Command, Control, Computing, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (C5ISRT) (Code 31)
Dr. Farimah Farahmandi, University of Florida
Hardware Architectural Enhancements for Proactive Runtime Security in SoCs
Program Officer: Dr. Daniel Koller, Cyber Security and Complex Software Systems
Dr. Qiushi Guo, City University of New York (CUNY)
Integrated Lithium Niobate Nanophotonics for High-Rate, Low-Power RF Sensing and Edge Computing Limit
Program Officer: Dr. Trevor Snow, Electronic Warfare
Dr. Deepak Pathak, Carnegie Mellon University
Learning to Reason via Exploration in the Open World
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Computational Methods for Decision Making – Automated Image Understanding
Dr. Kiyoul Yang, Harvard University
Photonic Integration of Optical Lattice and Ultrafast Laser
Program Officer: Dr. Roberto Diener, Atomic, Molecular and Quantum Physics
Dr. Kenji Yasuda, Cornell University
Superlubric Sliding Ferroelectrics for Ultralow-Power Nonvolatile Memory
Program Officer: Dr. Daniel Gunlycke, Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
Ocean Battlespace Sensing (Code 32)
Dr. Wencheng Jin, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Real-Time Forecasting of Coastal Hydro-morphodynamics During Extreme Events: A Machine Learning-Accelerated Approach
Program Officer: Dr. Reginald Beach, Littoral Geosciences and Optics
Dr. Yongsung Park, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Ocean Acoustic Field Prediction and Source Localization
Program Officer: Dr. Keith Davidson, Undersea Signal Processing
Dr. Lia Siegelman, University of California, San Diego
Impact of Ocean Submesoscales on Air-Sea Fluxes
Program Officer: Dr. Emily Shroyer, Physical Oceanography
Sea Warfare and Weapons (Code 33)
Dr. Natalie Larson, Stanford University
Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing of Helically Architected Metamaterials and Antennas
Program Officer: Dr. Charles Fisher, Materials & Processes for Additive Manufacturing
Dr. Negar Mehr, University of California, Berkeley
Coordinating with Less: Deciding When and What to Communicate via Theory of Mind
Program Officer: Ms. Christine Buzzell, Cooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology (CAST)
Dr. Xiaoyue Ni, Duke University
Digitally Reprogrammable Soft Composites for Adaptive Fluid-Structure Interactions
Program Officer: Dr. Yin Lu (Julie) Young, Hydrodynamics, Hydroacoustics and Complex Flow-Structure Interactions
Dr. Carlos Portela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Multiphase 3D Micro-Architected Composites for Programmable Extreme Performance
Program Officer: Dr. Chakrapani Varanasi, Extraordinary Materials for Extreme Conditions
Dr. Logan Wright, Yale University
Neural Scaling Laws of Physical Neural Networks and Physical Inverse Design
Program Officer: Ms. Sarwat Chappell, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for Photonics, Power & Energy, Atmospherics, and Quantum Science
Warfighter Performance (Code 34)
Dr. Erdem Biyik, University of Southern California
Learning Dexterous Robot Hand Behaviors from Multimodal Human Feedback
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Cognitive Science for Human Machine Teaming
Dr. Mark Ho, New York University
Assessing and Optimizing Mental Model Fluency
Program Officer: LCDR Michael Natali, PhD, Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Information Sciences (MPTE-IS)
Dr. Emma Lejeune, Boston University
Digital Twins of the Brain: Personalized Modeling, Prediction, and Mitigation of Injury
Program Officer: Dr. Timothy Bentley, Naval Force Health Protection
Dr. Shubhra Kanti Karmaker, University of Central Florida
Rapid Holistic Summarization for Decision Superiority in Urgent Scenarios
Program Officer: Ms. Natalie Steinhauser, Naval Strike Group Training and Assessment
Dr. William Stewart, Stony Brook University
Using Anarchistic Science to Elucidate Autogyro Design Principles
Program Officer: Dr. Michael Qin, Naval Cybernetics
Naval Air Warfare and Weapons (Code 35)
Dr. Hisham K. Ali, University of Colorado, Boulder
Magnetoaerodynamically Enhanced Flight Capabilities for Hypersonic Vehicles
Program Officer: Dr. Eric Marineau, Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics, High-Speed Propulsion and Materials Program
Dr. James Braun, North Carolina State University
Characterization and Tuning of the Convective, Conductive, and Radiative Heat Flux in Rotating Detonation Combustors
Program Officer: Dr. David Gonzalez, Power, Propulsion and Thermal Management
Dr. Or Dantsker, Indiana University
A Robust Development Framework for Rapidly Manufacturable, Modular, Multi-Agent, Attritable UAV Systems
Program Officer: Dr. Pranav Shah, Aero S&T of Cost-Efficiency & Capabilities in Naval Domain (ASCEND)
Dr. Md Jahidul Islam, University of Florida
Autonomy Learning from Heterogeneous Experiences (ALEX)
Program Officer: Mr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
Dr. Sichen Yuan, University of Alabama
Advancing High Power Microwave Systems with Optimal Structural Development of Lightweight, Deployable and Reconfigurable Cable-Network Mesh Reflector Antennas for Harsh Military Environments
Program Officer: Mr. Ryan Hoffman, Directed Energy Weapons: High Power Microwaves