RWS Vendor Presentation Days - Call for Participants NOV2025.docx

SPECIAL NOTICE

Call for Participants – PdD CSW Remote Weapon System (RWS) Vendor Presentation Days 2025

Notice ID: W15QKN-25-Z-1AMY Document Type: Special Notice Response Date: 1 October 2025 Classification Code: 10 Weapons Subject: PD CSW Remote Weapon Systems Vendor Presentation Days 2025 PSC: 1095 Miscellaneous Weapons NAICS: 332994 – Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing POC: Lisa Karpowich at lisa.karpowich.ctr@army.mil, Michael Neubauer at michael.j.neubauer.civ@army.mil & Thomas Colarusso at thomas.r.colarusso.ctr@army.mil

Product Director Crew Served Weapons (PdD CSW) will host invitation-only Remote Weapon Systems (RWS) Vendor Presentation Days, 19-20 November 2025, near Picatinny Arsenal, NJ. The purpose of this event is to provide industry with an opportunity to inform RWS stakeholders in the acquisition (across all Services) and User community, on their respective RWS technologies, current and/or future efforts. The Government will also share with industry some current/future efforts as well as current interest areas. This event will serve as market research for RWS efforts and novel technologies for future and/or legacy systems and/or enablers. This event is an opportunity for Industry partners, as well as government entities, to obtain direct customer feedback from Stakeholders and other participants. Technologies may include but are not limited to: Remote Weapon System and/or enablers supporting machine guns, grenade machine guns, medium caliber weapons, robotics, and Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) capabilities, Aided Target Recognition (AiTR), and active/passive detector systems.

Participating vendors may present a briefing at the RWS Vendor Presentation Days. Industry briefings will be presented to a U.S. Government audience exclusively, unless a vendor specifies otherwise. The RWS Vendor Presentation Days provide an opportunity for participants to present their concepts, prototypes, and hardware (small static displays only) to RWS Stakeholders.

Due to venue space constraints, industry partners are limited to informational briefings. No large static displays will be allowed at the RWS Vendor Presentation Days.

Participants desiring to participate shall complete the attached form and provide to the Points of Contact listed above. The Government reserves the right to invite or revoke vendor invitations to this event. Participant information must be submitted no later than 1 October 2025 to be considered for an invitation. Further guidance, maps, instructions, and timelines will be provided to those invited that will participate.

No award is intended as a result of this event nor does the Government intend to pay for any information received. Any response to this event is not an offer and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding award. Participation is completely voluntary.

The Government will not be responsible for any expense incurred by a participant's decision to partake in the event. All travel and other associated costs are to be assumed by the interested participant. A lack of attendance at the event does not preclude participation in any future solicitations, if any are issued.

A separate but complimentary event, the invitation-only PdD CSW Vendor Demonstration Days with live fire events and static displays is being planned for 4-5 November 2025 in the Cusseta, GA area. A separate announcement was issued (reference announcement W15QKN-25-Z-163Q) for that event. The focus of the Vendor Demonstration Days will include demonstrating RWS capabilities/effectors to the RWS community to inform of current capabilities to support current/emerging requirements and/or potentially drive future requirements. The subsequent RWS Vendor Presentation Days at Picatinny Arsenal are intended to provide the opportunity for vendors to make presentations to a Government stakeholder audience which will not be possible at the Vendor Demonstration Days.