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No. N0001426SBC11 · Office of Naval Research

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Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research

grants.gov listing Full announcement (NOFO)
Dealbreakers No cost share required Audit: not stated Reimbursement-only: not stated
Award range
$250,000 – $500,000
Expected awards
~6
Application deadline
Nov 16, 2026
Posted
Jun 16, 2026
Last verified
2 days ago

At a glance

AI summary

The program funds applied research to develop and mature communications and networking technologies for Navy and Marine Corps operations. It is open to offerors submitting white papers and full proposals under the ONR broad agency announcement; both grants and contracts may be awarded. ONR plans to make five to six awards, with about $250,000 to $500,000 per year for each award, and project periods may be one, two, or three years. No cost-share requirement is stated. The topic covers naval communications needs across land, maritime, cyber, and space, and the announcement notes that other-than small businesses must submit a subcontracting plan.

AI-generated summary — verify against the announcement

What it funds

  • Science and Technology and other Research and Development
  • Research & Discovery
  • Researchers & Scholars
  • AI, Computing & Cybersecurity
  • Defense, National Security & Aerospace
  • Engineering, Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Official description from grants.gov

The proposed topic will develop and mature Communications and Networking technologies for Naval operations. Background: A Design for Maritime Superiority (2018) describes an operational architecture for distributed maritime operations (DMO) that "... will provide accurate, timely, and analyzed information to units, warfighting groups, and fleets." A critical component of this architecture is the Naval Tactical Grid (NTG) to connect distributed units into groups and distributed groups into fleets. Communications and networking technologies that can provide seamless, robust, connectivity are key enablers for the NTG. These technologies will be deployed on a variety of platforms, both manned and unmanned, operating under challenging environmental and operational warfare conditions (lack of infrastructure, mobility, spectrum limitations, interference, multipath, atmospherics, jamming, electronic intercept, size/weight/power constraint, etc.) in different domains (land, maritime [includes both surface and undersea], cyber, and space). Successful Command and Control (C2) and decision making, at all levels of command, for DMO is critically dependent on these communications and networking technologies

Who can apply

  • Others
Geographic restriction None found in the announcement — likely nationwide

Program history

USASpending.gov

Assistance listing 12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research

Real awards this federal program has made — the whole assistance listing (12.300), not just this notice.

Fiscal year Awards Median award Middle half
FY 2026 (so far) 390 $192,498 $125,592 – $308,392
FY 2025 584 $271,604 $141,165 – $487,998
FY 2024 925 $266,651 $131,104 – $557,762
FY 2023 1,027 — —
FY 2022 921 — —
FY 2021 1,058 — —

For comparison, this notice advertises $250,000 – $500,000.

Dollar figures are based on the 1,000 most recent awards we store, not all 4,905 — award counts are complete.

Who wins it Nonprofit (72), Business (43), State government (18) of 4,905 awards — categories can overlap.
Top states CA (113) · MA (71) · PA (51) · TX (48) · FL (28)
Largest recent awards
  1. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES $24,000,000 · FY 2025
  2. UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA $20,566,974 · FY 2026
  3. UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT $15,834,174 · FY 2025
  4. UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII $10,000,000 · FY 2026
  5. UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM $7,213,096 · FY 2025

Source: USASpending.gov · refreshed Aug 25, 2026