HII is the prime contractor working in support of the Homeland Defense Institute (HDI), which directly supports the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM).

We are currently soliciting research proposals to produce analysis and assessments on NORAD and USNORTHCOM's six priority focus areas: 

• Predicting and Assessing Risk to Critical Infrastructure 

• Homeland Port Security 

• Force Protection threat Information Sharing & Collaboration 

• Arctic Operations 

• Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft System (C-sUAS)

• Operations in the Homeland 

• Integrated Wargaming

Ideal submissions will propose producing rigorous, in-depth case studies and analytical materials answering one or more of the research objectives outlined in the attached Homeland Defense Institute Research Area Problem Statement.

Proposed research projects should ideally produce written reports (10-20k words) and executive briefing deliverables with a maximum budget of 20k, not inclusive of travel costs; all completed NLT 15 May 2025 for a broad range of audiences.

Research findings will culminate at the FY25 Homeland Defense Awareness Symposium in Colorado Springs, CO in June 2025. All proposals should also provide the additional cost of the required travel, as needed, to attend the symposium and brief research in person.

Research output will be used to inform HDI partners—including DoD, the Joint Staff, the COCOMs, the Intelligence Community (IC), and the Interagency to enable key stakeholder decision-making processes across a broad range of topics that include strategic and operational planning, national defense systems acquisition research & development, intelligence collection tasking and target prioritization, strategic messaging, and other critical areas of interest.

Please see attached Homeland Defense Awareness Research Area Problem Statement for the background, focus areas, research objectives, and topics of interest related to NORAD and USNORTHCOM priorities and use the link provided to propose against the outlined research areas. All proposals must be submitted no later than October 21, 2024