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Office of Naval Research SCOUTs for Industry Innovation

The program will host an innovation exchange next week.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) SCOUT team is inviting industry partners to discuss cutting-edge concepts and solutions during an Industry Innovation Exchange on Tuesday, April 4, during the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition, held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

ONR SCOUT is an ongoing, multiagency campaign to identify new ways to bring novel capabilities to warfighter challenges, experiment with them in realistic operating conditions, and operationalize them in partnership with the fleet and force. The campaign works with U.S. Southern Command, Joint Interagency Task Force South and U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command to find all-domain capabilities and unmanned technologies to detect, track and monitor illicit drug trafficking in the maritime environment.

SCOUT is now partnering with U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT) to address problem areas identified by both warfighters and senior leadership with the intention of operationalizing capabilities over a one- to three-year period.

These include:

  • Long-Range Fires — Defeating adversary amphibious forces in contested environments by fielding cost-effective, lethal asymmetric capabilities, including unmanned systems.
  • Naval Operational Architecture — Developing agile, resilient and secure networks to target, engage and assess adversaries; conduct offense operations in contested environments; and pair weapons with targets and other weapons to enhance lethality.
  • Contested Logistics — Delivering maritime intra-theater logistics (fuel, munitions, food, repair parts, etc.) to sustain combat operations in highly contested environments.
  • Counter-C5ISRT — Enhancing tactical-level capabilities to reduce risk to current manned forces.

 

ONR and PACFLT intend to solicit innovations and partner with industry through a process of “intentional innovation” to tailor and mature candidate technologies in conjunction with PACFLT’s Unmanned Systems Experimentation Campaign, according to an ONR press release.

As part of the SCOUT campaign, the ONR is looking to its NavalX innovation and agility cell to evaluate PACFLT’s problem areas. NavalX specializes in connecting initiatives across the Department of Defense and enables collaboration; accelerates the pace of discovery, learning and experimentation; and fosters the naval workforce’s capacity for innovation and agility.