This solicitation closed on June 3, 2026
View current Department of Defense opportunities →DIRECT TO PHASE II: Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis
AI Overview
The Navy seeks an advanced passive Structural Health Monitoring system to detect and characterize hull crack severity in real time, replacing current strain-gauge approaches. This automated capability would identify fatigue cracks in ship welds across large areas while reducing false alerts and inspection costs.
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Official Description
The Navy seeks an effective passive Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system for Navy ship hulls and other structures that can monitor defects, such as crack growth from fatigue or impacts, and provide actionable information about the severity of the defect in an automated manner, i.e., in real time. Such fatigue cracks develop and grow in Navy ship hull welds and plating from cyclical life-cycle stresses and event-driven forces from severe sea states, collisions, and groundings.
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Change History
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis
Opportunity DON26BZ01-DV044 no longer available
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis
Q2 received a new answer clarifying that COTS systems upgraded with AI/ML and SciML are acceptable if they meet the goal of passively monitoring the entire ship's hull and structures for flaws in real time.
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis
Q1 received a new answer clarifying "passive" system definition: must alert crew to flaws without emitting detectable signals (analogous to passive sonar). System cannot create emissions that could be detected by adversaries.
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis
Added 1 new Q&A clarifying the "passive" system requirement, addressing confusion about whether fiber optic sensors and LiDAR (mentioned in topic description) qualify as passive solutions.
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis
Added Q1 asking whether COTS systems upgraded with AI/ML and SciML are acceptable for the Phase II deliverable. Answer not yet provided (Response Pending).
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis
Status changed from Pre-Release to Open
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis
Added answer to Q1 clarifying: (1) topic scope includes real-time hull/structure damage monitoring systems across modalities; (2) Phase I Feasibility Proposal submission required now; (3) Volume 2 page limit is 30 pages total (20 pages for Feasibility portion + 10 pages for Phase II Snapshot).
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Advanced Damage Criticality Analysis
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