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12.300
To support and stimulate basic and applied research and technology at educational institutions, non-profits and other research organizations, which have potential for superiority in the improvement of naval operations, and to train and motivate future researchers in science and engineering disciplines.
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The mission of the programs funded against CFDA 12.300 is to discover, innovate, and transition science and technology to ensure dominant strategic sea power, now and into the future. To execute this mission, the Navy leverages the substantial intellectual resource represented by the global academic scientific research community. Formation of a collaborative and transparent relationship with this community, with industry, and with small business for the enhanced discovery and innovation, and effective execution of basic and applied research programs in a variety of technical focus areas of high Navy interest.
During the height of the COVID pandemic, the grantee deployed 100 drifting wave buoys in the Southern Ocean. Storms in the Southern Ocean generate energetic waves that radiate across the Pacific, Atlantic , and Indian ocean. The propagation of of these traveling swell waves was first investigated by Dr. Walter Munk in the 1960’s with funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Progress in ocean Internet of Things (IoT) technology enables the grantee to collect unprecedented data densities, which directly improves ocean and wave theories, validate and constrain ocean and atmospheric models, and provide a ground truth for satellite remote sensing data. The technology deployed by the grantee was developed with ONR sponsorship. It represents a shift in global ocean sensing toward a distributed paradigm with massive arrays of low-cost internet-connected nodes.
Dr. Boyraz and his team are designing and prototyping a steerable/pointable, space-based laser altimeter that can be rapidly re-aimed and repeatedly illuminated. The laser measures the distance from the spacecraft to the sea or river surface, and can make maps of the coastal tides, or to gauge the discharge of a river, by measuring the hydraulic head, the difference in height between two sections of river. Dr. Boyraz’ team has shown the viability of the concept and built laboratory examples to demonstrate it, as well as evaluating the suitability of the lasing hardware for space applications (pointing accuracy, size, weight, energy and heat budgets). If the design phase is completed satisfactorily, the intent would be to build it as a hostable payload for a technology demonstration in space.
Addressed the urgency and importance of injecting advanced technologies into new designs/blocks by continuing to support and aggressively expanding applied research in undersea vehicle technologies. To efficiently allocate resources and accelerate advances in undersea vehicle innovation and technology, well-focused high impact applied research projects will be conducted. The undersea vehicle research will provide solutions and explore opportunities to accelerate innovation in the undersea research and development enterprise.
Support CY2023 ONR-funded projects Arctic Mobile Observing System INP (AMOS) with Principal Investigator Dr. Craig Lee of University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (UW/APL) and for the next several years (CY2024+) Distributed Biological Observatory – Ecological Fisheries Oceanography Investigations (DBO-EcoFOCI) with Dr. Jacqueline Grebmeier of University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UM/CES) aboard the research vessel Sikuliaq.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
