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

OECIF and OEPF project solicitations have different types of proposals and different funding. The OECIF and OEPF Call for Proposal link below provides the specific details for each call:

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

Training: Climate Adaptation Considerations in Operational Energy- Innovation

Each PI’s office that submits either an OECIF or OEPF FY 2024 proposal should complete the required Climate Adaptation Considerations in Operational Energy- Innovation training. The training video can be viewed here: Climate Training Video. After viewing the video, email Lauren Grant, lauren.grant@noblis.org, at the OE-I Program Office stating your project’s name, its number in OEMS, and who in your organization has completed the training. The non-narrated PowerPoint charts are located in OEMS by first signing-in, then selecting the Submission icon and then the Help icon from the top menu.