Navy SBIR/STTR Transition Program (Navy STP)’s Post

Boston Fusion's Inertial Navigation System Inspection and Detection of Evolving Roles (INSIDER) is a Condition Based Maintenance (CBM+) technology that improves operational availability by finding subtle anomalies in Inertial Navigation Systems (INS). Learn more in this #NavySTP tech talk. 🎦 Watch the tech talk: https://lnkd.in/evEyuhgR 📊 Read the quad chart: https://lnkd.in/eKEe7uNE #NavySSP #USNavy #sbir #C4I #sensors

Areté, a member of the current #NavySTP cohort, is developing HydroSim, a real-time subsea sensor simulator for ROVs and UUVs that provides synthetic data for AI/ML algorithm development and interactive operator training. HydroSim reduces/eliminates the need for costly data collections typically needed for algorithm development improving developmental timelines. Learn more about HydroSim by watching the tech talk and reading the quad chart. 🎦 Tech Talk: https://lnkd.in/ehpefKe8 📊 Quad Chart: https://lnkd.in/eEBC_9WD Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) #sbir #uuvs #sensors #defenseinnovation #defensetech

Charles River Analytics has secured a multi-year contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop HIEROPHANT. 🌐 Read more about the technology designed to enhance the integration of resilient autonomous systems in military operations >> https://hubs.la/Q02Hn-xv0 Dr. James Niehaus, Principal Investigator on HIEROPHANT and Principal Scientist at Charles River Analytics, said; "HIEROPHANT expertly combines many of our technologies that we have been working on for years in terms of planning, optimization, and probabilistic reasoning." Charles River Analytics #technology #innovation #systems #data

Scientific Systems' Novel Autonomous System-tactics leveraging Hypergames (NASH) technology enhances USV tactical maneuvering by predicting the adversary’s most likely future actions and then countering those actions. This leads to optimized USV tactical behavior that results in a disadvantage for the adversary. Discover more about NASH in this #NavySTP tech talk. 🎦 Tech talk: https://lnkd.in/eumZGYW9 📊 Quad chart: https://lnkd.in/eXaZWvhr Office of Naval Research #sbir #defensetech #defenseinnovation #C4I

MaXentric Technologies is developing a low-cost/high efficiency MM-Wave Transceiver titled ANTHEM (Amplifier using N-polar T-gate gallium nitride High Electron Mobility transistor). Instead of the traditional expensive Ga-Polar GaN on Silicon substrate, ANTHEM offers an efficient, low-cost alternative using N-polar GaN device on Sapphire substrate. ANTHEM’s coplanar waveguide is based on LNA and T/R designs and will host a low-loss T/R switch design. The goal is to generate an efficient MM-Wave Transceiver that could be deployed in a SATCOM military setting that would target frequency crowding at low frequencies. Learn more in this #NavySTP tech talk and quad chart. 🎦 Watch the tech talk: https://lnkd.in/enPqhjFK 📊 Read the quad chart: https://lnkd.in/eT7UgxxE #sbir #defensetech Office of Naval Research #sensors #defenseinnovation

This raises a whole host of service, combatant command, and inter-service coordination/competition questions, which I guess means that space is becoming more like the other domains:

USSF Conducts First Exercise RED SKIES, Elevating Orbital Warfare Readiness, Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2024 In a significant advancement for the United States Space Force (USSF), the inaugural Exercise RED SKIES, conducted from December 11-15, marked a new era in space operations and readiness. This exercise underscores the USSF's commitment to developing robust capabilities in the realm of Orbital Warfare (OW), an increasingly vital aspect of national security. Hosted by the Space Training and, : Los

France achieved a world-first by establishing high-speed optical satellite communications using space lasers. The Keraunos satellite, launched in 2023 by the French Defense Innovation Agency, successfully maintained a stable laser link with a ground station. This technology bypasses disruptions from atmospheric turbulence, offering faster, more secure communication than traditional radio links. The experiment, developed with New Space companies Unseenlabs and Cailabs, could transform communication for military, land, naval, and air platforms, supporting France’s 2024-2030 Military Programming Law objectives. #france #Developed #highspeed #satellite #communication #space #laser #defense #innovations #station #earth #ground #radio #links #atmospheric #military #laws #experiment #programming #businessdor Keraunos Keraunos LATAM Satellites Air France FRANCE INVENDUS Satellite Coverage Satellite Services Internal Communications Unseenlabs Cailabs

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks rightfully mentioned Project Diana during this week's Change of Command ceremony at USSPACECOM. The ceremony overlapped the 78th Anniversary of that test to prove that radar could penetrate the ionosphere and make ballistic visible to political and decisionmakers. Proving that concept, by bouncing radar signals off the moon, marked the start of missile warning advancements. Tucked deeper into her speech, she mentioned the doctrinal improvements that China and Russia were intellectually making in the space domain. The United States must expend the intellectual capital to enhance its' space domain policies and doctrine. The United States tends to fixate on technical ( materiel) solutions, but often it is the stratehic policies and doctrinal improvements that make technical advancements meaningful by forcing the DoD to reassess its' organizational structure, its' leadership and educational curriculum, and, yes, its' materiel requirements. Deciding on 'How' America will determine and fight its' adversaries will drive the rest of the needed improvements.  Celebrate Project Diana and the smooth transfer of command between Generals Dickinson and Whiting, but do not loose sight of the policy and doctrinal updates that must occur to fully integrate U.S. deterrence and to maximize multi-domain operations.  https://lnkd.in/gFhdTg-f