SBIR / STTR #27.TZ

FOCISAUS: Cooperative Information Sharing and Sensor Fusion for Uncrewed Air Systems

The Department of War, with the U.S. Air Force as the customer, seeks a Phase II STTR effort for FOCISAUS, focused on cooperative information sharing and sensor-data fusion across uncrewed air systems. - Buyer: Department of War (DOW); customer: United States Air Force (USAF). No specific sub-agency or office is identified. - Requested effort: Develop and demonstrate capabilities that help uncrewed air systems select and share relevant sensor data, fuse information from multiple platforms or sensing modalities, and provide improved perception outputs. - Important requirements: The solution should account for limited bandwidth and latency, and remain useful when communications are degraded or intermittent. - OEMs and vendors: None are named. No attachments or specific product line items are provided.

Description

This Phase II STTR topic seeks prototype-ready solutions for cooperative information sharing and sensor data fusion across uncrewed air systems and supporting nodes. Solutions should select and transmit relevant sensor information while managing latency and bandwidth constraints, then fuse observations from multiple platforms or sensing modalities into improved perception outputs. The scope may include adaptive compression and transmission, real-time or near-real-time data fusion, and delivery of fused outputs to autonomy software, edge analytics, mission applications, or user interfaces. Approaches that operate under degraded or intermittent communications and scale across multiple sensing platforms are of particular interest.

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