Pre-registration/expressions of interest are open for the US Defense-sponsored Innocentive Challenge Autonomous Eradication Technologies for Guam’s Invasive Brown Tree Snakes.
The Challenge is expected to open early August, with up to USD$550,000 in cash prizes and the potential for pathways to direct procurement.
The introduced brown tree snake population on Guam represents one of the most challenging invasive species threats faced anywhere. Traditional detection, suppression, or eradication methods have achieved only limited success against Guam’s dense forest environments and rugged terrain.
This Challenge invites startups, universities, defense contractors, AI and drone teams, robotics developers, sensor engineers, and environmental technology innovators to bring this goal forward where current methods are not yet successful.
The Challenge seeks novel, deployable, and operationally practical solutions to one or more of the following problem areas:
- Innovative technologies and approaches that lead to the eradication of Guam’s invasive Brown Tree Snake population.
- Solutions leveraging artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, robotics, sensors, drones, advanced analytics, environmental technologies, or novel operational concepts.
- Individual or integrated team solutions addressing one or more aspects of the challenge.
- Concepts with the potential to scale across Guam’s complex terrain and operational environments.
Solutions will be accepted from across the TRL scale.
