Fundamental Research Towards Expeditionary Air Warfare & Weapons N0001424SBC02

This announcement describes a technology area, entitled ”Fundamental Research Towards Expeditionary Warfare & Weapons,” under the N0001424SB001, Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology. The submission of proposals, their evaluation and the placement of research grants and contracts will be carried out as described in the above Long Range Broad Agency Announcement.

The purpose of this announcement is to focus attention of the scientific community on (1) the three topic areas to be studied, (2) associated informational workshops for dialogue amongst those interested in these topics, and (3) the planned timetable for the submission of white papers and full proposals.

The ONR Naval Air Warfare and Weapons (Code 35) department supports the Navy and U.S. Marine Corps’ needs by fostering the technology development of naval aviation platforms, kinetic weapons, directed energy and electric weapons. This BAA Call will pursue innovative fundamental research in three (3) topic areas relevant to Expeditionary Forces and provide them an enduring unfair technological advantage into the future.

• Topic 1: Enabling Magnetics for Ultra-Wide Bandgap (UWBG) Power Electronics.
• Topic 2: Theoretical Foundations and Limitations of Predicting, Deceiving, and Disrupting Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Perception/Action Loops
• Topic 3: Lifting body dynamics under influence of 2- & 3-D unsteady ground effect

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