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 ATI—the IWRP
Consortium management firm—at the
Charleston Gaillard Center on Wednesday,
October 25, 2023. The event will include a
keynote address from Mr. Bradley C. Punch,
PEO Digital deputy technical director; IWRP
program and consortium updates; technical
briefs; and one-on-one breakout sessions
with scheduled IWRP Consortium members.

Technical briefs presented during the IWRP
Consortium Quarterly Industry Day will
include a variety of topics focused on
information warfare. It is anticipated that
the topics will be the basis of upcoming
Requests for Prototype Projects (RPPs) to
IWRP Consortium members. This is not an
RPP, but for planning purposes only. A
project will not be awarded from this
announcement. 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.

The Government anticipates soliciting one
(1) Request for Prototype Project (RPP) for
white papers, enhanced white papers or full
proposals via N65236-22-9-0001. The RPP
topic will include a technical brief and one-
on-one breakout sessions. The RPP topic
consist of the following:

1.24-LANT-1954 Tactical Networks
Remote Monitoring (TNRM) 3.0: The
government is seeking solutions to collect
various data types on multiple afloat
platforms for the purpose of monitoring a
mix of networks, servers, storage devices,
virtual machines, applications, and
configurations. Once collected, the solution
will need to visualize this collected data with
dashboards and alerts locally for system
administrator use on the afloat platform, as
well as transfer the data over low
bandwidth, high latency links, also dealing
with Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and
Limited (DDIL) conditions, to shore for a
centralized visualization showing all afloat
platforms with the ability to select a single
afloat platform and be presented with the
specific afloat platform dashboards and
alerts. The solution should require minimal-
to-no afloat maintenance or system
administrator engagement. It should
consider the use of Artificial Intelligence
(AI), system modeling, and automation
technologies as an iterative out year
improvement to allow for automated
proactive resolution of anomalies identified
within afloat systems and networks.

The government will be presenting three (3)
Pre-Solicitation Collaborations (PSCs), which
will include a short brief and one-on-one
breakout sessions. The PSC topics consist of
the following:

1.MyNavy HR Chatbot: The government
is seeking to develop a “chatbot” that
leverages large language model (e.g.
ChatGPT), generating humanlike interaction
based on context that triages customers’
HR-related issues and tracks a variety of
back-end performance metrics.

2.Advanced Manufacturing for Electronic
Components: NIWC Atlantic anticipates the
need to identify and test alternative rapid
manufacturing of electronics options due to
obsolescence and continued supply chain
constraints. The command would like to
explore prototype solutions that provide
advanced manufacturing capabilities to
create circuit card assemblies, capabilities
like additive manufacturing, and pick and
place technology for example.

3.Modular Cabinet Design: The
government is seeking a technical feasibility
study (i.e. white paper) for a modular
cabinet design that will include cable
management recommendations, rear
cabinet maintenance accessibility, and
recommended dimensions based on
current “Commercial off the Shelf”
Information Technology. The government
will provide technical requirements. Based
on the given requirements, the technical
feasibility study will provide a recommended
integrated engineering solution to a
modular cabinet design implementing a
Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA).

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