This announcement is a BAA Call against the ONR FY23 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (N00014-23-S-B001).The submission of white papers, proposals, their evaluation(s) and the subsequent awards will be carriedout as described in the aforementioned Long Range BAA.ONR is interested in receiving white
papers and proposals in support of advancing hierarchical command and control of unmanned systems for future naval applications.
Work under this program will consist of basic and applied research, with projects funded under Budget Activity 1, Basic Research, and Budget Activity 2, Applied Research, as defined in the DoD Financial Management Regulation, Vol.
2B, Ch.
5 (https://comptroller.defense.gov/portals/45/documents/fmr/current/02b/02b_0 5. pdf).
The overall S&T efforts will be conducted at the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 1 – 5 stages (https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/engineering/technology/technology_readiness_le vel).