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2025 MAINSAIL and ATOMATA Industry Day

Reference Number: AFRL/RYA Multiple-Authority Announcement (MAA) -FA2377-25-S-1207

Notice Type: Special Notice; AFRL/RYA Maritime Automated Ingestion for Scene-Aware Identification and Localization (MAINSAIL) Industry Day & Air Target Optimization & Autonomy Activity (ATOMATA) Industry Day

This Special Notice is for informational planning purposes only and shall not be considered as an invitation for bid, request for quotation, request for proposal, or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of contractor participation in this Industry Day.

The United States Air Force’s Air Force Research Lab Sensors Directorate will conduct a MAINSAIL & ATOMATA Industry Day event Tuesday/Wednesday 11-12 February 2025, 0900-1600 hours, at Wright Patterson AFB, OH. The Industry Day will take place at AFRL Sensors Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Area B, Building 600, located at 2241 Avionics Circle. The Industry Day will be conducted at the SECRET security level. (MAINSAIL PM: Mr. Jacob Prichard, AFRL/RYA, jacob.prichard.3@us.af.mil, ATOMATA PM:

Alistair Hildenbrandt, AFRL/RYA, alistair.hildenbrandt@us.af.mil)

Attendees can expect to be provided informational Government briefings and participate in discussions regarding MAINSAIL and the ATOMATA Programs.

Due to the nature of the topic, this event is open to US citizens and US companies only, with a maximum of two employees per company. Attendees will need to provide clearances upon registration.

Deadline for registration is Tuesday 4 February 2025. This event will be held over two days, with the same presentation both days. A detailed agenda will be provided to confirmed attendees no later than Thursday 6 February 2025. Questions and feedback from industry are encouraged. All formal briefings of the MAINSAIL/ATOMATA will be releasable to the participants in a final package via SIPRNet. Laptops, cell phones and other electronic devices will not be permitted at the event.

MAINSAIL

MAINSAIL Problem Statement:

MAINSAIL is focused on advancing maritime domain awareness (MDA) capabilities to help identify and localize maritime targets in imagery from overhead assets. The primary objective of MAINSAIL is to develop and integrate new technologies to enhance MDA, with focus on 1) leveraging machine learning ATR models for electro-optical (EO) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, 2) identifying and exploiting non-imagery contextual information to constrain predicted future locations, 3) representing knowledge about the targets with modern data structures, preferably with ontological support, and 4) associating target ATR and contextual data to identify past locations and predict future locations. The architecture will be demonstrated with software-in-the-loop scenario models. MAINSAIL will provide a TRL 5 MDA solution that can enhance maritime security and situational awareness.

mailto:jacob.prichard.3@us.af.mil mailto:alistair.hildenbrandt@us.af.mil

MAINSAIL Industry Day Vision:

This is a collaborative event intended for the Government to expand upon this AFRL effort and highlight opportunities for Industry involvement. These opportunities include operations research, mission modeling, systems engineering, technical and program analysis, software development, rapid systems integration, and technology demonstration.

ATOMATA

ATOMATA Problem Statement:

The AFRL/RYA Air Target Optimization & Autonomy Activity (ATOMATA) program seeks to improve air-to-air combat identification performance using an existing feature fusion algorithm. The primary focus of Sensing Operation Using Prediction (SOUP) will be investigating distributed operation. Objectives of SOUP are: 1) Tracking, track association, and sensor resource management algorithms that support current and enhanced feature fusion. 2) Options for distributed feature fusion operation and characterizations. 3) Experiments characterizing the impact on combat identification performance of tracking, track association, and sensor resource management; additional sensors and features; and additional platforms and geometries. 4) An environment supporting multi-platform, multi-sensor/phenomenology closed loop tracking and sensor management algorithm development and experimentation. 5) Collaboration across ATOMATA components including feature fusion enhancement, Comprehensive Performance Assessment of Sensor Exploitation (COMPASE) Test and Evaluation (T&E), and COMPASE Modeling and Simulation (M&S).

ATOMATA Industry Day Vision:

This collaborative event is intended for Government and Industry to highlight innovative ISR sensing capabilities, architectures, autonomy solutions, sense making technologies (detection, tracking, identification, and predictive analytics), and technologies ready for rapid integration on future Government research and development programs. This meeting is an initial industry exchange for the ATOMATA program and also includes an opportunity for discussion on feature fusion algorithm enhancement, Comprehensive Performance Assessment of Sensor Exploitation (COMPASE) Test and Evaluation (T&E), and COMPASE Modeling and Simulation (M&S).

Industry Day Goals:

The goal of the event is to allow the Government to share information and objectives regarding this AFRL/RY-led effort. This industry day will enable synergy between this AFRL effort and Defense Industrial Base to ensure warfighter needs are met in an operationally relevant timeframe.

Provide insight to the scope of the MAINSAIL program and related RY technology as well as notional technical timelines

Gain understanding of Industry technologies and developments Communicate technical needs and opportunities for Industry partners Collect feedback on industry inputs to address the warfighter needs

2025 Industry Day - Agenda (To Be Refined):

• 0900-0930 Check-in

• 0930-0945 Welcome and Event Overview

• 0945-1130 AFRL MAINSAIL Briefing

• 1130-1300 Lunch Break

• 1300-1445 AFRL ATOMATA Briefing

• 1445-1600 Q & A Session

2025 Industry Day Registration:

Tuesday, 11 February 2025: https://einvitations.afit.edu/inv/anim.cfm?i=938213&k=0B624A0B7A54 Wednesday, 12 February 2025: https://einvitations.afit.edu/inv/anim.cfm?i=938194&k=0B624A087253

- MAINSAIL PM: Jacob Prichard, AFRL/RYZ, jacob.prichard.3@us.af.mil

- ATOMATA PM: Alistair Hildenbrandt, AFRL/RYA, alistair.hildenbrandt@us.af.mil

Your registration to attend the event must be received before Close-of-Business on the deadline date. Day-of or Walk-In Registration will NOT be available. In addition, due to this event containing information which has been identified as export controlled, all companies interested in attending shall ensure compliancy with applicable laws and regulations. Discussions will be both programmatic & technical in nature. Attendance must be approved by our Gov’t. POCs. Once your registration information is submitted, we will send out details on gaining access to Wright Patterson AFB, including addressing any logistics, and Sensor Integration event considerations.

https://einvitations.afit.edu/inv/anim.cfm?i=938213&k=0B624A0B7A54 https://einvitations.afit.edu/inv/anim.cfm?i=938194&k=0B624A087253 mailto:jacob.prichard.3@us.af.mil mailto:alistair.hildenbrandt@us.af.mil