Special Notices

The section provides information regarding industry days, other events or any other information not captured in one of the other funding opportunities but may be relevant to a funding opportunity.

Conflicts of Interest: To ensure fairness in the consideration of proposals, the Office of Naval Research has implemented policies to protect against organizational conflicts of interest.

2012/2013 Joint Service/Industry Human Systems Technology Interchange 13-SN-0008

13-SN-0008.pdf (PDF - 28.32 KB)

Published: January 29, 2013 09:48 AM EST

Special Program Announcement 2012 Basic and Applied Research in Sea-Based Aviation aircraft Science and Technology 12-SN-0028

12-SN-0028 (PDF - 133.65 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 86.99 KB)

Amendment 0002 (PDF - 91.75 KB)

Amendment 0003 (PDF - 28.31 KB)

Amendment 0004 (PDF - 539.92 KB)

Amendment 0005 (PDF - 82.31 KB)

Amendment 0006 (PDF - 69.97 KB)

Amendment 0007 (PDF - 152.8 KB)

Published: September 6, 2012 12:34 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until February 21, 2013 05:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than November 8, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Compact High Power Microwave Sources and Antennas 13-SN-0006

13-SN-0006 (PDF - 79.56 KB)

Published: December 18, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until March 4, 2013 02:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than January 11, 2013 02:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2013 Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: Basic Research Challenges in the Science of Autonomy 13-SN-0005

13-SN-0005 (PDF - 90.93 KB)

Published: January 9, 2013 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until March 18, 2013 05:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than February 1, 2013 05:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2012 Office of Naval Research: Sea-Based Aviation National Naval Responsibility Propulsion Focus Area 12-SN-0018

12-SN-0018 (PDF - 24.91 KB)

Published: July 17, 2012 04:36 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until February 1, 2013 03:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than September 28, 2012 03:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2013 Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: Free Space Optical Quantum Key Distribution 13-SN-0004

13-SN-0004 (PDF - 49.4 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 100.42 KB)

Published: December 4, 2012 01:21 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until January 22, 2013 05:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2013 Office of Naval Research "Hypoxia Monitoring, Alert, and Mitigation System" 13-SN-0003

13-SN-0003 (PDF - 378.71 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 241.62 KB)

Published: December 17, 2012 02:00 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until January 18, 2013 04:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for the Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: Select Topics in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 13-SN-0001

13-SN-0001 (PDF - 24.54 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 10.55 KB)

Published: October 11, 2012 10:10 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until January 17, 2013 11:59 PM EST
White Papers due no later than November 13, 2012 11:59 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for the Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: Text Analytics for Data to Decisions (D2D) 13-SN-0002

13-SN-0002 (PDF - 54.47 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 42.6 KB)

Amendment 0002 (PDF - 39.99 KB)

Published: December 3, 2012 09:40 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until January 15, 2013 05:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement "Sea-Based Automated Launch & Recovery System (SALRS) Sensor Performance in Degraded Conditions” 12-SN-0020

12-SN-0020 (PDF - 45.4 KB)

Amendment 0001: Industry Brief (PDF - 1.72 MB)

Amendment 0001: Questions and Answers (PDF - 242.32 KB)

Amendment 0002 (PDF - 55.46 KB)

Amendment 0003 (PDF - 34.96 KB)

Amendment 0004 (PDF - 20.07 KB)

Published: September 20, 2012 02:28 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until January 9, 2013 05:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than November 30, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2012 Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: “Sea-Based Aviation National Naval Responsibility (SBA NNR) Structures and Materials Focus Area” 12-SN-0026

12-SN-0026 (Document - 47.34 KB)

Published: September 21, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until December 31, 2012 05:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than October 31, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 13-SS-003

13-SS-003 (PDF - 15.01 KB)

Published: December 11, 2012 04:05 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until December 26, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Synthetic Biology Tools for Sensing and Bioprocessing 12-SN-0027

12-SN-0027 (PDF - 53.23 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 17.06 KB)

Published: September 14, 2012 06:23 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until December 10, 2012 05:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than October 5, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Hybrid Energy Storage Module (HESM) 13-SN-0007

13-SN-0007 (PDF - 199.91 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 2.63 MB)

Published: November 30, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until December 7, 2012 04:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research: DARPA/ONR Field-Reversible Thermal Connector (RevCon) Challenge II 12-SN-0015

12-SN-0015 (PDF - 88.12 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 78.32 KB)

Published: July 30, 2012 01:25 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until November 30, 2012 12:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2012 Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: “Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP) Research” 12-SN-0017

