The Microelectronics Commons Call for Topics is now open. This Call for Topics (CFT) describes the desired capabilities for which project proposals are being sought. The topics will guide the next round of the prototype proposals across six technical areas that are critical to the DoD. Those areas are: 5G/6G, AI Hardware, Commercial Leap-Ahead Technologies, Electromagnetic Warfare, Secure Edge/IoT Computing, and Quantum Technology.
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane is seeking prototype solutions to increase the operational reliability of an Radio Frequency (RF) Output Travelling Wave Tube (OTWT) High Voltage Power Supply Group (HVPS), while also seeking to enhance the repairability, maintainability, and affordability of the asset.
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane is seeking prototype solutions to solve an obsolescence issue with Power Dividers for the EA-18G aircraft. The current manufacturer has stopped production of the current design and is unwilling to resume production due to economic reasons including low volume and cost to meet security requirements.
This S2MARTS announcement, through the NSTXL Innovation Network, is intended to survey U.S. companies that produce capacitors, magnetics and other components that are peripheral in a range of circuits and applications that employ silicon carbide semiconductors. The objective is to gather information from U.S. companies that have developed, or are willing to develop, technical and manufacturing capabilities specific to such components that are rated >100C junction temperature (Tj) and plans for future development aimed at achieving > 200C, and in the longer term, 250C Tj for commercial and defense applications.
This S2MARTS announcement is intended to survey U.S. companies in the silicon carbide defense supply chain through NSTXL’s Innovation Network. The objective is to gather information related to the extent that U.S. companies have developed, or are willing to develop, technical and manufacturing capabilities specific to the silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor device supply chain, including substrates, epitaxy, device processing steps, packaging, and modules for > 5kV devices; and company plans for future development and sales of such devices for commercial and defense applications. Universities and industry consortia with interest in such programs are also welcome to respond.
The Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Crane Division and the Department of Defense are initiating the MACH-TB 2.0 agreement to take the precursor MACH-TB 1.0 agreement test bed from design and concept demonstration to full flight test capacity in FY25.
This S²MARTS announcement is intended to survey U.S. companies in the silicon carbide defense supply chain industry through NSTXL’s Innovation Network. The objective is to gather information related to the extent that U.S. companies have developed, or are willing to develop, a set of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor devices and packages, including modules, operating at <5 kV, with standardized performance and mechanical specifications for defense applications.
Microelectronics Commons will support prototype projects across six technical areas that are critical to the DoD. Those areas are: Secure Edge Computing/Internet of Things, 5G/6G Technology, Artificial Intelligence Hardware, Quantum Technology, Electromagnetic Warfare, and Commercial Leap Ahead.
The Department of Defense (DoD) has released the Call for Projects for the Microelectronics Commons Electromagnetic Warfare technology area. There are multiple projects within this technology area. Please review the full Call for Projects for more information.
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane is seeking prototype solutions for the productization and Qualified Manufacturers List qualification of a Rad-Hard By Design Application Specific Integrated Circuit platform and a rad-hard processor, in accordance with MIL-PRF-38535.
Demonstration of Aero Structures for Hypersonics – Manufacturing Optimization and Testing (DASH-MOT)
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane is seeking prototype solutions to expand the Navy’s capability to design, manufacture, characterize, and test hypersonic ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials.
This S2MARTS announcement is intended to pulse NSTXL’s Innovation Network to discover potential solutions that will evolve into a Weapon Performance Analysis Tool Suite (WPATS). This request is for planning purposes only and does not constitute a Request for Solution or an invitation to submit formal proposals. The Government & NSTXL are not liable for reimbursing any costs associated with response preparation.
The Department of Defense (DoD) has released the Call for Projects for the Microelectronics Commons 5G/6G technology area. There are multiple projects within this technology area. Please review the full Call for Projects for more information.
The Department of Defense (DoD) has released the Call for Projects for the Microelectronics Commons Artificial Intelligence Hardware technology area. There are multiple projects within this Microelectronics Commons technology area. Please review the full Call for Projects for more information.
The Department of Defense (DoD) has released the Call for Projects for the Microelectronics Commons Secure Edge Computing/IoT. There are multiple projects within this technology area. Please review the full Call for Projects for more information.
