Innovating for Defense Course Seats for CS undergrads / grads

The Engineering Innovation Institute has launched a new Innovating for Defense course under Special Topics (EGN 4932 / EGN 6933) this spring.  Each undergrad / grad student team works directly with 50-70 DoD and defense contractor personnel over the semester to attack mission critical problems.  The course applies the iCorps / Lean Launchpad process to create translatable solutions including dual-use startup opportunities.  Two of the four fall 2025 projects are potentially transitioning to startup companies and another is exploring follow-on sponsored research / licensing withHWCOE faculty. 

We have five projects this spring and the two below are especially well-suited for CS undergrad or grad students.

  • Operational Visualization / US Special Operations Command Challenge: Operational Planners for the SOCOM Information Operations Directorate need a way to automate data collection and analysis of the information environment to rapidly assess, understand, and make decisions regarding the cognitive/human domain (e.g., the effectiveness of how US military actions affect audiences in a given geographic or socially connected area)
  • JTAC Mission Support / Aeronix Corporation Challenge: Drones are increasingly pivotal to sensing-to-shooter loops, but remain only partially and unevenly integrated into theater Command and Control architectures because tactical networks, coalition enclaves, and high-classification sources are separated by policy, accreditation, and technical guards. This poses challenges for forward-position Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, who direct the actions of military aircraft engaged in close air support and other offensive air operations.

 

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