U.S. Army Broad Agency Announcement for AI for Human-robot and human-AI interaction is sponsored by United States Military Academy. This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) from the U. S.

Military Academy solicits research proposals related to AI for human-robot and human-AI interaction.

01 April 2020 – 31 March 2025 U.S. Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Research Triangle Park Division P. O. Box 12211 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2211 # 1.

Formatting of the Announcement The following table provides an overview of the outline structure of this announcement: # 2. See Appendix 1 for a Table of Acronyms used in this announcement. TABLE OF CONTENTS I.

OVERVIEW OF THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 1 A. Required Overview Content 3 2. Research Opportunity Title 3 4.

Research Opportunity Number 3 5. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number and Title 3 B. Additional Overview Information 4 II.

DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 5 1. Ballistics, Weapons, and Protections (BWT) Campaign 5 a. Blast Protection of Structures 5 b.

Future Aviation Capabilities Research and Development 5 c. Next Generation Combat Vehicle Research and Development 5 d. Ballistics and Weapons Engineering Research and Development 5 e.

Next Generation Soldier Systems Research and Development 6 2. Infrastructure, Energy , Resilience and Sustainability (ES) Campaign 6 a. Sustainability and Energy Resilience Research 6 b.

Environmental Resilience, Sustainability, and Climate Research 7 c. Critical Infrastructure Resilience 7 3. Materials, Measurements, and Experiments (MMF) Campaign 8 a.

Research and Development for Combating Corrosion and Improving Materiel b. Advanced MRI Measurements for Data Analysis and Model Validation 8 c. Material Science and Rapid Prototyping Research 8 4.

Unmanned Systems and Space (USS) Campaign 8 a. Next Generation Unmanned Systems Research and Development 9 b. Robotic Systems Research and Development 9 c.

Space Engineering and Rocket Technology Research 9 5. Human Support Systems (HSS) Campaign 9 a. Biomechanical Engineering 9 b.

Wearable Technologies and Sensors 10 c. Design for Future Combat Leaders 10 d. Health, Nutrition, and Artificial Intelligence 10 6.

Emerging Technologies Campaign 11 a. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cyber Security 11 c. Internet of Things (IOT) 12 d.

AI for Human-robot and human-AI interaction 12 e. Data Science Campaign 14 f. Strategic Foresight on Emerging Technologies 14 7.

Life Science Campaign 14 b. Clinical Studies and Genetics 15 d. Neurophysiology of Cognition 16 e.

Biomaterials and Additive Manufacturing Thrust 17 8. USMA Special Programs 17 9. Social & Behavioral Sciences Campaign 18 a.

Military Force Structure and the Use of Force Research 18 b. Civil Affairs (CA) Solutions 18 c. Law and Policy of Cyber Operations Campaign 19 d.

Cultural Causes and Consequences of the Surveillance Economy 19 10. Combating Terrorism Campaign 20 b. Domestic Violent Extremism 21 c.

Technology and Terrorism 21 d. Counterterrorism Assessment 21 11. Simulations Modernization Campaign 21 a.

Market Research about Simulations for training and education 21 b. Applied research about modeling and simulation for training and education 22 c. Simulated Small Unit Combat Research and Development 22 d.

Automated Tactical Exercise Simulation for Military Science 22 f. Simulation for Training Cooperation 23 12. Curriculum and Outreach Campaign 23 a.

Education and Outreach 23 b. Character of Future Warfare 24 c. Honor, Ethics, and Character Development 24 d.

Novel Methods for Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing 24 e. Performance Workshops Supporting Education Initiatives 24 B. Federal Award Information 25 C.

Eligibility Information 28 1. Eligible Applicants 28 2. Cost Sharing or Matching 28 D.

Application and Submission Information 29 1. Address to View Broad Agency Announcement 29 2. Content and Form of Application Submission 29 3.

Unique Entity Identifier and System for Award Management (SAM) 41 4. Submission Dates and Times 42 5. Intergovernmental Review 42 6.

