At a glance
The program funds applied research to develop and mature communications and networking technologies for Navy and Marine Corps operations. It is open to offerors submitting white papers and full proposals under the ONR broad agency announcement; both grants and contracts may be awarded. ONR plans to make five to six awards, with about $250,000 to $500,000 per year for each award, and project periods may be one, two, or three years. No cost-share requirement is stated. The topic covers naval communications needs across land, maritime, cyber, and space, and the announcement notes that other-than small businesses must submit a subcontracting plan.
What it funds
Official description from grants.gov
The proposed topic will develop and mature Communications and Networking technologies for Naval operations. Background: A Design for Maritime Superiority (2018) describes an operational architecture for distributed maritime operations (DMO) that "... will provide accurate, timely, and analyzed information to units, warfighting groups, and fleets." A critical component of this architecture is the Naval Tactical Grid (NTG) to connect distributed units into groups and distributed groups into fleets. Communications and networking technologies that can provide seamless, robust, connectivity are key enablers for the NTG. These technologies will be deployed on a variety of platforms, both manned and unmanned, operating under challenging environmental and operational warfare conditions (lack of infrastructure, mobility, spectrum limitations, interference, multipath, atmospherics, jamming, electronic intercept, size/weight/power constraint, etc.) in different domains (land, maritime [includes both surface and undersea], cyber, and space). Successful Command and Control (C2) and decision making, at all levels of command, for DMO is critically dependent on these communications and networking technologies
Who can apply
- Others