Research Opportunities at the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

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Research Opportunities atthe Office of Naval
Research (ONR)

• Walter L. Dixon, Ph. D
• Office of Naval Research
• dixonw_at_onr.navy.mil
• 13 Dec 04

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Objectives

• Provide
• Overview of ONR Science Codes
• Proposal Response Preparation
• Product Delivery follow-up

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Naval FY 04 ST Budget
Basic Research 20
Advanced Technology Development 42
Applied Research 38
Investment by Performer
6.1
6.3
6.2
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DON ST Spectrum
Basic Research
Applied Research
Advanced Technology
Exploitation Deployment (Outputs)
Discovery Invention (Enablers)

• Support to Acquisition (FNC)
• Program of Record Improvements
• Heavily requirements-based
• Generally evolutionary

• Naval Unique/Essential
• Maintain workforce core competencies
• Address primarily Naval interest areas

• Leap-ahead Warfighting Capability
• Concept need driven
• Transformational
• DoD and DoN Leadership priorities

• Idea Exploration
• Opportunity-based investment
• High impacts/surprises

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Code 31

• Information, Electronics and Surveillance (Code
  31)
• Electronics
• Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences
• Surveillance, Communications, and Electronic
  Combat
• Focus Areas
• surveillance capabilities, communications,
  command and control
• new concepts for electronic devices
• application of information sciences to complex
  problems including human-computer interaction
• electronic warfare

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Electronics Division
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Circuits Architectures

• Submission date ongoing
• Note Proposals are preferred
  by 1 April of each year
• Average Award 115,000
• This program seeks innovative
  new circuit and architecture
• concepts to exploit new device
  technologies such as
• nanostructure devices,
  non-volatile memory,
• nondestructive-readout memory,
  and high power switches,
• well as multifunctional circuit
  concepts.
• Point of Contact
• Director
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail 312_CA_at_onr.navy.mil

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Code 32

• Sensing and Systems and Processes and Prediction
  (Code 32)
• Sensing and Systems
• Processes and Prediction
• Focus areas
• Battlespace Environments - (BSE)
• Observing, modeling, and predicting both small
  and large scale processes in the air/ocean/shore
  environments
• traditional oceanographic and meteorological
  disciplines
• Anti-Submarine Warfare - (ASW)
• Detecting, localizing, and classifying submarines
  with active and passive acoustics as well as
  non-acoustic means.
• enhanced by automated data fusion, environmental
  understanding and modeling
• Mine Warfare - (MIW)
• Detecting, localizing, identifying, and
  neutralizing mines
• improving offensive mining capabilities, Naval
  Special Warfare/Explosive Ordnance Disposal
• Advanced Force Operations

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Sensing Systems

• Points of Contact
• Active Sonar Signal Processing (Discovery and
  Invention)Phone [phone] E-mail
  321_US_at_onr.navy.mil
• Counter-Torpedo Detection, Classification and
  Localization (Future Naval Capability)Phone
  703-588-0615E-mail 321_US_CTDCL_at_onr.navy.mil
• Data Fusion Technology (Discovery and
  Invention)Phone [phone]E-mail
  321_US_at_onr.navy.mil

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Code 33

• Engineering, Materials, and Physical Sciences
  (Code 33)
• Physical Sciences ST
• Materials Science Technology
• Mechanics and Energy Conversion ST
• Ship Hull, Mechanical, Electrical Systems ST
• Navy ST Ship Office
• Focus areas
• chemistry
• physics
• structural functional materials
• structural, solid, fluid mechanics
• propulsion
• energetics
• and hull, mechanical, electrical systems.

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Materials Science Technology

• Coatings, Corrosion and Oxidation
• Condition-Based Monitoring and Life Prediction
• Nondestructive Evaluation/Inspection
• Tribology
• Material Processing Science and Technology
• Piezoelectric, Electrostrictive and
  Magnetostrictive, Materials
• Structural and Propulsion Materials
• Seaborne Structural Metallics
• Shore Facilities Materials
• Point of Contact
• Director
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail 332_Contact_at_onr.navy.mil
  

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Code 34

• Human Systems Department (Code 34)
• Medical and Biological ST
• Cognitive, Neural and Social ST
• Focus areas
• exploration programs that are at the leading
  edges of medical science
• human performance
• biotechnology
• training and human factors
• neural information processing
• biorobotics

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Code 35

• Naval Expeditionary Warfare (Code 35)
• Strike Technology
• Expeditionary Warfare Operations
• Focus areas
• aeronautics, avionics
• propulsion, ballistics, warheads
• missile guidance, seekers
• parallel distributed processing
• technology programs particularly associated with
  Marine Corps/ground combat applications

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Strike Technology

• This division is structured into two major
  programs, weapons technology and aircraft
  technology. These programs directly support Navy
  S T requirements for Joint Strike Warfare
  involving Air Superiority and Precision Attack,
  and Air and Surface Battlespace requirements of
  Joint Littoral Warfare involving Aircraft, Naval
  Surface Fire Support, and Ship Self Defense.

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Strike Technology

• Weapons Technology
• Aircraft Technology
• Point of Contact
• Director
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail 351_Contact_at_onr.navy.mil
  

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Aircraft Technology

• These technologies include at-sea supportability
  enhancements (seabased aircraft support)
  aircraft engine efficiency, durability,
  maintainability and reliability improvements
  (propulsion) low-risk insertion of advanced
  integrated modular avionics, and fully
  integrated, on-board mechanical diagnostics and
  vehicle health monitoring (integrated avionics)
  displays to provide new mission and weapon aiming
  (cockpit) reconfigurable flight control
  effectors, agile flight dynamics and aerodynamic
  shaping (aerodynamics) lightweight, affordable
  composite structures (aerostructures) and
  technologies that reduce the signature of the
  aircraft (low observables).

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Code 36

• Industrial and Corporate Programs (Code 36)
• Manufacturing Technology
• Product Innovation
• Corporate Programs
• SBIR/STTR
• Focus areas
• interdisciplinary
• Workforce renewal
• industrial/academic outreach

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Opportunities

• University Research Initiatives (URI)
• The Multidisciplinary Research Program of the
  University Research Initiative (MURI) is a
  multi-agency DoD program that supports research
  teams whose efforts intersect more than one
  traditional science and engineering discipline

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URI Topics (ONR)

• Detection and Sensing Below the Shot Noise Limit
• Novel Dielectric Materials for High Pulsed Power
  Capacitors
• Multi-Energy Processing Science
• Realtime Sensing, Prediction, and Response to
  Evolving Nonlinear Wavefields
• Materials Manufacturing Processes, Interface
  Control, and Reliability of Nanostructure
  Enhanced Devices for Energy Conversion and
  Realization of High Performance Systems
• GaN Based mm-Wave Sources
• Exploitation of the Coherent Structures in River
  and Estuarine Flows for DoD Operations in Denied
  Areas
• Magnetic Detection ST
• Revolutionary Approaches to Hypersonic Materials
• Radically New Approaches for Robust Speech-to-Text

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Acquisition Website
http//www.onr.navy.mil/