Special Program Announcement for 2012 Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: “Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP) Research" (PDF - 124 KB)

Published: July 19, 2012 03:59 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until October 26, 2012 05:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than August 31, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Ultra‐Light Weight Armor Systems 12-SN-0016

12-SN-0016 (PDF - 98.66 KB)

Published: August 3, 2012 10:14 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until October 19, 2012 02:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than August 29, 2012 02:00 PM EST

Navy Machinery Controls Automation 12-SN-0021

12-SN-0021 (PDF - 35.01 KB)

Published: September 4, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until October 3, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2012 Office of Naval Research Basic Research Challenge: Co-Prime Sensor Array Signal Processing 12-SN-0019

12-SN-0019 (PDF - 62.2 KB)

Published: July 26, 2012 04:50 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until September 21, 2012 04:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than August 17, 2012 04:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 12-SS-0024

12-SS-0024 (PDF - 13.61 KB)

Published: August 30, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until September 14, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source for MMOWGLI 12-SS-0022

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source for MMOWGLI (PDF - 15.28 KB)

Published: July 18, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until August 2, 2012 03:00 PM EST

Office of Naval Research Basic Research Challenge - Enhancing Intuitive Decision Making Through Implicit Learning 12-SN-0007

12-SN-0007 (PDF - 150.58 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 36.78 KB)

Amendment 0002 (PDF - 35.12 KB)

Published: March 1, 2012 05:14 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until July 16, 2012 04:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than April 16, 2012 04:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2012 Office of Naval Research - Computational Methods for Decision Making 12-SN-0009

12-SN-0009 (PDF - 118.74 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 47.61 KB)

Published: March 14, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until July 3, 2012 02:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than April 13, 2012 02:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2012 Office of Naval Research Basic Research Challenge (BRC): "Couplings - Ocean to Space or Ionospheric Drivers from Below" 12-SN-0010

Special Program Announcement for 2012 Office of Naval Research Basic Research Challenge (BRC): “Couplings – Ocean to Space or Ionospheric Drivers from Below” (PDF - 24.79 KB)

Published: April 23, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until June 15, 2012 05:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than May 4, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Uninstalled Jet Engine Noise Measurement MIL/ANSI-Standard Development Project 12-SS-0018

12-SS-0018 (PDF - 16.4 KB)

Published: June 4, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until June 15, 2012 04:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source for Support Services for ONR's Director of Innovation 12-SS-0016

12-SS-0016 (PDF - 15.2 KB)

Published: May 11, 2012 02:07 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until May 25, 2012 04:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 12-SS-0015

12-SS-0015 (PDF - 9.84 KB)

Full Proposals will be accepted until May 17, 2012 05:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2012 ONR Research Opportunity: Basic Research Challenge -- Decentralized Online Optimization 12-SN-0006

12-SN-0006 (PDF - 39.99 KB)

Published: February 24, 2012 08:54 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until May 15, 2012 03:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than March 29, 2012 03:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2012 ONR Basic Research Challenge: Carbon Molecular Electronics 12-SN-0003

12-SN-0003 (PDF - 43.6 KB)

Published: January 20, 2012 01:54 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until May 1, 2012 04:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than March 8, 2012 04:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 12-SS-0013

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source (PDF - 78.19 KB)

Published: April 19, 2012 12:00 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until April 30, 2012 09:00 AM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 12-SN-0008

12-SN-0008 (PDF - 12.36 KB)

Published: March 5, 2012 03:53 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until March 15, 2012 04:00 PM EST

ONR Industry Day Notice: Tools and Models for Predicting the Magnitude and Distribution of Forces on the Towed Array System 12-005

12-SN-0005: Industry Day on March 8, 2012 (PDF - 92.28 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 224.59 KB)

Published: February 13, 2012 10:01 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until March 2, 2012 04:00 PM EST

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE 12-SS-0003

Published: December 13, 2011 04:34 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until December 29, 2011 11:59 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2012 Office of Naval Research Opportunity: Energetic Materials Program 12-SN-0001

12-SN-0001 (PDF - 353.95 KB)

Published: October 17, 2011 04:41 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until December 23, 2011 04:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than November 7, 2011 04:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 12-SS-0002

12-SS-0002 (PDF - 15.38 KB)

Published: December 8, 2011 03:31 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until December 16, 2011 03:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement: DARPA/ONR Field-Reversible Thermal Connector (RevCon) Challenge) 11-SN-0025

11-SN-0025 (PDF - 25.86 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 16.95 KB)

