List of Recommended Topics for DoD SBIR 19.2 and DoD STTR 19.B
Recommended for Advanced-Transportation Developers

A19-102 ★ Effect of Heat Treatment on Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V Alloy
A19-103 ★ ★ High assurance hardware state machine trusted computing base
A19-104 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cryogenic Production for Airborne Thermal Management
A19-108 ★ Conformal RF Interfaces for Gun-fired Munitions
A19-109 ★ Maximizing Persistent Coverage of a Predetermined Area of Interest by Swarms of Assets for Targets Acquisition and Engagement
A19-111 ★ ★ Non-Destructive Inspection of Modern Explosives and Ammunition Housings
A19-112 ★ Optical Based Proximity Sensor for Fuzing
A19-113 ★ Alternative Manufacturing Methods and Materials for Gun-Launched Components
A19-114 ★ High Sensitivity Miniaturized Gun-hardened Aeroballistic and Geolocation Sensor Technology
A19-116 ★ ★ Integrated 2-color thermal polarimetric sensor and deep neural network system for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI&ML) based automatic target detection and identification
A19-117 ★ ★ Advanced, compact acoustic particle velocity-pressure sensory system
A19-118 ★ ★ ★ Image data compilation based on accurate registration of sequential frames from a drone
A19-119 ★ Deep Generative Modeling of Infrared Datasets for Aided Target Recognition
A19-120 ★ Novel Integration Technologies for Infrared Focal Plane Array Application
A19-121 ★ Foveated Headworn Display Demonstrator
A19-122 ★ ★ Variable Attenuator for See-Through Day/Night Displays
A19-125 ★ ★ ★ Advanced Machine Learning Target Recognition in Munitions
A19-126 ★ ★ ★ ★ Advanced Machine Learning for Non-Destructive Testing
A19-127 ★ ★ Software Defined Radio Automated Testing Solution
A19-128 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies for Lithium-ion 6T End-of-Line Testing
A19-133 ★ ★ Power Generation for Individual Soldier
A19-135 ★ ★ Powder Development and Characterization for Additive Manufacturing of FeMnAlC Alloy Steel
A19-136 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2kW Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Power System
A19B-T001 ★ Freeform Optics for Small Arms Fire Control
A19B-T002 ★ ★ ★ ★ Universal Navigation Solution Manager
A19B-T003 ★ ★ Uniform Dispersion and Alignment of Short Fiber Composite Reinforcement
A19B-T004 ★ Diamond Electron Amplifiers
A19B-T005 ★ ★ ★ High-Speed Mid-Infrared Free-Space Laser Communications
A19B-T006 ★ ★ Isogeometric Analysis Methods for High Fidelity Mobility Applications
A19B-T009 ★ Optical Grating Enhancement of MWIR Structures for High Temperature Operation
A19B-T010 ★ ★ Production of Natural Melanin for Affordable EMP Shielding
A19B-T012 ★ ★ ★ ★ Mobile Metal Manufacturing Technologies For Repair And Retrofit of Infrastructure Systems
A19B-T014 ★ ★ Passive, Non-powered Re-chargeable Heat Storage Systems for Cold Climate Operations
A19B-T015 ★ ★ ★ ★ Direct Hydrogen Production from Sunlight and Water
A19B-T016 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ High Performance, Non-flammable Lithium Battery
N192-046 ★ ★ ★ Lightweight Road Wheel (LwRW)
N192-049 ★ ★ Family of Foreign Object Damage Mitigation Equipment (F2ME)
N192-050 ★ ★ Virtual Reality for Ground Vehicle Survivability, Lethality, and Vulnerability
N192-052 ★ ★ ★ ★ Advanced Aircraft Electrical Load Management System
N192-053 ★ ★ ★ Quantum Cascade Lasers Manufacturing 10X Cost Reduction
N192-054 ★ Lowering the Probability of an Adversary Recognizing Inverse Synthetic Aperture DwellsWhile Maintaining Vessel Classification Capabilities
N192-055 ★ ★ ★ Long-Wave Infrared (IR) Window/Dome Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) Reduction
N192-056 ★ ★ ★ Holographic Optical Element for Free Space Optical Communication System on Mobile Platforms
N192-058 ★ Predictor of Aircraft Structural Loads Due to Buffet
N192-061 ★ Innovative Millimeter Wave Positioning System for Collision/Obstacle/Brown-Out with Sense and Avoidance
N192-062 ★ ★ ★ ★ Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Flight Without Supervisory Control
N192-063 ★ ★ ★ ★ High Dynamic Range Real-Time LIDAR Digitizer and Processor
N192-064 ★ ★ ★ Real-Time Mapping from Over-Water Imagery
