Open · N0001426SBC11 · CFDA 12.300 · Discretionary

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

Federal grant opportunity posted by Office of Naval Research, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$250K-$500K
Award range
Open
Status
23d
Days left
6
Expected awards

The verdict

Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research is an open discretionary opportunity from Office of Naval Research, offering $250,000 -- $500,000 across 6 expected awards. Applications close in 23 days. PlainGrants indexes 285 other opportunities from Office of Naval Research.

$250K-$500K
award range
Open
23 days left
6
expected awards
12.300
CFDA program

Open desk with published close date

Special Program Announcement for Office of Na… remains open until November 16, 2026 (23 days out). Award range $250,000 -- $500,000 without a cost-share requirement.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

23 days left to apply

Posted Jun 16 → closes Nov 16, 2026

Posted Jun 16 Closes Nov 16

Expected Awards

6

Instrument

Grant

Description

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). SuccessfulCommand and Control (C2) and decision making, at all levels of command, for DMO is critically dependent on these communications and networking technologies

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · N0001426SBC11

Grants.gov marks Special Program Announcement for Office of Na… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the Office of Naval Research book (127 peers, 44% of 286).

Code 25
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What to do next

Special Program Announcement for Office of Na… is open with $250,000 -- $500,000 awards and 23 days left on the clock.

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