NIWC Pacific seeking C4ISR, Information Operations, Cyberspace Operations and Information Technology System Research intel

Notice ID: N66001-24-S-4702

Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific (NIWC Pacific), is soliciting proposals in accordance with FAR 35.016, DoDGARS 22.315(a), and DoD Other Transactions (OT) Guide for Prototype Projects for research in areas relating to the advancement of C4ISR capabilities, enabling technologies for Information Operations and Cyberspace Operations, and Information Technology systems.

This announcement is open for 365 days from the original posting date. Any white papers received during that time shall only be considered for award of a contract, other transaction, grant, or cooperative agreement. If the Government intends to award a grant or cooperative agreement, it will issue a Research Announcement (RA). See II.2 below for further details.

Proposed research should investigate unique and innovative approaches for defining and developing next generation integratable C4ISR capabilities and command suites. The area topics reflect the interest of the NIWC Pacific, but interest from other Team NAVWAR components could be generated and selections could be made for funding by other than NIWC Pacific.

Excluding offers for other transactions, as well as line items or contract options in accordance with DFARS 235.005-1. only offers that are in the areas of basic research, applied research, advanced technology development, and advanced component development and prototypes will be considered (see Appendix A). Testing and optimizing of concepts or prototypes may be necessary. This may involve virtual simulation and/or laboratory as well as at sea measurements.

Technical topics of interest include:

1. General C4ISR
   1. Defining and documenting next generation C4ISR concepts and command center abstractions.
   2. Innovative approaches to next generation adaptive C4ISR infrastructure and systems; enhancing: decision making in areas not pre-programmed, sensor detection and classification, and communication efficiency and tolerance.
   3. Collaboration among large diverse and dynamic groups:
      1. Knowledge management to asynchronous collaboration.
      2. Approaches to automated fusion of discrete data points into a single updatable product.
      3. Multi-Level Security, trust, and network management for group formation, management.
   4. Novel approaches or techniques to agent based (or other intelligent information query formation) processing and cross domain coordination of composable services or C4ISR resources (i.e., forces, sensors, weapons, robots, etc.).
   5. Techniques or approaches to integrate data/information and model changes or uncertainty – temporally.
   6. Techniques or approaches to reducing cost, size, power or manning requirements for C4ISR or information systems.
   7. Techniques or approaches to implementing development and operations (DEVOPS) and agile concepts to enhance cyber operations and mission assurance.
   8. Zero-trust compliant solutions employing private, permissioned ledger technology to manage users and digital assets…

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