Networking the Fight BAA Industry Day Announcement   2

Background
The Air Force Research Laboratory/Information Directorate is conducting an Industry Day on 15 February 2024 regarding Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) FA8750-24-S-7002 for the Networking the Fight (NtF) program. The purpose of this meeting is to provide interested companies/entities with an overview of the problem space that the NtF program is addressing. The Industry Day session will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams. Registration for this event is required and can be done at: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/084c2d9969574d4db8cd193e2c7cb20b. This announcement is not a contract, request for proposal, a promise to contract, or a commitment of any kind.

Work Details
The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, seeks innovative research proposals aimed at enhancing information sharing flexibility at the tactical edge. The focus of this research is to enable secure movement of information across security domains, and over encrypted 'red-black' boundaries, spanning heterogeneous networks. The over-arching strategy of this BAA is to quickly and efficiently execute research and development to deliver practical solutions to urgent problems. These efforts are anticipated to entail rapidly establishing a modeling and simulation (M&S) testbed and integrating existing and new technologies into the M&S framework to provide field testable, functional prototypes of solutions to military problems in three (3) major focus areas: Technical Area 1 - Next Generation Cross Domain Solution, Technical Area 2 – Highly Dynamic Red/Black Networking, Technical Area 3 – Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (MS&A). Networking the Fight (NtF) will develop software-defined, modular extensible technology, which can be hosted on Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) constrained platforms.