DoD Opportunities Update #59
Curated rollup of RFIs and RFPs from the previous two weeks, geared towards government and private sector leaders across A&D and defense tech.
Today’s Issue at a Glance
AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
Group 1/2 UAS Training & Simulation Industry Day — NAVAIR Aircraft Project Management Office (Special Notice / Industry Day)
Group 2/3 Aerial Target Systems for Air Defense Training & Testing — Army Capability Program Executive Simulation, Training, Test and Threats (Sources Sought)
Common Launch Tube (CLT)-Compatible Group 1/2 Air-Launched UAS / Munition — USSOCOM SOF AT&L / PEO-Fixed Wing (Sources Sought)
C-UAS Kill Chain and UAS Traffic Management R&D (M-FAT) — AFRL Information Directorate (Presolicitation / Open Two-Step BAA)
Vendor-Agnostic USV Maintenance and Training — Naval Surface Warfare Center PHD (Special Notice)
S-UAS / C-UAS Field Equipment for Saber Junction Exercise — 7ATC / 409th Contracting Support Brigade (Combined Synopsis/Solicitation / RFQ)
TACTICAL AI, SOFTWARE, & C5ISRT
2026 C5ISR Industry Expo (APG, MD) — U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center (Special Notice / Industry Expo)
NGC2 “Mission-Ready” Scalable Software Apps — Army PM C2 Applications (Call for Solutions)
Intelligence Analysis Data Platform (Unified Software Continuum) — Army PM Intelligence Systems & Analytics (Solicitation)
Rapid Systems Integration & Automated Testing (STITCHES) — AFRL Information Directorate (Presolicitation / Advanced Research Announcement)
Kill-Web Ops Sustainment of Space Domain Awareness Systems (KOSMOSS) — Space Systems Command / PEO Space Domain Awareness & Combat Power (Special Notice)
Commercial MEO UHF Satellite Capacity for Narrowband SATCOM Experiments — Department of the AFRL (Sources Sought)
Advanced Cyber Effects for Strategic Operations (ACESO) — AFRL / Information Directorate (Advanced Research Announcement)
Agentic C2 Framework for Contested & Air-Gapped Environments (ECHOTRIBBLE) — Army Cyber Command / Army Cyber Technology and Innovation Center (Special Notice / Assessment Event)
Naval Tactical Data Link Engineering & Sustainment — NIWC Pacific / Tactical Data Links Command & Control + Monitoring Systems (Solicitation)
Next-Gen COTS/NDI Mounted Family of Computer Systems — Army Project Manager Command & Control Infrastructure / Product Manager Mounted Command & Control (Sources Sought)
RDT&E
DARPA Pitch Day: Breakthrough Sensing, Resilient Systems, and Advanced Materials — DARPA Multi X Office (Program Announcement)
Contested Logistics R&D: Shelf-Stable Rations, Smart Packaging, Autonomous Last-Mile Delivery — Defense Logistics Agency / Contract Service Office–Philadelphia (Broad Agency Announcement)
Thermal & Power Architectures for Reusable Hypersonic Aircraft — AFRL (Sources Sought)
Programmable Protein Editing Platform — DARPA Defense Sciences Office (Proposers Day)
Non-Optical Methods for High-Speed Protein Control — DARPA Biological Technologies Office (Special Notice)
INDUSTRIAL BASE
Radford Ammunition Plant Industrial Wastewater Treatment Facility — Project Lead Joint Services (Draft Request for Solutions / Presolicitation)
Establishing a Radar Test, Calibration, Repair & Overhaul Capability at Tobyhanna — ACC–Redstone Arsenal / Tobyhanna Army Depot (Solicitation / CSO Call for Solutions)
Golden Fleet Manufacturing and Sustainment Tech Industry Day — ONR Navy ManTech Program (Special Notice / Industry Day)
Multi-Billion-Dollar USAF Test Infrastructure Modernization Consortium (AEDC Velocity Alliance) — Air Force Test Center / Arnold Engineering Development Complex (Solicitation)
Red River Army Depot OIB Modernization & Convergent Manufacturing — Red River Army Depot (Special Notice / Commercial Solutions Opening)
PLATFORMS & WEAPONS SYSTEMS
Special Mission Vessel for Helicopter, UAS, USV & Small-Craft Operations — U.S. Navy PAE Maritime / PMS 300 (Sources Sought)
Mobile Launch Platforms for Missile-Defense Targets — Missile Defense Agency Directorate for Test (Special Notice)
Auxiliary Ships Industry Day: Tanker, Hospital Ship & RO/RO Programs — Navy PAE Maritime / MARAD (Special Notice / Industry Day)
155mm 52-Cal Charges & Primers for Mobile Tactical Cannon Evaluations — Army Project Manager–Combat Ammunition Systems (Sources Sought)
ENTERPRISE AI, SOFTWARE & SUPPORT SERVICES
Selective Service Readiness & Mobilization Simulation — Selective Service System (Solicitation / RFQ)
AI-Powered Data Aggregation and Visualization for Minuteman III — Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center / Minuteman III Systems Directorate (Request for Information)
Navy Fitness & Human Performance Optimization Model — Commander, Navy Installations Command (Presolicitation / RFI)
Navy Nuke Program Supply Chain Monitoring — SaaS, Part-Level Mapping — Navy Strategic Systems Programs (Sources Sought)
AI-Enabled Personnel and Readiness Modeling Tool — Marine Corps Forces Reserve (Sources Sought)
Cost and Software Data Reporting (CSDR) Services for USAF Programs — Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (Special Notice / Commercial Solutions Opening)
Enterprise Data Modernization and AI Integration for DoD Education Activity — DoD Education Activity / Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office (Presolicitation)
Defense-Wide Strategy, Analytics, and Program Support — Senior Administrative Office / Office of the Director of Administration and Management (Sources Sought)
COTS Compensation Data Platform — Army Contracting Command (Sources Sought)
Commissary Market Data, Shopper Analytics, and Competitor Pricing — Defense Commissary Agency (CSO Special Notice)
SEC I - AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
1) GROUP 1/2 UAS TRAINING & SIMULATION INDUSTRY DAY
NAVAIR Aircraft Project Management Office | Special Notice / Industry Day | Questions Due: 31 Aug 2026 | Registration: 31 Aug 2026 | Event: Tentatively 03 Sep 2026
What’s Being Sought
Commercially available / emerging systems supporting Group 1 and Group 2 UAS operator training, mission planning, mission rehearsal, simulation, and qualification management.
Capabilities may improve training availability / throughput while enabling realistic practice that reduces reliance on live aircraft and operational impacts from range, airspace, weather, maintenance, spectrum, or logistics constraints.
Priority areas:
Training / qualification management: initial, refresher, sustainment, and instructor-led training; student records; automated grading; after-action review; syllabus / qualification management.
Aircraft / mission simulation: UAS-specific flight models; payload / environmental effects; emergency, lost-link, and degraded-system procedures; route, waypoint, terrain, obstacle, airspace, and real-world geographic mission rehearsal.
Contested-environment training: GPS-denied / degraded operations, EW effects, communications degradation, adverse weather, tactical scenarios, and multi-aircraft operations.
Integration / interoperability: operational hand controllers and GCS; multiple aircraft types; open / modular architectures; Government-configurable aircraft libraries; commercial or Government-furnished hardware, controllers, and peripherals.
Instructor / synthetic environment tools: global terrain, satellite imagery, elevation data, urban / maritime environments, custom training areas, user-generated scenarios, instructor stations, real-time control, replay, evaluation, and scenario injection.
The Government also seeks visibility into current NDAA compliance status and planned pathways to compliance; use of the Navy’s Small UAS Reusable Architecture framework is optional.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: N/A.
POP: N/A.
CONTRACT TYPE: N/A.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Virtual Industry Day tentatively scheduled 03 Sep 2026; an anticipated follow-on RFI would request white papers, and Government review may lead to selected technical demonstrations. Participation in the Industry Day is not required for later market research, technical demonstrations, or any future competitive acquisition; no award will result from this notice.
2) GROUP 2/3 AERIAL TARGET SYSTEMS FOR AIR DEFENSE TRAINING & TESTING
Army Capability Program Executive Simulation, Training, Test and Threats | Sources Sought | Response Due: 28 Jul 2026
What’s Being Sought
Uninterrupted Aerial Remotely Piloted Vehicle Target systems / services supporting live Army training, test, and evaluation events at CONUS / OCONUS locations.
Core requirement covers MQM-170, MQM-171, and MQM-186 Group 2 / Group 3 aerial targets or equivalent systems meeting attached performance requirements:
Target production / operations: manufacturing, launch / recovery, transport, storage, inventory transfer, field operations, and event execution.
Engineering / sustainment: maintenance, depot-level repair, spares, ground support equipment, logistics planning, qualification training, and technical support.
Mission payloads / integration: payload system support, software development / integration, range integration, safety releases, and airworthiness certification.
Army does not own build-to-print TDPs or source code for the three named target systems. The current incumbent is Griffon Aerospace Inc. under ADA-T II contract W900KK-22-D-0010. Prior market research found no readily available commercial solution able to meet the requirement without additional integration, qualification, transition, and schedule risk.
Non-incumbent respondents must provide evidence of access to required technical data, software, tooling, configuration information, support equipment, qualified personnel, safety releases, airworthiness documentation, and supply chain.
Firms without the proprietary TDP must also explain a reverse-engineering / equivalent-system strategy, including estimated timelines for airworthiness certification.
Responses must also identify proprietary, licensing, export-control, and data-rights constraints, including whether the Government would receive Government Purpose Rights for deliverables.
Transition plan must support full performance with zero degradation to operational tempo or scheduled events. Army is specifically testing whether another source can assume the requirement without substantial duplicated cost or unacceptable transition delay.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD.
POP: Up to 5 years under a potential extension; base / option structure not stated.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD — potential extension of the current ADA-T II IDIQ under consideration.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Army will use responses to determine whether competition is practicable or whether a noncompetitive extension of the incumbent contract is supportable. No award from this notice.
3) COMMON LAUNCH TUBE (CLT)-COMPATIBLE GROUP 1/2 AIR-LAUNCHED UAS / MUNITION
USSOCOM SOF AT&L / PEO-Fixed Wing | Sources Sought | Response Due: 17 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
SOF-peculiar munition designed for manufacture, employment, and release from existing CLTs aboard SOF fixed-wing platforms.
Industry capability spanning Agile spiral / rapid development, engineering, manufacturing, integration, test, evaluation, configuration management, and production.
