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Asymmetric Collaborative Counter Swarm is sponsored by Department of Defense (SBIR) / Army SBIR|STTR Program. This SBIR/STTR opportunity seeks to develop and integrate distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for collaboratively commanding and controlling a multi-agent Group 1 or Group 2 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) swarm to defend an area against a numerically superior enemy swarm.
The AI system must interface with existing platform autonomy and perception systems and not rely on a centralized control node. The majority of counter-UAS systems are optimized for a 1 vs 1 scenario, this grant aims to address the challenge of numerically superior enemy swarms.
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