Carderock BAA

1. Digital Ecosystems: • High speed, intelligent, data-driven decision making for complex operations • Data discovery, information and knowledge management • Rapid adaptable policy and enforcement for digital environments 2. Hydrodynamics: • Computational hydrodynamic tools • Seakeeping and loads in extreme seas • Maneuvering and control • Maneuvering in waves • Cavitation • Hull-propulsor interaction • Hydrodynamic modeling of operations: in an ice slurry; multi-body interactions; propulsor hull system optimization; appendage characterization and scaling; near-surface and near-shore maneuvering and control modeling development 3. Naval Platform Integrity: • Naval metals and alloys; structural composites; corrosion resistant materials; and/or high-temperature ceramics • Manufacturing, including additive and other advanced manufacturing, and the relationship between processing, microstructure and materials properties, including Modelling & Simulation • Structural assessment and monitoring • Weapons effects and ship protection • Non-destructive testing and/or inspection • Maritime lethality • Structural reliability • Ship environmental treatment systems, management, and safety • Bio-fouling and bio-fouling hydrodynamic effects • Development of artificial intelligence and machine learning models to advance naval platform integrity • Battery development and safety • Naval platform energy and power 4. Ship and Submarine Design: • Ship/Submarine design tools • Ship/Submarine design processes and methods • Design evaluation/assessment capabilities • New and non-traditional platforms • Novel ship/submarine designs and missions 5. Signature Management: • Underwater and topside signatures • Mobile sensors 6. Unmanned Systems: • Low-cost perception and situational awareness systems • Autonomy and AI/ML decision making and computations • Swarming capabilities

Award decisions will be based on a competitive selection of proposals resulting from a scientific and cost review. Evaluations will typically be conducted using the following evaluation criteria: 1. Overall scientific and technical merits of the proposal; 2. Potential Naval relevance and contributions of the effort to the agency's specific mission; 3. The offeror's capabilities, related experience, facilities, techniques or unique combinations of these which are integral factors for achieving the proposal objectives; 4. The qualifications, capabilities and experience of the proposed Principal Investigator (PI), team leader and key personnel who are critical in achieving the proposal objectives; and 5. The realism of the proposed costs and availability of funds.

Fiscal year 2018: Properties and Performance of Compositionally Complex AlCrFeMn Alloys for Marine Applications Fiscal year 2019: Generalized Computations for Learning, Memory, and Decision Making in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks Fiscal year 2021: 100 drifting wave buoys were deployed in the Southern Ocean. Storms in the Southern Ocean generate energetic waves that radiate across the Pacific, Atlantic , and Indian ocean. Progress in ocean Internet of Things (IoT) technology enables the grantee to collect unprecedented data densities, which directly improves ocean and wave theories, validate and constrain ocean and atmospheric models, and provide a ground truth for satellite remote sensing data. The technology deployed by the grantee was developed with ONR sponsorship. It represents a shift in global ocean sensing toward a distributed paradigm with massive arrays of low-cost internet-connected nodes. Fiscal year 2025: Data Fusion and Assimilation for Multiscale 3D Velocity and Wall Stress Reconstructions in a Tip Gap Flow. The overarching goal of the proposed work is to advance knowledge of flow physics and cavitation inception in tip gap flow fields through the...