The Navy has awarded contracts to a dozen companies for ISR research.
The combined maximum of the 12 five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts, awarded by the Office of Naval Research, is $800 million. Under the contracts, part of the Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare Command and Control program, the companies will "identify the study, design, fabrication, integration, and test and evaluation tasks anticipated for the development and demonstration of a set of prototypes, and their component subsystems, that integrate radio frequency (RF) functionality electronic warfare, radar, communications, information operations into a common set of multi-function apertures, electronics and software/firmware through an architecture that is modular, scalable across platforms and open at the RF, electronics and software/firmware levels," according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.
"These prototypes will be capable of providing multiple, simultaneous, independent beams which can together perform any of the above functions," the Navy said. "In addition, these open RF systems will be integrated with previously developed Integrated Topside or other RF systems, and with combat and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. These integrated systems will enable resource allocation, real time spectrum operations, emissions control, and electromagnetic maneuver to improve the Navy's ability to achieve information dominance."
The 12 companies are: Lockheed Martin, ArgonST, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems Advanced Technology Programs, EOIR Technologies, SI2 Technologies, S2 Corp., Sea Corp., Leidos, Rockwell Collins, Physical Optics Corp., and TiCom Geomanics.
