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Our amazing #NIWCAtlantic comms experts recently briefed NIWC Atlantic's new Commanding Officer Capt. Matt O'Neal ahead of their deployment to support Marines and the Joint Force at Bold Quest Island Marauder (BQIM), which runs through October this year in Camp Lejeune, N.C. Support for BQIM demonstrates NAVWAR's commitment to Combined, Joint, All-Domain, Command and Control (CJADC2), a high-priority DoD strategy that aims to establish one global “sensor to shooter” network across sea, land, air, space and cyber to give our warfighters decision advantage. #BQIM #BoldQuest #IslandMarauder #CJADC2 #AllDomain #JointForce #EABO #DMO #IntegratedDeterrence

Kinda close brush with Hurricane Helene, but #NIWCAtlantic engineers and scientists returned Friday from a highly successful Hybrid Fleet Campaign 2024 (HFC24) event down in Key West! Read all about it, see additional photos here: https://lnkd.in/gZZZ4yxv Sponsored by U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet, the weeklong at-sea experiment took place in Key West Harbor both ashore and aboard the expeditionary fast transport USNS Burlington (T-EPF-10). During HFC24, NIWC Atlantic assessed how emerging communications capabilities could integrate with unmanned air/surface/underwater systems in a future hybrid fleet. Near the end of the event, Vice Adm. Alvin Holsey, @United States Southern Command military deputy commander, visited the USNS Burlington on Sept. 25 to engage with technology owners from government and industry who had spent a week experimenting. The hybrid fleet is a Joint Warfighting Concept and strategic naval objective designed to deter and defeat any enemy through the integration and scaling of unmanned platforms to the fleet level. United States Southern Command NavalX Office of Naval Research Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global) #HybridFleet #Unmanned #HFC24 #C3 #Comms #innovation #FutureFight

“NAVWAR is proud to announce the release of FOUR Prize Challenges by our #NIWCAtlantic NavalX Palmetto Tech Bridge! All four competitions are searching for solutions in the areas of AI and Autonomy. Two of the four challenges are a collaboration between our NIWC Atlantic Palmetto Tech Bridge and DON PEO MLB. Deadline for Phase 1 submissions is Nov. 8. Challenge solvers selected for Phase 2 of the competition will invited to present their solutions during the Eastern Defense Summit’s Pitch Jam in December. Links to the Challenges:   Artificial Intelligence (AI Portfolio Optimization Challenge: (PEO MLB) https://lnkd.in/e5TfAEyT   Secure Commercially-Based AI Environment for Real-World Naval Applications Challenge: (PEO MLB) https://lnkd.in/e7MHHF-P   Maritime EMS Constructive Simulator (MECS) Challenge: https://lnkd.in/eyXCGvGt   Triad of Autonomy: https://lnkd.in/eu_Wi-2q

📢 Special Notice! Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division has just issued a Request for Submissions to be considered for participation in their next Silent Swarm 2025. The annual SS, which #NIWCAtlantic strongly supports, is an experimentation event featuring early development Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) capabilities that can be employed on attritable, multi-domain, unmanned systems that enhance the warfighting capabilities of our Sailors and Marines. 🗓 Submissions due Oct. 15. Learn all the details here: https://lnkd.in/eQxdaW8z South Carolina Council on Competitiveness Charleston Defense Contractors Association Eastern Defense Summit Charleston Regional Development Alliance SCRA: South Carolina Research Authority AFCEA Lowcountry Chapter Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce South Carolina Chamber of Commerce NavalX Mid-Atlantic Tech Bridge (MATB) NavalX NavalX Midwest Tech Bridge Capital Tech Bridge 401 Tech Bridge Central Florida Tech Grove #SilentSwarm #EMSO #spectrumoperations #unmanned #autonomy #contestedenvironment #experimentation #industrysolutions

Chief of Naval Operations officially released NAVPLAN 2024 yesterday.

