Research Partnerships
Two directions of collaboration.
SWORT works with institutions, technical organizations, and individual researchers on aerospace-electronics and sensor-integrity problems. Support can flow in either direction.
Choose a direction
Sponsoring SWORT, or proposing work to SWORT.
These are different relationships with different obligations. They are kept apart deliberately, including in the forms below.
For companies, institutions, foundations, and technical organizations that may fund or materially support SWORT R&D. Support can take the form of sponsored research, hardware, laboratory access, test equipment, flight platforms, data access, technical review, or joint validation programs.
For researchers, students, laboratories, and engineering teams proposing work aligned with SWORT's technical direction. SWORT reviews selected proposals for possible collaboration, sponsorship, platform support, or inclusion in future programs.
Research areas
Where collaboration makes sense.
Proposals outside these areas are still read, but these are where SWORT can contribute hardware, data, or technical depth.
Deciding which measurements deserve to be believed, and on what evidence.
Deterministic firmware on constrained targets, and the hardware-software boundary.
Filter behaviour under degraded, biased, or inconsistent inputs.
Identifying which channel is wrong rather than only that something is wrong.
Mixed-signal design, power integrity, and manufacturable layout.
Guidance, navigation, and control hardware and its sensor interfaces.
Link design, packet structure, and ground-side handling of vehicle data.
Sensor and disturbance models, and evidence that a design behaves as specified.
Rigs, fault injection, and exercising firmware against representative dynamics.
How much authority a platform should hold when its inputs are uncertain.
Path A
Sponsor a SWORT program.
Tell SWORT what kind of support is on the table. Financial sponsorship is only one of the useful forms.
Enquiry received
SWORT will follow up to understand the scope before either side commits to anything.
Submitting this form does not create a partnership, a confidentiality obligation, or any agreement. A separate written agreement is required before confidential collaboration begins.
Path B
Submit a research proposal.
Send a non-sensitive summary first. If it is a fit, SWORT will ask for detail through a method appropriate to the material.
Proposal received
Submission does not guarantee review, sponsorship, funding, partnership, or confidentiality.
A separate written agreement is required before any confidential collaboration. SWORT may ask for a short non-confidential technical brief before going further.
If your work may involve export-controlled or otherwise restricted information, do not send further material until SWORT confirms an appropriate method.