Funding Opportunity: Navy Announces Artificial Intelligence Tracks at Sea Prize Challenge

 

The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC PAC) and the Naval Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Coordination Office, managed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), recently announced the Artificial Intelligence Tracks at Sea Challenge.  The prize challenge is seeking proposals to “augment unmanned surface vehicles’ (USVs’) maritime contact tracking capability” with the goal to “develop a computer vision system that will plot the tracks of shipping traffic exclusively using the passive sensing capability of onboard cameras.”  There will be an informational webinar for the challenge on October 19, 2020 at 3:30 PM (ET).  Registration for the webinar can be found here.  

 

This challenge is open only to students at accredited higher education institutions.  The prize of $200,000 will be dispersed among seven winners, with $55,000 for the first place awardee.  Proposals are due by December 2, 2020.  More information on the challenge can be found here.

 

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Paula

 

Paula Trimble

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