Amendment 0002 (PDF - 122.24 KB)

Published: August 16, 2011 11:01 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until December 8, 2011 03:00 PM EST

Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility Vehicle (AACUS) Innovative Naval Prototype 12-SN-0002

12-SN-0002 (PDF - 82.22 KB)

Amendment 0001 (Word Document - 28.5 KB)

AACUS Concept of Operation (PDF - 1.58 MB)

Published: October 17, 2011 04:44 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until October 28, 2011 04:00 PM EST

Basic Research Opportunity: Integrated Hybrid Structural Management System 11-SN-0026

11-SN-0026 (PDF - 26.35 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 26.35 KB)

Published: September 12, 2011 02:10 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until October 15, 2011 03:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than November 21, 2011 03:00 PM EST

Office of Naval Research STEM Grand Challenge - Adaptive, Generalizable, Intelligent Tutors for STEM and Naval Training and Education 11-SN-0019

11-SN-0019 (PDF - 138.6 KB)

Published: June 17, 2011 12:30 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until September 30, 2011 04:00 PM EST
White Papers due no later than August 1, 2011 11:59 PM EST

AGOR PHASE II Design Detail, Construction and Delivery for AGOR-27 11-SN-0027

11-SN-0027 (PDF - 25.56 KB)

Published: August 29, 2011 01:43 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until September 12, 2011 03:00 PM EST

AGOR Phase II Detail Design, Construction and Delivery for AGOR-27 and AGOR-28 11-SN-0028

11-SN-0028 (PDF - 25.37 KB)

Published: August 29, 2011 01:21 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until September 12, 2011 03:00 PM EST

Modification to Contract N00014-08-D-0748, Expeditionary Support Information Architecture 11-SN-0024

11-SN-0024 (PDF - 38.95 KB)

Published: July 29, 2011 02:51 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until August 12, 2011 02:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 11-SN-0022

11-SN-0022 (PDF - 14.89 KB)

Published: July 8, 2011 04:29 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until July 25, 2011 02:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source: General Management Program 11-SN-0023

11-SN-0023 (PDF - 12.08 KB)

Published: June 28, 2011 02:33 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until July 12, 2011 02:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2011 Office of Naval Research: “Computational Methods for Decision Making – Resource Optimization, Image Understanding, Information Integration, and Cyber Security” 11-SN-0012

11-SN-012 (PDF - 96.13 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 55.04 KB)

Published: April 8, 2011 01:02 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until July 6, 2011 02:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement: Machine Reasoning and Learning 11-SN-0008

11-SN-0008 (PDF - 66.59 KB)

Published: March 9, 2011 03:51 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until May 15, 2011 11:59 PM EST
White Papers due no later than April 1, 2011 11:59 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source: Defense Science & Technology Reliance Technical, Programmatic Support Services 11-SN-0014

11-SN-0014 (PDF - 6.51 KB)

Published: May 2, 2011 09:53 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until May 13, 2011 03:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2011 Office of Naval Research Applied Research: "Data to Decision" 11-SN-0004

11-SN-0004 (PDF - 120.24 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 103.63 KB)

Amendment 0002: Presentation #1, D2D Testbed (PDF - 426.96 KB)

Amendment 0002: Presentation #2, Strategic Initiative (PDF - 2.65 MB)

Amendment 0003 (PDF - 27.1 KB)

Amendment 0004 (PDF - 70.94 KB)

Amendment 0005: Questions and Answers (PDF - 22.04 KB)

Published: February 8, 2011 11:36 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until April 21, 2011 04:30 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for 2011 Office of Naval Research Basic Research Challenge "Reduced-Order Representations for Design: Development of Analytical and Computational Techniques for Multi-physics Based Models of Ship Platforms and Systems" 11-SN-0003

11-SN-0003 (PDF - 60.44 KB)

Published: February 8, 2011 11:29 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until April 15, 2011 11:30 PM EST
White Papers due no later than March 1, 2011 11:30 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 11-SN-0010

11-SN-0010 (PDF - 48.87 KB)

Published: March 11, 2011 03:37 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until March 28, 2011 04:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 11-SN-0011

11-SN-0011 (PDF - 48.95 KB)

Published: March 11, 2011 03:39 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until March 28, 2011 04:00 PM EST

Special Program Announcement for Basic Research Challenge: Novel Electronic Devices Based on Coupled Phase Transitions 11-SN-0002

11-SN-0002 (PDF - 36.67 KB)

Published: November 23, 2010 04:00 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until March 24, 2011 11:59 PM EST

Industry Day: Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle UUV Science and Technology 11-SN-0009

11-SN-0009: Register by March 4, 2011 (PDF - 96.84 KB)

Amendment 0001: Updates to Feb. 28 Industry Day (PDF - 65.19 KB)

Published: February 23, 2011 12:01 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until March 4, 2011 04:00 PM EST

Basic Research Opportunity: Toward Active Control of Noise from Hot Supersonic Jets 11-SN-0007

Proposals will be accepted under ONR's Long-Range Broad Agency Announcement. For more information and submission guidelines, see the announcement 11-001 on ONR's broad agency announcement listings page.

