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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