The goal of the Naval Cybernetics program is to develop technologies and discover methods for creating small, numerous, consumable unmanned systems for our Naval forces, providing warfighters with artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled autonomous tools to enhance their abilities to fight the-fights-tonight as well as the-fights-to-come.
Research Concentration Areas
Uncrewed vehicles with non-traditional locomotion and/or form-factors
Multi-domain, cross-domain, and trans-domain uncrewed vehicles (i.e., undersea, surface, land, air, outer-space and/or sociocultural-space)
Active and passive day-night multi-modal sensing with sensor fusion
GNSS-denied localization and navigation
Allocentric and/or egocentric mental modeling for navigation and control
Multi-mission multi-domain deliberative-planning and reactive-control
Quantitative and/or qualitative causal reasoning with semantic grounding
Computational moral cognition and/or human-level rationalization
Cognitive modeling to mimic and/or predict human behavioral responses
Trust and deception between unmanned systems and humans (i.e., when and how can the uncrewed system deceive or trust the human, as well as vice versa)
Human-System integration and Human-machine teaming
Decentralized or peer-to-peer-only multi-agent collaboration
How to Submit
For detailed application and submission information for this research topic, please refer to our broad agency announcement (BAA) No. N0001425SB001.
Contracts: All white papers and full proposals for contracts must be submitted through the ONR Submission Portal; instructions are included in the BAA.
Grants: All white papers for grants must be submitted through the ONR Submission Portal, and full proposals for grants must be submitted through grants.gov; instructions are included in the BAA.