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Autonomous Multi-Intelligence Acoustic Reasoning Agent for Anti-Submarine Warfare

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

posted 4 November 2026 · closes 6 January 2027

Summary

The Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research seeks proposals to develop an autonomous multi‑intelligence acoustic reasoning agent for anti‑submarine warfare that fuses passive and active acoustic detections with non‑acoustic maritime data and environmental context. The effort aims to create a decision‑support system deployable on unmanned surface vehicles to reduce reliance on human operators and enable distributed, explainable ASW operations.

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