Baseline characteristics:
Form factor / launch: ≤55 lbs; 5.9-inch diameter; ≤42-inch overall length; release from SOF fixed-wing aircraft at 120–300 KTAS / 5,000 feet AGL–35,000 feet MSL.
Mission performance: ≥75 NM launch-to-loiter range; ≥40-minute loiter at 500–3,000 feet AGL; 50–100-knot cruise / loiter; ≥100-knot attack-profile dash speed.
Seeker / payload: Passive system with limited RF emissions / integrated ATR preferred; EO cameras, IR sensors, warheads, or communications equipment; kinetic warhead maximized within the munition weight limit.
Autonomy / C2: Government-owned FANTOM Core collaborative mission autonomy controlling the flight controller through M2M API and/or BMS integration; substantiated compatibility with the BMS Generic Canister interface.
Technical maturity: Minimum TRL 6; current / tested / planned AltPNT technologies; MOSA / WOSA compatibility, including any government assessment.
Environment: Contested / non-contested operations with intra-platform communications; −40°F to 135°F; MIL-STD-810H Category 8 vibration profile for six-bladed C-130; two-foot drop survivability; no icing environment.
Responses should address clean-sheet versus existing-design timelines, manufacturing maturity / monthly capacity, manpower, technical / programmatic processes, and cost at quantities of 500, 1,000, and 3,000.
ROM also requested for integrating an ALM onto an AC-130J Ghostrider or another CLT-equipped SOF platform for a single capability demonstration.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD — ROM integration / demonstration estimate and quantity-based cost information requested; no government funding value stated.
POP: N/A.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: White papers due 17 Aug 2026; responses will support acquisition-strategy formulation / no award from this notice.
4) C-UAS KILL CHAIN AND UAS TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT R&D (M-FAT)
AFRL / Information Directorate | Presolicitation — Open Two-Step Broad Agency Announcement | Response Due: 04 Aug 2030
What’s Being Sought
R&D, integration, T&E spanning counter-small UAS kill chains / point defense, autonomous swarm operations, UAS traffic management, and resilient communications.
Priority areas:
EW / cyberspace operations: EW-enabled cyber countermeasures against emerging sUAS C2 links; low-collateral attack options; defensive cyber hardening / resiliency; immediate / near-real-time battle damage assessment and cyberspace situational awareness; secure waveform storage / cyber-effects indexing.
C-sUAS C2 / swarm autonomy: AI/ML-enabled sensor fusion, threat classification, automated course-of-action recommendations, human-machine teaming, single-operator response to mass/swarm attacks, decentralized swarm architectures / coordination.
Sensors / effectors: Detection, identification, and tracking using RF, radar, EO/IR, acoustic, LiDAR, and other COTS sensors; C2-silent target detection; low-cost autonomous Blue Force / low-collateral interceptors with integrated EW/cyberspace capabilities and other C-sUAS payloads.
UAS traffic management: DoD/Federal UTM integration with air traffic management, Advanced Air Mobility, military/federal radar, Remote ID, AI-enabled cooperative/uncooperative UAS identification, sensor fusion, and beyond-visual-line-of-sight Detect and Avoid.
Communications: Modeling / simulation, adaptive secure waveforms, ruggedized waveform hardware, resilient large-scale swarm networking, alternate PNT, AI-enabled network optimization / anomaly detection / spectrum management.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Approximately $499M total; individual awards normally $500K–$20M, with potential awards up to $99M.
POP: Individual awards will not normally exceed 60 months.
CONTRACT TYPE: FAR procurement contract / grant / cooperative agreement / research or prototype OT; successful prototype OT may transition to a follow-on production contract or transaction.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Closed to foreign participation except qualifying fundamental research or approved FOCI mitigation; DLIS registration / certification and an approved DD Form 2345 required. FFRDCs / Government entities may propose only if they establish that the work is unavailable from the private sector and provide the required authority documentation. AFRL SETA / A&AS or similar support contractors may not concurrently serve as technical performers.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Open two-step BAA — white papers accepted through 04 Aug 2030; FY27 submissions recommended by 31 Aug 2026 to maximize alignment with projected funding. Formal technical / cost proposals by invitation following white-paper review; assistance-instrument white papers also face a separate Gold Standard Science go/no-go screen requiring demonstrated GSS implementation, a commitment to comply with GSS policies, immediately demonstrable results, clear benchmarks, and alignment with Administration policy priorities.
5) VENDOR-AGNOSTIC USV MAINTENANCE AND TRAINING
Naval Surface Warfare Center PHD | Special Notice | Response Due: 06 Aug 2026
Source note: SAM.gov directs respondents to MATAC for additional details
What’s Being Sought
Request for Solutions for a vendor-agnostic sustainment and training framework enabling Fleet personnel and government support organizations to operate and maintain multiple rapidly evolving USV platforms with minimal-to-no vendor support.
Scalable replacement for hand-tailored, vendor-dependent support across platforms with approximately five-year lifecycles:
Standardized O-level maintenance / scheduling procedures.
Documented operational execution procedures and corrective-maintenance support requests.
Separation of data between / among USV platforms.
Fleet-wide training curriculum and Joint Qualification Requirement.
Agile lifecycle-management processes supporting rapid introduction of new USV platforms.
End state: enduring, self-sufficient operational and sustainment model that institutionalizes maintenance knowledge, improves readiness, and allows Fleet units to independently support multiple USV types.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not stated in the SAM.gov notice.
POP: Not stated in the SAM.gov notice.
CONTRACT TYPE: Not stated in the SAM.gov notice.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Not stated in the SAM.gov notice.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: No additional milestones stated in the SAM.gov notice.
6) S-UAS / C-UAS FIELD EQUIPMENT FOR SABER JUNCTION EXERCISE
7ATC (409th CSB) | Combined Synopsis/Solicitation (RFQ) | Response Due: 27 Jul 2026
What’s Being Sought
Commercial products, 12 line items, FOB Destination to Camp Normandy, Bavaria, Germany — quotes in USD, shipping included. Name brand required (per Q&A). No partial quotes; every line item must be priced.
Multispectral concealment: 81× 3-man hides (described as concealing 3–4 soldiers), 6× vehicle hides (ISV/HMMWV) — EO/IR concealment, lightweight/flexible/durable/non-toxic.
Passive drone detection: 27× soldier-carried, 18× vehicle-mounted; triband 1.2 / 3.3 / 5.8 GHz, analog video-feed detection, 4 km range. Vehicle sets add 10 m remote-antenna cable + car holder.
Drone jamming: 9× backpack-carried, 2.4 / 5.8 GHz — jamming module, battery, control unit, display; ≥50-minute battery.
FPV payload: 40× thermal vision cameras for FPV drones.
Field power: 48× Goal Zero Venture 75, 30× NATO DC/AC inverter, 30× 1–2 kW + 10× 6–8 kW storage (Bluetti/Goal Zero), 30× 1–2 kW quiet generators (Honda EC1200/Novatio EX 2k), 2× Army 5–10 kW TQG. Generators power UAS lithium-ion battery packs; acceptable to receive generators without the BB-2590s due to the timeline.
Notice titled “cUAS Interceptor” and described as sUAS & Accessories; classified PSC 1550 (Unmanned Aircraft) / NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing); attached product description lists no aircraft or interceptors — verify before responding.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD — no value or ceiling stated.
POP: Not stated.
CONTRACT TYPE: Government intends to award a single firm-fixed-price Call Order against existing BPAs; open market eligible.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: No set-aside (OCONUS), Section 889 covered-telecom prohibition, stated for the Thermal Vision Cameras — Huawei/ZTE/Hytera/Hikvision/Dahua or affiliate/subsidiary components rejected.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: This announcement is the only solicitation; all items due 15 Aug 2026; award on lowest total evaluated price to a responsible offeror; notice inactive 11 Aug 2026.
SEC II - TACTICAL AI, SOFTWARE, & C5ISRT
7) 2026 C5ISR INDUSTRY EXPO (APG, MD)
U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center | Special Notice / Industry Expo | Response Due: N/A | Registration: 15 Jun 2026 | Event: 25–26 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Two-day, fully in-person industry engagement at Aberdeen Proving Ground focused on current / future C5ISR technologies, critical science and technology efforts, and C5ISR Center investment / technology thrust areas.
Event structure:
Day one: Panels / slide presentations covering key S&T efforts and investment / technology thrust areas across the Center’s core competencies.
Day two: Symposium-style expo with C5ISR Center technology-area booths supporting direct dialogue between government personnel and active / prospective industry partners.
Industry participation: Engagement / collaboration only — industry will not receive booth space for demonstrations or displays.
The expo is intended to help industry identify where to direct internal R&D investments supporting Army C5ISR activities amid Continuous Transformation, Acquisition Reform, and organizational realignments supporting Forge Generation, Force Development, and Force Design. Projected technology areas will be provided through controlled SAM.gov attachments once available.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: N/A.
POP: N/A.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: U.S. citizens only, maximum five representatives per CAGE Code, favorable Tier 3 Personnel Security Investigation + DISS VAR (classified sessions), JCP certification (controlled attachment access only).
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Attendee substitutions close and required VAR / U.S. citizenship verification due 17 Aug 2026. Planning-only engagement — not a presolicitation synopsis, invitation for bid, or request for proposal.
8) NGC2 “MISSION-READY” SCALABLE SOFTWARE APPS
Army PM C2 Applications | Call for Solutions | White Papers Due: 06 Aug 2026
Update: Posted 22 Jul 2026 — white-paper call opened for scalable software applications under parent CSO W15P7T-25-S-0001.
What’s Being Sought
Commercial, mission-ready software applications capable of scaling across the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control ecosystem — transitioning NGC2 from operational-unit prototyping to product delivery.
Applications cannot operate as standalone products. Required alignment includes:
Integration with NGC2’s common data layer through open APIs / SDKs — application-generated or transformed data published back for discovery and consumption by other applications, algorithms, and AI agents.
Modular integration with common services including maps, weather, ICAM, data and AI-services registries, authentication, and role-based access control.
Containerized deployment within Government-selected OCI-compliant environments using common NGC2 CI/CD tools — no vendor-provided runtime or application platform.
Cloud-to-edge operation across enterprise cloud, multi-GPU / CPU edge, mounted compute on Abrams, Bradley, and Stryker, and austere tactical edge.
Configurable performance under DDIL conditions — dynamic data shaping and constrained update delivery.
