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Monday, June 3, 2024
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A cohort of 44 companies demonstrated their solutions at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defence Accelerator for the North Atlantic (NATO DIANA) program North American Demo Day in Boston. The NSIN-supported program saw companies spend six months working to bring their deep-tech innovations to the alliance. NSIN Northeast Regional Director David Skinner gave the opening remarks, sharing his excitement about the promise of the technologies presented and the partnerships that had been formed through the cohort.
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Innovators may submit solutions that could reduce the cost of hypersonic glide bodies and associated sensors to win part of $100,000 during NSIN’s Hypersonic Cost Reduction Challenge, presented in partnership with the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane.
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Early-stage ventures with technologies to address modernization requirements of United States Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) are invited to join NSIN Propel Hawaii to explore dual-use markets. Selected startups will receive defense-specific accelerator programming, have access to venture capital and government stakeholder networks, have test and evaluation opportunities, and attend tech interchange meetings with DoD stakeholders. An Ask Me Anything (AMA) session will be held on June 6.
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Innovators may submit solutions for identifying capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) and advancing signal processing technologies to enhance spectrum sensing and situational awareness to win part of a $125,000 prize pool in the NSIN Presents: RF Spectrum Sharing Challenge, held in partnership with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).
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The NSIN Presents: Global Fishing Forecast Grand Challenge has announced its finalists, with each team receiving $25,000 in prize money for their solutions to forecast illegal fishing. The finalists offered a range of solutions, based on technologies including data source, risk analysis, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence (AI). The competition will conclude later this summer when the judges will select the top three winners for a chance to win the first place prize of $500,000, second place prize of $200,000, and third place prize of $50,000.
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Innovators with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that have the potential to expedite and enhance building design and cost modeling across disciplines, codes, and site conditions may submit their solutions for the opportunity to win part of a $250,000 prize pool during the NSIN Presents: AI Infrastructure Challenge held in partnership with the U.S. Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), and the Program Executive Office Industrial Infrastructure (PEO II).
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University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) and university faculty, researchers, and students with solutions to address critical cyber threats faced by the DoD using technologies for modeling and predictive analysis, persona and influence, and data and permeability may submit their solutions for the opportunity to win part of a $1 million prize pool.
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Foundry enables teams of entrepreneurs to collaborate with federal laboratories, commercialize breakthrough defense technologies, and build new companies. Selected innovators will participate in a virtual, five-month cohort where they will have access to instruction, DoD inventors and end-users, mentorship from DoD and private sector subject-matter experts, and training that will prepare them to do business with the DoD and private sector. An Ask Me Anything Session will be held on June 25. Applications for Foundry are due July 1.
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The Central Florida Tech Grove, in partnership with NSIN, is executing a prize challenge to identify solutions to digitally collect, analyze, store, and deliver training evaluation data for the Surface Warfare Combat Training Continuum (SWCTC). An information session will be held on June 3.
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Educators interested in exposing their students to Hacking for Defense (H4D) – a college course that pairs interdisciplinary teams with DoD organizations, empowering them to solve national security problems through entrepreneurial methods – may join this free, in-person educator’s course in Arlington, Virginia.
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Cleo Robotics Labs Inc and Atolla Tech have been selected both as finalists in XTechSearch 8, the U.S. Army’s only open-topic prize competition to support small businesses into the Army’s Science and Technology ecosystem. Each company was awarded $35,000 and will go on to compete for the Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award of up to $250,000.
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The Defense Innovation Unit released a series of informational videos to assist companies with understanding and equipping themselves to enter into the defense ecosystem. In this week's highlighted video, DIU's Sarah Pearson explains DIU's Commercial Solutions Opening process and how DIU uses a down-selection process to match commercial companies and technology with real-world problem statements at the Department of Defense.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning Innovators with the ability to prototype an analytic capability to enable rapid development and dissemination of strategic, anticipatory, and current operations analysis to mitigate risk from health threats and biothreats may submit their solutions to DIU for the opportunity to win an Other Transaction (OT) award.
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Innovators with autonomous solutions able to passively detect, gather, and securely store data against wideband, high bandwidth, electromagnetic spectrum may submit their solutions to DIU for the opportunity to win an Other Transaction (OT) award.
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Innovators with solutions for self-location data in GPS-denied situations, uncrewed system (UxS) threat warnings, the delivery/dissemination of psychological operations products via self-guided aerial delivery, non-attributable mobile mesh network radios, and distributed electromagnetic sensing, automated characterization and simple reporting systems may submit their solutions to xTechSpecial Forces. Selected participants will win part of $470,000 and will have the opportunity to submit for up to $10 million in Army contracts.
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