Liquid robotics wave glider autonomous surface vehicles

Enhancing Human Performance

Distributed Application Integration Framework for Radar Exploitation

This is a continuation of the research effort being performed under ONR contract N00014-10-C-0059. In this the expansion effort, SRI proposed to design, fabricate, and test a hollow fiber reverse osmosis module in a commerical fiberglass vessel.  Testing will allow the performer to optimize operating conditions for best operating conditions to obtain the highest product water flux with minimal membrane fouling.  Testing will also include comparisons to commerical membrane modules.

Applied Physical Science will develop Doppler-Sensitive waveforms, corresponding receiver processing algorithms, and to perform initial tracking performance assessment in a distributed active sonar system employing the newly developed waveforms.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)will help continue the development of the PLUS Innovative Naval prototype. This is a follow on from contract N00014-09-C-0162 effort in support of the PLUS Innovative Naval prototype, that supports a small network of vehicles with gliders operating as gateways for the ONR's  Persistent Littoral Undersea Surveillance Network (PLUSnet). The system must be capable of handling multiple clients for command upload and download, while operating using minimum energy in a short amount of time.

Applied Research Associates(ARA)will be providing sea-based military and civilian ship and cargo system operators with system-based tools to predict ship motion and to identify window of opportunity for transfers of cargo and personnel under the Enivironmental and Ship Motion Forcasting (ESMF) Cognitive Aid Investigation program.

The University of Washington will work with NSWC PDC to validate finite element modeling results for several proud azimuthally symmetric targets and at least on non-symmetric targets using experimental data already obtained.

Autonomous Control and Sensing for Unmanned Systems

SSI will demonstrate will provide significant improvements in the performance of harbor defense and underwater intruder detection systems. The SWIMMER DETECTION SONAR NETWORK or SDSN is a proven system concept for cost effective swimmer detection, tracking and classification. It will be further enhanced through this effort to install and utilize a transportable version of the system for test and evaluation in an operational setting. Utilizing a transportable version of the SDSN for test and evaluation at PNS will aid developmental efforts in this area.

This effort will continue development of the Shipboard Wave Data Fusion (SWDF) method inclulding additional validation studies.

Large UUV Vehicle Control Integration

Malse Insight & Applications for National Security

APL UW will continue significantly to all of the major activities of the TEAMS Consortium: extension of the TEAMS specification (including the Platform Independant Model, or PIM), governance, user support, Platform Specific Model (PSM) development, documentation, and promotion.

Torpedo Enterprise Advanced Modeling and Simulation(TEAMS) Initiative-Modeling Content

Through the Wall Impulse SAR Detection, Localization and ID

Guidance, Navigation, Control, and Targeting.  The contractor will support development of a demonstration configuration Guidance, Navigation, Control system with terminal guidance capable of guiding a projectile to impact on a maneuvering target.

The contractor will conduct research to develop and test a rapid but high quality assesment of environmental optical conditions to complement, guide, and predict performance of shallow water EO remote sensing for mine countermeasures.

Riverine Characterization Using Remote and IN-SITU Sensor Data

The contractor will develop hardware and software tools that enable low cost, low volume design, assembly, packaging, testing and intergration of hetergenous microsystems at the micro, meso and nano scales.

Title from CR: Vector Sensor Array System Development, Performance Engineering, And Research.
SAIC will help continue the development of underwater acoustic. sensors.  Future systems will be required to detect and claissify threat submarines in highly cluttered littoral environments, and to do it  with less manpower than is currently available today.

Enhanced Human Performance

Metabolic Engineering by Selection

Daniel H. Wagner Associates will develop algoriths and software for estimating the likelihood of mines lines and randomly placed mines.

Incorrect title for solicitation.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for Long-Range Science and Technology (S&T) Projects which offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare ONR's broad role in competitive funding of meritorious research across a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines.

Potential Offerors are urged to check the program areas that they are interested in throughout the year for updates to thrust areas and research priorities. Prior to preparing proposals, potential Offerors are strongly encouraged to contact the ONR point of contact (POC). To identify the POC, follow the link for the appropriate code or division listed below and then click on the link to the thrust or topic area that you wish to submit a proposal for. Each thrust or topic area will provide a POC or e-mail address.

Work funded under this BAA may include basic research, applied research and some advanced research. With regard to any restrictions on the conduct or outcome of work funded under this BAA, ONR will follow the guidance on and definition of "contracted fundamental research" as provided in the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics) Memorandum of 24 May 2010.

As defined therein the definition of "contracted fundamental research," in a DoD contractual context, includes [research performed under] grants and contracts that are (a) funded by Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Budget Category 1 (Basic Research), whether performed by universities or industry or (b) funded by Budget Category 2 (Applied Research) and performed on campus at a university. The research shall not be considered fundamental in those rare and exceptional circumstances where the applied research effort presents a high likelihood of disclosing performance characteristics of military systems or manufacturing technologies that are unique and critical to defense, and where agreement on restrictions have been recorded in the contract or grant.