Accelerate Revolutionary Research.
This is the GlobalX brand promise. Accelerate: Only nine months to demonstrate concept. Revolutionary: Previously unimagined technology through a multi-disciplinary approach. Research: The foundation of ONR Global's work to support warfighter readiness and battlespace capabilities.
The mission of the Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global) is to serve as the enduring Navy and Marine Corps global presence in technical and operational communities, building trusted partnerships to discover and connect science and technology leaders for sustained maritime security.
ONR Global knows that international scientists and engineers conduct excellent research that is creative and novel. This GlobalX Challenge provides an opportunity for these international researchers to collaborate, generate revolutionary ideas, and demonstrate these ideas will succeed.
ONR Global invites outstanding international researchers to form multi-national, multidisciplinary teams to address one or more capability challenges. ONR Global will competitively select and sponsor promising revolutionary international research projects with both military and commercial value. GlobalX Challenge therefore will stimulate new, promising, high-risk research concepts whose technology maturity may be accelerated under separate agile follow-on technology development efforts to meet present and future U.S. Navy and Marine Corps capability needs.
Welcome to a new era of groundbreaking international science.
It's time for GlobalX.
The 2025 GlobalX Innovation Joint Challenge: AI Innovations for Maritime Security
On May 9, ONR Global, in partnership with the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) Singapore, announced the 2025 GlobalX Innovation Joint Challenge: AI for Advancing Maritime Security.
This nine-month international science challenge offers significant research partnerships to encourage groundbreaking ideas from technology companies, startups, academic institutions and researchers around the world.
This year's challenge addresses critical maritime security challenges, specifically focusing on enhancing: Maritime Domain Awareness, Threat Detection and Response Capabilities.
The submission stage for the GlobalX Challenge has now officially closed.
The winners will be announced on June 30, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. SST | 10:00 a.m. BST | 5:00 a.m. EDT.