Funding Restrictions 42 7. Other Submission Requirements 42 E. Application Review Information 43 2.

Review and Selection Process 43 3. Recipient Qualification 44 F. Award Administration Information 46 2.

Administrative and National Policy Requirements 46 a. Required Representations and Certifications 46 b. Policy Requirements 48 1.

Contract Proposals 55 2. Grant and Cooperative Agreement Proposals 62 APPENDIX 1: TABLE OF ACRONYMS 67 1 I.

OVERVIEW OF THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY The U.S. Military Academy at West Point's mission is "to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army." The United States Military Academy is located at West Point, New York.

USMA executes research to enhance the education of cadets, develop the faculty professionally, and address important issues facing the Army and the Nation. In addition, the Academy conducts research and analysis in emerging fields that may realize novel or vastly improved Army capabilities. At West Point, research is organized and administered through centers and institutes, most of which reside within academic departments.

These centers and institutes, affiliated with each other through the Academy Research Council (ARC), coordinated and supported by the Academic Research Division (ARD), provide the infrastructure necessary to tackle the Nation’s and the world’s most challenging problems.

Our research centers and institutes bring context to the classroom, are central to our vibrant and pioneering faculty, and are one way West Point connects to the Army and to the Nation. Our students are driven, our faculty is world-class, and through our centers, scholars and scientists thrive and produce their best work.

Cadets regularly win Best Paper Awards at national and international graduate-level conferences, our faculty hold fellowships and chairmanships in their discipline's national organizations and our products are deployed to the Soldier. In addition to applied research, there are centers and institutes at West Point that focus on other aspects of the USMA mission.

The USMA BAA identifies topics of interest to the USMA departments, directorates, and research centers and institutes. These groups focus on executing in-house research programs, with a significant emphasis on collaborative research with other organizations. The groups fund a modest amount of extramural research in certain specific areas, and those areas are described in this BAA.

The USMA BAA seeks proposals from institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, foreign organizations, foreign public entities, and for-profit organizations (i.e., large and small businesses) for research based on the following campaigns: Ballistics, Weapons, and Protections; Infrastructure, Energy, Resilience and Sustainability (ES); Materials, Measurements, and Experiments; Unmanned Systems and Space; Human Support Systems; Emerging Technologies (ET); Life Sciences; USMA Special Programs; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Combating Terrorism; and Simulations Modernization.

Proposals are sought for cutting-edge innovative research that could produce discoveries with a significant impact to enable new and improved Army technologies and related operational capabilities and related technologies. The specific research areas and topics of interest described in this document should be viewed as suggestive, rather than limiting.

Prospective applicants contemplating submission of a whitepaper or proposal are strongly encouraged to contact the appropriate Technical Point of Contact (TPOC). The TPOCs’ names, telephone numbers, and email addresses are listed immediately after each research area of interest. If requested by the TPOC, a whitepaper should be prepared in accordance with the instructions contained in this BAA.

Upon receipt, a whitepaper will be evaluated, and the applicant will be advised of the results. Applicants whose whitepapers receive a favorable evaluation may be encouraged to prepare a proposal in accordance with instructions contained in this BAA. The costs of whitepapers and/or proposals in response to this BAA are not considered an allowable direct charge to any award resulting from this BAA or any other award.

It may be an allowable expense to the normal bid and proposal indirect costs specified in FAR 31. 205-18. Proposals may be submitted at any time during the announcement period.

The Army has a long history of advocating and supporting research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MSI). USMA welcomes proposals from HBCUs and MSIs in full competition with all applicants who may submit proposals under this BAA. USMA also encourages the inclusion of HBCUs and/or MSIs as part of a consortium proposal or as sub-recipients to prime recipients.

In accordance with federal statutes, regulations, and Department of Defense (DoD) and Army policies, no 2 person on grounds of race, color, age, sex, national origin, or disability shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving financial assistance from the Army.