The Department of Navy (DoN) is seeking a prototype software application that they call a Firmware Bill of Materials Extractor (FBME). In this context, firmware refers to low-level software that executes on a microcontroller or microprocessor, either in an embedded system or as the foundation of the software stack for a general-purpose computer.
The Department of Defense (DoD) has released the Call for Projects for the Microelectronics Commons Quantum technology area. There are multiple projects within this technology area. Please review the full Call for Projects for more information.
The Department of Defense (DoD) has released the Call for Projects for the Microelectronics Commons Commercial Leap-Ahead technology area. There are multiple projects within this technology area. Please review the full Call for Projects for more information.
The Department of Navy (DoN) is seeking a prototype for a broadband, freefall Radio Frequency (RF) Countermeasures (CM) AED to use independently or in conjunction with other on/off-board countermeasures.
As to the next iteration to STEAM PIPE, the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Research & Engineering (OUSD(R&E))’s Trusted & Assured Microelectronics program is seeking advanced packaging prototype devices that will 1) transition into a targeted military system and 2) be made available to the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) for broad use in military systems.
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane is seeking a prototype solution for a hybrid electric platform with high power and high energy solutions on a lighter classed vehicle which is critical to meeting future warfighting concepts.
This S2MARTS announcement is intended to pulse NSTXL’s Innovation Network to discover potential solutions that will evolve conformal/flexible antenna technology. This request is for planning purposes only and does not constitute a Request for Solution or an invitation to submit formal proposals. The Government & NSTXL are not liable for reimbursing any costs associated with response preparation.
Utilizing U.S.C. 4021 through S²MARTS Research, the Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking research to expand their capability to design, process, characterize, and test materials for research and development.
The purpose of the Joint Acceleration of Hypersonic Vehicle Aerostructure Alternatives (JAHVAA) program is to extend material and processing development and testing of non-Carbon/Carbon (C/C) Thermal Protection System (TPS) materials to establish trusted design allowable data, driving down material transition risks and enabling greater flexibility in hypersonic systems design.
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane is establishing a modular and flexible, system-level HWIL for avionics analysis. Prototype solutions are being sought for a system-level HWIL infrastructure to support the verification of system and mission performance, and to provide a platform to test and integrate advanced capabilities under various environmental and threat stimuli in real-time.
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane seeks to expand its partnership with traditional and nontraditional industry sources to identify solutions for weapons system Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) accuracy opportunities and execute rapid demonstration for potential inclusion to a fielded program portfolio. The intent is to identify, accelerate maturity, and demonstrate technologies in simulated lab environments and onboard development flight tests. Upon development and successful demonstration, NSWC Crane will consider the technologies for program portfolio inclusion.
The Department of the Navy (DoN) and the United States Special Operations Command is seeking to develop direction finding antenna system by modifying the latest antenna technology commercially available providing an improvement in the ability to collect, process, locate and exploit Signals of Interest (SOI) enhancing the mission performance of providing timely, relevant, and responsive threat avoidance information.
The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Research & Engineering (OUSD(R&E))’s Trusted & Assured Microelectronics program is seeking advanced packaging prototype devices that will 1) transition into a targeted military system and 2) be made available to the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) for broad use in military systems.
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking prototypes in support of the GAMMA-H project to comprehensively advance the domestic manufacturing readiness in support of hypersonic cruise missile (HCM) development and transition to production.
The GAMMA-H opportunity was awarded on 28 September 2023.
The Government team would like to thank all companies for their time and effort spent responding to this opportunity.
The SHIP Program – also referred to as State of the Art Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging – is developing four prototype Multichip Packages (MCPs). Building off of the successful SHIP program, a pilot will be established to facilitate the transition of these MCPs to military systems by partnering with the Defense Industrial Base. The pilot program will be called Stimulating Transition for Advanced Microelectronics Packaging (STAMP).
The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Research & Engineering (OUSD(R&E))’s Microelectronics program has a need for domestic prototyping capability to accelerate technology demonstration. Due to the very high complexity of integrated microelectronic systems today, there is an urgent need to establish a network of domestic prototyping facilities to demonstrate, at-scale, the system-level benefits...
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking an experimentation project due to the result of Hypersonic flight environments in extreme heat loads which necessitate the use of high-temperature capable Carbon/Carbon (C/C) composites for thermal protection systems (TPS) and hot structures. Unfortunately, C/C manufacturing capability in the United States has atrophied...