N192-066 ★ Non-Invasive Radio Frequency System Characterization
N192-067 ★ ★ ★ Anti-reflective Surface for Infrared Optical Fiber Endfaces
N192-068 ★ Tool for Analysis to Predict Strength and Durability of Curved and Tapered Composite Structures under Multiaxial Loading
N192-070 ★ Manned-Unmanned Directional Mesh Enhanced Tactical Airborne Networks
N192-072 ★ ★ Nondestructive Characterization of Microstructure and Grain Orientation on Large, Complex Parts
N192-074 ★ Flow Forming Bomb Bodies
N192-075 ★ Secure Communications Link Between Robotics and Autonomous Systems
N192-076 ★ Fiber Optic Pressure Sensing for Military Aircraft (MIL-Aero) Environments
N192-079 ★ Unmanned Airborne Reconfigurable Naval Communications Network
N192-080 ★ Open Architecture Development Environment for Radar Mode Design
N192-082 ★ ★ Mobile Phased Array Antenna for Robotic Autonomous Systems (RAS) Using Optical Broadband
N192-086 ★ Advanced Signal Analysis Techniques for Use on Non-Periodic Radio Frequency Signals
N192-087 ★ Headset Equivalent of Advanced Display Systems (HEADS)
N192-088 ★ ★ ★ Collision Avoidance System for Operations in Dense Airspace Environment
N192-090 ★ Modern Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) Algorithms for Tactical Data Links
N192-097 ★ Advanced Video Compression Capability
N192-099 ★ 3D Visualization Capability for Fleet Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)
N192-100 ★ Passive Cooling for Aircraft Carrier Jet Blast Deflectors (JBD)
N192-105 ★ ★ FireFly™ Based Network Switch
N192-115 ★ ★ Durable Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Screens for Air Cushion Vehicles
N192-118 ★ Application Level Cybersecurity Threat Detection
N192-122 ★ Spatially Integrating Magnetometer
N192-124 ★ Digital Twin Technology for Naval Maintenance Training and Operations
N192-125 ★ ★ High Current Cooled Flexible Bus Work Systems
N192-127 ★ ★ High Heat Flux Thermal Management Technologies for Aluminum Decks
N192-128 ★ ★ Innovative Artificial Intelligence Features to Reduce Signal Dropout due to Clipping, Channel Fading, and Multi-path Interference
N192-133 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Advanced Non-Electrochemical Energy Storage
N192-134 ★ ★ ★ Modernizing Maintenance Operations and Training
N192-135 ★ ★ Autonomous Flight Termination for Use in Submarine-Launched Missile Applications
N192-136 ★ Remote Analog-to-Digital Translator for Use in Submarine-Launched Missile Applications
N19B-T025 ★ Overall Aircraft System-of-Systems Thermal Model and Simulation Tool
N19B-T026 ★ Fatigue Prediction for Additive Manufactured (AM) Metallic Components
N19B-T028 ★ ★ Additive Manufacturing of Inorganic Transparent Materials for Advanced Optics
N19B-T031 ★ Innovations in Production of Rotorcraft Airframe Components using Advanced 3D Braiding
N19B-T034 ★ Model for Surface Finish Prediction and Optimization of Metal Additively Manufactured Parts
N19B-T036 ★ Three-Dimensional Field of Light Display
AF192-001 ★ ★ Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need
AF192-005 ★ ★ Kessel Run Pitch Day
AF192-007 ★ Standardized, Compact, and Automated Shock Tube for Fuel Characterization and Modeling
AF192-008 ★ Millimeter wave Instrumentation and Characterization
AF192-014 ★ ★ RF Situational Awareness with Low-Cost Signal Samplers
AF192-016 ★ Heterogenous Power Exploitation in GPS Receivers
AF192-021 ★ High Spectral Resolution Longwave Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging System
AF192-022 ★ Develop Small Pitch Geiger Mode Avalanche Photodiode Detector Arrays for Multifunction LiDAR Receivers
AF192-023 ★ ★ Conformal Beam Steering for High Resolution Ladar
AF192-024 ★ Cognitive Fully Autonomous Sensor Technology (CFAST)
AF192-027 ★ Compact Broadband Thermal Imaging and LWIR HSI Payload for Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS)
AF192-028 ★ EO/IR-Specific State of the Art Machine Learning
AF192-031 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Non-destructive Imagery and Analysis Techniques for Identification of Deleterious Defects in Li-ion Batteries
AF192-032 ★ ★ Novel Sensor Solutions for Qualification of Additively Manufactured Launch and Space Vehicle Components
AF192-033 ★ ★ ★ ★ Next Generation Device Attachment Thermal Interface Material