IP and data rights
Offerors must, upon request, identify any patents and associated royalties, and any restrictions on Government rights in technical data, software, business / financial / administrative data, and AI/ML training data.
Government Customer Data remains Government property, with no contractor IP rights or claims.
Associate Vendor Agreements may be required to share data and technical expertise across vendors without privity; the Government disclaims liability for improper disclosure of proprietary information arising from an AVA.
Proposals may not include pass-through fees or overhead on hardware purchases.
Offerors must state whether they are the original developer or an intermediary; intermediaries must show quantifiable added value beyond the original provider’s offering.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not specified.
POP: Not specified.
CONTRACT TYPE: FAR Part 12 commercial contracts and/or Prototype OTs, with potential direct follow-on production.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: CMMC Level 1 required to obtain the mandatory questionnaire. JCM access may be required for Government files associated with the CSO.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Phase I white papers due 06 Aug 2026; the Government may request a demonstration, and Phase II proposals are invitation-only. Submitters not initially invited may be invited within 180 days; parent CSO open for a two-year term.
9) INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS DATA PLATFORM (UNIFIED SOFTWARE CONTINUUM)
Army PM Intelligence Systems & Analytics | Solicitation | Response Due: 12 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Unified intelligence-analysis software continuum spanning enterprise cloud + tactical edge — supporting strategic through tactical echelons, fixed facilities / mobile command posts, TS and Secret environments, coalition partners, and operations with contested, degraded, intermittent, or absent connectivity.
Complete continuum solution mandatory; cloud-only or edge-only submissions will not be evaluated. One solution submission permitted per vendor; vendors may team as needed to deliver the complete solution.
Public high-level solution objectives include:
Enterprise cloud: Modular cloud-deployable software suite; globally accessible data / common analytic tools; integration pathway with Maven Smart System.
Tactical edge: Small-form-factor deployment; 72-hour autonomous DDIL operations; synchronization after network restoration.
Open ecosystem: MOSA, common data layer, third-party application / data-source integration, SDK / API strategy, DevSecOps, automated configuration management, Zero Trust, and bi-directional data / service exchange with Maven Smart System.
Analyst workflows: Data ingestion / normalization, retrieval / visualization, collaboration, geospatial services, targeting support, collection management, terrain analysis, pattern matching, and weather-effects analysis.
Solution must be architected and priced as distinct enterprise-cloud and tactical-edge components while operating as one coherent software continuum aligned with NGC2 principles.
Step 1 pricing must include a binding not-to-exceed catalog plus a prototype ROM; later proposed pricing may be lower but may not exceed the catalog ceilings.
Army is particularly interested in original providers; resellers, integrators, and other intermediaries must quantify added value beyond the primary offering.
Step 1 also requires data-rights assertions acknowledging Government ownership of Government-provided/customer data and identifying proposed restrictions on technical data, software, and related data.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD.
POP: TBD.
CONTRACT TYPE: Potential RFO 12 commercial FFP contract(s) or Prototype OT(s) under the AOS CSO.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Step 1 white paper → invited live cloud / edge product demonstration → invited Request for Solution Proposal → potential award(s); first post-award order intended as the prototype, with subsequent solution / FFP task orders as needed. Prototype schedule objective: 9 months, not to exceed 12 months.
10) RAPID SYSTEMS INTEGRATION & AUTOMATED TESTING (STITCHES)
AFRL / Information Directorate | Presolicitation / Advanced Research Announcement | Response Due: 24 Jul 2028
Update: Amendment 7 posted 16 Jul 2026 — republishes the full ARA and updates OT statutory language, proposal / debriefing provisions, cost-and-pricing thresholds, DFARS clauses, GAAP / financial-resource sections, and the ombudsman. No technical-scope change.
What’s Being Sought
R&D to mature, prototype, demonstrate, and evaluate algorithms, methodologies, techniques, and capabilities for rapidly integrating heterogeneous military systems and automatically generating tests for STITCHES subsystem specifications and properties.
STITCHES is a DARPA-developed software toolchain — now an Air Force program of record — for rapidly connecting military systems that use different interfaces, allowing them to exchange data without adopting a single common standard.
Proposed SoS software prototypes must increase military effectiveness, cost leverage, and adaptability relative to the current platform-centric approach.
Focus areas:
STITCHES tools / technologies — interface and data-modeling tools, interface-code encapsulation, machine-to-machine exchange across different messaging interfaces, mission-system composition for kill chains / EW / detection and tracking / communications, capability-gap analysis, open-architecture integration, operational demonstrations, and transition artifacts / source-code documentation.
Government cloud / DevOps platform for the STITCHES Warfighter Application Team — automated deployment / updates, logging / monitoring / auditing, identity and access management / SSO, repository backup and restoration, web GUI, secure cloud hosting at multiple security levels, and secure file transfer between security levels.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Approximately $350M total; individual awards normally $1M–$25M, with potential awards up to $99.9M.
POP: Individual awards normally will not exceed 60 months.
CONTRACT TYPE: FAR-based procurement contracts or OTs under 10 USC 4021, 4022, or 4023.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Closed to foreign participation, subject to identified unclassified-fundamental-research, approved FOCI-mitigation, or State / Commerce authorization exceptions, approved DD Form 2345, U.S. citizenship required for contractor employees needing USAF-base, AFRL-facility, or Government-network access, absent an approved exception or written waiver, and, for an OT proposal, one of the following — significant nontraditional-defense-contractor or nonprofit-research-institution participation / all significant participants small businesses or nontraditional defense contractors / at least 1/3 non-Federal cost share. Proposal-stage S&T security-risk review for all senior / key personnel and covered individuals — award may be declined if risk exceeds the acceptable threshold.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Recommended white-paper dates: 15 Sep 2026 for FY27 funding alignment / 15 Sep 2027 for FY28; white papers accepted through 24 Jul 2028. Two-step process — selected white papers may be invited to submit a technical / cost proposal; white-paper and proposal evaluation notifications within 45 days of submission; successful prototype OT may transition to a follow-on production contract or transaction.
11) KILL-WEB OPS SUSTAINMENT OF SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS SYSTEMS (KOSMOSS)
Space Systems Command, PEO Space Domain Awareness & Combat Power | Special Notice | Response Date: 31 Oct 2026
Update: Posted 17 Jul 2026 — Acquisition strategy change: Government is planning to use existing contract vehicles instead of creating its own, citing resources and Government leadership direction.
What’s Being Sought
Per notice title, sustainment and maintenance of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) systems associated with kill-web operations; this notice states no scope. No technical scope, system list, or capability detail released in this notice; prior KOSMOSS sources sought is referenced but not restated here.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not stated in this notice.
POP: Not stated in this notice.
CONTRACT TYPE: Government planning to use existing contract vehicles such as multiple-award IDIQs; each requirement would be competed separately as task orders, as applicable.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: None stated — no set-aside used; no contract vehicles named in this notice.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Informational notice; no submission requested and no solicitation or award action announced. Task order timelines would be spread over the next few years as requirements, acquisition strategies, and schedules become more firm; notice inactive 15 Nov 2026.
12) COMMERCIAL MEO UHF SATELLITE CAPACITY FOR NARROWBAND SATCOM EXPERIMENTS
AFRL | Sources Sought | Response Due: 10 Aug 2026
Update: Posted 23 Jul 2026 — corrected previously swapped uplink/downlink frequency bands and replaced the original RFI attachment. No other content or due dates changed.
What’s Being Sought
Access to bandwidth on a commercially owned / operated, UHF-capable on-orbit MEO satellite for a near-term experimental campaign — characterize MEO UHF spectrum, waveforms, and user equipment; demonstrate interoperability with the existing GEO constellation; and inform a sequenced pathway to augment or replace GEO UHF capability.
Technology solutions should prioritize existing space vehicle, payload, and communications-link capabilities that can provide on-orbit service immediately or as soon as possible. Initial launch capability by 2030 remains potentially useful, but earlier on-orbit capability is strongly desired.
Core characteristics include:
8,000–22,000 km orbit; terrestrial coverage inclusive of 30–40 degrees north latitude.
20 MHz contiguous uplink within 300–320 MHz and 20 MHz contiguous downlink within 360–380 MHz — at least two 5 MHz channels per block; up to 1 MHz additional downlink within 244–270 MHz supporting one 25 kHz broadcast channel.
Configurable Earth-fixed “staring” footprint — one-beam threshold / two-beam objective.
Ground-measured beam power not to exceed -138 dBW/kHz/m² across the beam when the spacecraft is up to 45 degrees from zenith, where possible and subject to regulatory requirements.
MUOS WCDMA and future modified MUOS WCDMA threshold; any channel-compliant waveform objective.
Feeder-link transport / persistent terrestrial connectivity through beam or satellite handoffs.
Indefeasible Government right of access, as soon as practicable, for 36 months threshold / spacecraft useful life objective.
Pricing must assume a COCO ground segment.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not specified.
POP: Not specified.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD — possible AFRL STAR, SSC SpEC OTA, or other agency mechanism for follow-on activity.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: U.S. prime only; foreign firms limited to eligible subcontractor roles.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: No award will be made from this notice; responses may inform future acquisition strategies.
13) ADVANCED CYBER EFFECTS FOR STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (ACESO)
AFRL / Information Directorate | Advanced Research Announcement | White Papers Accepted Through: 10 Jul 2030
Update: Amendment 4 posted 16 Jul 2026 — republished the announcement with prior amendments incorporated; updated statutory language, debriefing / clause references, the Simplified Acquisition Threshold to $350,000, and the certified cost or pricing data threshold to $10M — $7.5M for small businesses / nontraditional defense contractors. No technical scope change.
What’s Being Sought
Cyber operations prototypes for transition into operational DoD platforms — research, design, development, test, evaluation, implementation, and transition of C4I / cyber technologies supporting air, space, and cyberspace missions.
Priority areas include:
Assured / zero-trust infrastructure; DoDIN battlespace organization; resilient C3 / JADC2; cyber situational awareness / mission assurance; effects-based defenses.
Cyber ISR, cyber operational preparation of the environment, offensive / defensive cyberspace operations, SIGINT / EW / cyber integration, and Deny, Degrade, Disrupt, Destroy, and Manipulate effects.
AI / ML, cloud-agnostic architectures, code analysis, cyber modeling / simulation, trusted hardware / software, mobile and embedded security, ICS / SCADA, IoT, and enterprise / tactical networks.
