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Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) and Naval Information Warfare Centers (NIWC) Atlantic and Pacific announce the Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) Consortium Quarterly Indus... Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) and Naval Information Warfare Centers (NIWC) Atlantic and Pacific announce the Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) Consortium Quarterly Industry Day hosted by Advanced Technology International (ATI), the IWRP consortium management firm, on 13 March 2025, at 0800 Eastern Time. Based on current events the industry day will no longer take place at Trident Technical College, the event will now be virtual, please reach out to ATI for additional information. 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 addition to RPPs, the Government may present Pre- Solicitation Collaborations (PSCs) and Technical Collaboration Exchanges (TCEs). RPPs and PSCs will include a short brief and one-on-one breakout sessions. TCEs consist of a short brief and round table discussions. 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. 1.25-PAC-3-2694 Attritable Cost Effective Lagrangian Ocean Observation Platform (ACELOOP) PSC1: Description: The Government anticipates requiring a persistent, wide-area, multi- modal, asymmetric, near-real time maritime situational awareness consisting of environmental observations, contact reports, and ocean activity characterizations. CONOPS for ACELOOP is as a distributed, adaptable sensing network of low to medium fidelity sensors on easily deployable ~basketball-sized devices deployed primarily via ship capable of reporting for ~1 year. The objective is to monitor areas in between expensive sensors (e.g. Navy Ships, expensive hydrophone arrays) with spatiotemporal coverage superior to satellite sensing, or modalities unsuitable for remote sensing. The primary functionality is as a cost-effective edge computing device capable of processing MB or GB of raw sensor data into contact reports/summaries/time series/anomalies that are transmitted to a centralized location (not peer-to-peer). 2.LANT- Simulation-Enhanced Visualization EW training for Congested, Contested and Denied environments TCE1: Description: The government seeks tools that enable warfighters to understand the electromagnetic environment in which they operate. The product should include situational awareness and visualization tools for realistic and immersive training in congested, contested, and denied electromagnetic environments. Tools should lead to warfighters’ increased knowledge and skill in understanding, protecting, and employing EW and non-kinetic capabilities. 3.LANT- Synthetic Inject to Live Simulations TCE2: Description: The government seeks to demonstrate synthetic inject-to-live (SITL) operational systems. More specifically, industry should provide simulations to stimulate the training audience for enhanced and realistic EW training. A simulated contested environment should incorporate all domains (i.e., air, surface, space, cyber). Simulations must be designed to seamlessly integrate with live, virtual, constructive (LVC) entities. The goal is multidomain operations (MDO) training across all warfighter functions. 4.LANT- EW Battlefield Realism TCE3: Description: The government seeks low-cost threat emitters and operational-like systems (e.g., UAS) to create a realistic EW battlefield for training. Industry should provide components that will enhance training environments by incorporating the spectrum clutter known to exist on a contested multidomain battlefield. Components to be demonstrated may include Blue / Red force signals, radar systems, unattended ground sensors (UGS) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), and civilian communications system (e.g., cellular networks, radio towers, TV) Additionally, demonstrate the capability to decoy or spoof signals to confuse collection and physical targeting of collection systems. 5.LANT- LINC TCE4: Description: PMW-200 is seeking an edge platform as a service for hosting PMW-200 developed containerized applications as part of Navy modernization objectives. The edge platform will deploy ashore as a connected small form factor variant and afloat as a virtual variant; exposing core services to hosted applications, able to connect to Navy/Marine networks and operate under disrupted, degraded, intermittent and low- bandwidth (DDIL) conditions. 6.LANT- Data standardization TCE5: Description: PMW 200 Logistics Information Technology (LOG IT) under the Infrastructure and Interface (I&I) Pillar is seeking an opportunity to assess commercial off the shelf products that address Data Standardization between multiple authoritative databases, with a combination of logical and manually generated data, missing data, and mis- identified information. 7.LANT- Data Interoperability TCE6: Description: PMW 200 Logistics Information Technology (LOG IT) under the Infrastructure and Interface (I&I) Pillar is seeking an opportunity to assess commercial off the shelf products that address Data Interoperability between authoritative databases from a verity of product suppliers, legacy Government developed systems, and commercially available off of the shelf products. Data Interoperability includes translation of data fields, overcoming data interface translation challenges and dropped packets. 