FY25 Call For Proposals

Past Call for Proposals

The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy Resilience and Optimization (ODASD(ER&O)), Operational Energy – Innovation (OE-I) is now soliciting Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 proposals for the Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF) and Operational Energy Prototyping Fund (OEPF). OE-I is requesting proposals in the following areas:

• OEPF and OECIF Nuclear:  Submit by 1700 EST on 6 August 2024, solicitation opens 15 July 2024
  • Invitations to present to the PEB sent 10 September 2024
  • Rankings announced by COB 21 November 2024

• OECIF Non-Nuclear:  Submit by 1700 EST on 2 December 2024, solicitation opens 28 October 2024 (consideration for extension by request only; send requests via email to support@pavconllc.com and reason for request.)
  • Invitations to present to the PEB sent 7 January 2025

FY25 OECIF Non-Nuclear Rankings Announcement

The Director of Operational Energy - Innovation is pleased to announce this year's list of approved projects for the FY25 Non-Nuclear Call for Proposals. Projects are ranked in priority order, and will be awarded based on availability of funds. Proposers will be formally notified once the 2025 appropriations bill, or an additional continuing resolution, is passed. Award amounts may not match funding requests and are contingent on agreement of scope and deliverables between the PM and the project.

1. Green Bison, Green Bison, Celeste Brown, Navy
2. Neural Edge Based Intelligence System, NEBIS, Maya Hoagland, Navy
3. Electric-GRid Eradication & Neutralization via Autonomous Airborne Delivery of Entangling Strands, E-GRENAADES, Douglas Brown, Combatant Command
4. Advanced energy transmission for heightened energy readiness, AETHER, Daniel Pike, Air Force
5. Open' Vehicle Electronic RAGLAN 'Open' Vehicle Electronic Architecture, OVEA, Phillip Landan, Other DoD
6. Cobalt/Aqua Bison, Cobalt/Aqua Bison, Celeste Brown, Navy
7. Energy Efficient Comms for Mobility, MAF Satcom, Brian Beal, Air Force
8. Jade Bison, Jade Bison, Celeste Brown, Navy
9. Proactive Planning for Mission Objective Driven Logistic, P2MODL, Matthew Young, Navy
10. Power-beaming On-orbit with Low-SWAP Assembly Robotics, POLARIS, Katherine McBryan, Navy
11. Rapid Acceleration of Perovskite Technologies for On-Orbit Readiness, RAPTOR, Joey, Luther, Space Force
12. Collaborative Logistics Aircraft STRATFI Addition, CLA STRATFI Add, Travis Crank, Air Force
13. Tactical Fuel Data NOW Phase II, TFD NOW 2, Jesse Swanzy, Army
14. Operational Energy Integration Laboratory, OEIL, John Heinzel, Office of The Secretary of Defense
15. Base Integration of High-power Vehicles, BIHV, Janie Hancock, Army
16. C-130 Sequential Electrification Study, Hybrid C-130, Cayle Bradley, Air Force
17. Generating Non-intrusive Observations for Modeling Electrical Systems, GNOMES, Jonathan Berardino, Navy
18. Spaceborne, Massively Scalable, High-Efficiency, Solar-to-Microwave Transmitter, Space MAST, Brian Tierney, Combatant Command
19. Li6T Battery Top-mounted Health Assessment Tool, Li 6T Top Hat, Matthew Huffman, Marine Corps
20. Track/wheel In-Hub Drive, TIHD, Maroune El-Hosni, Army
21. Seabed Power for Autonomous Routing of Communications, SPARC2, Blerta Markowski, Navy
22. Fueling Logistics for Orbital Warfare, FLOW, Matthew Brunner, Navy
23. Aviation Electrical Power Management Capability, AEPMC, Daniel Llanes, Army
24. Operational Energy Data Bridge, OEDB, Frank Bohn, Army
25. Space Wireless On-demand Optical Power Flight (2), SWOOP2, Christoper McKinney, Other DoD
26. Directed Energy / Electric Vehicle Battery Prototype Evaluation, DEEVBPE, John Heinzel, Army
27. Microgrid Control for Vehicle Integrated Power, MCVIP, Janie Hancock, Army
28. Modular Integrated Lightweight e-Axle, MILE, John Putrus, Army
29. Tactical Hybridization Kit, TacHK, Eric Meier, Army
30. Space Force Futures Command Operational Energy Roadmap, SFF COER, Timothy Locke, Space Force
31. Persistent Unattended Ground Sensors, PUGS, Daniel Pike, Air Force
32. Accelerating Cost Reductions for Space PV Cells, ACRESofPV, Myles Steiner, Space Force
33. Aviation Universal Charger (Second Year Funding), AUC Year 2, Lloyd Zilch, Navy
34. Rectenna-Equipped Autonomous Platforms for Extended Range, REAPER, Marissa Brand, Navy
35. Agile Combat Employment with Hybrid-electric Generation, ACES High, Daniel Pike, Air Force
36. Terrestrial Operational Wireless Energy Relay, TOWER, Hooman Kazemi, Office of the Secretary of Defense
37. Hybrid Powered Flying-Emplacement UUV, Hybrid FSG, Stearns Heinzen, Combatant Command
38. Operational Energy Mission Planning Tool Integration, OEMPTI, Bradley Frounfelker, Army
39. Voltvault, Voltvault, Richard Bosse, Army
40. Joint Army AF NREL Navy Modeling Energy Simulation, JAAMES, Noelle Goodeaux, Air Force
41. Grid on a Skid: Compact, Palletized, 40kW TMS Compliant USAF GPU, Grid on a Skid, Rory Keogh, Air Force
42. Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Combuster – TurboGenerator, MORFEUS, Joseph Fellner, Air Force
43. Laser Energy Transfer Standards, LETS, Alex Grede, Navyy
44. Utility Power from Space for Safe Intense Delivered Energy, UPSSIDE, William Barnds, Navy
45. Installation Grid Impacts (IGI) of High-Power Capable (HPC) Vehicles, IGI-HPC-V, Camryn Anderson, Army

