Nokia Federal Solutions awarded Department of War RAPID contract to advance multi-domain threat awareness 

Nokia Federal Solutions announced that it has been awarded a contract under the Department of War's (DoW) RAPID project, managed by the FutureG Office within the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)). The award supports Real-World Application Prototyping for ISAC Demonstration (RAPID), leveraging 5G and 6G infrastructure for object detection and tracking.

Under the contract, Nokia Federal will develop, build and test integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) capabilities and demonstrate an end-to-end solution for the DoW’s RAPID project. The effort supports the FutureG Office’s mission by demonstrating how 5G and future 6G networks can be leveraged to improve threat detection and situational awareness, helping protect critical infrastructure against emerging threats.

Built on Nokia’s AI-RAN platform, the project will integrate Nokia and third-party applications for sensing and spectrum threat awareness. It will combine multiple sensing modalities and sensor fusion to help provide a more comprehensive picture of potential unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) threats. Subcontractors supporting the effort include Nokia affiliates, Texas Tech University, DeepSig, Hidden Level and Future Technologies.

The unmanned system threat is real. Integrated sensing and communications provides the opportunity to help protect critical infrastructure by leveraging the existing cellular networks to identify the threat. This project in partnership with Department of War is helping to advance the technology and the ecosystem to make that a reality.

In the FutureG Office, we are accelerating and adapting commercial wireless technologies to meet the requirements of the Department of War, and ISAC is at the forefront of this effort. Through RAPID and related initiatives, we are cultivating an open ecosystem that enables us to leverage commercial cellular infrastructure to bolster force protection and defense of critical assets against evolving UAV threats.

The award reinforces Nokia Federal's role in supporting the DoW FutureG Office’s mission by bringing proven commercial innovation into mission-critical environments. It also highlights how commercial technologies can be applied to meet the DoW’s most demanding operational requirements.