ARES Update to Industry_10DEC2025.pdf
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This document is an Update to Industry for the Kessel Run Flight Operations (Flight Ops) Aerospace Readiness Enterprise System (ARES), providing a detailed acquisition milestone schedule and notional Bidder's Library contents. The acquisition timeline spans from 15 December 2025 to 10 August 2026, with key dates including the Final Solution Solicitation release, industry questions deadline, solution submission, evaluation period, and prototype and production Other Transaction (OT) awards. The document indicates the government is seeking to aggressively reduce the schedule wherever possible.
The notional Bidder's Library includes multiple categories of documents: the ARTEMIS Master Data Dictionary, Operations Enterprise Architecture Software Development Kit (SDK) with various user guides, extensive User Experience (UX) and User Research materials covering personas, user journeys, and operational workflows, and a comprehensive list of Air Force regulations to reference. The update explicitly states that no questions will be accepted about this current release, and all future inquiries must be submitted through the Agreements Officer after the Final Solution Solicitation is released on SAM.gov.
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| Industry Questions on ARES DRAFT Solution Solicitation.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
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Kessel Run Flight Operations (Flight Ops)
Aerospace Readiness Enterprise System (ARES)
Update to Industry
Updated Notional Acquisition Milestone Schedule:
Acquisition Milestone Date
Release Final Solution Solicitation 15 December 2025
Questions from Industry Due 19 December 2025 Receive Solutions from Offerors 9 January 2026 Evaluation of Solutions from Offerors 16 January 2026 Prototype OT Award 25 February 2026
Prototype Delivered-Minimum Viable Product (MVP) 22 May 2026 Production OT Award 10 August 2026
NOTE: This schedule is notional and subject to change. The Government is seeking to aggressively reduce the schedule wherever possible. This update is current as of 10 December 2025.
The below Table of Contents intends to help potential offeror’s better understand and organize the documents that will be released as part of the Bidder’s Library. Please note, classification markings in the below Table of Contents signifies what the overall classification of the document is, NOT the classification of the title of the document. All titles are Unclassified.
Notional Bidder’s Library Table of Contents (Bidder’s Library to be released with Final Solicitation):
1. (CUI) ARTEMIS Master Data Dictionary and Mapping_V5
2. (U) Operations Enterprise Architecture (OpsEA) Software Development Kit (SDK)
a. (U) USAF SDK Agile User Guide
b. (U) USAF SDK App Intake User Guide v.4 072125
c. (U) USAF SDK Branding User Guide v.1 101425
d. (U) USAF SDK Development User Guide v.4 070825
e. (U) USAF SDK Help Desk Process v4 090225
f. (U) USAF SDK Platform Management User Guide v.4 072125
g. (U) USAF SDK Release User Guide v.3 071025
3. User Experience (UX) and User Research
a. (U) User_Journey_ANG_Graduate_Vermont
b. (U) ATO_Wing_Ops_Cycle
c. (U) Current_Ops
d. (U) Flight_Operations_All
e. (U) MAF_CAF_Inputs
f. (U) Comparative Scheduling Data
g. (U) Persona_Pilot
h. (U) Persona_Scheduler
i. (U) Personal_StanEval Evaluator
j. (U) Schedule_Workflow
k. (U) User_Journey_Scheduler
l. (U) AF Form 8
m. (U) AF Form 4348
4. Regulations to Reference (available via https://www.e-publishing.af.mil/product-index/)
a. (U) AFI 10-420
b. (U) AFI 11-200
c. (U) AFI 11-418
d. (U) AFMAN 11-202v1_Aircrew Training
e. (U) AFMAN 11-202v2_Aircrew Training Stan_Eval and General Operations
f. (U) AFMAN 11-202v3_Flight Operations
g. (U) AFMAN 11-2c-17v2
h. (U) AFMAN 11-2c-21v1
i. (U) AFMAN 11-2u-2v1
j. (U) AFMAN 11-421
Instructions Regarding this ARES Update
The Government will not be accepting any questions regarding any material released in this update. Any questions should be held until the Final Solution Solicitation is released to Industry.
At that time, questions must flow through the Agreements Officer as annotated in the SAM.gov posting for the Final Solution Solicitation.
https://www.e-publishing.af.mil/product-index/
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