SAM #FA8629-26-R-6001

Air Force Seeks Developer for Collaborative Autonomy Software Framework

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/WISJ), under the Department of the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, is seeking industry input for the development of a government-owned collaborative autonomy software framework. - Government Buyer: - Department of the Air Force - Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/WISJ) - Asymmetric Warfare Contracting Office, Wright Patterson AFB - No specific OEMs or vendors are named in the opportunity. - Products/Services Requested: - Continuous software development, applied research, testing, and maturation of an open-architecture software stack for collaborative autonomy - Focus on multi-agent swarming autonomy architectures for both crewed and uncrewed systems - Integration of third-party vendor capabilities and ground station development - Software engineering, DevSecOps, simulation, software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) integration, and secure development - Unique/Notable Requirements: - Framework must be government-owned and open-architecture - Builds on prior Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) swarming autonomy initiatives - Respondents must provide a 5-year ROM cost estimate and staffing profile - Compliance with DoDI 5000.87 Software Acquisition Pathway - Emphasis on secure development and integration with diverse platforms

Description

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/WISJ) is conducting market research to identify sources capable of serving as the primary developer for an advanced, Government-owned collaborative autonomy software framework. This open-architecture software stack is designed to enable collaborative, autonomous capabilities across a variety of crewed and uncrewed systems. The baseline for this framework is an evolution of complex, multi-agent swarming autonomy architectures previously developed under Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) initiatives. The Government’s objective is to evaluate industry capability to perform continuous software development, applied research, testing, and maturation of this framework in accordance with the DoDI 5000.87 Software Acquisition Pathway. The scope requires the contractor to develop and mature the core software logic, integrate the software onto diverse platforms, integrate third-party vendor capabilities into the open framework, perform applied research on future autonomy behaviors, and develop ground station integration.

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