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Find similar grantsCooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology (CAST) is sponsored by Office of Naval Research (ONR). Seeks to develop technologies for cooperative operations of unmanned maritime systems in diverse mission areas.
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Cooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology (CAST) Research Concentration Areas The CAST program supports basic research (6.
1) in the following areas: Distributive control and self-management Bio-inspired group behaviors /collective behavior Homogenous and heterogeneous groups Fault management / Re-configurability Research Challenges and Opportunities These are some examples of challenges and opportunities, this is not an exhaustive list, please reach out to the program officer for more information.
Investigate and develop distributed algorithms to allow a group of agents to function as a swarm. Underwater navigation is challenging, are there methods for improvement utilizing multiple vehicle or swarms? As adversaries are creating swarms, how will we counter them, are there novel technologies that will help?
Investigate the ability for swarms to operate with no communication amongst the participants. For detailed application and submission information for this research topic, please refer to our broad agency announcement (BAA) No. N0001425SB001 . Contracts: All white papers and full proposals for contracts must be submitted through the ONR Submission Portal ; instructions are included in the BAA.
Grants: All white papers for grants must be submitted through the ONR Submission Portal , and full proposals for grants must be submitted through grants. gov ; instructions are included in the BAA. christine.
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Applications for Cooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology (CAST) are due September 30, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Cooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology (CAST) is funded by Office of Naval Research (ONR). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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NOFO N0001426SF004 offers roughly 25 awards at $750,000 over 36 months to first- and second-appointment faculty. No cost share, no white paper stage — and an eligibility clock that admits PhDs earned on or after January 1, 2019 and nobody earlier. The program officer conversation, not the proposal, is the part most applicants get wrong.
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