Trusted and Elastic Military Platforms and Electronic Warfare (EW) System Technologies (TEMPEST)
The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory seeks proposals for the Resilient and Agile Mission Systems program to prototype and demonstrate a next-generation mission systems architecture at Technology Readiness Level 6 to empower advanced warfighting capabilities for current and future Air Force weapons systems. Offerors must propose solutions meeting the requirements in the attached Statement of Objectives, with proposals due by August 14, 2020 to be evaluated based on the offeror's proposed technical approach, management approach, and pricing. Offerors must be U.S. citizens holding TS/SCI security clearance, as the work involves export-controlled technologies.
There is no set-aside designated for this opportunity. The NAICS code is 541715 and PSC code is R425. The effort will have a period of performance of 60 months and is expected to result in one or multiple cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts valued at a total of $100 million to be performed at AFRL/RYWA on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The Air Force expects to make one or multiple awards by October 2020 to integrate and experiment with the RAMS prototype architecture.
FA8650-20-S-1958-Call-02 Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory
7/14/20, 1:07 PM Agile and Resilient Platform Architectures (ARPA)
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. was awarded a $200 million contract by the Department of Defense to develop advanced technologies and prototypes to enhance the cybersecurity and resilience of avionics systems. Specifically, the contractor will identify vulnerabilities in avionics, harden systems against cyberattacks, advance techniques for detecting and responding to novel cyber threats in real-time, demonstrate integrated mission systems using open systems approaches, and prototype agile platform and system of systems architectures to rapidly integrate new capabilities. The period of performance for these services was not specified in the Award Notice.
FA8650-20-S-1958-Call-03 None 8/24/21, 9:55 PM Trusted and Elastic Military Platforms and Electronic Warfare (EW) System Technologies (TEMPEST)
This solicitation from the Air Force Research Laboratory seeks proposals to provide simulation and testbed capabilities for the Integrated Demonstrations and Applications Laboratory Cognitive Enabling Technologies program. Offerors must develop digital models, implement threat scenarios in synthetic battlespace simulations, and conduct demonstrations utilizing facilities such as the Dynamic Electromagnetic Environment Simulator. Proposals will be evaluated based on technical approach, past performance, and cost/price, and are due by March 16, 2020.
The work involves research classified up to TS/SCI and requires U.S. citizenship. No set-aside designation was used. The agency will award an IDIQ contract valued at $55 million over seven years including a task order of $15.6 million over three years to be conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The contractor must provide regular reports and deliverables over an 84-month period of performance within classified facilities.
FA8650-20-S-1958-Call-01 Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory
2/14/20, 2:03 PM Integrated Demonstrations and Applications Laboratory (IDAL) Cognitive Enabling Technologies (ICET)
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. a $55 million contract to support the development of cognitive enabling technologies over the period of performance under contract FA865020D1960. The August 17, 2020 award will provide the Air Force Research Laboratory with cognitive enabling technologies from L3HARRIS to support the Integrated Demonstrations and Applications Laboratory Cognitive Enabling Technologies opportunity during the award period.
FA865020S1958 Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory
8/19/20, 9:18 AM Trusted and Elastic Military Platforms and Electronic Warfare (EW) System Technologies (TEMPEST)
The Air Force Research Laboratory intends to solicit research and development proposals for the Trusted and Elastic Military Platforms and Electronic Warfare (EW) System Technologies (TEMPEST) program, with a solicitation close date of March 31, 2027. This is an unrestricted Advanced Research Announcement (ARA) open to businesses and educational institutions of all sizes; no set-aside applies.
AFRL/RYW (as of the most recent July 2026 update, the Information and Spectrum Warfare Directorate) seeks methodologies, tools, and capabilities to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in avionics systems—including manned, unmanned, autonomous, and remotely piloted vehicles; on-board Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems; Electronic Warfare systems; and munitions—and to protect those systems against cyber-attack. Work encompasses cyber security assessment and hardening, cyber resilience, agile platform architectures, open system architecture standards, modeling and simulation, RF simulation, and sensor performance measurement for Air Force and DoD weapon systems in multi-domain environments.
The Government will issue individual calls on a rolling basis, each designated as either one-step (full proposals only) or two-step (white papers followed by proposals). White papers must include period of performance, task objectives, technical summary, proposed deliverables, and rough order of magnitude costs. Full proposals require separate technical/management and cost/business volumes with detailed cost breakdowns by labor category, overhead, materials, subcontractors, travel, and consultants. All submissions must be unclassified.
Total estimated program value is $808.5 million across multiple awards ranging from $1 million to $200 million. Contract awards will be FAR-based cost-reimbursement (requiring DCMA-adequate accounting systems), Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity with multiple award fair opportunity, or Other Transactions under 10 U.S.C. 4022–4023. NAICS code 541715; small business size standard is 1,000 employees. Proposals will be evaluated on technical merit and cost realism.
FA8650-20-S-1958 Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory
10/11/19, 11:35 AM