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
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Uncrewed vehicles with non-traditional locomotion and/or form-factors
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Multi-domain, cross-domain, and trans-domain uncrewed vehicles (i.e., undersea, surface, land, air, outer-space and/or sociocultural-space)
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Active and passive day-night multi-modal sensing with sensor fusion
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GNSS-denied localization and navigation
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Allocentric and/or egocentric mental modeling for navigation and control
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Multi-mission multi-domain deliberative-planning and reactive-control
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Quantitative and/or qualitative causal reasoning with semantic grounding
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Computational moral cognition and/or human-level rationalization
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Cognitive modeling to mimic and/or predict human behavioral responses
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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)
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Human-System integration and Human-machine teaming
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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 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.