Meeting Multi-Domain Operational Challenges for Sensors
Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare Department
ONR Code 30 Dr. Paul Zablocky
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Office of Naval Research (ONR) Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare
ONR’s Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare Department (Code 30) Plans, executes, and manages an integrated (6.1-6.3) portfolio of scientific research and technology development in Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare in order to provide advanced warfighting capabilities for the future Marine Corps, MARSOC, NSW and NECC.
Advance state-of-the-art technology and scientific knowledge
Expand warfighting capabilities through development and transfer of mission-relevant S&T and scientific knowledge
Inform both new operating concepts and requirements development
Agile, smart, and lethal…dominant technology advantage whenever and wherever the Expeditionary
Force needs it.
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Science and & Technology (S&T) Focus Areas
Mechatronics
Advanced Electronics,
Photonics, and Hybrid Sensing
Amphibious Hydromechanics,
Counter Detection, and
Protection Materials
Decision Support, AI, Machine
Learning, and Graph Analysis
C4, Electronic Warfare, and
Electromagnetics
Applied and Non-Linear Physics
Manufacturing, Maintenance, and
Logistics
Energetics, Guidance,
Navigation, and Control, Targeting and Fire Control
Human Performance, Training and
Education
Robotics and Autonomy
Cyber Physical Systems
System of Systems Engineering and
Modeling and Simulation
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Complex Operating Environment
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• Degraded, Intermittent, Limited Communications • Severe size, weight, power and cost constraints • Extremely complex, dense electromagnetic
environment • Massive number of interconnected network nodes • Complex, agile, communications waveforms • Sophisticated encryption algorithms • Adversaries with significant cyber and EW capabilities • Complex and extensive social networks • Challenges leveraging non-organic capabilities • Law & Policy
Challenges
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Intel S&T Investment Areas and Funding Opportunities
• Long Range BAA for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology Research • Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) / STTR • Defense University Research Instrumentation (DURI) • ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) • Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) • DoD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) • Individual project funding announcements • Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA)
Funding Opportunities with ONR Code 30
• Machines that see • Machines that answer questions • Graphs that are smart • Understanding and shaping networks • Machine that learn / recommend / decide • Information support to operations • Actionable visualizations • Autonomous machines / machines that collaborate • STUAS payload development and PED
Intel S&T Investment Areas
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Creating the Future… Delivering Today
Questions ?
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