DARPA Solicitation - Control-Based Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking Program

The objective of the Control-Based Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking (CBMANET) program is to research, design, develop and evaluate a revolutionary Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) prototype that improves effective performance from network stakeholder (user and operator) perspectives by an order of magnitude or more relative to the state of the art. In particular, proposals are sought to develop software implementing a revolutionary CBMANET network stack and services. This software will be subject to independent test and evaluation by a government team, using a rigorous comparison against a baseline MANET representative of the state of the art. In Phase 1, performers must deliver high-fidelity models of that software for evaluation using government-specified scenarios and applications. In Phase 2, performers must deliver an integrated software/hardware solution for field demonstrations and evaluation. Specifically, the integrated solution will consist of the performer software, a computing platform of the performer's choice, a specified GFE physical layer (PHY), and a suitably equipped GFE field vehicle. Read more