Transitioning Research into Department of Navy Capabilities through ONR NEPTUNE, NURP, and Undersea Power
Abstract
This proposal presents a comprehensive three-year strategy for the Hacking for Defense (H4D) Project at Stanford University from 2024-2027. The aim is to support the Hacking for Defense class at Stanford and the strategic objectives of three programs within Office of Naval Research (ONR): Naval Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Entrepreneurship (NEPTUNE), the NavalUndersea Research Program (NURP), and the Undersea Power & Energy Science and Technology (S&T) Program. Stanford H4D has been working with ONR to support the adoption of technologies by the Department of Navy (DoN) since 2017. During the first phase of the ONR grant (2017-2020), the H4D classroom curriculum was adapted to align 6.2 research being conducted in the NEPTUNE program with the DoN#s operational needs. During the program s second phase (2020-2024), H4D extended its support to 6.1 research within the NURP program. This proposal aims to deepen our collaboration with the NEPTUNE and NURP programs while expanding Stanford H4D#s support to the Undersea Power & Energy S&T Program.Stanford H4D proposes four core tasks: 1) ONR-H4D Training Sessions; 2) Support to PIs and Students; 3) Stanford Hacking for Defense class, and; 4) Veteran Engagements. Each of these tasks will contribute to ONR by enabling PIs and students to: #Uncover a deep unmet Navy user need and to explore a variety of ways academic research can be leveraged to address this need through follow-on research activities or the commercialization of the research/technology, and to articulate the fit between Navy need and academic research/technology using the Mission Model Canvas.#Identify key risks of applying research/technology to the Navy based on the user experiments and learning accomplished during the NEPTUNE/NURP/Undersea Power & Energy programs.#Incorporate learning on how academic research can be applied to meet real world Navy needs into developing a research agenda that will eventually lead to solving those needs.ONR has supported H4D at Stanford University to create concept-to-adoption pathways for technologies and products to reach defense systems and operators. Stanford support of NEPTUNE (since 2017) and NURP (since 2020) projects served to advance research along the Navy#s Innovation Pipeline by educating, training, and supporting basic researchers in applying their academic research to Navy use-cases. The outcome has been maturing research and accelerating research transitions. The proposed project outlines Stanford H4D#s continued involvement in NEPTUNE, NURP and Undersea Power & Energy Programs between Aug.1, 2024#Sept.30, 2027. Expanding and deepening Stanford#s involvement with the NEPTUNE/NURP/Undersea Power & Energy programs will continue to support projects transitioning from academic lab to defense capability. This project will be carried out under Prof. Roland Horne#s (Lead-PI), Prof. Fu-Kuo Chang#s (Co-PI), Prof. Tom Byers# (Co-PI) and Dr. Jeffrey Decker#s (Co-PI) supervision.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 08, 2024
- Source ID
- N000142412485
Entities
People
- Roland Horne
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Stanford University
- United States Navy