PEO MLB is seeking assistance in creating a secure, commercially-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) environment for real-world naval applications! Submit your proposals to ChallengeGov by Nov. 8. Our Naval Applications and Business Services (NABS) portfolio is looking for proposals that leverage the latest commercial technologies in generative AI and Machine Learning (ML) in a cutting-edge, versatile experimentation and operational use environment that is both secure and practical to support a wide range of use cases for real-world scenarios. This prize challenge is one of two open for PEO MLB on Challenge.gov. Prize challenges are opportunities for interested industry partners to connect with PEO MLB and strengthen PEO MLB’s business partnerships while providing companies the opportunity to test their solutions using government data. Finalists in the prize challenge will present their proposals at the Dec. 11-12, Charleston Defense Contractors Association’s Eastern Defense Summit in Charleston, SC. The winner of the challenge will receive $35,000 and second place gets $15,000. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/e7MHHF-P. #PEOMLB #TDO #NABS #EDS2024 Christine Rodriguez, Mary Thoms, Brandon Wehler, Ryan Hanyok, Preston Hayward, Christine Lamer, NavalX Palmetto Tech Bridge

Can your company help PEO MLB take our implementation of Artificial Intelligence (#AI) to the next level? If the answer is “yes!” we need YOU to help us by recommending innovative solutions that leverage AI to help with portfolio optimization, modernization, and investment decisions. Submit your responses to this question via Challenge.gov! Our Marine Corps Logistics Integrated Information Solutions (LI2S-MC) portfolio successfully deployed local Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) capabilities for portfolio optimization. We’re now looking for proposals to leverage existing naval AI tools within the DoD Architecture Framework artifacts in Cameo Integrated Modeling Environment. This external prize challenge is one of two open for PEO MLB on ChallengeGov. Prize challenges are opportunities for interested industry partners to connect with PEO MLB and strengthen our business partnerships while providing companies the opportunity to test their solutions using government data. Challenge proposals are due on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. Finalists will present their proposals at the Dec. 11-12, 2024, Charleston Defense Contractors Association’s Eastern Defense Summit in Charleston, SC. The winner of the challenge will receive $35,000 and second place gets $15,000. Find out more about the LI2S-MC prize challenge at https://lnkd.in/e5TfAEyT. #PEOMLB #TDO #LI2S #CDCA #EDS2024 Christine Rodriguez, Mary Thoms, Brandon Wehler, Ryan Hanyok, Margaret "Peggy" Toth”, Michael Buccola, NavalX Palmetto Tech Bridge

Last week, NavalX Palmetto Tech Bridge Director Erik Gardner, left, discussed broadband access and initiatives in the State of South Carolina with Jim Stritzinger of the SC Governor's Office of Broadband during the annual mega-networking tech event called SC Decoded. Sponsored by the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness, SC Decoded's theme this year was the A, B, C and Ds of Technology: AI, Broadband, Cybersecurity and Defense. Some of our support staff also helped moderate a panel that explained the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) process to include the DoD SBIR program as a whole, what makes each branch unique, the Navy and Army SBIR release schedules, open topics and the 3 phases of a #SBIR award. #SCDecoded #NIWCAtlantic #cyber #broadband #AI #SCtech #SCcyber

📢 📢 Prize Challenge Alert! NavalX Palmetto Tech Bridge is proud to announce a $50,000 prize challenge whose solution simulates maritime emitters by generating EMS signatures (for LVC events). Check out all.the details here: https://lnkd.in/eyXCGvGt *** NOTE: The Government Technical Team will be participating in a Technical Collaboration Event (TCE) during the Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) Industry Day on 22 October 2024. The TCE will be an opportunity for prize challenge solvers to talk with the Government Technical Team regarding the Challenge. Solvers interested in participating in the TCE should refrain from submitting their solutions until after the TCE. NavalX NavalX Midwest Tech Bridge NavalX Mid-Atlantic Tech Bridge (MATB) Central Florida Tech Grove Erik Gardner Jessica Scott, PMP, MBA Don Sallee South Carolina Council on Competitiveness Savannah River National Laboratory Charleston Defense Contractors Association

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