Applicants submitting proposals are cautioned that only a Contracting or Grants Officer can obligate the Government to any legal instrument involving expenditure of Government funds. All administrative inquiries regarding this BAA shall be submitted via email to: Brandon. s.

hill24. civ@army. mil.

Scientific and technical questions should be referred to the TPOCs shown following each research area of interest. Interested parties are encouraged to periodically check any of the following websites for updates and amendments to this BAA: www. grants.

gov, www. fbo. gov, and the USMA website, https ://www.

westpoint. edu/centers- and-research/academic-research-division/research-overview. The following website details the research centers at West Point: https://westpoint.

edu/centers-and-research. Lieutenant Colonel Brad McCoy, PhD Associate Dean for Research United States Military Academy 3 # A. Required Overview Content United States Military Academy # 2.

Issuing Acquisition Office: U.S. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground, Research Triangle Park (ACC- APG-RTP) Division # 3. Research Opportunity Title: USMA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) # 4. Announcement Type: Initial Announcement # 5.

Research Opportunity Number: W911NF-20-S-0008 # 6. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number and Title: 12. 431 – Basic Scientific Research This BAA is a continuously open announcement valid throughout the period from 01 April 2020 through 31 March 2025, unless announced otherwise.

4 # B. Additional Overview Information This BAA sets forth research areas of interest to the United States Military Academy. This BAA is issued under paragraph 6.

102(d)(2) of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which provides for the competitive selection of basic and applied research proposals, and 10 U.S.C. 2358, 10 U.S.C. 2371, and 10 U.S.C.

2371b, which provide the authorities for issuing awards under this announcement for basic and applied research. The definitions of basic and applied research may be found at 32 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 22. 105.

Proposals submitted in response to this BAA and selected for award are considered to be the result of full and open competition and in full compliance with the provision of Public Law 98369, “The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984” and subsequent amendments. The DoD agencies involved in this program reserve the right to select for award all, some, or none of the proposals submitted in response to this announcement.

Due to Government budget uncertainties, no specific dollars have been reserved for awards under this BAA. The participating DoD agencies will provide no funding for direct reimbursement of whitepaper or proposal development costs. Whitepapers and technical and cost proposals (or any other material) submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned to the applicant.

Unless noted in an applicant’s proposal to the contrary, unsuccessful proposals will be retained for six (6) months from declination and then properly destroyed. It is the policy of participating DoD agencies to treat all proposals as sensitive, competitive information and to disclose their contents only for the purposes of evaluation.

An applicant may withdraw a proposal at any time before award by written notice or by email sent to the government point of contact identified in Section G of this BAA. 5 # II. DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 1.

Ballistics, Weapons, and Protections (BWT) Campaign a. Blast Protection of Structures and Vehicles. The blast imparted on a structure from close indirect fire or from improvised-explosive-devices (IEDs), while short in duration, may be orders of magnitude larger pressure than ordinary service loads.

Mines and buried IEDs are an increasingly deadly threat to our vehicles and the soldiers inside, and increasing the thickness of conventional armor has traditionally been the response, which adversely affects vehicle performance. More effective measures of protection require carefully chosen materials and geometries tailored for each specific situation.

This line of effort explores advances in high-performance materials, novel geometric structures, as well as recent advances in additive manufacturing technologies to greatly increase the resilience of our structural and armor systems. The work examines structural optimization via field tests in conjunction with cutting-edge high-fidelity computer simulations that use high-performance computers.

The resulting engineering solutions inform both next-generation designs and retrofit of existing systems and structures. TPOC: Dr. Joe Hanus, 845-938-4099, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu b.

Future Aviation Capabilities Research and Development. This research area informs future technologies for improving the efficiency, performance, lethality, interoperability, and survivability of Army Aviation manned and unmanned platforms.

Key technologies, concepts, and capabilities include additive manufacturing of aviation components and repair parts, air-launched effects, integration of manned and unmanned systems, vibration isolation and reduction, noise reduction, drag reduction of exposed bodies, active flow control, morphing structures, and pilot-vehicle interface technologies, hardening of the fuel system, fuel system analyses, structural health monitoring, predictive maintenance, model based systems engineering environments, and rotor blade erosion analysis and prevention.

