Shipboard Emergency Response N00014-23-S-C004

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals that are specifically aimed at gaining an improved fundamental understanding of the physiological/cognitive stressors associated with and/or unique to shipboard damage control; fundamental and limited applied development of technologies/interventions that improve efficiency of shipboard damage control activities; fundamental and limited applied development of technologies/interventions that improve survivability of sailors engaged in shipboard damage control activities and ultimately ship recoverability following the sustainment of damage.

ONR is also interested in receiving proposals specifically aimed at gaining an improved fundamental understanding of the physiological/cognitive stressors associated with and/or unique to long term immersion in seawater across the range of water temperatures; fundamental and limited applied development of technologies/interventions that improve survivability of large numbers of sailors adrift at sea for extended periods of time (up to or exceeding 5 days); and fundamental and limited applied development of technologies/interventions that improve efficiency search and rescue operations for large numbers of sailors adrift over wide areas of sea (up to 15 NM/day) following mass casualty at sea events.