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Collaborative target recognition using next-gen foundation AI for multi-domain unmanned vehicles

This opportunity funds research and demonstrations of a collaborative “aided target recognition” capability for teams of unmanned systems (air, ground, and sea). The work will use next-generation pre-trained foundation models—such as vision-language and vision-language-action models, and modern state-space architectures—to improve target identification under cluttered, contested, and partially…

Source

Agency: U.S. Department of Defense

Program: SBIR

Phase: PHASE I

Phase: Phase II

Phase: Phase SPII

Dates

Topic Opens: July 22, 2026

Topic Closes: August 19, 2026

Eligibility

industry:defense

industry:research

Keywords

collaborative target recognition

foundation models

vision-language models

vision-language-action

unmanned systems

multi-domain perception

state-space models

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