Further tasks include analyzing the impact of aerodynamic interference between rotors in multi-copter configurations, analyzing and assessing reliability and maintainability of Future Vertical Lift (FVL) proposals, and conducting manned and unmanned aircraft analysis using modeling, simulation and surrogate vehicles.

These technologies are sought to reduce vehicle weight, improve performance, reliability, maintainability, reduce the auditory, visual, and EO/radar signature of Army aircraft, improve pilot situational awareness, facilitate operations in degraded visual environments, facilitate optional vehicle autonomy, allow for manned-unmanned teaming, and increase battlefield effectiveness.

TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu c. Next Generation Combat Vehicle Research and Development.

This research will inform future mobility, lethality, and survivability tradeoffs within the Army’s suite of ground combat platforms from light tactical vehicle to heavy combat systems.

The research includes, but is not limited to, the modeling and testing of future active suspension technologies for increased platform trafficability and stability, future energy-absorbing armor concepts that will simultaneously reduce vehicle weight and increase Soldier protection, design of auxiliary power range extenders for electric vehicles, design and development of modular strap-on equipment that can interface with a future vehicle’s power, structure, command and control systems, vehicle autonomy implementation that will allow for optional manning and future powertrain development that will decrease vehicle auditory signature and increase vehicle operating range.

Topics may also include research and analysis of the electrification of combat vehicles or the use of novel power plants that are independent of carbon-based fossil fuels. TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu d.

Ballistics and Weapons Engineering Research and Development. This research area will enlighten future ballistics and weapons engineering design pursuits across the range of Army combat power generation systems from small caliber, individual and crew-served weapons to large caliber, ground combat systems.

The research and development is associated with the theory, modeling and experimental analysis of future weapon systems as related to terminal, exterior and interior ballistic performance and metrics.

6 The work includes but is not limited to signature reduction, weapon system sensors, non-lethal technologies, novel cargo projectiles, electromagnetic launch, gun mounts, heat dissipation, drone defeat, accuracy and precision enhancement, insensitive munitions, extended range, hypervelocity impact physics, experimental research, and guidance technologies. TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu e.

Next Generation Soldier Systems Research and Development. This research area will inform future Soldier lethality and sustainment through the design of future non-weapons related Soldier equipment.

The research is not limited to the ideation and prototype of future Soldier systems in the areas of mobile command posts, aerial delivery systems, Soldier load carrying systems, future camouflage and deception/concealment systems, future force projection and force sustainment concepts, advanced in individual body armor and protective technology, and future Soldier sensor systems.

TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu 2. Infrastructure, Energy, Resilience and Sustainability (IERS) Campaign.

This campaign focuses on research that contributes to securing critical infrastructure, designing and building resilient infrastructure, and designing and building sustainable infrastructure. The goal is to improve the critical infrastructure resilience of communities and military installations.

Our research explores energy, water, human factors, organizational structure, networks, cyber psychology, cyber ranges, and cyber education as related to any and all of the critical infrastructure sectors, defined by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as well as those of military bases and military communities.

Our research aims to provide new capabilities to: # • Understand gaps in critical infrastructure research # • Explore information sharing (what is shared, to whom, how quickly, how much information) # • Determine what aspects of critical resilience exercise planning can be automated # • Understand the needs of communities and installations in developing critical infrastructure resilience # • Better emulate operational technology for improved cyber range support # • Explore decision-making when there is a critical infrastructure cyber event # • Explore the impacts of critical infrastructure disruption events on other sectors and/or military movement Our research has the potential to: # • Automate portions of the exercise planning process # • Integrate existing frameworks and knowledge bases into a scalable, repeatable critical infrastructure resilience framework # • Develop a rich picture of readiness using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative data # • Provide communities and military installations with a road map to critical infrastructure resilience # • Model and simulate impacts of critical infrastructure disruptions # • Standardize metrics for measuring impacts of disruptions, information sharing, organizational planning, and/or other difficult to measure factors in incident response # • Determine regional and local trends in critical infrastructure incident response and preparedness a.

