Calling All Startups: INNOFENSE Opens Applications for Dual-Use Technologies

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If your startup applies to one of the following subjects, consider submitting your applications for INNOFENSE’s seventh cycle until October 15th, 2026:

1. Early, remote detection of hostile intent in crowded public spaces: analysis of behavioral patterns and malicious intent to provide real-time alerts without disrupting the flow of people, while preserving privacy.
2. Remote detection of concealed items within baggage and other objects: real-time, frictionless security screening without separating belongings from passengers, while maintaining public safety.
3. Air-transportable containers for robotic systems and military equipment: modular engineering solution enabling rapid, low-cost design and manufacturing of containers for flexible logistical deployment in the field.
4. Decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) communications infrastructure operating over internet networks, including direct edge-to-edge routing, NAT traversal, and user authentication without reliance on a central server.
5. Establishing independent mesh networking between commercial smartphones using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth components, or a minimal hardware add-on, to maintain communications continuity in disaster-affected areas.
6. Multi-user simulation platforms for tactical training and improving collective operational readiness at team level and above.
7. Automated tools for analyzing, interpreting, and extracting insights from vertical aerial video collected by aerial platforms.
8. Laser/RF-based wireless charging of small drones to enable extended airborne endurance.
9. Simulation tools for mission planning, forecasting, and performance assessment of RF systems in a spectral environment saturated with emitters.
10. Unmanned solutions for securing remote offshore areas: target-detection capabilities and deployment of deterrence measures at extended distances from the coastline.
11. Software layer for managing and optimizing diverse AI computing infrastructure: unified management of heterogeneous resources, workload optimization, performance monitoring, and reduced dependence on hardware-specific SDKs.
12. Object-detection algorithms with robust Domain Adaptation capabilities to accommodate significant changes in environmental and field operating conditions.
13. Tools for correcting and enhancing datasets used to train artificial intelligence models.
14. Design and optimization of high-performance antennas and RF arrays, for example using artificial intelligence and generative design.
15. Performing secure inference over cloud environments and shared data repositories, using methods that minimize exposure of raw data while preserving the integrity of the resulting output.
16. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) platform for decentralized management: an engine for task coordination and routing, process and state management, and automated fault-handling mechanisms.
17. Miniaturized antennas for broadband communications applications.
18. Passive protection and self-healing solutions for satellite components, particularly solar panels and thermal blankets, against impacts from space-debris particles.
19. Advanced space-based active sensing solutions (miniaturization and enhanced accuracy, with an emphasis on LiDAR).
20. Decision-support systems for Space Domain Awareness (SDA): early event detection, pattern and anomaly identification, and generation of actionable recommendations.
21. Repair of steel components using 3D printing.
22. Non-explosive reactive armor: methods for energy conversion upon impact.