Accelerating innovation aligned with the U.S. Navy’s advanced manufacturing strategy and the national imperative to rebuild American maritime strength.

Seeking solutions that apply emerging technologies and approaches to overcome these barriers in bioindustrial manufacturing. Finalists will present live in front of industry leaders, investors, and government stakeholders focused on deployment, not just discovery.

Identifying and accelerating the most promising AI-enabled, space-based communications technologies operating across proliferated and hybrid architectures and connect them directly to the stakeholders shaping next-generation communications systems.

Seeking to identify technologies that make nuclear energy smaller, smarter, faster to deploy, and easier to integrate into modern energy systems. These innovative new systems could power military installations, industrial facilities, data centers, manufacturing plants, remote communities, and electric grids that increasingly need around-the-clock energy.

Seeking innovative technologies that strengthen detection, characterization, protection, and response across the full spectrum of chemical and biological threats.

Cities bring real-world challenges. Innovators bring the solutions. Help identify and solve an emerging city need.

Cities bring real-world challenges. Innovators bring the solutions. Help identify and solve an emerging city need.

Cities bring real-world challenges. Innovators bring the solutions. Help identify and solve an emerging city need.