Target platforms include military Programs of Record, government / commercial clouds, embedded devices and firmware, automation systems, tactical systems, and wired / wireless networks.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Approximately $950M total — anticipated $190M annually across FY26–FY30; individual awards normally $10M–$50M, maximum $99.98M.
POP: Individual awards normally will not exceed 60 months.
CONTRACT TYPE: FAR-based procurement contract or OT under 10 U.S.C. §§ 4021, 4022, or 4023.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Foreign participation prohibited with limited stated exceptions, approved DD Form 2345, OT statutory participation / cost-share requirements. FFRDCs / Government entities must demonstrate the work is unavailable from the private sector and provide supporting authority documentation; eligibility determined case by case.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Rolling two-step process — white paper first; formal technical / cost proposal by invitation. FY27 funding-alignment date 30 Sep 2026, followed by 30 Sep annually through FY30; white papers accepted through 10 Jul 2030; successful prototype OT may transition to a follow-on production contract or transaction.
14) AGENTIC C2 FRAMEWORK FOR CONTESTED & AIR-GAPPED ENVIRONMENTS (ECHOTRIBBLE)
Army Cyber Command / Army Cyber Technology and Innovation Center | Special Notice / Assessment Event | Response Due: 13 Aug 2026 | Event: 06–08 Oct 2026
What’s Being Sought
Modular, autonomous cyber C2 agent capable of navigating digital infrastructure, observing host environments, detecting anomalies, and identifying / neutralizing identified threats or targets with minimal human oversight.
Required operation across cloud, hybrid, disconnected, contested, and air-gapped environments — lightweight / low-observable execution designed not to interfere with host operations, with no persistent footprint as a stated objective while the architecture also allows an optional persistence toggle.
Core capabilities include:
Configurable rule-based or prompt-driven task execution; safe propagation governed by predefined conditions / triggers.
Behavioral, registry, file, host, and network anomaly detection with contextual reporting.
Windows / Linux / macOS deployment; memory-resident or fileless operation, randomized activity scheduling, process-name obfuscation, and optional persistence.
Compressed / encrypted telemetry via HTTPS or DNS; secure configuration and limited remote control.
JSON / YAML-based modular architecture supporting interchangeable detection, reporting, and control components.
Tamper / debugger detection, policy-driven cleanup / recovery, ephemeral state memory, and optional local small-language-model inference.
Lab / field configuration modes and sandbox compatibility for red-team testing and behavior tracing.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD.
POP: TBD.
CONTRACT TYPE: Potentially one or multiple prototype awards through CFIC’s B2B Contracting Mechanism under its Partnership Intermediary Agreement, OTAs, or other non-FAR agreements; successful prototype projects may, subject to funding, lead to a follow-on production contract or transaction without further competition. The Government may award all, some, or none of the solutions.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: None stated in the available release.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Teaming and Q&A submissions close 27 Jul 2026; Vulcan account must be created and working at least 48 hours before the whitepaper deadline; responses anticipated 03 Aug 2026. Whitepapers expected to be reviewed on or about 18–31 Aug 2026; demonstration invitations anticipated 10 Sep 2026; virtual demonstrations 06–08 Oct 2026; final-selection notifications anticipated 15 Oct 2026.
15) NAVAL TACTICAL DATA LINK ENGINEERING & SUSTAINMENT
NIWC Pacific / Tactical Data Links Command & Control + Monitoring Systems | Solicitation | Response Due: 20 Jul 2026
Update: Amendment 0002 posted 15 Jul 2026 — changed required CMMC status from Level 2 (C3PAO) to Level 2 (Self) and corrected Attachment 3 ODC values; no technical scope change. Q&A confirmed the $17,094,280 ODC total and denied a requested one-week deadline extension.
What’s Being Sought
Life-cycle engineering / technical assistance for Naval tactical and communications data-link systems and related equipment under the Capabilities Based In-Service Engineering Agent mission:
Systems engineering of Naval TDL equipment.
Program / risk management of Naval TDL equipment.
Production support of Naval TDL equipment.
Government-estimated effort: 896,804 hours across the base period + four option years, averaging approximately 90 FTEs per year.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Total task-order value not stated in the available source package; Government-estimated ODCs total $17,094,280, excluding labor, indirect costs, and fee.
POP: Base period + 4 option years.
CONTRACT TYPE: CPFF task order under SeaPort NxG MAC.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: SeaPort NxG MAC holders only, 100% small-business set-aside under NAICS 541330 ($47M), prime-offeror proof of a Secret Facility Clearance with proposal, adequate cost-reimbursement accounting system for the prime and any CPFF subcontractors, CMMC Level 2 (Self) before award for systems processing FCI / CUI. Subcontractor CMMC requirements depend on the information each subcontractor will handle.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Deadline passed 20 Jul 2026; Amendment 0002 did not extend it. Notice remains active; SAM.gov lists 15 Jul 2027 as the inactive date.
16) NEXT-GEN COTS/NDI MOUNTED FAMILY OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Army Project Manager Command & Control Infrastructure / Product Manager Mounted Command & Control | Sources Sought | Response Due: 31 Jul 2026
What’s Being Sought
Readily available COTS / NDI ruggedized computers for potential use as drop-in replacements for the Army’s Mounted Family of Computer Systems (MFoCS) — modular, cyber-hardened compute / display hardware deployed across more than 100,000 ground vehicles and tactical operations centers and serving as the mounted hardware backbone for Next Generation Command and Control.
Responses should address:
COTS / NDI status, including NDI maturity and public / Government-only availability.
Environmental survivability / reliability against Mounted Mission Command Environmental and Quality Control Specification v1.5, including completed testing and roadmap for unmet requirements.
Cyber maturity / handling of SBU-E, CUI, and SECRET data; ability to remove SECRET data when transitioning classifications; cyber maturity against FIPS 140 / NIST 800-171 / NIST 800-53.
Drop-in compatibility with the restricted MFoCS Interface Control Document, including compute performance, RAM, GPS, Wi-Fi, maintenance / provisioning interfaces, open standards, and associated data rights.
Military / assured GPS, including key loading, storage, and protection.
Size, dimensions, weight, power, and cooling; active / passive cooling and venting; voltage, current, and wattage under nominal / peak loads, including peak-load duration.
TPM 2.0 or comparable capability; two SSD bays; and how data from removed SSDs would be retained on the compute platform.
FY19 NDAA §889 / FY23 NDAA §5949 sourcing compliance; component-risk mitigation, lead times, supply-chain strategy, production capacity, availability, and minimum sustaining rate.
Product cost by unit / volume, including all licensing costs, terms, and whether licenses must be acquired from other sources.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not stated.
POP: Not stated.
CONTRACT TYPE: Not stated.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Response Due: 31 Jul 2026
SEC III - RDT&E
17) DARPA PITCH DAY: BREAKTHROUGH SENSING, RESILIENT SYSTEMS, AND ADVANCED MATERIALS
Multi X Office | Program Announcement | Response Due: 29 Jul 2026 | Event: 02 Nov 2026
Update: Posted 24 Jul 2026 — clarifies that university submissions are eligible only when the proposed PI and any Co-PIs have never previously served as a PI or Co-PI under a DARPA-funded award.
What’s Being Sought
Short-duration scientific discovery efforts pursuing revolutionary—not evolutionary—advances across three MXO thrusts:
A world beyond electronics — non-electronic / hybrid sensing, communications, transduction, devices, or information buses using optical, quantum, organic, acoustic, photonic, fluidic, or related approaches.
Foundations beyond components — technologies / methods able to survive or exploit space, undersea, Arctic, corrosive, shock / vibration, and adversarial environments; distributed uncrewed systems; local-resource or environment-integrated manufacturing / sustainment.
Materials beyond nature and current synthetic practice — post-fabrication tunability, autonomous resiliency / self-healing / self-protection, or artificially created properties currently unattainable.
Concepts should advance scientific understanding, generate new methods, reduce technical uncertainty, and have the potential to catalyze future research. Purely theoretical / computational efforts are eligible when paired with independently verifiable, ambitious metrics; human or animal subjects research is excluded.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Total proposed price not to exceed $500,000 per effort.
POP: Maximum 12 months.
CONTRACT TYPE: Research OT under 10 U.S.C. § 4021.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Nontraditional defense contractor with no previous DARPA prime award, or university whose proposed PI / any Co-PIs have never served as PI / Co-PI under a DARPA-funded award; submission through an organization identified by a unique CAGE code; no FFRDCs, UARCs, government entities, subcontractors, or consultants; maximum one Abstract per thrust area per CAGE, with a different PI, technical team, and approach for each submission. The no-prior-DARPA-prime-award condition is assessed at Abstract submission. Willingness to grant the Government a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free Government-Purpose license while retaining performer ownership of IP.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Abstract feedback anticipated 04 Sep 2026; selected teams invited to submit a Pitch Day package and present in Chicago on 02 Nov 2026; organizations selected for award announced 04 Nov 2026; awards may issue within 15 business days thereafter. Invited teams must register for MXO Spark Tank to pitch.
18) CONTESTED LOGISTICS R&D: SHELF-STABLE RATIONS, SMART PACKAGING, AUTONOMOUS LAST-MILE DELIVERY
Defense Logistics Agency / Contract Service Office – Philadelphia | Broad Agency Announcement | Response Due: 13 Jul 2031
What’s Being Sought
R&D / prototyping of existing commercial technologies to strengthen the Class I food and hydration supply chain in contested AD/A2 environments — shifting from pull-based resupply toward hybrid push-pull acquisition, intelligent pre-positioning, and autonomous last-mile distribution under the Advanced Logistics Initiative for Contested Environments (ALICE).
Priority pillars:
Agile / predictive acquisition: Rapid acquisition pathways and pre-qualified suppliers for nutritionally optimized, vacuum-sealed, freeze-dried, and/or UHT-processed rations with shelf lives exceeding 5–7 years.
Smart packaging / pre-positioning: Durable packaging with real-time tracking, temperature / humidity / shock sensors, chemical condition indicators, and shelf-life-extension technologies.
Autonomous / resilient distribution: Autonomous platforms, including UGVs and cargo drones, moving pre-positioned food supplies from secure caches to dispersed units.
Additional fit areas include combat rations, field feeding equipment, food safety / defense, nutrition, water security, shipment condition monitoring, sustainable food production, 3D food printing, AI-driven demand / inventory optimization, ration-assembly automation, and circular-economy concepts. The BAA may not directly result in rapid production fielding.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Subject to availability of funds, up to $35M in total Government investment is planned across all contracts / projects during FY26–FY30.
