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Monday, June 17, 2024
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Skyline Nav AI CEO Kanwar Singh shared his experience in Foundry and explained how the program supported his company through its establishment and early successes. NSIN’s Foundry enables teams of entrepreneurs to collaborate with federal laboratories, commercialize breakthrough defense technologies, and build new companies. An Ask Me Anything Session will be held on June 25. Applications for Foundry are due July 1.
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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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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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When Tara Walsdorf, a senior at Colorado State University, joined Azimuth, a NSIN college course that pairs university classrooms with DoD organizations, she expected to learn more about national security. She did not expect the course to be, as she described, ‘unlike any other classes she has taken’ and she did not expect it to lead her to a NSIN X-Force Fellowship and a newfound interest in working in cybersecurity.
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Twelve alumni companies from the NSIN Propel Boston accelerator have collectively secured more than $22 million in non-dilutive funding and private capital, along with numerous government contracts and awards. The companies – whose solutions enable the government to do everything from monitoring infrastructure using artificial intelligence (AI) to detecting and classifying small-unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) – are addressing key national security priorities with their technologies.
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Four finalists from the NSIN and Washington Air National Guard (WA ANG) Presents: Catastrophic Communications Challenge (C2C) showcased their technologies and competed for part of the challenge’s $75,000 prize pool at a demonstration event at Camp Murray in Washington state. Service members, military leaders, and industry professionals had the opportunity to get hands-on with the technologies, which have the potential to assure communications during volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters.
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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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NSIN Propel alum Heights Labs, whose technology helps the government and private companies track, trace, and analyze cryptocurrency transactions, has closed a $2.4 million seed extension round. The round will support the company as it works to close on new and existing opportunities with organizations from across the DoD and U.S. government.
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DEFENSE INNOVATION EVENTS |
The Defense Strategies Institute will be hosting the 7th Annual Directed Energy Symposium to explore the latest advancements and applications in directed energy technologies adapted for the warfighter.
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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 what commercial companies can expect when partnering with DIU, from a speedy selection and contract process to a support team to assist in navigating the DoD marketplace.
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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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