The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking a prototype that establishes the capability to manage electronic parts across the enterprise. The purpose of this prototype is to grant visibility into the supply chain, enable better supply chain risk management, allow aggregation of demand, improve purchasing power, enable collaborative solutions to obsolescence and other parts...
Please note: only members with an active DD2345 can access the documentation for ECLIPSE. If you are not a member and wish to submit on this opportunity, please contact membership@nstxl.org and attach a copy of your active DD2345.
The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Research & Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) Trusted & Assured Microelectronics (T&AM) program is seeking to mature co-packaged optics (CPO), laser sources, and associated advanced packaging techniques for prototype demonstration and technology transition into the DoD advanced packaging ecosystem and the Defense Industrial Base …
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking an experimentation project resulting in a proof of concept and prototype demonstration of modular Experimental Glide Body (EGB) testing hypersonic technologies/experimental payloads in operational trajectories using already available boosters.
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking a manufacturing proof-of-concept prototype for high-rate production of composite parts and assemblies with complex geometries for hypersonic vehicle applications that produces trusted quality parts with significant reduction in per unit time.
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking prototypes that fabricate/demonstrate a total of three articles (two unclassified and one classified) using Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI) Carbon/Silicon Carbide (C/SiC) densification of carbon fiber preforms.
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking prototypes that demonstrate one or more Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques to protect against one or more identified Technology Protection (TP) threats.
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking prototype support in the area of Hypersonics Advanced Capabilities for Weapon System Improvements.
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking prototype support in maritime systems of expendable unmanned systems with subsystem integration.
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking prototype support in the area of Innovate Beyond 5G (IB5G) programming.
The United States Navy and Air Force, in support of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), is developing integrated circuit (IC) hardware and workflow prototypes that promote the use of assurance principles, feature protections, and correlation. The purpose of this prototype is to facilitate the rapid development of IC hardware …
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking prototyping support in the area of Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Test Capability (HAMTC).
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking support in the area of sUAS Advanced Technique Development...
S²MARTS Request for Network Insight (RNI) in support of Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes (RAMP) using Advanced Commercial SoC Chipsets.
Sponsored by OUSD(R&E) Trusted & Assured Microelectronics program, the State-of-the-Art Radio Frequency Gallium Nitride (STARRY NITE) program is establishing a mature portfolio of domestic RF GaN foundries, which offers open access to millimeter-wave (mmW) technology and product transition paths into the DoD Advanced Packaging ecosystem.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking prototype solutions for Advanced Scanning Optical Microscopes (ASOM) Capability Expansion.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) requires a prototype subminiature Radio Frequency (RF) signal processing payload subsystem for integration into a maritime system of expendable unmanned systems.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking prototype support for the Frequency Selected Limiters Manufacturing Development Project.
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is seeking support to document and provide open systems architecture that defines the requirements and interfaces of a reference High Level Data Fusion (HLDF) prototype capability in support of a Command and Control (C2) system.
The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division is seeking prototype support to address Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) within Hypersonics.
The United States Navy and Air Force, in support of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), is developing integrated circuit (IC) hardware and workflow prototypes that promote the use of assurance principles, feature protections, and correlation.
The Department of the Navy is seeking a prototype support to address spectral calibration and associated noise characterization of detection devices with an emphasis on spectral cameras.
The Department of the Navy is seeking prototype support to address Modeling & Simulation (M&S) issues in the area of countermeasures and countermeasure techniques to protect U.S. aircraft from threat missile systems.
The Department of Defense is seeking support to determine if there is capability to design, engineer, test, and manufacture Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology and/or improve Universal Excited Upgrade (iUEU) addressing obsolescence with Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) functionality prototypes...
The Department of Defense (DoD) currently has no on-shore access to foundry technology capable of meeting the long-term leading edge (<7nm Digital Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) node) microelectronics fabrication needs for DoD specific designs or commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components.
Canceled - FY21 budget shortfall and de-prioritization of this requirement.
The Department of the Navy is seeking prototype support in accordance with an Alternative, Non-GPS Navigational Tool for Hypersonics Weapons Systems.
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division is seeking prototype support to address Modeling & Simulation issues in the area of countermeasures and countermeasure techniques to protect U.S. aircraft from threat missile systems.
The Department of Defense is seeking prototyping support to address Modeling & Simulation issues in the area of countermeasures and countermeasure techniques.