POP: Typically 6–36 months per award.
CONTRACT TYPE: BAA; resulting cost-reimbursement contracts.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Unrestricted / no set-aside; all responsible sources may submit a white paper.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: White paper first; full proposal only by Contracting Officer request. Stage I covers requirements analysis only and is limited to 12 months; invited Stage II efforts are limited to 24 months, with minimum TRL 7 applying only to physical-prototype efforts; offerors with documented successful SUBNET performance may be eligible to propose direct to Stage II if they cite the relevant completed contracts.
19) THERMAL & POWER ARCHITECTURES FOR REUSABLE HYPERSONIC AIRCRAFT
AFRL | Sources Sought | Response Due: 15 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Onboard enthalpy management for future reusable hypersonic aircraft — power generation, thermal management, and integrated power/thermal subsystems. Vehicles must power advanced avionics, sensor payloads, and flight control actuators from takeoff through acceleration, cruise, deceleration, and landing while the vehicle experiences extreme external temperatures from aerodynamic heating. Immense heat loads may exceed the heat-sink capacity of traditional high fuel flowrate baselines.
Three solicited categories:
Auxiliary power technologies generating mechanical and/or electrical power as an integrated alternative to discrete thermal battery architectures
Thermal management requiring innovative fuel technologies and/or fluid-based cooling solutions beyond onboard fuel
Integrated power and thermal subsystem technologies
Mid-term defined as system-level TRL 5+ (completed integrated ground demonstration) by 2030–2035. Near-term (<2030) and far-term (>2035) are not the focus of this RFI. Wanted: novel concepts, validated modeling approaches, risk-reduction strategies. Primary purpose is to inform near-term program needs and mid-term program development.
Fuller technical requirements reside in a Distribution D version of the RFI — available on request from the contracting officer, restricted to contractors permitted to receive documents at that distribution level.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not stated.
POP: N/A.
CONTRACT TYPE: Not stated.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Virtual Stakeholders’ Forum anticipated mid-Sep 2026; respondents may request a government-only presentation of up to 30 minutes. No award from this notice.
20) PROGRAMMABLE PROTEIN EDITING PLATFORM
DARPA Defense Sciences Office | Proposers Day | Registration Closes: 31 Jul 2026 or When Capacity Is Reached | Event: 10 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Multifunctional, target-agnostic platform for precise, programmable editing of endogenous proteins — altering proteins within biological systems to produce alternate protein functions.
Rather than separate tools engineered for individual protein targets, PENG seeks an integrated toolkit combining novel splicing, ligation, and co-translational techniques to identify and edit proteins directly. Core objective: enable researchers to alter the functional layer of biology precisely and reversibly, with approaches progressing from foundational validation to robust efficacy demonstrations.
Research limited to foundational bench-top laboratory models and complex in vitro tissue systems, including organoids. No human testing or clinical trials.
Proposers Day will explain the anticipated solicitation, program milestones, and DARPA contracting mechanics while facilitating teams across industry, academia, Government, small businesses, research institutions, nontraditional performers, and first-time Government contractors. Event offered in person in Arlington, VA and by webcast. Optional five-minute Lightning Talks may highlight participant capabilities, proposed teams, and expertise gaps.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not specified in notice.
POP: Not specified in notice.
CONTRACT TYPE: Not specified in notice.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Proposers Day attendance only: registered potential proposers; event closed to the general public and media; all non-U.S. citizens must submit Form 60 by 31 Jul 2026. Attendance is not required to propose to the anticipated PENG Program Solicitation.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Lightning Talk slides due 03 Aug 2026; DARPA anticipated releasing the PENG Program Solicitation in Jul 2026. This notice is for information and program planning only and does not constitute a solicitation.
21) NON-OPTICAL METHODS FOR HIGH SPEED PROTEIN CONTROL
DARPA Biological Technologies Office | Special Notice | Response Due: 31 Dec 2026
Update: Posted 21 Jul 2026 — Amendment 1 clarifies the notice deadline to 31 Dec 2026; it identifies no other change.
What’s Being Sought
New way to send signals across cell membranes and rapidly control protein activity inside living cells without using light.
The goal is a reliable, flexible molecular tool that can transfer information across a cell membrane and work alongside existing synthetic-biology platforms.
Optogenetic / light-based systems are out of scope.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not stated in the available source materials.
POP: Not stated in the available source materials.
CONTRACT TYPE: Not specified — through ERIS, DARPA may use research, prototyping, or experimental procurement authorities. Awardable solutions may be negotiated and awarded without another competition, depending on the applicable authority and market research.
ERIS (Expedited Research Innovation System) is DARPA’s digital marketplace of competitively assessed, awardable technology solutions that government organizations can search, select, negotiate, and procure through rapid acquisition pathways.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: ERIS accepts submissions in monthly cycles, and this Special Notice remains open through 31 Dec 2026. Each monthly batch is reviewed the following month, with results targeted within 30 days depending on submission volume; awardable status does not guarantee an award.
SEC IV - INDUSTRIAL BASE
22) RADFORD AMMUNITION PLANT INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
Project Lead Joint Services | Draft Request for Solutions / Presolicitation | Response Due: 07 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Design, construction, commissioning, and turnover of a modernized industrial wastewater treatment facility at Radford Army Ammunition Plant. The legacy Bioplant is beyond its useful service life, located in the 100-year floodplain, and constitutes a single point of failure for a facility producing nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, and multiple propellant types.
Core requirements:
Treatment performance: reliably process 1.5 million gallons per day, with surge capacity up to 2.5 million gallons and minimum flow of approximately 500,000 gallons; handle solvents, propellant residues / energetic materials, and current / projected production waste streams while meeting VPDES permit requirements.
Phase I — design / technology validation: requirements and technology charrette, influent characterization, treatment-technology analysis, 12-month pilot using up to two proposed solutions, siting / geotechnical investigation, environmental permitting, ESSP approval, long-lead equipment procurement, and 30% / 90% design packages.
Phase II — build / transition: PE-sealed IFC design, site preparation, construction, phased inert / live commissioning, throughput verification, operator training, licensing, and turnkey handoff to the Operating Contractor.
Facility requirements: location outside the 100-year floodplain—and outside the 500-year floodplain if achievable—plus an air-gapped process-control network, automated hazardous / repetitive operations, and minimum service lives of 50 years for buildings, 30 years for tanks, and 20 years for other process equipment.
USG expects unlimited rights in final design documents, reports, drawings, and procedures; technology providers retain rights to proprietary process IP.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD.
POP: Draft RFS: 24-month Phase I + 26-month Phase II; SOW: 51 months through project closeout — verify before responding.
CONTRACT TYPE: Firm-Fixed-Price OTA for one or both phases; successful design effort may transition to a follow-on contract or transaction for IFC, construction, commissioning, and transition without further competition.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Current draft seeks industry comments only; no proposals accepted / no award from this notice. Future RFS may competitively award the design effort, with successful Phase I completion enabling a potential Phase II follow-on without further competition.
23) ESTABLISHING A RADAR TEST, CALIBRATION, REPAIR & OVERHAUL CAPABILITY AT TOBYHANNA
ACC–Redstone Arsenal for Tobyhanna Army Depot | Solicitation (CSO Call for Solutions) | Response Due: 28 Jul 2026
What’s Being Sought
Turn-key suite of equipment and infrastructure to stand up organic depot-level testing, calibration, repair, and overhaul for four modern radar platforms — AN/MPQ-64A4, AN/TPY-4, AN/TPQ-53, and Advanced Range Threat Simulator Variant 3 (ARTS-V3).
Closes existing gap in high-density LRU test, integrated near-field measurement, and far-field array calibration at TYAD. Driver: depot-level sustainment inside the Organic Industrial Base, reduced OEM reliance.
Four capability elements, partitioned by platform:
Specialized Test Equipment — automated/specialized diagnostic stations plus software for radar LRUs and subsystems.
Near-field measurement — near-field range system (AN/MPQ-64A4, ARTS-V3); completion and commissioning of the existing AN/TPQ-53 specialized test chamber.
Far-field range — outdoor target generators, RF monitoring, mobile towers, range control terminals, cabling, wireless data links; platform-specific horn antennas, interface adapters, frequency-specific transceivers.
Depot support equipment — overhaul, handling, and transport systems per platform.
Vendor executes full scope: project management, site planning, procurement, logistics, installation (including tower-climbing operations), validation, testing, hands-on training.
TYAD furnishes physical space, tower access, and standard utilities; layout designed collaboratively with TYAD engineering.
MOSA alignment where feasible; architecture must scale to future/emerging radars without complete redesign of the core testing infrastructure — named within Technical Merit, the top-ranked Phase 1 evaluation criterion.
All system software, diagnostics, and test suites require perpetual, fully-paid offline licenses, no subscription or renewal.
Anticipated deliverables include NIST-traceable ISO/IEC 17025 certificates and technical data packages.
Offerors may propose the entire program or a defined subset of platforms/elements.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD — no value stated; awards subject to availability of funds.
POP: Base year + 2 option years post-commissioning (CLIN 0004 software/firmware maintenance and technical support); equipment and installation delivery periods vendor-proposed.
CONTRACT TYPE: CSO Call under Army AdvM CSO (DFARS 212.70); anticipated FFP contract or Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) at award, determined by vendor business size, accounting system, and proposed solution.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: No set-aside; no classified access required (Unclassified/CUI only). OCI disclosure required with submission; mitigation plan required if a potential OCI exists.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Phase 1 Solution Brief is the current step; Phase 2 pitch and Phase 3 RFSP by invitation, with the Government reserving the right to bypass Phase 2 should funding be available. Single, multiple, or no award; briefs of merit without a current need, manpower, or funding may be retained in a solution repository.
24) GOLDEN FLEET MANUFACTURING AND SUSTAINMENT TECH (INDUSTRY DAY)
ONR Navy ManTech Program | Special Notice | Registration Due: 13 Aug 2026 | Event: 20 Aug 2026 (Arlington, VA)
What’s Being Sought
sBAA aims to address manufacturing opportunities facilitating applied research / advanced technology development that enhance naval platform manufacturing and sustainment — goal is improving speed and throughput of next-generation naval platform manufacturing and sustainment; event theme is Accelerating Maritime Modernization: Innovation in Naval Manufacturing, Sustainment, and Industrial Base Capability. Scope framed around Navy Golden Fleet platforms, including:
New battleship [BBG(X)/BBGN]
Next-generation frigate [FF(X)]
Unmanned surface vessels
Associated combat systems
ONR plans to conduct an Industry Day to engage the naval manufacturing community in an open forum on the ManTech sBAA.
