Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research

<p>The proposed topic will develop and mature Communications and Networking technologies for Naval operations.</p><p>Background:</p><p>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.</p><p>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</p><p>Command and Control (C2) and decision making, at all levels of command, for DMO is critically dependent on these communications and networking technologies</p>