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OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Combat Casualty Care OBJECTIVE: Develop, demonstrate, and deliver an exoskeleton device that augments grip strength while using a litter in a military medical casualty transport environment without interfering in other mission requirements or medical transport device/equipment design and operation. DESCRIPTION: Litter transport is a standard on-foot proced ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Microelectronics OBJECTIVE: Design and implement technologies to assist in the process of extracting a printed circuit board design non-destructively from a printed circuit board assembly. These technologies may be purely software based or include a hardware component. DESCRIPTION: The weapons systems of the Department of Defense (DoD) rely heavily on mic ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Microelectronics 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): Trusted AI and Autonomy OBJECTIVE: Develop the next generation automated geographic feature extraction by replicating human performance through reinforcement learning. DESCRIPTION: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has a requirement to generate foundation feature data vector (FFD) features like roads and building outlines. Today’s FFD pro ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Integrated Network System-of-Systems OBJECTIVE: A fully functioning Flatsat via a rapidly produced, easily maintained, cloud-resident Digital Twin model that allows full mission emulation of SDA mission features and allows test of new bus, payload, network and mission commands prior to upload to vehicles on orbit. Solutions should minimize hardware and e ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Microelectronics;Human-Machine Interfaces;Advanced Materials;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 Exp ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Space Technology;Integrated Network System-of-Systems OBJECTIVE: Using novel technology to dramatically (at least double) increase available on-orbit power in an ESPA or ESPA Grande class vehicle. Considerations could include enhancing on board processing power efficiency, reducing power requirements of significant power consumption devices or improved p ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Renewable Energy Generation and Storage;Trusted AI and Autonomy OBJECTIVE: Conventional turbines and hybrid powertrains have been seen to limit the operational parameters of advanced VTOL and CTOL aircraft and there is strong evidence to believe novel hybrid turbine propulsion architecture can provide enhanced capabilities to provide expanded mission set ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Computing and Software;Integrated Network System-of-Systems;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 Adm ...

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): 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 (EAR), 15 CFR Parts 730-774, which cont ...