Sustainability and Energy Resilience Research. This research area will inform the development of sustainable defense and civilian public infrastructure and energy systems both at home station and on the battlefield.

Research areas include the design and analysis of 7 technologies associated with sustainable infrastructure and hardware for the Army such as resilient energy delivery, storage and consumption systems, assessment of alternative and synthetic fuel production, renewable energy use in industrial processes, utilization of waste products to improve system efficiency; sustainable maintenance and structural health monitoring of public facilities and infrastructure to include buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, locks, dams, harbors, and similar infrastructure from natural threats such as wear and corrosion, as well as man-made physical, cyber, RF and emerging threats; analysis of future trends associated with environmental and geo-political changes and their effect on defense and civilian infrastructure, energy resilience, and operational flexibility.

Research can include material degradation from corrosion and other forms of wear that are unique to DoD applications as well as novel applications of concrete technology in support of both vertical and horizontal construction as well as blast resilient structures.

Research can also address novel construction materials, including but not limited to cross laminated timber, structural insulated panels, or advanced/enhanced sustainability concrete materials to determine the defense-application benefits of these materials as well as the potential risks associated with using them in defense applications such as blast response, thermal signatures, RF transparency, etc. Analysis of both home station / installation applications of various technologies and deployed / operational applications is of interest.

Deployed applications of energy and sustainability can include, but are not limited to, electrification of combat vehicles, energy support of future weapons such as directed energy systems, and mobile or micro-nuclear power technology, the survivability, distribution, and logistics considerations of novel or alternative fuel sources and analysis of renewable energy options for operational energy consumption and usage.

TPOC: Dr. Todd Davidson, 845-938-4694, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu b. Environmental Resilience, Sustainability, and Climate Research The Sustainable Infrastructure, Resilience, and Climate Consortium (SIRCC) is interested in researching and developing solutions to Department of Defense (DoD) environmental resilience, sustainability, and climate-related challenges.

Areas of examination can include DoD installations and buildings (real property), DoD equipment, and DoD logistical supply chains. These challenges can apply to permanent DoD installations and/or short-term overseas contingency bases.

Topics for examination include carbon emission sources, carbon emission reduction, environmental impacts from emissions, greenhouse gas inventories for installations and buildings, implementation of renewable energy technologies and microgrids, resource recovery from “wastes,” climate-related vulnerabilities, water and water infrastructure resilience, climate policy, climate security, and energy security.

TPOC: LTC Andrew Pfluger, (845) 938-2930, andrew. pfluger@westpoint. edu c.

Critical Infrastructure Resilience The Government relies on civilian critical infrastructure to support military installations and military movement. Research is needed in the following areas: i. Developing a scalable, repeatable framework for communities and installations to use ii.

Understanding interdependencies between civilian critical infrastructure and military installations and military movement iii. Understanding the concerns of communities pertaining to critical infrastructure protection and resilience iv. Determining the impacts of critical infrastructure disruption events v.

Expanding the number of locations that can participate in Jack Voltaic TM events vi. Studying how much critical infrastructure resilience planning can be automated vii. Improving standardization of data collection for a more meaningful analysis viii.

Using data collected to model and simulate impacts of critical infrastructure events on military installations and military movement ix. Emulating operational technology to allow for its inclusion in cyber range events x. Sharing information gained from Jack Voltaic TM events with stakeholders and those who may benefit xi.

Visualizing critical infrastructure interdependency and impact data xii. Any other topics that can improve critical infrastructure protection or resilience TPOC: Dr. Karen Guttieri, karen. guttieri@westpoint.

edu 8 3. Materials, Measurements, and Experiments (MME) Campaign. a.

Research and Development for Combating Corrosion and Improving Materiel Readiness. The Center for Innovation and Engineering (CIE) is interested in researching and developing solutions to mitigate and prevent the corrosion of Army assets.