Currently Unfunded

The following projects (unranked) were not approved for funding:

1. Army Battery Management Tool Development, ABM Tools, Marnie Bailey, Army
2. Aerial Eye-Safe Optical Power, AESOP, Harshil Dave, Navy
3. Advanced Rendering and Configuration for Beam Energy Application in Missions, ARCBEAM, Christopher Aguilar, Navy
4. Battery Analytic Twin Framework for R&M/M & EWEV&DM, BATFORM2, Todd Moe, Combatant Command
5. Battery Operational Assessment Software Tool, BOAST, Richard Stroman, Office of the Secretary of Defense
6. Complex Operational Energy Maritime Distribution Planning and Evaluation Tool, COMET, Matthew Wilkens, Navy
7. Controllers Optimized for Management in Military Applications with Networked Diagnostics for Hybrid-electric, Unmanned, and Battery systems, COMMAND HUB, David Skalny, Army
8. Combined OptoMechanical PhotovoltAiC Tiles, COMPACT, Margaret Stevens, Navy
9. China-Proof Mineral Processing Project, CPMPP, Dan Romm, Space Force
10. Data Center Resilience & Optimization Platform, DROP, Joseph Augustine, Office of the Secretary of Defense
11. Grounding AC/DC Inverter Systems for Mobile Tactical Platforms, Grounding AC/DC, Cynthia Robbins, Army
12. Passive Marine Hydrogen Sustainment Nodes, H2-Nodes, David Baker, Army
13. High Operating Temperature Batteries for Advanced Hybridized Platforms, HOTBATTs, Marshall Schroeder, Army
14. HYdrogen Portable Operations with Efficient Renewables, HyPOWER, Jeffry Hollman, Combatant Command
15. Resilient Laser Beamed Power & Comms to UASs, LaserPowerComms, Douglas Brown, Combatant Command
16. Point of Need Tactical Distributed Power Generation, LightCell, Walker Chan, Army (recommended for OEPF)
17. Optimized Autonomous Aerial Tanker Distribution, OAATD, Douglas Meador, Air Force
18. Operational Energy Tactical Refueler, OETR, Joseph Parker, Navy
19. Operational Power with Energy Reporting, OPER, Amanda Sheppard, Army
20. Metering and Monitoring of Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Sensing and Processing Algorithms for Small Platforms, Perceptive Elk, Douglas Carssow, Navy
21. Rapid Energy for Autonomous Arctic Drones, READ, Tori Sweet, Combatant Command
22. Regenerative Suspension Study, RSS, Nehemiah Mork, Army
23. Solar Cell Efficiency Improvements, SCEI, Dan Romm, Space Force
24. Safe Hydrogen on Platform - H2FU Follow-on, Craig Urian, Navy
25. Ammonia as Energy Storage, AES, David Baker, Army

FY25 OECIF Nuclear Rankings Announcement

The Director of Operational Energy - Innovation is pleased to announce this year's ranking for the FY25 OECIF Nuclear Call for Proposals. OECIF and OEPF seek to fund as many proposals as possible given Congressional appropriation. Project teams will be contacted in rank order below.

