Closed · N00014-18-R-SN05 · CFDA 12.300 · Discretionary
Special Program Announcement for 2018 Office of Naval Research Basic Research Opportunity: “Advancing Artificial Intelligence for the Naval Domain”
Federal grant opportunity posted by Office of Naval Research, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- Varies
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- May 11, 2018
- Close date
- 7
- Expected awards
The verdict
Special Program Announcement for 2018 Office of Naval Research Basic Research Opportunity: “Advancing Artificial Intelligence for the Naval Domain” is a closed discretionary listing from Office of Naval Research that offered Varies by applicant across 7 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 285 other opportunities from Office of Naval Research.
- Varies
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 7
- expected awards
- 12.300
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Special Program Announcement for 2018 Office… is closed (last close May 11, 2018). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Office of Naval Research still indexes 285 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed May 11, 2018
Expected Awards
7
Instrument
Grant
Description
This announcement describes a research thrust entitled “Advancing Artificial Intelligence for the Naval Domain” to be launched under the Fiscal Year (FY) 18 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology, N00014-18-S-B001, which can be found at https://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Contracts-Grants/Funding-Opportunities/Broad-Agency-Announcements The research opportunity described in this announcement falls under the following sections of the BAA: Appendix 1 “Program Description,” • Section I entitled “Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare & Combating Terrorism (Code 30); specific thrusts and focused research area: • Paragraph E. “ONR 30 Decision Support, AI, Machine Learning and Graph Analysis Program,” Technology Investment area 3, entitled “Modeling/ Machine Learning/ /Artificial Intelligence” • Section II entitled “Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) (Code 31); specific thrusts and focused research areas: • Paragraph A. Mathematics, Computers and Information Sciences, Specific scientific and technical areas entitled “Computational Methods for Decision Making” and “Machine Learning, Reasoning, and Intelligence • Section V “Warfighter Performance (Code 34)”: • Paragraph A entitled “Human and Bioengineered Systems”, Specific thrusts and focused research: “Perception, metacognition and cognitive control” and “Representing and reasoning about uncertainty” • Section VI entitled “Naval Air Warfare and Weapons (Code 35)”; specific thrusts and focused research areas: • Paragraph 5. “Intelligent autonomy for safe, reliable, and scalable control of heterogeneous unmanned air systems based on high-level mission tasking”. • Paragraph 6. “Science of Autonomy”; clauses “b. Autonomous learning, reasoning, and decision-making in unstructured, dynamic and uncertain environments. c. Human interaction/collaboration including understanding intent and actions of human team members, adversaries, and bystanders. d. Organic perception/understanding to support decision-making, reasoning, and actions in a complex, dynamic world.” The purpose of this announcement is to (1) focus the attention of the scientific and technical community on specific areas of interest related to the advancement of artificial intelligence, (2) encourage dialogue amongst those interested in this area with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and (3) provide a timetable for the submission of white papers and proposals.
Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · N00014-18-R-SN05
Grants.gov marks Special Program Announcement for 2018 Office… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the Office of Naval Research book (127 peers, 44% of 286).
- Code 25
- Others (see official listing text)
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