8.LANT- Data Movement TCE7: Description: PMW 200 Logistics Information Technology (LOG IT) under the Infrastructure and Interface (I&I) Pillar is seeking an opportunity to assess commercial off the shelf products that address Data mobility between disparate data sources to and from the cloud, disconnected environment, latency, and limited bandwidth environments. Data Mobility initiatives within the I&I Pillar address data agility, guaranteed delivery, and data accuracy. 9.HQ/LANT- Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) Next Generation Prototype TCE8: Description: Program Executive Office (PEO) Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Program Management Warfare 160 (PMW160) is seeking innovative solutions for the next generation of the Consolidated Afloat Networks & Enterprise Services (CANES) system. The mission of CANES is to provide highly scalable network, computing, and enterprise services infrastructure across the UNCLAS, Secret, Coalition/SR, and SCI security classification enclaves on afloat Navy Force, Unit, Small, and Submarine platforms. The Next Generation of CANES intends to improve on current designs to deliver (i) more efficient and effective hardware and software installations and updates, (ii) increased reliability, resilience, and stability, (iii) improved Cybersecurity, and (iv) increased modularity and scalability - all within a maintainable, operable, and sailor-friendly user environment which can be installed in operational availabilities of 10 days or less. 10.HQ- Satellite Terminal transportable Non-Geostationary (STtNG) Submarine SATCOM Modem Card Cage (SSMCC) TCE9: Description: U.S. Navy submarines require a survivable, resilient Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) communications architecture which can be achieved by accessing multiple geosynchronous and Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbits (NGSO) through commercial and DoD architectures. To meet this requirement, PMW/A 170 is seeking to develop a Submarine SATCOM Modem Card Cage (SSMCC) which will host modems and other essential capabilities in the Navy’s Common Submarine Rario Room (CSRR) for BLOS NGSO and geosynchronous SATCOM. SSMCC will not include the antenna apertures needed to communicate over the satellite systems, but does include the necessary modems, switches, routing, and encryption to complete the Satellite Terminal transportable Non-Geostationary (STtNG) end-to-end communications paths. Prospective vendors must consider and accommodate for proprietary modem hardware in a 3U VPX form factor to accommodate constellations from vendors such as Starlink and Amazon Kuiper. 11.25-LANT-2654 Joint Medical Patient Sustainment (JMPS) Tool TCE10: Description: Due to their complexity, patient movement vignettes in maritime environments often suffer from inefficiencies in the planning stages that then trickle down to execution. Leveraging an existing GOTS containerized application developed for operational logistics planning purposes, the intent is to modify this existing application’s capabilities to suit medical and patient movement use cases. This new prototype will address the inefficiencies and problems in planning medical transportation resources, supply allocations, and more to enhance the warfighter’s ability to plan and ultimately execute these vignettes. This capability is needed across multiple Joint branches, and funding could come from any or all these branches. 06 March 2025 Update: Please see the below brief descriptions of four (4) RPPs that will be presented at the industry day: 1. 25-PAC-2634 HF Digital Staring Receiver & Demodulator (HF-DSRD) RPP 1 Government is seeking a solution that will shrink the physical footprint and power consumption aboard ships by 60% in the Radio Room and offer 40% more cyber secure data-rate over HF than ships currently use. 2. 25-PAC-2674 Strategic Information Transmitted over HF (SITH) Kit RPP 2 In a SATCOM denied environment, the challenge exists to deliver critical data from dismounted ashore warfighters to supporting Unit Level Ships. The US Navy is interested in modernizing shipboard communication systems to support “more users/more data” requirements coming from shore and ensure its traverse across DoD and NATO networks. The effort will focus on prototyping multi- user HF capabilities into quick-reaction portable kits that can be manifested on and off unit level ships that safely inter-connects into the ship’s antenna and automated digital networking systems for ensuring delivery of data from shore. 3. 25-PAC-2714 VLF/LF RF Front-End Chassis and Digital Acquisition System RPP 3 The Navy’s Very Low Frequency/Low Frequency (VLF/LF) receiver is quickly becoming obsolete and much of the design is limited by outdated technology. To replace the legacy receiver, the Navy needs a new VLF/LF software-defined radio (SDR) receiver, based on a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and using the latest Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technology. This project will focus on building and testing a prototype "front-end" hardware that receives and digitizes the entire VLF/LF frequency range for seamless integration with a representative Navy signal processing system. 4. 25-PAC-2734 Very Low Frequency Generation System (VLFGS) RPP 4 To leverage the power and resilience of Very Low Frequency (VLF) communication, particularly in challenging environments where satellite communication (SATCOM) is unreliable, a new effort will focus on developing compact VLF transmitters. By using innovative non-linear time-invariant (non- LTI) design concepts, the goal is to create smaller transmitters capable of generating VLF signals and explore the boundaries of global propagation.