1. (PerSeiSense) Long-lived Sensors Powered by Radioisotope Power Source (RIPS), PerSeiSense, Aaron Atchley, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
2. Classified
3. Training and Education, Whitman Dailey, Andrew Wilhelm, Jeth Fogg, Air Force Institute of Technology, United States Military Academy at West Point, N&NC
4. Legal and Regulatory Taxonomy for Maritime  Nuclear Defense Applications + DoD Maritime Nuclear Asset Transportation Capability Study, TMNDA + MNATC, Gerardo Figueroa, David Dewey, Office Chief of Engineers
5. Small Low-Power Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, REMORA, Fred Schauer, Air Force Institute of Technology
6. Classified
7. Triply-periodic lattices for compact reactors, 3D LATTICE, David Dewey, Idaho National Laboratory
8. Solid-state Nuclear Autonomous Power Conversion, SNAP-C, Casey Schorzman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
9. Handling Existing Sr-90 Transferred for Innovation Applications, HESTIA, James Winter, Zeno Power Systems Inc.
10. Cost Reduction for Unobligated U Enrichment, ROTOR WINDING, David Dewey, Centrus Energy - American Centrifuge Operating
11. Domestic UraNium Enrichment (DUNE), DUNE, Mary Hossier, Navy OE
12. Department of Defense (DoD) Advanced Reactor Criteria and Baseline Understanding of Enterprise Scalability (Project DARC BLUES), DARC BLUES, Corey Chance, SAF/IEE
13. Bus Analysis for Large-scale Advanced Nuclear Control & Energy Distribution, BALANCED, Lindsay Kaldon, AFRL
14. Pump for Enabling Advanced Power Systems, PEAPS, Lindsay Kaldon, AFRL

Award amounts may not match funding requests and are contingent on agreement of scope and deliverables between the PM and the project.

FY25 OEPF Rankings Announcement

The Director of Operational Energy - Innovation is pleased to announce this year's ranking for the FY25 OECIF Nuclear Call for Proposals. OECIF and OEPF seek to fund as many proposals as possible given Congressional appropriation. Project teams will be contacted in rank order below.

1. Storage Long-term of Energy storage Enabling Prepositioning in Naval-transported Ground vehicles via 6Ts at Zero volts, SLEEPING 6TZ's, David Skalny, US Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)
2. Autonomous Maritime Patrol Aircraft Extended Demonstration Program, AMPA EDP, Todd Moe, USSOUTHCOM
3. Next Generation Advanced Munitions Loader (MHU-83), NGAML, Michael Black, Raglan LLC
4. Operational Energy Support Management and Execution, OE SME, David Pogue, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)
5. Power TRansmitted Over Laser to UAS, PTROL – UAS, Douglas Brown, PowerLight Technologies
6. Scalable High Efficiency Photovoltaics, SCALE, Casey Schorzman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
7. Balance of Systems Edge Computer Ph. 2, BoSEC 2, Marissa Brand, NIWC PAC
8. Army Aviation Common Li-ion Battery Integration, DODAACLIB 2, Patrick Taylor, US Army DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center
9. Universal Power Gateway – Requirement Advancement and De-risking Effort, UPGRADE, Frank Bohn, US Army C5ISR Center
10. Connected, Autonomous, Multi-use, hybrid-Electric, Littoral vehicle for Autonomous Perimeter Security, CAMEL, Marissa Brand, NIWC PAC
11. Airborne Expeditionary Renewable Energy System (AERES) Demonstration, AERES Demo, Peggy Davidson, US Naval Research Laboratory
12. USN Boat & Combatant Craft Electric Propulsion Technology Prototyping, USNElectricBoat, Christian Rozicer, Program Office Executive USC (PMS300G) USN Boats & Craft Program
13. Fire Limiting & Arresting Materials Enhancing Lithium ion Energy Storage Safety United States secure supply chain Advancement, FLAMELESS USA, James Mainero, Ground Vehicle System Center
14. Sensorless Controls for EMALS OEPF, Sensorless, David Grullon, NAVAIR/NAWCAD