Air Force

Adaptive RF waveform generation R&D for extreme frequency environments. Develops cognitive waveforms and network control for contested spectrum operations.

Targeting operations R&D for joint kill chain optimization. Develops analytics and operational awareness technologies to shorten engagement cycles and improve battle damage assessment.

SIGINT R&D for signal detection, processing, and exploitation. Develops algorithms and onboard processing for enhanced intelligence from ISR platforms in contested environments.

Aerial networking R&D advancing self-forming, self-healing networks. Develops on-demand aerial layer architecture with robust interoperability, monitoring, and management capabilities.

Geospatial intelligence processing and exploitation R&D. Develops image exploitation, data fusion, and machine learning techniques for GEOINT analysis from all sources.

Quantum information sciences R&D advancing quantum computing systems and applications. Develops next-generation quantum technologies for defense and national security computing.

Trusted systems R&D for secure hardware and software foundations. Develops resilient C4I and cyber technologies with advanced security architectures and assurance techniques.

AI and distributed command-and-control R&D for contested environments. Develops AI-enabled battle management and orchestration capabilities for joint all-domain operations at scale.

Multi-source data fusion and AI-driven knowledge discovery for battlespace awareness. Automated analysis of classified and open-source intelligence to improve decision support systems.

AFRL BAA seeking innovative research on composable collaborative planning to enable parallel force flow planning and reduce operational planning time through dependency management.

AFRL Advanced Research Announcement for next-generation target tracking architectures leveraging AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing across diverse sensor data sources.

AFRL Advanced Research Announcement seeking research on intelligent tasking, processing, and analysis of data for space domain awareness and space superiority using high-performance computing.