The Air Force Research Laboratory has asked contractors to submit ideas for what airborne networking methods and technologies the military could use for multi-altitude tactical communications.AFRL wants to update aerial layer networks and network management features in order to address anti-access area denial challenges in the battlefield, the laboratory said Monday in a FedBizOpps post.
The Air Force will fund the R&D project with nearly $10 million to be divided by fiscal year between 2015 and 2017, according to the notice.
Areas of interest include software-based networking, machine-to-machine command and control, airborne connectivity, integrated network operations and Internet Protocol communications.
Interested contractors can submit proposals in white paper format to the lab through Sep. 30, 2017.
