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Monday, April 3, 2023
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Christy Cardenas, Managing Partner at Grit Ventures, shares her thoughts on how next-gen technologies will be cultivated and how women in venture capital (VC) will play a key role in shaping the future.
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A team from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won a potential $500,000 contract during the NSIN-sponsored Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Active Artificial Intelligence (AI) Planners for Chemistry/Materials Optimization and Discovery Grand Challenge. The team developed a system that leverages continuous flow chemistry, automation, active machine learning, and reinforcement learning algorithms to help AFRL researchers quickly find experimental conditions for optimizing and discovering synthetic compounds.
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Selected entrepreneurs will team up to work with federal laboratories to commercialize breakthrough defense technologies and build new companies during the five-month NSIN Foundry program. Join NSIN for an information session on April 12 to learn more about the application process and desired technologies. Applications close April 28.
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Join industry, government, and academia to discuss the challenges and opportunities confronting the defense establishment on April 15 at the NSIN-sponsored Harvard Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology and National Security Conference. The conference will focus on the technological developments and innovations emerging from the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and explore those technologies’ implications for a potential future China-Taiwan contingency.
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Innovate the generation of synthetic (SynGen) training data for military computer vision algorithms. Finalists are eligible for a potential federal funding award of up to $75,000. Applications close May 1.
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Investors or investment groups with business proposals for enhancing U.S. Air Force installation energy resilience may submit proposals to Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for a potential contract award through their commercial solutions opening (CSO) process. Submissions are due April 7.
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Innovators with compact, mobile hydrogen (H2) production and storage systems that can provide warfighters with a reliable source of clean fuel in remote environments may submit their solutions to Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for a potential contract award through their commercial solutions opening (CSO) process. Submissions are due April 10.
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The U.S. Army xTech Pacific competition offers eligible small businesses from Hawaii, Alaska, and Washington with innovations to help the Army operate across long distances, an opportunity to engage with the DoD, earn prize money, and advance to the xTech accelerator program. Finalists are eligible for part of $800,000 in competition prizes with the potential to advance and earn up to $250,000 in Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards or $1.9 million in Direct to Phase II SBIR awards.
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DEFENSE INNOVATION EVENTS |
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Join the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) for a forum on the importance of cybersecurity in securing intellectual property and protecting the defense supply chain. The event will feature thought leaders from government and industry as they share the latest on DoD security requirements and expectations for the Defense Industrial Base.
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Historically Black College and University (HBCU) students interested in geospatial-intelligence (GEOINT) can sharpen their geospatial science and geographic information system (GIS) skills this summer as they work on proposals to address societal challenges and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) key intelligence topics. The immersive program runs June 26-July 30 in St. Louis. Applications are due being accepted on a rolling basis.
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