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Directed Energy & Electromagnetic Warfare
Colorado Springs, CO
Fall2025
How might the United States Space Force employ emerging Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) and Directed Energy (DEW) technologies to detect, manipulate, and control the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), and utilize Directed Energy Weapons to deter, disrupt, or destroy adversary capabilities, thereby safeguarding United States assets and ensuring space superiority?
Space-Based Joint Spectrum
Colorado Springs, CO
Spring2025
How might the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. Army leverage emerging technologies in advanced Electromagnetic Warfare (EW), Satellite Communications (SATCOM), along with relevant supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to enhance operational mission environments and maintain strategic advantage in contested domains?
Directed Energy & Electromagnetic Warfare
Colorado Springs, CO
Fall2025
How might the United States Space Force employ emerging Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) and Directed Energy (DEW) technologies to detect, manipulate, and control the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), and utilize Directed Energy Weapons to deter, disrupt, or destroy adversary capabilities, thereby safeguarding United States assets and ensuring space superiority?
Space-Based Joint Spectrum
Colorado Springs, CO
Spring2025
How might the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. Army leverage emerging technologies in advanced Electromagnetic Warfare (EW), Satellite Communications (SATCOM), along with relevant supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to enhance operational mission environments and maintain strategic advantage in contested domains?
Digital Modernization
Ogden, UT
Fall2024
“How might the Air Force’s Digital Transformation Office utilize commercial capabilities to better cultivate a digitally-empowered community to accelerate change across the Air Force?”
Space Domain Awareness
Colorado Springs, CO
Spring2024
How might the United States Space Force introduce commercial capabilities to its mission environment for Space Domain Awareness?
Securely Improving Geographically Seperated Teams’ Experience and Productivity
Ogden, UT
Fall2023
How might emerging technologies increase productivity and improve the experience of employees and managers across differing types of work centers, in a secure manner, for geographically separated teams and remote work?
AI/ML for Space and Maritime Applications
Colorado Springs, CO
Fall2023
How might the United States Space Force and United States Navy introduce commercial capabilities to innovate operational mission environments with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning?
Digital Model Certification (OGdenny Cohort)
Ogden, UT
Spring2023
How might modern technology streamline the ingestion, digestion, and analysis of digital models to enable an efficient US Air Force (USAF) certification process?
Defensive Cyber Operations
Colorado Springs, CO
Spring2023
How might the United States Space Force leverage commercial capabilities to identify and automate cyber terrain mapping of complex systems, in order to support existing cyber operations tool suites?
International Space Domain Awareness
Colorado Springs, CO
Fall2022
How might the United States Space Force, its friends, and allies introduce commercial capabilities to its mission environment for International Space Domain Awareness and spaceflight safety?
Digital Data Strategies
Ogden, UT
Spring2022
How might we facilitate the development of an overarching acquisition and sustainment digital data strategy that allows for a secure and scalable cloud hybrid data environment?
Hybrid Data Movement
Colorado Springs, CO
Spring2022
How might we provide a secure and scalable hybrid data environment to pull, move and combine diverse sets of data from commercial, public, Allied and Government sources to allow users to find, fix, target, track, engage, and assess on faster timelines?
Digital Engineering For Space Applications: Modeling and Simulation
Colorado Springs, CO
Fall2021
How might the United States Space Force (USSF) leverage modeling and simulation to improve operator training, system design, acquisition, architecture resilience, and operations?
On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing
Colorado Springs, CO
Spring2021
How can we make servicing satellites in space as easy as maintaining your car?
Cyber for Space Applications
Colorado Springs, CO
Fall2020
How might we apply cyber technologies to secure the next generation of space operations and increase resiliency?
Data Fusion for Space Applications
Colorado Springs, CO
Spring2020
How might we take advantage of the latest in information analysis and data fusion to provide insight into space objects’ past, current, and predicted trajectories and understand spacecraft capabilities and operator intentions?
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Colorado Springs, CO
Fall2019
“Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond ordinary men, is foreknowledge.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Resilient Space Communications
Colorado Springs, CO
Spring2019
The Air Force is looking for a suite of options to augment, supplement, backup, complement, and or improve current space communication capabilities. Solutions may be ground-based or space-borne and involve some combination of hardware devices, software, data products, algorithms, or services.
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Colorado Springs, CO
Fall2018
The Catalyst Accelerator is seeking teams across the United States of entrepreneurs, startups, and technologists from established companies with commercial solutions to provide PNT in a GPS-denied environment. Submitted solutions may augment, supplement, backup, complement, and improve upon current PNT capabilities provided by GPS.
Terrestrial Weather
Colorado Springs, CO
Spring2018
How might we address the ability to monitor earth’s terrestrial environments with the objective of providing improved global weather data and products to support the warfighter?
