COMPLEX PROBLEMS
The Cohort Program takes on challenges that can require multiple technologies in complex systems. In pursuit of a solution, teams of expert technologists sometimes uncover other problems regarding the project that the Army had not considered, but would need to address to create the best solutions.
SUCCESS STORIES
MULTIPLE SOLVERS
Army challenges are examined through many lenses to identify a variety of potential solutions and to provide government stakeholders high fidelity insights into selecting the best new application of technologies. Companies are encouraged to cooperate, sharing expertise and technology development, which often results in more companies advancing to future contracts, and even an entire new class of small, nontraditional integrators.
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Past Cohorts (1/3)
Robotic Combat Vehicle Sustainment (RCVS)
Robotic Combat Vehicles (RCVs) reduce risk to Soldiers and deliver advantages during conflict, but the Army can only retain these advantages if RCVs stay in the fight. To implement smart sensor capabilities and help sustain these platforms, AAL partnered with the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional Team and PM Maneuver Combat Systems to choose 10 companies for the cohort. During Phase II, the six companies selected to continue solution development each contributed hardware and/or software components to the project including: vehicle sensors, data collection units, data translation and feedback systems, predictive and prognostic software, and vehicle status software.
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Past Cohorts (2/3)
CASUALTY CARE TRAINING (CCT)
During combat operations in Afghanistan, female casualties had a 19 percent lower survival rate than their male counterparts. Because current Army casualty training is heavily male focused, Soldiers are not as trained to deal with the anatomical and physiological differences of women when a casualty occurs on the battlefield. To address this gap, AAL partnered with DEVCOM Soldier Center's Simulation and Training Technology Center, Medical Center of Excellence Directorate of Simulation (DoS), and the Defense Health Agency to select five companies to develop mixed reality, high fidelity modules to improve Soldier medical training. Each of the cohort participants is contributing their own expertise to the project, such as software development, augmented/mixed reality functionality, manikins, and training modules.
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Past Cohorts (3/3)
FIELD ARTILLERY AUTONOMOUS RESUPPLY (FAAR)
With the Army's former Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) mission to deliver rapid, sustained firepower, artillery units would expend all available ammunition quickly. Together with the Long Range Precision Fires Cross Functional Team, six companies were selected to develop faster, autonomous resupply to match the increased tempo of current field operations. The cohort companies each focused on different technological aspects of the solution that supported rapid stocking, restocking, and transfer of boxed and individual unit inventory assets, including the automated loading of material from logistics vehicles to field artillery weapon systems.
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Join our network, and we'll let you know about the next cohort opportunities that align with your company's capabilities.
Our cohorts are connected to the standard solicitation process but vary from traditional solution development. The Cohort Program brings together companies from various disciplines to work together on solving complex Army problems using their respective technological expertise.
Your existing intellectual property (IP) will not be impacted by participating in a cohort. If you are invited to participate, you could be asked to disclose existing IP to the government that will be used, advised of your existing IP rights, and asked to identify what limited-use rights you wish to provide the government. The government cannot disclose SBIR data outside of the government; however, it will have a use right to any new IP that you develop as part of a cohort.