
The Defense Department’s commercially-focused innovation arm on Monday released a solicitation seeking networking solutions to enable fleets of multi-domain unmanned vehicles (UxVs) to operate together and with crewed systems in contested, disconnected, and intermittent communications environments with a particular focus on Naval operations in the Pacific. The Opportunistic, Resilient & Innovative Expeditionary Network Topology (ORIENT) project seeks secure and reliable communications capabilities that operators can use to direct and redirect various drone types in real-time through line of sight and…