During the week of 18-22 November 2019, the Department of Defense's (DoD) Space Community of Interest (CoI) is sponsoring the 2019 Space Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Technology Interchange Meeting (TIM) at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, NM. The invitation is open to all industry IR&D participants, including large and small businesses, as well as academia. This engagement has broad goals to increase government awareness, stimulate collaboration and partnering with industry and seek alignment between industry's IR&D innovation portfolios and DoD's high-priority science and technology needs and corresponding acquisition sustainment roadmaps. Space Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from the DoD are expected to participate. The 2019 Space CoI IR&D TIM will address the following areas of significant interest to DoD: SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS • Integrate communications across the DoD to form the combat cloud • Layer PNT services onto every communication link • Develop proliferable laser communication systems • Develop V/W band radio frequency (RF) communications systems • Cognitive radio development • Improve situational awareness MISSILE DEFENSE, MISSILE WARNING, AND ATTACK ASSESSMENT • Improve sensors for whole-Earth staring while maintaining/improving bogey georeferencing & track accuracy • Improve data fusion algorithms while maintaining/improving computing tractability and multi-source drop-out resilience • Improve quantification of and improvements in anti-spoofing and false alarm rejection POSITIONING, NAVIGATION, TIMING • Layer PNT services onto every communication link • Leverage signals-of-opportunity to provide PNT • Develop resilient PNT capabilities • Develop inertial sensors and clocks • Improve situational awareness INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE • Increase persistence • Improve data compression • Improve algorithms for collaborative collection/tasking strategies and data sharing among space, air and ground ISR SPACE CONTROL AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS • Space Domain Awareness (SDA) from very low LEO through cis-lunar • Low SWaP, proliferatable on-board sensing technologies (objects and spectrum) • On-board cyber protection elements • Algorithms for autonomous satellite response • Multi-object and non-Keplerian tracking algorithms SPACE ACCESS • Reduce cost and cycle time and launch-on-demand • Higher performance on-orbit propulsion • Enable reusable launch systems SPACE AND TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT • Improve specification and forecast of Earth/Sun environment • Enable real-time weather threat warning • Improve marine meteorology and monitoring of ocean conditions C2 AND SATELLITE OPERATIONS • Increase autonomy to reduce manning • Space robotic capabilities for servicing/repair SPACE ENABLERS • Heterogeneous processing and rad hard electronics • Deployable structures; carbon-based nanotechnology • Multi-agent autonomous navigation and guidance • Rendezvous and proximity operations • Ultra-high efficiency power systems (arrays, batteries, PMAD) • High flux electronics cooling; spacecraft thermal control • On-orbit propulsion; multi-mode propellants • Standardized and miniature components and interfaces SPACE RESILIENCE • On-board adaptive planning • Local area imaging sensors • Laser survivability • Resiliency through space effect reconstitution and augmentation If you are interested in participating Please send expression of interest to the following email address:
[email protected]. Once we receive your expression of interest, we will send additional instructional data on how to nominate IR&D projects. If you do not hear back from the IR&D planning team within one week, please resend the original email. Planning schedule Date of Posting Window opens for IR&D project nominations by industry 09 Sep 19 Window closes for IR&D project nominations by industry 07 Oct 19 Send industry Invitations to present at the face-to-face meeting 28 Oct 19 Industry submits read-ahead briefs 18-22 Nov 19 Execute Space IR&D TIM Please note dates listed are subject to change. Stay tuned to the Defense Innovation Marketplace webpage, https://defenseinnovationmarketplace.dtic.mil/2019-space-coi/, for updates. Thank you and we look forward to these government-Industry technology engagements. Disclaimers The government is not obligated to enter into a contract with industry as a result of this technology interchange meeting or from meeting dialogue. Data exchanges as a result of these dialogue activities follow No Foreign Nationals (NOFORN) and International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR) restrictions. Some information we intend to share may be classified or unclassified and will not be approved for unlimited public release. Note: Government technical support contractors may be a part of the team of SMEs at the event, and company-to-company Non-Disclosure Agreements may be necessary. Please address any questions about the technical intent of the engagement, the reference documents, or processes used for this event to our team at
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