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.