Audience is industry professionals seeking to do business with the ONR Navy ManTech Program. Presentations and discussions will include sBAA overview, timeline, and requirements.
Registration required via ONR event registration link. Notice points to an ONR reference page for the BAA.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not stated.
POP: Not stated.
CONTRACT TYPE: Not stated; related sBAA under Related Notice N0001426SB002.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: No set-aside, two representatives maximum per affiliation, press excluded.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Industry Day 20 Aug 2026. Notice inactive 28 Aug 2026.
25) MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR USAF TEST INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION CONSORTIUM (AEDC VELOCITY ALLIANCE)
Air Force Test Center / Arnold Engineering Development Complex | Solicitation | Response Due: 01 Sep 2026 | Event: 16 Sep 2026
Update: Posted 17 Jul 2026 — Amendment 4 revised mandatory CMMC certification / evaluation criteria. A current CMMC Level 2 self-assessment now satisfies the baseline; applicants without Level 2 may submit a current Level 1 self-assessment + roadmap to achieve Level 2 self-assessment by 10 Nov 2026.
What’s Being Sought
Vendors to join a pre-qualified industrial consortium that will sustain, restore, and modernize critical Air Force test infrastructure supporting next-generation defense systems operating at extreme speeds / altitudes and relying on integrated sensor and data networks.
Performance may span Arnold AFB, Holloman AFB, Tunnel 9, and NFAC, with broader AFTC use permitted.
Technical coverage includes:
General / industrial construction; low-pressure, high-pressure, and hazardous process systems; process ducting exceeding 24 inches.
High-, medium-, and low-voltage electrical infrastructure; specialized fire suppression; site-wide utilities.
Major rotating industrial equipment repair; mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation, data, and control engineering.
Near-term pipeline includes approximately 135 planned projects through FY27.
All Alliance members in good standing receive all POAs regardless of the technical competency used for onboarding.
No predetermined cap on Alliance membership; the Government intends to onboard as many vendors as pass the four-part evaluation.
Project teams may include other Alliance members or outside subcontractors, subject to applicable project-level CMMC / JCP flow-down requirements based on the data they handle.
Government intends Alliance-exclusive competition for projects placed through the consortium but reserves open-market or simultaneous competition when determined appropriate.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Approximately $550M through FY27; multi-billion-dollar infrastructure portfolio anticipated through FY32. Planning estimates only — funding established by individual POA.
POP: Not stated.
CONTRACT TYPE: Unfunded consortium agreement; project-level Prototype OTs under or facility construction/repair transactions; predominantly FFP milestone-based structures anticipated, with cost-reimbursable arrangements possible.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Current JCP / approved DD Form 2345; CMMC Path A — current Level 2 self-assessment in SPRS or C3PAO certification — or Path B — current Level 1 self-assessment in SPRS + roadmap to Level 2 by 10 Nov 2026; one qualifying project completed within five years; verbatim IP acknowledgement; and named NDC / small-business / nonprofit research partner with CAGE code and Part 2-linked significant-participation rationale. Path B members missing the deadline become inactive; future POAs may require C3PAO certification.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Alliance activated 01 Jul 2026; Opportunity 2 whitepapers due 01 Sep 2026; qualifying vendors invited to the mandatory virtual Industry Day on 16 Sep 2026, with the membership agreement following successful attendance; Opportunity 3 TBD.
26) RED RIVER ARMY DEPOT OIB MODERNIZATION & CONVERGENT MANUFACTURING
Red River Army Depot | Special Notice / Commercial Solutions Opening | Response Due: 30 Sep 2026
What’s Being Sought
Innovative commercial products, technologies, services / adaptations supporting Organic Industrial Base modernization — connecting legacy analog manufacturing systems with modern digital infrastructure, expanding modeling / simulation, and integrating enterprise manufacturing resources.
Convergent Manufacturing is DEVCOM’s collective term for agile / flexible facilities, connected digital enterprise, advanced manufacturing, Digital Twin, automation, and cyber security technologies.
Continuously open Areas of Interest:
Agile facilities / connected digital enterprise: scalable multi-product production lines; integrated physical / virtual manufacturing; 5G-enabled visibility; IoT, cloud computing, AI, mixed reality.
Advanced manufacturing / automation / analytics: hybrid manufacturing cells, advanced robotics, point-of-need kits, human-machine interfaces, integrated controls, predictive maintenance / scheduling, robotic painting / welding, warehouse pick-and-sort.
Depot process modernization: paint operations, tire / wheel assembly, inventory and warehouse management, safe / sustainable energy and chemical processes.
Workforce / human capital: convergent-manufacturing talent development; software tracking training requirements / progress by employee series and grade.
Individual AoIs may also seek commercially available systems, demonstrations, pilots, or agile development improving commercial technology, government-owned capabilities, and broader defense applications.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD — dependent on funding / resources available for each AoI.
POP: Generally no greater than 12 months unless otherwise specified in the AoI.
CONTRACT TYPE: CSO; FAR Part 12 fixed-price / FPIF contracts intended, with additional contract types or other authorities reserved by AoI.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: CSO continuously open through 30 Sep 2026; individual AoIs carry separate response windows and may be added throughout. Phase 1 solution brief → optional Phase 2 pitch / demonstration → Phase 3 Commercial Solution Proposal by invitation; government may skip Phase 2 or accelerate the process for urgent requirements.
SEC V - PLATFORMS & WEAPON SYSTEMS
27) SPECIAL MISSION VESSEL FOR HELICOPTER, UAS, USV & SMALL-CRAFT OPERATIONS
U.S. Navy PAE Maritime / PMS 300 | Sources Sought | Response Due: 19 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Multi-mission vessel serving as an independently operating, forward-deployed staging base for helicopters, Class 2/3 VTOL UAS, USVs, small boats, maritime-security missions, and U.S. / partner-nation C2. Navy will consider either new construction or acquisition / modification of an existing vessel, with existing non-developmental platforms preferred.
Minimum requirements include:
Platform / endurance: approximately 300–400 ft steel monohull or catamaran; 10-knot sustained speed; 9,600 NM range at 10 knots; 30 days at sea without replenishment; primary operations / survival in Sea State 5 or greater.
Aviation / unmanned systems: day/night certified flight deck supporting SH-60, MH-60 Seahawk, MH-60T Jayhawk, MH-65 Dolphin, and Class 2/3 VTOL UAS; dedicated UAS recovery / storage area; two 20-ft container sockets for UAS control / maintenance.
Small-craft operations: non-crane launch / recovery system for 24–44 ft boats weighing up to 35,000 lbs through an elevator / lift, ramp, or welldeck; emergency-recovery crane for UAS, USVs, or other watercraft.
Mission support: secure / unsecure C2 with notional 750 sq ft SCIF and 200 sq ft radio room; modular compartments; berthing for up to 59 personnel; armory / magazine; towing, refueling, maintenance, medical, logistics, and detainee-support spaces.
Fuel / modernization: minimum 7,000 gallons MOGAS and 300 gallons AVGAS; USCG-compliant refueler designation; SWaP reservations for future communications, EO/IR, and minimum 75-NM air-search radar / DRAMOC equipment.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD — respondents must provide total delivered-cost estimates within a ±10% confidence range.
POP: N/A.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Responses will inform new-build versus vessel-conversion planning and whether any follow-on procurement is set aside or competed full and open; no award or commitment to issue an RFP from this notice.
28) MOBILE LAUNCH PLATFORMS FOR MISSILE-DEFENSE TARGETS
Missile Defense Agency Directorate for Test | Special Notice | Response Due: 30 Sep 2028
Update: Posted 24 Jul 2026 — SAM.gov lists a controlled industry-questions spreadsheet dated 17 Jul 2026
What’s Being Sought
Mobile ground-, sea-, or air-launched platforms capable of deploying and launching short- through intercontinental-range missile-defense test targets from multiple locations worldwide — lower-cost, higher-cadence alternative to current C-17 air-drop launches.
Core requirements / preferences:
Modular / open-system design; industry-standard interfaces; minimized recycle time; flexible launch locations; encouraged integration with legacy solid targets and commercially available solid or liquid launch systems.
Preferred use of COTS/GOTS components, previously developed subsystems, MIL/commercial standards, and rapid / low-cost manufacturing — abbreviated integration effort rather than extensive new technology development.
Launch options covering ballistic, maneuvering (MaRV, HGV, FOB/MOB), and air-breathing targets across short-to-intercontinental ranges.
Phase I design / engagement analysis must define the platform, boosters, controls, communications, fire-control interface, launch-support equipment, and prototype cost. Phase II prototype / ground test / live launch culminates in delivery of one launch platform plus integration, transport, and launch services. If selected, major-system documentation required with at least Government Purpose Rights.
Any selected awardee must have an active Secret Facility Clearance Level with Secret safeguarding, verified by MDA before award.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD — no defined budget or funding level.
POP: Phase I: 3-month objective / 6-month threshold; Phase II: 12-month objective / 24-month threshold. Offerors may propose and justify an alternate POP.
CONTRACT TYPE: FAR-based procurement contract or Prototype OT / OT-like agreement.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: FFRDC/UARC respondents must include a sponsor-scope determination, no-direct-competition determination, and industry transition plan.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: White papers accepted continuously through 30 Sep 2028; multiple selections are anticipated, and MDA may make selections at any time. The effort begins with Phase I design and analysis, after which MDA may select some or none of the concepts for Phase II prototyping, ground testing, and launch of a target system; papers not selected due to funding availability stay eligible, if funding becomes available, up to 6 months past the closing date.
29) AUXILIARY SHIPS INDUSTRY DAY: TANKER, HOSPITAL SHIP & RO/RO PROGRAMS
Navy PAE Maritime / MARAD | Special Notice / Industry Day | Response Due: 22 Jul 2026 | Event: 05–06 Aug 2026
Update: Posted 22 Jul 2026 — registration reached maximum capacity; no additional registration requests accepted. Deadline passed 22 Jul 2026; notice active through 06 Aug 2026. No scope change.
What’s Being Sought
Industry feedback from Vessel Construction Managers, shipyards, and key suppliers to inform requirements, ship design, and acquisition strategies across four Navy / MARAD auxiliary vessel programs:
Bulk Fuel CONSOL Tanker: PAE Maritime consolidated-cargo tanker program.
