Maritime Sensing
The Maritime Sensing program conducts multidisciplinary science and technology, research and development of acoustic and non-acoustic sensors and transduction systems as a means to provide next-generation sensing technologies for the Navy’s tactical surveillance and undersea warfare missions.
These systems may be carried as on-board equipment for Navy surface ships, submarines, aircraft, and unmanned vehicles; they may also be deployed from those platforms as mobile, drifting, or fixed ocean surveillance systems operating under autonomous or remote control.
Project scopes may range from component-level research and development to system-level technology demonstrations.
Research Concentration Areas
- Autonomous sensors with in-sensor signal processing
- Computationally intelligent sensor systems
- Automated system employment and command-and-control decision aids
- System design and system performance assessment tools
- Deployable sensor components, technology, and concepts of operations
- Deployable transduction source components, technology, and concepts of operations
- Energy storage technology, especially high-power/high-energy density technology
- Environmental adaptation for acoustic sensors
- Environmental sensors in support of acoustic and non-acoustic systems
- High-power, high-efficiency, low-cost, low-weight/volume transduction materials or designs
- High-efficiency, high-performance, non-acoustic sensor technologies, components, and assemblies
- Innovative sensor and/or communication/telemetry systems
- Innovative sensor delivery and deployment concepts
- Acoustic and non-acoustic sensors and sources for tactical and surveillance applications
- Volume and weight efficient power components
Research Challenges and Opportunities
- Persistent undersea acoustic surveillance
- Transducer technology
- Sensor system adaptation and control
- Acoustic and electromagnetic vector sensors
- Novel optical sensors
- Object and environmental sensing
- Non-acoustic mine and undersea warfare
- Deployable autonomous distributed systems and infrastructure
- Stand-off sensors
- Communication technologies and methodologies
Program Contact Information
How to Submit
For detailed application and submission information for this research topic, please see our Funding Opportunities page and refer to broad agency announcement (BAA) No. N00014-20-S-B001.
- Contracts: All white papers and full proposals for contracts must be submitted through FedConnect; instructions are included in the BAA.
- Grants: All white papers for grants must be submitted through FedConnect, and full proposals for grants must be submitted through grants.gov; instructions are included in the BAA.