Notable Technical Inquiries (TIs)

Notable Inquiries

Notable TIs are findings and/or summaries of responses to the most recent and impactful technical inquiries submitted by DSIAC members under our 4 free hours of information research support.

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Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)

What UASs can carry out an autonomous, unmanned, maritime ISR and targeting mission?

Available Thermal, Hyperspectral, or Polarimetric Imagery Datasets

What unclassified, hyperspectral, long-wave infrared (LWIR), thermal imagery, or polarimetric datasets are available?

Introduction to Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)

Can you provide introductory summary on guidance, navigation, and control (GNC)?

Optimal Paths for Evading Directed-Energy Weapons

Are there pathfinder tools to compute evasion paths for friendly assets threatened by hostile laser or radio frequency DEW systems? What software algorithms can calculate environmental effects and exploit their limitations?

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Can you provide the latest research and development on LiDAR detection of UAVs?

Maritime Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for Autonomous Logistics Operations

What UASs can operate in a shipboard environment and perform autonomous logistics operations?

Example Inquiries

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