The Demand Signal: AI

The Naval Research Laboratory seeks sources to provide a General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) server for geospatial artificial intelligence applications.

The VA Office of Security and Law Enforcement seeks a new video surveillance system for the West Los Angeles VA Campus that incorporates AI‑based weapon detection to improve real‑time security monitoring.

DARPA seeks to create automated tools that model, analyze, and repair modern market designs using large language models to enhance economic sector resilience against disruptive attacks.

The government seeks to procure a robotic manipulation and teleoperation AI platform.

The U.S. Coast Guard Surface Force Logistics Center seeks training for three personnel on using artificial intelligence for data‑driven decision making.

NATO HQ SACT seeks proposals to assess how quantum computing can enhance modelling and simulation capabilities for future strategic studies.

The Department of Defense seeks a single turnkey high‑performance AI/ML workstation built on NVIDIA Grace/Blackwell architecture for the 812 TSS/ENT AI/ML section at Edwards AFB.

The FDA seeks market research from small businesses to provide AI‑enabled cybersecurity engineering services, including compliance monitoring and continuous authorization.

The Navy seeks an AI/ML capability that can ingest legacy technical documentation and automatically generate SysML models for Model‑Based Systems Engineering, starting with the AEGIS Combat System.

The Navy seeks to develop a unified, modular open‑architecture platform (Zeus/OLYMPUS) to integrate shipboard systems, improve maritime domain awareness, and reduce logistics costs.

The Navy seeks a secure low-code/no-code software toolkit to automatically convert diverse data into photorealistic 3‑D assets for AR/MR and LVC training, reducing content creation time from weeks to days.

The Army is running the xTech Search 10 competition to select up to 16 small‑business finalists that will submit SBIR Phase I proposals for developing emerging technologies with potential Army modernization impact.

The Army Test and Evaluation Command seeks innovative solutions for AI assurance and autonomous system validation to ensure trustworthy performance of autonomous systems.

The Navy seeks to develop automated post‑mission debrief and rapid re‑planning tools for Collaborative Combat Aircraft using AI/ML analytics to improve mission effectiveness.

The Army seeks to identify breakthrough technologies through the xTech|Search competition, selecting up to 16 finalists for Phase I SBIR proposals worth up to $300,000 each.

DARPA seeks a low‑power, real‑time semantic communication system for tactical ISR platforms that dramatically reduces transmitted data while preserving mission context.

The DoD seeks a real‑time computational pipeline and hardware prototype for 3D imaging and tracking to improve directed‑energy counter‑drone and missile defense.

The Navy seeks a software tool to automatically convert legacy technical manuals into XML for viewing in an Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMS) viewer and display step‑by‑step instructions in AR/XR environments.

The U.S. Navy seeks a scalable, user‑friendly analytics platform that can ingest diverse data sources and provide conversational, visual insights for post‑mission reporting.

The Navy seeks an edge‑deployed, explainable AI Digital Twin platform to perform condition‑based maintenance on carrier‑based systems such as the Advanced Arresting Gear.

The Navy seeks to develop a field‑programmable gate array (FPGA) based cognitive capability that detects and classifies low‑probability‑of‑intercept radar waveforms for electronic warfare training.

DARPA seeks SBIR proposals to develop and demonstrate critical subsystems for an integrated underwater 3D concrete printing system that uses local sediments and seawater.

The Department of Defense seeks AI/ML‑based compression algorithms to reduce the storage and transmission bandwidth of raw radar (including SAR) data while preserving detection performance.

The DoD seeks SBIR research to create brain‑inspired AI that integrates multiple neural network paradigms into a low size, weight, and power architecture for deployment on resource‑constrained platforms.

The Department of Defense seeks data, analytics, and artificial intelligence modernization services.

The U.S. Coast Guard Surface Force Logistics Center seeks training for three personnel on using artificial intelligence for data‑driven decision making.

The Department of the Army seeks whitepapers to develop an Agentic C2 Framework tool that autonomously navigates digital infrastructures and neutralizes threats.

The government seeks to procure a robotic manipulation and teleoperation AI platform.

The VA Office of Security and Law Enforcement seeks a new video surveillance system for the West Los Angeles VA Campus that incorporates AI‑based weapon detection to improve real‑time security monitoring.

The U.S. Coast Guard seeks industry input on mature technologies to enhance its Coastal Sentinel maritime surveillance and command‑and‑control capability.

The FBI is seeking proposals to purchase enterprise artificial intelligence compute servers, rack‑scale and pod‑scale AI systems, inference servers, networking components, software licenses, and support services.

The Department of Defense seeks data, analytics, and artificial intelligence modernization services.

The Navy seeks proposals to prototype a unified four‑environment network architecture that consolidates its information technology and data systems, aiming to cut costs, improve cybersecurity, and enable advanced analytics.

The U.S. Navy seeks an Expeditionary Very Low Frequency (ExVLF) transmitter system that can be containerized, deployed on an aerostat‑tethered antenna and operate 24/7 for data broadcast to maritime and shore nodes.

The Navy seeks an Automated Scanning System that uses AI/ML to detect and characterize defects in ultrasonic inspections of composite bond lines for its Air Systems Group.