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“Self-Replicating Evolutionary Agentic SI Swarming Force” with Autonomous Embedded SI Guardrail Enforcers

Department of War · Navy · SBIR Topic · 27.BZ

posted 4 November 2026 · closes 6 January 2027

Summary

The Department of War, Navy Office of Naval Research seeks proposals to develop a platform‑agnostic fully autonomous Agentic SI swarm system that can self‑replicate, evolve and operate across sea, air, space, land and cyber domains. The effort focuses on advanced artificial intelligence capabilities for hyper‑scalable, self‑organizing swarms with embedded guardrail agents to ensure safety, policy compliance and zero tolerance for rogue behavior.

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