11-SN-0007 (PDF - 56.67 KB)

Published: January 25, 2011 02:23 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until February 25, 2011 04:00 PM EST

ONR Industry Day Notice: Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Energy 11-SN-0006

11-SN-0006 (PDF - 45.7 KB)

Amendment 0001 (PDF - 9.81 KB)

Amendment 0002: Industry Day Brief 1 (PDF - 2.33 MB)

Amendment 0002: Industry Day Brief 2 (PDF - 706.72 KB)

Amendment 0002: Industry Day Brief 3 (PDF - 1.92 MB)

Amendment 0002: Industry Day Brief 4 (PDF - 754.55 KB)

Amendment 0002: Industry Day Brief 5 (PDF - 363.74 KB)

Amendment 0002: Industry Day Brief 6 (PDF - 719.45 KB)

Published: January 11, 2011 05:42 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until January 28, 2011 04:00 PM EST

Santa Fe Institute Business Network for Complex Research 11-SN-0001

11-SN-0001 (PDF - 38.68 KB)

Published: October 20, 2010 06:12 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until November 5, 2010 02:00 PM EST

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source N00014-10-M-0395

N00014-10-M-0395 (PDF - 38.13 KB)

Published: September 21, 2010 09:47 AM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until October 4, 2010 03:00 PM EST

Modification to Contract N00014-05-D-0521: High-Capacity Alongside Sea Base Sustainment Large Vessel Interface Lift On/Lift Off 10-SN-0003

10-SN-0003 (PDF - 12.06 KB)

Published: July 21, 2010 05:37 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until September 9, 2010 02:00 PM EST

Assessment of the Current State and Future Advances in Energetic Materials Research, Development, and Manufacturing Technology

Assessment of the Current State and Future Advances in Energetic Materials Research, Development, and Manufacturing Technology (PDF - 28.52 KB)

Published: June 15, 2010 03:17 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until July 15, 2010 11:30 PM EST

Briefing on Autonomy and Intelligence for VTOL Cargo Unmanned Air System

Briefing on Autonomy and Intelligence for VTOL Cargo Unmanned Air Systems (PDF - 25.63 KB)

Published: July 2, 2010 04:43 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until July 14, 2010 04:00 PM EST

Multi-Function Communications and Electronic Warfare for Counter-Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Studies

Multi-Function-C-RCIED-Study.pdf (PDF - 14.49 KB)

Published: June 23, 2010 12:29 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until July 7, 2010 04:00 PM EST

Environmental Compliance for Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank 2010 Acoustics Experiment

Special Notice: Environmental Compliance For Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank 2010 Acoustics Experiment (PDF - 12.09 KB)

Published: May 13, 2010 06:00 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until May 28, 2010 01:00 PM EST

Special Notice: Multi-Function Communications and Electronic Warfare Electronic Warfare for Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (C-RCIED) Workshop

Published: March 29, 2010 12:23 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until April 21, 2010 04:00 PM EST

Astrometric Advisor Assistant in the Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey mission N00014-09-M-0406

Astrometric Advisor Assistant in the Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey mission (PDF - 13.77 KB)

Full Proposals will be accepted until October 16, 2009 04:00 PM EST

Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting Industry Day: May 3-4, 2010

Details: Register by 4 PM ET, April 27, 2010 (PDF - 20.92 KB)

Published: April 15, 2010 05:48 PM EST

ONR Industry Day & Technology Showcase - Hypoxia Monitoring, Alert and Mitigation System 12-SN-0014

12-SN-0014 (PDF - 21.98 KB)

Published: July 3, 2012 04:35 PM EST

Advanced Mooring System Industry Day: April 27, 2010

Details: Register by April 23 (PDF - 13.16 KB)

Briefing Slides (PDF - 2.18 MB)

Published: April 12, 2010 04:41 PM EST

* Some pages on this website provide links which require Adobe Reader to view.