AVANTE 2021
Abstract
The readiness and availability levels to which systems, subsystems and equipment are held at, are paramount to ensure the fulfillmen,t of the responsibilities conferred to the Chilean Navy. These responsibilities range from ensuring the security & safety, to enviro,nment and economic interests protection within the Chilean maritime domain. Due to a long coastline and limited resources, creative, ideas employing multidisciplinary technologies are required to significantly enhance operational availability and readiness of our,assets. We envision the proposed challenge will provide a mechanism for multi-disciplinary teams to form and deliver an innovative,prototype that demonstrates capability and will likely lead to creating a spin-off company and new products. This approach follows,the highly successful Hacking for Defense (H4D) process used by the US Navy and the Office of Naval Research.This is a 2-year progra,m. The first challenge will be released in July 2021 in a public virtual event. Teams from academia and industry will register as p,articipants in the challenge and asked to propose a technological solution, which they will pitch to an evaluation panel in Septembe,r 2021. The panel will select up to ten teams that will work on the beneficiary discovery, whilst their technologies are further as,sessed. After 4 weeks the teams will be down select to five, that will receive ~$6K each to develop an MVP and explore potential non,-military markets. In December 2021, the teams will demonstrate their prototypes to the evaluation panel which will choose the winni,ng projects. The first place and runner-up teams will be awarded ~$65K and ~$55K respectively, to demonstrate the scale-up feasibil,ity and enable potential start-up funding to further advance the development and product deployment. We expect that the successes fr,om Avante 2020 & Avante 2021 challenges will create enough momentum for a new equivalent effort during 2022 to address some new prob,lem statements thatwe are already curating. Naval assets availability and readiness at low cost, is a challenge for every nation. U,ltimately, the outcome of this challenge may lead to new, low cost, dual-use product(s) that could drastically enhance the actual le,vels of availability and/or reduce related costs. Achieving these goals would directly improve the performance of missions that prev,ent activities in the maritime domain that may adversely impact both, the national interests of Chile, the United States, as well as, other friendly nations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Dec 10, 2021
- Source ID
- N629092212006
Entities
People
- Juan Toro
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy