Published Areas of Interest

Project: Low-Cost ISR (LC-ISR)

Problem statement: The DoW seeks both medium and long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) or other platforms that can collect and transmit multi-intelligence (multi-int) sensor data to support real-time operational and targeting decisions over expansive land, littoral, and maritime regions. The Government seeks mature solutions, not concepts.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: United States - Singapore Bilateral Prize Challenge Area of Interest: Deep Blue Observer

Problem statement: The Department of War and its partners seek proven cost-effective advanced maritime intelligence solutions that can be seamlessly incorporated into our current suite of domain awareness tools.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Space Threat Intelligence Synthesis Engine

Problem statement: The Department of War seeks AI-based software tools to turn fragmented sensor data into a continuously updated understanding of space and missile threats fast enough to drive operational decisions.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Suitable Warfighting Adaptive Payloads (SWAP-USV)

Problem statement: The DoW seeks to partner with established maritime manufacturers, autonomy developers, sensor manufacturers, and UAS developers to execute a multi-phase Prize Challenge under 10 USC 4025 with up to $100M in available funding.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Ground-Based Affordable Mass Prize Challenge

Problem statement: Through Ground-Based Affordable Mass (G-BAM), the Department of War (DOW) is seeking mature, affordable, long-range precision strike systems that can be demonstrated within 60-90 days, certified, and scaled into production within 12-18 months.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Space Power Beaming

Problem statement: Space Power Beaming (SPB) provides an innovative approach to remove the power ceiling and improve the duty cycle for on-orbit systems. SPB could also provide a means to reduce or eliminate the need for extended infrastructure and reduce the logistics burden throughout the spectrum of conflict. The Joint Force seeks a demonstration traceable to a future operational capability that will inform architecture decisions.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Massed Modular Aircraft

Problem statement: The DoW seeks a cost-effective, theater-range, massed, and modular Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to provide a flexible, operationally-responsive, risk-tolerant option in the air domain.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Specular MIST Prize Challenge

Problem statement: DIU, in collaboration with the Department of the Navy Rapid Capabilities Office (DONRCO) and Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, seeks to identify innovative, scalable, and cost-effective solutions to address modern maritime training and operational challenges.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Farseer: Quantum Sensing for ISR

Problem statement: The Farseer program is a multi-phase DoW initiative designed to rapidly transition mature quantum sensor and clock technologies into operational ISR capabilities. The DoW seeks innovative commercial solutions to prototype and demonstrate these advanced, quantum-enabled sensing and timing platforms to address warfighter needs.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Rising Smoke Prize Challenge

Problem statement: DIU, in partnership with Blue Horizons and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) RF Seekers Branch, is offering a $250,000 prize challenge for a conceptual active RF radar seeker design and future use considerations for use in a 2.75-inch class munition. This technology focus area supports efforts to evolve a low-cost 70mm missile variant by integrating an RF active seeker capable of all-weather lock-on-after-launch engagements.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Hydra: Collaborative, Real-Time, Cross-System USSF Tactical Command and Control

Problem statement: DIU seeks comprehensive, end-to-end prototype software solutions that integrate existing hardware and software systems to provide a common data fabric. This data fabric must empower tactical users to collaborate, orchestrate, and execute real-time effects from any authorized node.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Project Spectrum Strike Prize Challenge

Problem statement: The DoW seeks a "ready-now" automated, software-driven spectrum deconfliction and authorization ecosystem.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: MCM Modernization Prize Challenge

Problem statement: The DoW seeks modular, communication-resilient, rapidly fieldable capabilities to reacquire and neutralize near-surface and volume mine threats in the water column. In addition, the Navy seeks the full kill chain detect-to-engage capability for bottom mines, from safe standoff.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Autonomous Resupply Vessel (ARV)

Problem statement: The DoW seeks solutions for a small, Autonomous Resupply Vehicle (ARV-S). The ARV-S’ primary job will be regularly resupplying containerized cargo to forward-deployed units in the form of Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs).