AF192-035 ★ ★ Develop Prototype Hyperspectral Microwave Imager for Terrestrial Weather
AF192-036 ★ ★ ★ Large Area Solar Simulator for Next Generation Solar Panels
AF192-037 ★ ★ ★ ★ Military GNSS Data Server
AF192-038 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Development of Graphene Batteries for Use in Space Applications
AF192-040 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Development of a High Performance, Printed Conformal Li Battery
AF192-041 ★ ★ Erosion Resistant Coatings for Large-Diameter Gas Turbine Engine Compressor Integrally-Bladed Rotors (IBRs) and Lift-Fan Blades
AF192-042 ★ ★ ★ ★ Advancement of High Energy Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
AF192-045 ★ ★ Advanced Integrated Engine Control Test Bed for Development of Intelligent Systems and Smart Instrumentation
AF192-046 ★ ★ ★ ★ Passive Coatings for Aircraft Drag Reduction
AF192-047 ★ ★ ★ ★ MQ-9 Battery Technology Improvements
AF192-048 ★ ★ ★ Hypersonic Vehicle Electrical Power Generation through Efficient Thermionic Conversion Devices
AF192-049 ★ ★ Data Science Based Approaches for Modeling Optimal Controls and PHM for Power and Thermal System Components.
AF192-050 ★ New Methods, and Technologies Required for Heat Rejection from Next Generation Aircraft
AF192-051 ★ ★ Optically Gated, Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Aircraft Electrical Actuator Motor Drives
AF192-054 ★ Small High Reliability Electrical/Signal Connectors for Gas Turbine Engine Applications
AF192-059 ★ Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF)
AF192-060 ★ ★ ★ A small multi-spectral Imagery Pod to Provide High Resolution Rangeland Management Data
AF192-061 ★ ★ Energy Storage/Real-Time Peak Shaving
AF192-062 ★ Determination of Significant Failure Size for Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
AF192-D001 ★ ★ Direct to Phase II Open Topic: Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need
AF192-D002 ★ ★ ★ ★ Personnel Recovery / Transport Vehicle
AF192-D003 ★ ★ ★ Inexpensive Precision Air Delivery of Small Packages
AF192-D004 ★ ★ ★ Transformational Air Mobility Systems
AF19B-T001 ★ ★ Open Call for Science and Technology Created by Early-Stage (e.g. University) Teams
AF19B-T005 ★ Image Segmentation for Target Attitude using a Priori Knowledge
AF19B-T011 ★ ★ Cyber Attack Immunity for Embedded Systems
AF19B-T012 ★ Tailored Supersonic Flow Fields
AF19B-T013 ★ ★ Modern, Rapid, Usable, Lower Order Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Development for Aerodynamic Analysis
DTRA192-002 ★ Deep Reinforcement Learning Methods and Simulated Learning Environments for Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Applications
DTRA192-007 ★ Development of Camera-Motion Insensitive Dynamic Digital Photogrammetry Using Digital Image Correlation
MDA19-007 ★ ★ Supercapacitor Nano-architecture Using Bicarbon-based Materials Derived From Plant Cellulose
MDA19-011 ★ Radiation Hardened Machine Vision Computer Solution
MDA19-013 ★ Additively Manufactured Thermal Protection/Thermal Management System for Hypersonic Flight
MDA19-015 ★ ★ Flight Vehicle Surface Sensor Network
MDA19-017 ★ Miniaturized Inflight-capable Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) System
MDA19-019 ★ Modeling of Fiber Laser Refractive Index Profiles and Dopant Index Profiles for Predicting High Power Fiber Laser Performance
OSD 192-003 ★ ★ Educational Tool Development and Pilot Deployment to Facilitate Adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
OSD192-D001 ★ ★ ★ Advanced Rapid Prototyping for Systems Development
OSD192-D002 ★ ★ Cybersecurity Analysis for Critical Infrastructure Resilience

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 8 Directly related to something essential for EV or other Hi-Tech or Hi-Efficiency Vehicles
★ ★ ★ ★ 13 Related to a useful subsystem for such Vehicles, might be “borrowed” from other technologies
★ ★ ★ 17 Indirectly related to such vehicles, or useful for research efforts, including AI
★ ★ 42 Somewhat related to such vehicles
58 Something useful for materials, electronics, communications, training, testing, maintenance, engines, sensors, vehicle navigation, collision avoidance, or driver assistance
Total: 138

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