Industry RFI - FF JUON_Final.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

HEADQUARTERS AIR FORCE LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT CENTER (AFMC)

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, FLORIDA

13 March 2025

ATTENTION: All Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract Vendors

AFLCMC/EBDK

102 West D Avenue, Bldg. 11, Ste. 220

Eglin AFB, FL 32542

SUBJECT: Request for Information for Counter-Unmanned Air System (UAS) JUON

A. DISCLOSURE:

This is a Request for Information (RFI) notice only. This RFI is for informational planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government for any actual procurement of materials, machinery, or services. This notice does not constitute a solicitation or a promise of a solicitation in the future. This RFI does not commit the Government to a contract for any supply or service. The Government encourages all responsible businesses to respond to this RFI; however, the Government is not liable for any costs incurred by any respondent to prepare and/or submit its response to this RFI. Respondents are advised that the

Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this

RFI. All costs associated with responding to this RFI are solely at the responding parties’ expense.

Respondents are solely responsible for properly marking and clearly identifying any sensitive information or trade secrets contained within their response. The Government will not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any information not properly marked or clearly identified. Information received in response to this RFI will be safeguarded and handled in accordance with applicable Government regulations. Responses to this notice are not offers and will not be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract or agreement. The

Government will not be obligated to pursue a particular alternative because of this RFI.

Responses to the RFI will not be returned. All responses shall be Unclassified. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future solicitation, if one is issued. Specific responses to the approaches will not disqualify or have an impact on participation and evaluation on future solicitations, if issued.

B. Capability Statement Response:

The Government is requesting sources that have counter-UAS capabilities against drone groups

2/3 (can identify capability across other UAS groups). The capability must be ground-to-air or air-to-air employed. This capability may be autonomous or pseudo autonomous. This capability must have the ability to demonstrate All-Up Round capability at Technology

Readiness Level (TRL) six (6) no later than 30 June 2025. EBD requires an effective and cost efficient air-to-air weapon system. Submittal of a ROM is not mandatory but highly encouraged.

Describe government furnished support/equipment required for demonstration.

All respondents must provide a capability statement detailing their ability to deliver the specified products or have the business relationships to fulfill the requirements. Capability statements shall address the following items:

1. Design Maturity. Describe current TRL of your design. Describe any ground testing conducted of system components. Describe any flight testing conducted of system components. Is the design tested against MIL-STD-810 environmental requirements? Is the design ready to transition to production? Describe the employment environment (e.g.

min/max range, altitude etc.) Seeker characteristics (size, new fuze or existing, etc.)

2. Safety/Lethality Assessments. If design has explosives, provide experience with MIL-

STD-1316 requirements. Experience with AF/Navy safety processes in accordance with DAFI 91-205 and OPNAVINST 8020.14B. Have explosive devices been used in other DOD operational systems? Has arena testing been conducted on the warhead? Is lethality data available against the target set (drone groups 2/3)?

3. Logistics. Experience with AF/Navy munitions packaging, handling, and storage requirements. Experience with developing technical data source material. Are CFR 49 qualified containers available for transporting and storing the system and/or components?

4. Airworthiness (Air-to-Air Only). Experience with AF/Navy airworthiness requirements. Has the system or similar system flown on AF/Navy platforms, either in test or operationally? Are there any other DOD systems this has been integrated on? Has the weapon been fielded operationally? If so, provide full details to each question for this section.

5. Manufacturing Maturity. Do you have the capability to manufacture this product? At what Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) has this been demonstrated? Would it be manufactured in the U.S.? What is the current maximum production capacity per month?

Describe ability to increase capacity, if any, along with tooling and ROM to achieve increases up to 2,000 units/year. Address willingness to provide Unlimited/Gov’t Purpose

Rights on the design for the Gov’t to pursue other/additional manufacturing sources.

6. Support Equipment: Is support equipment required (list type, quantities, and cost)?

Provide ratio of weapon units to support equipment.

7. Maintenance: If periodic maintenance is required, please state the interval. If maintenance is not required, please specify. Is shelf life a part of maintainability?

C. Submission Details:

Interested vendors shall submit their RFI responses via email no later than 1500 CST Thursday, 27 March 2025 to laura.luttrell.1@us.af.mil .and ashley.goodman.2@us.af.mil. Please send any questions to laura.luttrell.1@us.af.mil and ashley.goodman.2@us.af.mil no later than 1500 CST

Thursday, 20 March 2025. DOD Safe can be used for any file greater than 10 MB https://safe.apps.mil/ . Email the above email address to request an upload link if needed. As a reminder, all information must be clearly marked. DO NOT SUBMIT ANY CLASSIFIED

INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS RFI. Be advised that all submissions become

Government property and will not be returned.

Thank you for your consideration of and response to this effort.

LAURA M. LUTTRELL

Contracting Officer mailto:AFLCMC.EBDA.KTS@us.af.mil mailto:ashley.goodman.2@us.af.mil mailto:AFLCMC.EBDA.KTS@us.af.mil mailto:ashley.goodman.2@us.af.mil https://safe.apps.mil/