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OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Hypersonics; Sustainment OBJECTIVE: Develop, demonstrate, and validate a novel Plasma Assisted Combustion (PAC) device that can be integrated into future naval air platforms and weapons propulsion systems. DESCRIPTION: The Office of Naval Research seeks development and demonstration of an innovative PAC system to improve the performance, efficiency, ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Materials; Biotechnology OBJECTIVE: Develop a soft robot capable of untethered, autonomous locomotion within granular media in shallow sea-floor environments. DESCRIPTION: Expeditionary forces often work within the littoral environment, to include manipulation of soft, murky, and complex seabed. It is common for these seabed environments to ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Sustainment OBJECTIVE: Develop an expendable impulsive underwater sound source without explosives or combustible gas packaged in A-size sonobuoy and/or Signal, Underwater Sound (SUS) form factor. DESCRIPTION: High-energy impulsive underwater acoustic sources such as air-guns, sparkers, or explosive/implosive charges are used for oil and gas explorati ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Integrated Sensing and Cyber; Trusted AI and Autonomy OBJECTIVE: Develop forward-deployed portable analytics to automate initial stages of cyber attack investigation in connectivity-disadvantaged tactical platforms. The technology is needed to reconstruct attack stories, distilling the most important related events from vast quantities of low-level syste ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Computing and Software OBJECTIVE: Develop a biologic noise model compatible with Navy standard acoustic propagation packages (CASS and RAM) and highlight existing available and/or lacking biologic diversity density databases. The model should be applicable for both active and passive sonar performance predictions by including both the biologic v ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Hypersonics OBJECTIVE: Develop a stable, scalable synthesis route for a refractory diboride precursor suitable for evaporation in a Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI) system. DESCRIPTION: Properties of refractory/transition metal diborides have attractive coating options for extreme applications with melting temperatures above 3200°C, high hardness, ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Quantum Science OBJECTIVE: Demonstrate atomic magnetometry in air using radar Resonantly Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization (REMPI) readout of 129Xe quantum states. DESCRIPTION: Remote magnetometry has recently been demonstrated at 100+ kilometers using sodium atoms in the mesosphere [Refs 1,2]. At this high altitude, the naturally occurring alkali atom ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Materials; Sustainment OBJECTIVE: Develop a portable or scaled-down / aircraft scale sized friction stir deposition system that is able to structurally repair spot sizes or through holes down to 0.25” in diameter on 0.125” thick aluminum, titanium, and high-strength steel. DESCRIPTION: Rendering forging-like instead of casting-like prope ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Materials; Directed Energy (DE) OBJECTIVE: Develop a process for additive manufacturing of ferroelectric and/or ferromagnetic composites for High Power Microwave (HPM)applications. The composites should be comprised of at least 50% ferroelectric and/or ferromagnetic material. The final print should be free of large voids (> 1 µm3) and have a sh ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Directed Energy (DE); Advanced Materials 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 73 ...