# FY26 Communications and Networking Applied Research

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- Solicitation number: N0001425SBC05
- Notice type: Solicitation
- Status: Closed. Deadline was September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT
- Department: Department of the Navy
- Agency: Department of the Navy
- Contracting office: Office of Naval Research (N00014)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: AC13 National Defense R&D Services; Department Of Defense - Military; Experimental Development
- Place of performance: Arlington, Virginia
- County: Arlington County (FIPS 51013). https://abierto.us/counties/arlington-county-va-51013
- City: Arlington. https://abierto.us/cities/arlington-va-5103000
- First posted: May 29, 2025
- Last posted: May 29, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0fded2eea12b4fc0ad7c2f9e9b931993/view

## Description

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.

## Publications

- May 29, 2025: Solicitation, due September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT. Notice 0fded2eea12b4fc0ad7c2f9e9b931993. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0fded2eea12b4fc0ad7c2f9e9b931993/view

## Points of contact

- Dr. Santanu Das, santanu.k.das.civ@us.navy.mil

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