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Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024
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During the 2024 NSIN Vector showcase, a cohort of 20 early-stage companies honed their technologies to address the DoD’s critical needs. Among the standout solutions, Thin Air Nav emerged as the winner of the $50,000 prize. Their technology offers a on-demand ground-based positioning system designed to protect space-based systems from jamming and spoofing, ensuring reliable aerial navigation in GPS-denied and degraded environments.
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Early-stage ventures with technologies to protect vital industrial control systems (ICS) are invited to join NSIN Propel Maritime Digital Defense to explore dual-use markets. Selected startups will engage with DoD end-users, build a foundation for doing business with the DoD, will design pilots around the national security applications of their technologies, and may gain access to a robust network of private investors and commercial partners.
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The 375th Air Mobility Wing Elevate Innovation Team from Scott Air Force Base presented at this year’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Immersion in Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) event. Hosted by Harris-Stowe State University and T-REX, a non-profit innovation and entrepreneur development center in St. Louis, Missouri, GEOINT provides an intensive summer research experience that engages students from the nation's HBCUs with academic and industry experts in geospatial science to tackle a set of grand challenges.
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NSIN Propel alum Pendulum Systems is on the leading edge of assured position navigation and timing (A-PNT) technology. Spurred by a problem set from the DoD, Pendulum needed to provide a reliable counterpart to global positioning systems (GPS) which rely on satellite communications. The machine learning and artifical intelligence (AI) company has created an A-PNT offering that works where GPS doesn’t.
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Guardians can craft generative artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions for Space Force problems during a hybrid hackathon, the Space Force Gen AI Challenge, taking place online and in Los Angeles, California, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Washington, D.C. The event will be hosted by NSIN, DIU, and the U.S. Space Force and includes training opportunities in human centered design, AI fundamentals, and more. The teams with the best ideas will continue developing their solutions in a guided program and will have the opportunity to pitch Space Force senior leaders.
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Join the NSIN-sponsored SoCal Deep Tech Week to see technology and pioneering research across aerospace and defense, AI and robotics, computing, advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, and energy and sustainability. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with industry leaders, policymakers, DoD officials to collaborate and foster an interconnected defense innovation hub. Rahul Singh, NSIN Regional Engagement Principal for Los Angeles, will be giving opening remarks at the event.
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The Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Program, part of the DoD’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education initiatives, offers scholarships for undergraduate, master, and doctoral students pursuing degrees in STEM disciplines. The SMART Program covers full tuition and annual stipends between $30,000 - $46,000, summer internships, and guaranteed civilian employment with the DoD upon graduation. The applications will remain open through Dec. 5.
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DEFENSE INNOVATION EVENTS |
Cyber Quest provides development and acquisition communities a unique, realistic, operationally-based environment to inform critical capability gaps facing cyber, electronic warfare, intelligence, and signal operational forces. The event brings soldiers from Army Cyber Command, Forces Command, Army Futures Command, and International Partners to evaluate emerging cyber, electronic warfare, intelligence, and signal solutions and technologies.
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Startups and individuals can find paths to work with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) during a day-long event in Omaha, Nebraska. DARPA office directors, program managers, and staff will be on site to share how innovators can engage with program managers, respond to DARPA requests for proposals, and work with DARPA.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is inviting student teams to submit science and technology experiment ideas to fly on a high-altitude balloon. Students ranging from 6th grade to 12th grade are encouraged to create a team and design an experiment under the guidance of an educator.
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Innovators with AI solutions to enhance the speed, quality, and effectiveness of joint planning while addressing challenges such as maintaining operational security, verifying AI-generated information and more, may submit their solutions to DIU for the opportunity to receive a prototype Other Transaction (OT) agreement.
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The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) strengthens national security by accelerating the adoption of commercial technology in the Department of Defense and bolstering our allied and national security innovation bases. DIU partners with organizations across the DoD to rapidly prototype and field dual-use capabilities that solve operational challenges at speed and scale. With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, Chicago and Washington, DC, DIU is the Department’s gateway to leading technology companies across the country. |
NSIN is a program office in the U.S. Department of Defense, nested within the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). We are set up to collaborate with a wide variety of innovators to include universities, researchers, students, entrepreneurs and start-ups. We create opportunities for collaboration across communities and connect those that might not traditionally work in national security. Together, we help drive national security innovation and develop technologies that directly support the individuals responsible for protecting our country. |
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