The Navy desires to develop a state-of-the-art (SOTA) heterogeneous integrated packaging (SHIP) prototype to demonstrate enhanced fabrication and packaging access for the Department of Defense (DoD) programs.
The DoD has a requirement to develop an Autonomous Flight Safety System (AFSS) that reduces range safety costs by eliminating much of the range safety tracking sources and decision logic onboard flight vehicles.
One of the primary missions of the Infrared/Radio Frequency (IR/RF) System Technologies Division (WXR), and the Countermeasure Design Branch (WXRL) at NSWC Crane, is to develop countermeasures to protect U.S. aircraft from threat missile systems.
The evolving requirement of the U.S. strategic missile programs have required the continual development of highly capable advanced composite materials such as Carbon/Carbon (C/C) and Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) to deliver differentiated missile performance.
The Department of Defense (DoD) desires to enhance strategic mission capabilities by exploring Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance autonomous stratospheric technology.
This S2MARTS announcement is intended to pulse NSTXL’s Innovation Network to discover potential solutions that will evolve radiation testing.
S²MARTS Project No. 20-04: The DoD is seeking prototyping support to address Obsolescence, Data Management and Re-Engineering issues. In order to achieve DoD strategic goals, obsolescence management is of ever-increasing importance.
Innovative Prototyping Concepts for Using Additive Manufacturing (AM) for Technology Protection (TP)
Recent advances in Additive Manufacturing (AM), commonly referred to as 3D printing, may be able to play a significant role in the next generation of Technology Protection (TP) techniques.
The Navy desires a prototype software application that we call Printed Circuit Board Analysis Tool (PCBAT). Printed circuit board analysis, in this context, is the automation of assessing the physical configuration, condition, and provenance of electronics and associated components on printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) to manage supply chain risk; these efforts are done manually today at a high cost
Opportunity Notification: S2MARTS has received notice from the Requiring Activity (RA) partner, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), Research & Advanced Concepts Division (SMDC-TCP-AR), Air & Missile Defense Directorate, Technical Center, of revised requirements and funding profile, which has resulted in the cancellation of the Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) Technology Advanced Testbed (TAT) Prototype Project.
The DoD desires the capability to detect and counter emerging threats in the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), providing warfighters with an enhanced understanding of their battlefield environment. The RFSD aims to collect and analyze RF signals to compare against a baseline environment, and automatically alert warfighters to anomalous signals.
The United States Navy and Air Force, in support of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), is developing integrated circuit (IC) hardware and workflow prototypes that promote the use of assurance principles, feature protections, and correlation.
The Department of Defense desires the development of capability sets that can replicate with high fidelity a wide band and dynamic range of electromagnetic spectrum waveforms and signatures in both frequency and power.
The DoD desires innovative prototype solutions for predictive models that utilize novel approaches to analyze, forecast and identify multi-domain capability gaps related to Electronic Warfare (EW), Information Warfare (IW), Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO), Electromagnetic Warfare (EMW), and Cyber Warfare.
The DoD is seeking innovative solutions for prototype radiation-hardened by design (RHBD) libraries in both the 45RF and 22FDX technology nodes available from GlobalFoundries.
The DoD desires innovative prototype solutions for an Autonomous Fiber Optic Sensor Network (A-FOSN), a passive opto-acoustic fiber optics sensor system that measures the micro strain of sound waves on continuous wave laser light utilized in a buried fiber optic cable array for detecting intruders into U.S. Navy ports.
As part of this effort, a part-centric supply chain tool will be developed that will determine the supply chain risk of specified microelectronic components so that DoD programs can make more informed decisions on selection of components for system design and overall acquisition process.
The Navy desires to develop a state-of-the-art (SOTA) heterogeneous integrated packaging (SHIP) prototype to demonstrate enhanced fabrication and packaging access for the Department of Defense (DoD) programs.
The US Army desires to prototype advanced test and assessment processes and methodologies to support the development, demonstration, and assessment of a Hardware in the Loop (HWIL) Technology Advancement Testbed (TAT) comprised of a family of systems and simulated environments.
This project will seek proposals for the development of prototype processes and materials for the manufacture of very high density substrate, interposer and redistribution layer electronic device packaging interconnect products using polymer based substrate materials.
The DoD is seeking innovative solutions for radiation-hardened intellectual property or prototype circuits that can be utilized for a radiation-hardened System-on-a-Chip at or below the 45-nm technology node.
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