ONR: Communications and Networking Discovery and Invention

The goal of the Communications and Networking Program within the ONR is to support the Navy's Information Warfare vision by developing measurable advances in technology that can directly enable and enhance end-to-end connectivity and quality-of-service for mission-critical information exchange among widely dispersed naval, joint, and coalition forces.

Topics include: 

1. Wide (instantaneous) bandwidth power amplifier technologies

2. Innovative options across the air-water interface

3. Techniques for mobile troposcatter communications

4. Novel approaches for low probability of detect/intercept communications

5. Dynamic scheduling, routing and control mechanisms

6. Machine learning and other techniques/ concepts for autonomous network management

Funding: $500,000 per year 

Duration: 3 years 

Research Authority due date: 14.6.18

White paper (required) due date: 22.6.18

Full proposal due date: 28.9.18