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Monday, June 10, 2024
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Innovators in the North American clusters of the inaugural NSIN-supported North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defence Accelerator for the North Atlantic (NATO DIANA) cohort demonstrated their technologies for energy resilience, secure information sharing, and sensing and surveillance at two Demo Days in Boston and Seattle. At the events and throughout the six-month cohort, they made connections with potential investors, government officials, industry leaders, and collaborators.
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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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The 2024 NSIN Vector Cohort launched today with 20 early-stage ventures working to develop their companies and explore business opportunities with the DoD through a 10-week accelerator. Companies will be eligible for part of $50,000 in prizes at the showcase event in August.
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The 2024 NSIN X-Force Fellowship launched today with 115 undergraduate and graduate students from 58 different universities preparing to spend their summer embedded with military commands across the nation. The students will leverage their technical and entrepreneurial skills to solve real-world problems for the DoD.
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More than 400 participants from 17 countries took part in the three-day NATO-Ukraine Defence Innovators Forum at AGH University of Kraków, Poland. The event included a hackathon with live drone testing software, innovator pitches, and panel sessions. The Ukrainians had opportunities to access new technologies developed by participants who took part in the hackathon and made connections with additional solution holders at the forum. DIU sponsored a forum focused on leveraging emerging technology and international cooperation and NSIN sponsored a hackathon to create functional solutions to a critical battlefield unmanned aerial system (UAS) problem.
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Innovators with solutions to digitally collect, analyze, store, and deliver training evaluation data for the Surface Warfare Combat Training Continuum (SWCTC). The Central Florida Tech Grove, in partnership with NSIN, is executing the $135,000 prize challenge.
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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. An 'Ask Me Anything' Session will be held on June 12.
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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.
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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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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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Started in a NSIN Hacking for Defense classroom, EZTrain has secured a series of startup grants from the DoD worth $125,000. With the funding secured, the company’s readiness management software is poised to become a regular feature across several branches of the military to keep track of personnel and equipment readiness.
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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 how DIU helps minimize up-front costs for commercial tech companies interested in working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and how DIU helps reduce the amount of time it takes from problem identification, prototyping a solution and implementation.
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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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Innovators with the ability to prototype a mobile security operations center (SOC) that could be transported as carry-on luggage and perform cyber hunt operations may submit their solutions to DIU for the opportunity to win an OT award.
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Innovators with the ability to prototype solutions to provide improved energy resilience and a superior cost structure may submit their solutions to DIU for the opportunity to win an OT award. Ideal solutions will be vertically integrated, modularized energy storage and power conversion systems with associated controls, thermal management, and safety protection and mitigations.
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Innovators with the ability to prototype on-site micro-reactor nuclear power plant(s) and improve energy resilience for the U.S. Army may submit their solutions to DIU for the opportunity to win an OT award.
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