Next Generation Hospital Ship: T-AH(X) program.
RO/RO Vessel Program: MARAD roll-on/roll-off vessel acquisition effort.
Vessel Acquisition Manager 2.0: MARAD VAM 2.0 program.
Program overviews during the 05 Aug 2026 morning session; approved attendees may request one-on-one discussions with PAE Maritime and/or MARAD officials during the remainder of the event.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: N/A.
POP: N/A.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Approved registration required, media excluded.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Registration closed after reaching maximum capacity; attendance decisions expected by 29 Jul 2026. Presentations 05 Aug 2026; one-on-one sessions begin 05 Aug 2026 and continue through 06 Aug 2026. No award from this notice.
30) 155MM 52-CAL CHARGES & PRIMERS FOR MOBILE TACTICAL CANNON EVALUATIONS
Army Project Manager – Combat Ammunition Systems | Sources Sought | Response Due: 31 Jul 2026
What’s Being Sought
Propulsion hardware / engineering support for Army evaluation of extended-range ammunition compatibility in the 155mm 52-caliber Mobile Tactical Cannon. Evaluation assumes a 23-liter chamber because final MTC configuration remains undetermined.
The effort is tied directly to the Mobile Tactical Cannon howitzer: the propulsion combination is intended to enable extended-range artillery fires, with the FY27 evaluation informing PM-CAS’s ammunition strategy and Army senior leadership on potential propulsion solutions.
Required hardware:
Top-zone propelling charge: single- or multi-piece consumable case, propellant, ignitor(s), and performance-enhancing additives.
Percussion primer: plunger, pyrotechnic, and ignitor.
Responses should address TRL / MRL, performance, suitability, manufacturability, compatibility, existing test hardware, and monthly production capacity for supercharges or similar technologies.
Modeling / simulation scope includes muzzle velocity, operating / extreme pressures, muzzle-exit pressure, gun-tube wear, flame temperature, temperature sensitivity, and related parameters under STANAG 4110 or similar standards. Vendors should also demonstrate cannon-ammunition integration / testing experience under STANAG 4224 or comparable safety and suitability standards.
Potential support includes 4–8 weeks of initial modeling / simulation, 4–8 weeks of pre-live-fire planning / risk assessment, and 6–10 weeks of live-fire engineering support, with the live-fire period potentially divided across 2–3 non-consecutive blocks. Hardware lead times, personnel availability, shipping to Yuma Proving Ground, and any design changes needed for U.S. fuzed projectiles also requested.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD.
POP: TBD.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: PM-CAS plans a Propelling Charge & Primer Evaluation in FY27, with live-fire testing notionally in late FY27. No award from this notice; any future solicitation will be separately published.
SEC VI - ENTERPRISE AI, SOFTWARE, & SUPPORT SERVICES
31) SELECTIVE SERVICE READINESS & MOBILIZATION SIMULATION
Selective Service System | Solicitation / RFQ | Response Due: 14 Aug 2026
Update: Amendment 1 posted 23 Jul 2026 — corrected proposal-submission details; replaced Government-furnished information references with broader “data, inputs, and parameters” language; revised the demonstration evaluation to one phase using prior completed work or notional examples comparable to agency requirements.
What’s Being Sought
Government-owned readiness simulation enabling the Selective Service System to model its full end-to-end mobilization pipeline across six Mission Essential Functions: Registration, Selection, Notification, Delivery, Classification, and the Alternative Service Program.
Required design, development, validation, documentation, and delivery should support:
Mobilization planning: evaluate staffing / resource requirements, compare policy and mobilization scenarios, and assess operational impacts under surge conditions.
Process analysis: identify throughput risks, delays, bottlenecks, and other constraints across the mobilization pipeline.
Decision support: configurable scenarios and analytics for agency leadership, planners, and operators; support executive planning / reporting obligations.
Technical environment: operation within an SSS-designated cloud environment using anonymized aggregate data.
Government sustainment: complete Government ownership of the delivered simulation and ability to sustain it after delivery.
Demonstration evaluation will use examples of prior completed work or notional demonstrations comparable to SSS requirements rather than operational scenarios supplied by the agency.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD.
POP: TBD.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Total Small Business Set-Aside under NAICS 541512.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Vendor questions due 28 Jul 2026; final quotes due 14 Aug 2026. Demonstration evaluation consolidated into one phase.
32) AI-POWERED DATA AGGREGATION AND VISUALIZATION FOR MINUTEMAN III
Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center / Minuteman III Systems Directorate | Request for Information | Response Due: 10 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
AI-powered software tool to unify search, retrieval, assessment, and visualization across approximately 60 disconnected Minuteman III data sources — reducing manual compilation required for situational awareness and weapon-system risk assessment, including parts attrition and functional age-out.
Core capabilities:
Single interface for user-defined queries across Health of the Fleet metrics, drawings, specifications, interface control documents, supply / maintenance systems, technical orders, architecture models, test records, and the JIRA Weapon System Risk Repository.
Near-real-time retrieval from existing authoritative sources without becoming the Authoritative Source of Truth.
Intuitive navigation / visualization of 2D drawings, 3D models, functional flow diagrams, and other complex technical files — supporting navigation of complex system architectures and training of new personnel.
Initial thresholds: connectivity to at least 95% of specified data sources, 99% search-result accuracy against source data, and error-free rendering of required technical file types.
Safeguards / continuous validation checks to preserve data accuracy and integrity; measurable reduction in manual data-compilation effort, with the metric established during the first PMR.
Initial CUI operation at IL5, with potential future IL6 / Secret requirements. Deliverables include a fully functional software release with source code and configuration files, plus technical documentation, system-architecture diagrams, administrator guides, and end-user training materials. Personnel requiring access to government systems or data will need appropriate security clearances as specified by the Government.
Government-furnished support will include the detailed source list and access guidance, access to key MMIII Engineering, Maintenance, and Supply personnel, and example datasets / technical files for development and testing.
Capability will complement — not replace — the existing AIMM3 fleet-health metrics tool.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not specified.
POP: Not specified.
CONTRACT TYPE: Not specified.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: None stated for responding to this RFI.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Market research only; no solicitation or contractual commitment currently exists / no award from this notice.
33) NAVY FITNESS & HUMAN PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION MODEL
Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) | Presolicitation (issued as RFI) | Response Due: 14 Sep 2026
What’s Being Sought
Industry capabilities to convert CNIC’s MWR fitness program into an integrated Human Performance Optimization (HPO) model — strength and conditioning, nutrition, mental resilience, recovery protocols replacing utilization-based programming.
Current baseline: 140 fitness facilities / 72 installations / 302 certified fitness professionals (2024 DoD MWR Fitness Center Standards Annual Report).
No single all-encompassing solution expected; partial/modular offerings welcome across programming, service delivery, education, technology.
Five performance objectives:
Workforce capability — digital tools, applications, virtual delivery embedded in training, education, daily operations.
Accessibility and inclusion — inclusive design, accessibility standards, diverse user groups including individuals with disabilities.
Innovation — AI, machine learning, immersive virtual platforms for Warfighter performance, decision-making, collaboration, productivity.
Outcome measurement — metrics and evaluation frameworks; screening, assessment, testing, individual/group data analysis, dedicated data management systems.
Collaboration and knowledge sharing — virtual platforms, shared applications, technology-based communities of practice; includes enterprise-wide facility access solutions with security protocols and privacy safeguards for space-utilization analytics.
Program content areas: sleep and recovery, injury prevention, physical training, stress management, mental and emotional health, nutrition and fueling, mixed-method assessments and metrics.
Security and privacy protection required across all technology and application deployments.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: N/A — price or cost will not be discussed. POP: N/A.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Questions due 28 Aug 2026, answered via amendment; proof-of-concept implementation scheduled FY27 at Naval Base San Diego. No award from this notice; initial implementation uses current resources and Program of Record allocations at selected installations.
34) NAVY NUKE PROGRAM SUPPLY CHAIN MONITORING — SaaS, PART-LEVEL MAPPING
Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) | Sources Sought | Response Due: 03 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Existing, operational commercial SaaS — rapidly configurable, no new software functionality required — for recurring industrial base monitoring, acquisition decision support, production readiness analysis, supplier risk management.
Must ingest / normalize / analyze disparate datasets (CDRLs, BOMs, financial data, etc.), integrate Government-furnished information with commercial and proprietary sources, deliver configurable workflows, dashboards, alerts, analytical products. Demonstrated mapping of the defense industrial base down to sub-tier supplier and part (NIIN/NSN) level.
SSP portfolio includes Trident II (D5/D5LE/D5LE2) SWS, Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic capability, SLCM-N.
Drivers: overlapping sustainment and modernization efforts, single/sole-source concentrations, integration timelines, fragmented datasets — elevating schedule and performance risk.
Six lines of effort:
Supply chain readiness / continuous monitoring — supplier and part taxonomies, certifications, readiness indicators, production/quality/workforce/financial/schedule risk
Strategic sourcing / investment decision support — make-buy, supplier diversification, capacity forecasting, ROI on SDIB investments
Specific program support — concurrent D5/D5LE sustainment and D5LE2 production, CPS production, W93/Mk7 integration, SLCM-N monitoring including TLAM baseline data integration
Acquisition / technical decision support — automated aggregation of program and sustainment data for technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and acquisition milestones (MS-A, MS-B, MS-C, IOC, FRP)
Enterprise workflow automation — AI and machine learning to streamline recurring reporting, dashboards, analytical workflows
Classified software operations — provision, configure, maintain platform inside SSP Red environment, up to IL5 or required classification levels, per SSP cybersecurity and accreditation requirements
Capability statements should address any current ATOs and applicable GWAC / GSA schedules held.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: N/A.
POP: N/A.
CONTRACT TYPE: Not stated.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A — no set-aside used.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: No award from this notice; market research only, with no commitment to a future solicitation; notice inactive 18 Aug 2026.
35) AI-ENABLED PERSONNEL AND READINESS MODELING TOOL
Marine Corps Forces Reserve | Sources Sought | Response Due: 30 Jul 2026
What’s Being Sought
AI-enabled software for Marine Corps Reserve mobilization planning — combine unit-readiness analysis and individual Marine-to-billet allocation in one decision-support tool. Supports MFR G-1 and MCIRSA activities assessing unit readiness and allocating IRR / SMCR personnel against validated mobilization requirements.
Core capability:
Secure, read-only connections to legacy / modern personnel and readiness systems; normalization of structured records and unstructured data such as awards, training history, and civilian employment; delivery of a data dictionary and data quality / validation controls.
Descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics — current inventory / fill rates, causes of readiness shortfalls and disqualifying factors such as medical, administrative, and legal issues, future readiness / personnel availability, and optimized personnel-to-billet recommendations.
Explainable AI outputs with recommendation rationale; human approval retained for all final decisions.
Web-based dashboards with MOS, grade, location, readiness, availability, and clearance filtering; commander-level readiness / gap reporting, early-warning alerts, Office-format exports, and role-based access.
“What-if” scenario modeling for mobilization planning.
Deployment approach must address Government-authorized hosting, obtaining / maintaining an ATO or leveraging existing enterprise authorizations, RMF compliance, CMMC as applicable, CUI / PII protection, audit logging, and classified-data support where required.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD.
POP: TBD.
CONTRACT TYPE: TBD.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Total small business set-aside under NAICS 541511.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Anticipated four-phase progression: data foundation / descriptive dashboards; diagnostic analytics; predictive / prescriptive optimization; advanced skill and unstructured-data analysis. Responses will inform requirements, cost / schedule estimates, and future acquisition strategy.
36) COST AND SOFTWARE DATA REPORTING (CSDR) SERVICES FOR USAF PROGRAMS
Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (AFCAA) | Special Notice (Commercial Solutions Opening) | Response Due: 27 Jul 2026
What’s Being Sought
Technology-enabled services spanning the Air Force CSDR lifecycle — plan development / tailoring, submission verification and validation, compliance support, data curation, metadata tagging, and quality preparation — for ACAT I-level, AFCAA-delegated, and other DAF programs of interest, with CWIPT and DAFCARC support extending to ACAT II–III.
Hands-on experience reviewing actual CSDR and FlexFile submissions is mandatory; automation or AI capability without demonstrated CSDR expertise does not meet the requirement.
Offerors may address one or both topics. No specific TRL required, but solutions should be mature enough to assess viability and support rapid transition into operations.
CSDR planning / V&V: CSDR Plan development and review; CWIPT / CRSB support; coordination with DCARC and DAFCARC; automated workflow tracking / status extraction where practicable; submission checks against approved plans and prior reporting; anomaly, quantity-phasing, technical-parameter, and discrepancy analysis. Government personnel retain all approval authority.
Data curation / quality preparation: Cleansing and normalization; CADE Standard WBS / Cost Element Structure alignment; metadata and programmatic tagging; entity resolution; technical-parameter extraction; audit-ready curation lineage; automated quality scoring. Particular emphasis on Quantity and Technical Data Reports as gaps in readily usable cost-estimating data (PWS also names SRDR).
AI / analytics encouraged where permitted. Proprietary CSDR data may be processed with AI only under explicit written Government authorization for the specific tool and a documented data-protection SOP; proprietary information and CUI must remain in Government-approved environments. Government data-infrastructure development is out of scope.
Government-funded work products delivered in editable form without restrictive markings; pre-existing privately funded tools, methods, or software proposed for use identified to the CO at proposal for rights determination.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Individual contracts expected at $150K–$5M over the full POP, though the range is not a strict limit; estimated program cost not greater than $5M.
POP: One year under the PWS; the CSO separately anticipates 1–2 years, with exceptions possible based on technological maturity or operational need.
CONTRACT TYPE: Anticipated FFP under FAR Parts 12 and 16; Prototype OT also reserved; travel and ODCs cost-reimbursable under a separate CLIN.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: 100% small business set-aside (NAICS 541715), foreign participation prohibited at prime level, foreign-national participation limited to public-domain information. All contractor personnel performing under the PWS: Secret clearance minimum. Task 3 and Task 4 leads: 10+ years each in, respectively, weapon-systems acquisition / cost estimating and data engineering / curation.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Step 2 full proposals by invitation, due dates set in the RFP letter; white papers evaluated equally on technical merit, importance to agency programs, and price; FY26 funding anticipated, with one award per year expected but one or more, or no awards, possible. CSO states it “is Closed” but may re-open by amendment; SAM.gov lists the notice active through 27 Jul 2026, inactive 11 Aug 2026.
37) ENTERPRISE DATA MODERNIZATION AND AI INTEGRATION FOR DOD EDUCATION ACTIVITY
DoD Education Activity / Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office | Presolicitation | Response Due: 29 Jul 2026
What’s Being Sought
Contractor services to deliver data modernization, AI integration, and enterprise analytics supporting DoDEA's CDAO.
Seven broad functional areas, including but not limited to:
Data architecture and engineering
Analytics and business intelligence
Data governance
AI integration
Data and AI literacy
Student Information System modernization
Program management
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not stated.
POP: Anticipated 12-month base + 4×12-month options.
CONTRACT TYPE: Anticipated FFP.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: None stated in the pre-solicitation notice; the RFP will identify any applicable small-business / socioeconomic set-asides.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Formal RFP anticipated on SAM.gov; proposal requirements / deadlines to follow. This notice is informational only and does not constitute a solicitation or commitment to award.
38) DEFENSE-WIDE STRATEGY, ANALYTICS, AND PROGRAM SUPPORT
Senior Administrative Office, Office of the Director of Administration and Management (ODAM) | Sources Sought | Response Due: 24 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Strategy, program/project management, data analytics, policy, manpower, financial-management, and executive administrative support for the Senior Administrative Office — responsible for oversight of Defense-Wide organizations and accounts, including Defense Agencies and DoD Field Activities.
Core task areas:
Program/project management — resource alignment across SAO’s Manpower, Administration, Budget, and Executive Assistant Divisions; recurring leadership updates, project plans, business-office performance reviews, SharePoint management, and reform initiatives.
Strategy / governance — SAO mission, vision, goals, performance metrics, business-process maps, commercial benchmarks, and recommendations supporting Deputy’s Management Action Group / Deputy’s Workforce Council requirements.
Manpower / policy — rewrite and publication support for DoDI 1100.23; development of a new OSD manpower-management instruction; analysis of manpower requirements across 19 Defense Agencies and seven DoD Field Activities.
Data analytics / visualization — Power BI, Advana, SharePoint, and other tools applied to authoritative budget and business-operations data; database / data-dictionary maintenance, diagnostic and predictive analytics, repeatable business rules, and executive-level reports.
Executive / administrative support — CATMS package management, talking points, read-aheads, correspondence, records, calendars, travel, meetings, conference-room support, and leadership reporting.
Key personnel include a Senior Project Manager with a bachelor’s degree and 10 years of project-management experience.
The Government’s nonbinding workload estimate lists ten labor positions at 1,872 hours each during the base and each option period, plus 60 base-period / 120 option-year hours for a Senior Program Manager; respondents are not required to propose those hours.
Work performed in government-provided office space within the National Capital Region.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not specified.
POP: 6-month base + 4×12-month options.
CONTRACT TYPE: FFP task order under an existing IDIQ.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: Not specified in the available source material.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: No post-response milestones specified in the available source material.
39) COTS COMPENSATION DATA PLATFORM
Army Contracting Command | Sources Sought | Response Due: 13 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Web-based compensation data platform supporting acquisition planning, market pricing, Independent Government Estimates, entry-level through executive compensation analysis, geographic labor-cost comparisons, relocation assessments, pay equity, and occupational/job matching.
Required capabilities and market-research areas include:
Employer-reported salary benchmarks with job descriptions, survey populations, reliability statistics, and peer-company comparisons; respondents must also describe available historical labor-category data.
Executive total compensation — salary, bonuses, non-equity incentives, stock awards, option awards, pensions, and other compensation vehicles.
Domestic / international wage differentials and customizable cost-of-living comparisons across thousands of locations.
Compensation coverage across private-sector, public-sector, nonprofit, and global markets, with respondents asked to detail the extent of each; nonprofit executive data sourced from official filings with underlying-document access.
FLSA exemption-status estimation, job analysis based on training / experience / physical or mental limitations, government / public-sector job data and matching, including federal pay plans such as the General Schedule; and integration of the Government’s internal job titles / salary structures.
Licensing models and terms addressing multi-user access, manual input of licensed data into secure internal government tools, and internal redistribution within ACC and other Army requiring activities for IGE development.
Hosting, maintenance, continuous data updates, training / support, and information on platform security, FedRAMP certification, and ISO 27001 / SOC 2 compliance.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: TBD.
POP: Estimated base period: 01 Dec 2026–30 Nov 2027 + 4×12-month options.
CONTRACT TYPE: FFP commercial contract.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: N/A.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Market research will inform a solicitation; no award from this notice.
40) COMMISSARY MARKET DATA, SHOPPER ANALYTICS, AND COMPETITOR PRICING
Defense Commissary Agency | CSO Special Notice | Response Due: 03 Aug 2026
What’s Being Sought
Modern syndicated market-data / analytics services enabling DeCA to measure commissary savings against commercial grocery competitors, optimize pricing / category management, analyze military shopper behavior, and benchmark performance across CONUS / OCONUS locations.
Thirteen independently evaluated / awardable AOIs:
Syndicated POS data: CONUS non-fresh, fresh, and ecommerce data with industry-standard retail-performance metrics; non-fresh also includes post-promotional analysis.
OCONUS savings analysis: Defensible, transparent methodologies and monthly reporting for fresh / non-fresh patron savings where syndicated data is unavailable.
Shopper / market intelligence: Representative military patron panels, competitor geospatial intelligence, SNAP-eligibility data, and item-level competitor pricing percentiles.
Competitive price collection: Manual basket shops covering approximately 708 CONUS / Alaska / Hawaii locations and an estimated 232 OCONUS locations, using approximately 900 government-provided SKUs / PLUs.
Web-scraped pricing: Biweekly item-level pricing from the 10 most impactful large-format grocery competitors regionally across CONUS / OCONUS.
Response Considerations
FUNDING: Not specified.
POP: Not specified.
CONTRACT TYPE: FAR Part 12 commercial contract / OT agreement / other relevant procurement instrument, as determined by the Contracting Officer after evaluation.
ELIGIBILITY GATES: No set-aside; independent, non-affiliated entities required when combining OCONUS methodology AOIs 4/5 with corresponding data-collection AOIs 11/13; mandatory OCI mitigation plan for those combinations.
IMPORTANT MILESTONES: Selected AOIs may advance to Phase 2 pitch; the Government may bypass Phase 2 for Phase 3 / award consideration based on Phase 1. Transition schedule evaluated against expiration of current services on 31 Jan 2027.
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