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: All Players - Modular & Scalable Architectures for Joint Simulation and Wargaming

Problem statement: The DoW seeks modular and scalable simulation and training architectures for military platforms that enable 100+ players to exercise and rehearse within a shared synthetic battlespace.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Robotic Operation for Autonomous Delivery and Sustainment (ROADS)

Problem statement: The DoW is seeking scalable, commercially derived solutions that integrate modern fleet management and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Level 2+ through Level 4 autonomous vehicle technologies.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Endpoint Accuracy 2: CUAS Close-In Kinetic Defeat Enhancement

Problem statement: The DoW is seeking innovative technologies to enhance the lethality of integrated weapons and fire control systems, with a focus on improving effectiveness of Remote Weapons Systems (RWS) against Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in support of the Counter-UAS (C-UAS) mission.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Point Break

Problem statement: The DoWo seeks solutions for two lines of effort (LOEs). LOE 1 is the development and demonstration of multi-waveform lasercom optical communication terminals (OCTs) and orchestration capable of enabling seamless data transport across different waveform and network boundaries. LOE 2 is the demonstration of a reliable and high throughput optical communications between a commercially owned and operated proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) constellation and an airborne lasercom terminal in flight.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: TitanCore - Modular Data Centers for AI Compute

Problem statement: The DoW seeks to prototype a Modular Data Center product family delivered along two parallel solution paths sharing a common architectural baseline.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Open Mission Engine (OMEN)

Problem statement: The DoW seeks prototype solutions for a modular, open mission engine (OMEN) that powers a suite of new mission applications and plugins for aircrew operating in contested environments.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Emulation Module for Unmanned Systems (EMU)

Problem statement: The DoW seeks a remotely operated, modular signal-generation and control capability that can be integrated across diverse unmanned vehicles.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Robotic Exclusion & Engagement Framework (REEF)

Problem statement: This program seeks a suite of systems approach to address the REEF challenge. By leveraging commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) sensors, edge processing, sensor fusion, software, and interdiction methods, this program aims to create a flexible, stand-alone system adaptable to various environments and integrable with existing USG systems.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Mystic Depot: Vendor-Agnostic AI Evaluation Infrastructure

Problem statement: The DoW seeks an evaluation harness and government-specific benchmarks that together enable rigorous, reproducible, vendor-agnostic assessment of any AI system against government-defined criteria.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Autonomous Low Profile Vessel (ALPV)

Problem statement: The DoW requires the ability to resupply units spread over wide distances in contested littoral environments.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Portable Resilient Integrated Storage Module (PRISM)

Problem statement: The DoW seeks a flexible, scalable, easily-portable energy storage and power conversion and distribution system, sized between 1kWh GOTS lightweight systems and heavy applications serviced by current 90kWh GOTS energy storage units.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: AI Assisted Triage & Treatment Challenge

Problem statement: The DoW seeks innovative, deployable solutions to monitor and assess hemodynamic status in forward combat medical environments.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Geosynchronous High-Resolution Optical Space-Based Tactical Reconnaissance (GHOST-R)

Problem statement: The DoW seeks commercial advancements to create affordable and scalable GEO reconnaissance systems. These solutions, which include space vehicles (SVs), satellite buses, and payloads, are intended to provide high-resolution space-to-space imagery and accurate object characterization.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Counter UAS Sensing for Homeland and Mobile Defense

Problem statement: The DoW seeks to leverage mature and emerging commercial sensing technologies to deliver scalable, survivable, and life‑saving counter‑sUAS (C‑sUAS) sensing capabilities to the warfighter.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Runway Independent Maritime & Expeditionary Strike (RIMES)

Problem statement: The DoW seeks an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) capable of supporting Naval surface combatants through executing long range strikes with standard munition payloads while providing tactical flexibility by operating from expeditionary locations with minimal infrastructure, or from ships without large flight decks.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Containerized Autonomous Drone Delivery System (CADDS)

Problem statement: The DoW seeks innovative solutions that enable the storage, rapid deployment, and management of multi-agent systems to provide either persistent UAS coverage over extended periods or massed effects within a single geographic region and time.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Sensors and Seekers for Fire Control

Problem statement: The DoW seeks integrated sensing solutions to support the prototyping and demonstration of LIDAR/LADAR, EO/IR, RF, and other active or passive modalities, separately or in combination – that are capable of fire-control-quality detection, tracking and discrimination.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Deorbit as a Service

Problem statement: The DoW seeks solutions that enable the rapid, safe, and reliable deorbit of unprepared satellites.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator Prize Challenge

Problem statement: The Department of War seeks innovative, market-ready solutions to establish a robust, scalable, and vehicle-agnostic capability for understanding, tasking, and coordinating autonomous systems at the fleet level.

Companies awarded: TBD

Project: Geomagnetic Airborne Unmanned Survey System (GAUSS)

Problem statement: The Department of War seeks solutions to prototype magnetic data collection platforms that address warfighter needs for precision navigation capabilities beyond GPS.

Companies awarded: TBD