Current research projects in the CIE are focused on designing detection systems for corrosion on structures and researching new corrosion resistant metal alloys; however future research projects are not limited to metals as all materials currently utilized by the Army are subject to degradation by their surrounding environment.

Additionally, the CIE is interested in research on curricular development for promoting corrosion education to the future workforce of the Army through multi-disciplinary collaborations in order to increase the overall awareness and interest in combating corrosion. TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu b.

Advanced MRI Measurements for Data Analysis and Model Validation. This research involves leveraging advanced measurement diagnostics in water tunnel studies to research technological flows in a variety of capacities and fields related to aerodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and environmental flows.

Three basic modalities of experiments are envisioned and used interchangeably – time averaged, three-dimensional, three-component velocity field measurements in turbulent flows at isotropic resolutions approaching 0. 5mm in each direction; three-dimensional measurements of concentrations of a passive scalar in turbulent flows at isotropic resolutions of 0. 7 mm to 0.

5% full scale in scaled versions of complex terrain features subjected to steady or periodic releases of a contaminant; and time averaged three-dimensional temperature fields at similar resolutions for a thermally stratified turbulent flow field in complex geometries.

The techniques envisioned, termed Magnetic Resonance Velocimetry (MRV), Magnetic Resonance Concentration (MRC), and Magnetic Resonance Thermometry (MRT) respectively as described, leverage developing diagnostic techniques based on magnetic resonance imaging to rapidly acquire large, time-averaged, velocity, concentration, and temperature data sets that are of great practical utility for validation of computational models, model improvements, detailed physical analysis, and for understanding fundamental features of these important classes of flows.

Current primary applications for these studies involve exterior ballistics analysis for projectiles, mass transport and thermal studies within advanced gas turbine blades, and environmental flows involving contaminant dispersion within both urban areas and rugged rural terrain.

The experimental analysis is supported by computational comparisons using advanced numerical simulations that leverage in-situ boundary condition measurements and geometry files as initial conditions, and the data are available for comparison with other computational models, experimental data sets, and analyses. TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu c.

Material Science and Rapid Prototyping Research. This research area seeks to determine new insights into new materials and new fabrication techniques to provide enhanced performance of materials, structures, and energetics with a focus on defense related applications.

This research can include novel methods of 3D printing, including 3D printing ceramics, metals, biological material, soils, concrete, energetic material, or recycled materials; the sustainment challenges associated with 3D Printing; 3D Printing at the edge (such as on a Forward Operating Base), the challenges associated with materials degradation from 3D printed parts including corrosion and fatigue; and topology optimization of 3D Printing parts and components associated with defense systems.

Material Science topics can include research into the material properties of novel materials with defense applications to include nano-scale fabrication of materials, energetic material, smart materials and smart structures, bio-templating, advanced composites and polymers as well as rapid prototyping techniques. TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu 4.

Unmanned Systems and Space (USS) Campaign 9 a. Next Generation Unmanned Systems Research and Development This research area will inform future technologies for improving the efficiency, performance, lethality, interoperability, survivability of and protection from unmanned aerial and ground systems.

Key technologies, concepts, and capabilities include vehicle design and fabrication, sensor integration and processing, actuation, event-driven autonomy and decision making, multi-agent swarm control, manned-unmanned teaming, path planning, wireless communications, operator-vehicle interface, rapid and airborne deployment, field recovery systems, various counter-unmanned systems capabilities including the development of both cyber, physical, directed energy, or radio frequency-based techniques to neutralize, degrade, defeat, or destroy threat UAS, and agile field and flight testing of the above (UAS or Counter UAS systems).

These technologies are sought to maintain the Army and its future leaders on the leading edge of the rapidly evolving field of unmanned systems, as well as provide innovative and effective solutions to support the Soldier. TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu b.

Robotic Systems Research and Development.

