The aim of this talk is to introduce the nMANET, the Name-based Data Network (NDN) for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) approach. nMANET is an alternative perspective on utilising the characteristics of NDN to solve the limitations of MANETs, such as mobility and energy consumption. NDN, which is an instance of Information Centric Networking (ICN), provides an alternative architecture for the future Internet. In contrast with traditional TCP/IP networks, NDN enables content addressing instead of host based communication. NDN secures the content instead of securing the communication channel between hosts, therefore the content can be obtained from the intermediate caches or final producers. Although NDN has proven to be an effective design in wired networks, it does not perfectly address challenges arising in MANETs. This shortcoming is due to the high mobilty of mobile devices and their inherent resource constraints, such as remaining energy in batteries.