NJIT Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
FY26 Communications and Networking Applied Research
Funding Agency:
- Department of Defense
The goal of the Communications and Networking Program within the Office of Naval Research (ONR 311) 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. The vision is to provide high throughput robust communications and networking to ensure all warfighters – from the operational command to the tactical edge – have access to information, knowledge, and decision-making necessary to perform their assigned tasks. The ONR is interested in white papers for potential FY26 Applied Research (Budget category 6.2) projects under the following focus areas:
1.Laboratory proof-of-concept for an atomic sensor receiver design and performancecharacterization in the very low frequency communications band. (Effort may needaccess to portable electrically small transmitter with reasonable modulation bandwidth aswell.)
2.Energy-efficient wireless communication antennas/protocols/algorithms implementationsfor data/telemetry exchange with over-the-horizon unmanned / unattended systems;
3.Innovative approaches and technologies for low probability-of-detection communicationsagainst advanced electronic threats;
4.Advanced techniques for distributed network control, synchronization, and/or scheduling;and
5.Novel algorithms for predicting network behavior/performance or emerging operationalrequirements that can then be translated into traffic engineering policies.
The ONR is receptive to innovative ideas, which are not within the above focus areas, but nonetheless are important to the Navy/Marine Corps communications and networking, as otherwise described in this Topic Description.
TBD
White papers should be submitted no later than July 11, 2025
The planned date for completing the review of white papers is July 25, 2025.
An expanded oral presentation will be requested from those Offerors whose proposed technologies have been identified as being of "particular value" to the Government. However, a positive email response to the oral presentation does not assure a subsequent award. The purpose of the oral presentation is to better acquaint the Government with the Offeror's proposal, especially in its understanding of the technical approach and impact. The oral presentations are tentatively scheduled for August 14, 2025.
Full proposals should be submitted under N0001425SB001 by September 26, 2025.
Technical Points of Contact:
Name: Dr. Santanu Das
Title: Program Officer, ONR Code 31
Address: One Liberty Center, 875 North Randolph St., Suite 1115, Arlington, VA 22203-1995