This research area will inform the development and scoping of future robotic systems in defense-related environments to include unmanned or optionally manned ground and air systems, robotic drive systems, robotic control systems, unique robotic actuators, particularly with defense-related applications, robotic tethering and powering systems and methods, methods of developing autonomous behaviors and self-organizing (swarming) behaviors of groups of robots, methods of state estimation and control, particularly in GPS denied environments (including indoor or subterranean), methods for obstacle detection and avoidance, the terramechanics of ground vehicles, flight dynamics of novel air vehicles including quad rotors, flapping wing micro air vehicles, hybrid air vehicles, and air-launched vehicles.

The research can address multiple phases of the design process from ideation to the realization of testable prototypes. TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu c.

Space Engineering and Rocket Technology Research. This research area seeks to analyze, design, develop and test new technology associated with small, multi-stage rocket capability to achieve low earth orbit of small payloads (less than 50 lbs) or to enable the development and realization of a hypersonic air vehicle.

The research focus areas include on-board technology including rocket hardware analysis and development, rocket and flight path modeling, aerodynamic analysis, energetic development, development of state estimation, control and/or telemetry systems; design, development and implementation of safety hardware, and the analysis, development and design of alternative rocket fuels.

Research areas can additionally include any technology or study that facilitates the development or employment of this technology including usage cases, concept of the operation development, integration of the technology within the existing space infrastructure and policy landscape, technology to support the creation of a mobile space-launch capability or hypersonic-capable air vehicle.

TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu 5. Human Support Systems (HSS) Campaign a.

Biomechanical Engineering. This research area will inform the Department of Defense on biomechanical strategies to enhance soldier readiness. This includes human performance optimization, injury prediction and prevention, physical and cognitive augmentation, analysis of Return to Duty metrics, the influence of various powered prosthetics or exo-skeleton devices on human physical, metabolic, or cognitive functioning.

This work may include human subject testing, injury tracking, device design, literature reviews, code development, and simulation. TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu 10 b.

Wearable Technologies and Sensors This research area will inform the Department of Defense on the science of wearable technologies and cloud-based data collection, archiving, and analyses. The work can include research into the effect of wearable technology and the potential for wearable technology to inform decision relating to Soldier performance.

This work may include human subject testing, health tracking, activity monitoring, device design, advanced modelling and simulation. It can include monitoring and assessing soldier performance in various conditions utilizing approaches associated with biomechanics, load carriage performance nutrition, equipment use, injury prevention, and recovery times. TPOC: LTC Andy Bellocchio, 845-938-0563, CMEcie_director@westpoint.

edu c. Design for Future Combat Leaders. This research area will inform the way design is taught and practiced at West Point and the ways deeper experience with design might not only make better engineers but also more adaptive and agile leaders.

The research includes work on novel curricular structures and new pedagogical techniques. Through a thorough investigation of design across a wide variety of contexts and various disciplines, the research will serve to improve the way design is taught and practiced in academic and field environments in an engineering context and to inform the way engineering design is connected to design as it is taught in the operational Army.

These efforts will serve to enhance the broader aim of producing more innovative leaders. TPOC: Dr. Joe Hanus, 845-938-4099, CMEcie_director@westpoint. edu d.

Health, Nutrition, and Artificial Intelligence With rapid advances in nutrition research, new and large multi-modal data sources are being collected requiring novel computational and data science approaches and tools to advance our understanding in a way that accounts for the complex systems involved.

Developing data science and machine learning approaches and tools that help better understand and address the systems both within individuals and their environment could not only transform nutritional research and guidance, but also provide new data science methods to inform other areas of health such as infectious disease modeling, reproductive health, obesity research, and public health community based interventions.

This research will focus on • Distilling large multi-modal data sets (microbiome, sensor,ecological momentary ana • Identifying causal pathways in nutrition related outcomes • Predicting individual health outcomes resulting from changes in nutrition.

• Establishing software development procedures and processes for tool integrations into a third-party application, to include a testing environment • Design and implementation of a large scale cloud based data repository to support machine learning research • Design and implement tools to import data into cloud based repository to include