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Navy Announces Industry Day For Information Warfare Topics

Thursday, January 20th, 2022

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Logo for the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWARSYSCOM), formerly Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWARSYSCOM). (Image: U.S. Navy)

The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) on Wednesday announced a virtual industry day is being held on Feb. 14 for the Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) Consortium. The Navy released a notice for the event on SAM.gov on Jan. 19. The consortium seeks to help give participants a forum to pitch new information warfare capabilities to NAVWAR officials. It was established as a consortium-based approach and uses Other Transaction Authority (OTA) to streamline acquisitions, rapidly develop prototypes and provide…

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