IWRP 2 Virtual Quarterly Industry Day 20 March 2024

Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) and Naval Information Warfare Centers (NIWC) Atlantic and Pacific announce the Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) Consortium Virtual Industry Day hosted by Advanced Technology International (ATI), the IWRP consortium management firm, on Wednesday, 20 March 2024. The event will include technical briefs and one-on-one break-out sessions with scheduled IWRP consortium members.

It is anticipated that the topics may be the basis of upcoming Requests for Prototype Projects (RPPs) to IWRP consortium members. This is not an RPP and is intended for planning purposes only. A project will not be awarded from this announcement. In order to obtain more information regarding the below projects, you must be a member of the IWRP consortium. For more information on becoming an IWRP consortium member, please visit https://www.theiwrp.org.

The purpose of this announcement is to provide members of the IWRP consortium, and industry in general, advanced notification of government intent. The Government will be presenting one (1) Pre-Solicitation Collaboration (PSC), which will include a short brief and a one-on-one breakout session. The PSC topic consists of the following:

1) Title:

Aircraft C4ISR Prototype Ruggedized Workstation:

Presenter John Smith 24-LANT-2074 Short Description: The (United States Navy) USN is seeking tech refresh hardware to address obsolescence issues with a legacy workstation that will address current and future obsolescence and compatibility issues with the goal of supportability past 2030.

1. Several compatibility issues have been identified as the software transitions to RHEL 8.

2. This new hardware will support Navy Aircraft Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems with a corresponding operational environment. The Government will be presenting two (2) Request for Prototype Projects (RPP), which will include a short brief and one-on-one breakout sessions. The RPP topics consists of the following:

1) Title:

Modular Cabinet Design:

Presenter Derrick Christensen 24-HQ-1996 Short Description: The government is seeking a technical feasibility study (i.e. white paper) for a modular cabinet design that will include cable management recommendations, rear cabinet maintenance accessibility, and recommended dimensions based on current Commercial off the Shelf Information Technology. The government will provide technical requirements. Based on the given requirements, the technical feasibility study will provide a recommended integrated engineering solution to a modular cabinet design implementing a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA).

2) Title: Software Agility Layer – Presenter Dexter Fredericks 24-LANT-XXXX Short Description: The Government is seeking to design a seamless data integration capability as an agility layer bridging the gap between old systems, new systems, cloud and on-prem systems in the cloud, and mobility. Thus, allowing workflows and business processes to evolve separately from underlying transactional data, workflows and data taxonomy, with the ability to link between them at any point. For additional information on IWRP or to become a member, please refer to the following link: https://www.theiwrp.org