STTR OSW26TZ04-NV001 (Office of the Secretary of Defense): Collaborative Aided Target Recognition Using Next-Generation Foundation Models for Multi-Domain Unmanned Systems

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Office of the Secretary of Defense STTR topic — under DoW STTR 2026 BAA (Solicitation 26.TZ, Release 4) — Accepting submissions 2026-07-22 to 2026-08-19. Objective: Develop and demonstrate a collaborative Aided Target Recognition (AiTR) capability for multi-domain unmanned systems (UAS, UGV, USV) that leverages next-generation pre-trained foundation models—including Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs), and/or modern State-Space Models (e.g., S4, S5, Mamba, Mamba-2)—to achieve robust, accurate, and predictive multi-platform, multi-modal target disambiguation in cluttered, contested, and partially observed operational environments. Description: Modern military operations across air, land, and sea domains increasingly rely on heterogeneous teams of unmanned pla...