system capable of automatic efficient code generation for execution on a range of run-time hardware architectures, including hardware with features that optimize or accelerate oper ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Weapons, Information Systems OBJECTIVE: The goal of SaFE is to develop practical; low-cost; small size, weight, and power; non-isotopic sources for food irradiation and other applications requiring pathogen sterilization, supporting ubiquitous treatment at points of production and points of distribution, particularly in austere or compromised environments ( ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Integrated Sensing & Cyber, Trusted AI & Autonomy OBJECTIVE: To address supply chain shortages by providing a fast, reliable, and widely-available capability to identify, appraise, and extract valuable mechanical and electronic components from scrapped or damaged systems, for reuse in functioning systems [1-3]. DESCRIPTION: Mechanical parts recycling, and ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Computing and Software, Integrated Network Systems-of-Systems, Quantum Science 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 Admi ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced computing and software 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 ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Integrated Sensing and Cyber, Advanced computing and Software OBJECTIVE: The Passive Analytics for Remote Quantification of External Resources (PARQER) SBIR topic seeks to develop and demonstrate novel techniques to passively assess the security posture of remote networks/subnetworks, without requiring any special network accesses. DESCRIPTION: The near-co ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Integrated Sensing and Cyber, Advanced computing and Software OBJECTIVE: The Assessing Virtual Private Network (VPN) Networthiness (AVN) SBIR topic seeks to develop and demonstrate techniques and systems for automatically analyzing third-party commercial VPN solutions to determine the actual operational privacy profile/performance of such services. DESCRIP ...