ATEC HQ 003 - AI Assurance & Autonomous System Validation
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- ATEC_RIW26_003
- Agency
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ACC Aberdeen Proving Ground
Army Contracting Command, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- Place of performance
- Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground, on behalf of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), is conducting a Call for Solutions for AI Assurance & Autonomous System Validation with a Phase 1 submission deadline of 1630 EDT on Friday, 21 August 2026. No set-aside applies. The solicitation is issued under Army Open Solicitation W9128Z-25-S-A002 and operates as a three-phase competition: Phase 1 (Solution Brief evaluation), Phase 2 (optional pitch presentations), and Phase 3 (detailed proposal submission). Selected Phase 1 respondents will be invited to ATEC Reverse Industry Week in September 2026 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, with virtual participation available.
ATEC seeks commercially available, rapidly fieldable solutions for a multi-tiered testing framework and software validation suite supporting verification and validation of black-box machine learning models, autonomous navigation systems, and Aided Target Recognition software. Required capabilities include verification of adaptive AI under Multi-Domain Operations conditions, AI-specific data collection and metrics tools, real-time assurance and override frameworks with human-in-the-loop controls, and MilOps diagnostic capabilities operating in Disconnected, Intermittent, and Limited range environments.
Phase 1 Solution Briefs must not exceed six pages or 15 slides in 12-point Times New Roman and include title page, executive summary, high-level solution description, company viability overview, and intellectual property disclosures. Evaluation criteria in descending order are Technical Merit, Schedule, and Viability. Award-eligible contractors must hold a Unique Entity ID and maintain active SAM.gov registration; SAM registration is not required for Phase 1 submission but must be completed before award, potentially taking up to six weeks. The Government reserves the right to make multiple awards, a single award, or no award, and has not predetermined a contract instrument. Submissions directed to Whitney Jackson and Dennis Beauclair, Jr. at ACC-APG with subject line "Call for Solution – [Company Name] – ATEC_RIW26_003."
Notice text
3 versions
Update #3 · Latest ·
Update - 18 August 2026 - ATEC_RIW26_003
Phase 1 submission deadline is being extended until 1630 EDT on Friday 21 August 2026.
Update - 12 August 2026 - ATEC_RIW26_003
Please review the attached Q&A brief document.
The Q&A period has ended. Any questions submitted from this point onward are not guaranteed to be answered.
Send all emails and solution submissions to ACC contracting POCs, Whitney Jackson and Dennis Beauclair, Jr. (DJ), listed in this posting. When you submit your phase 1 solution, you will receive a reply email acknowledging receipt. If you do not receive an email acknowledging receipt by the next morning from either Whitney Jackson or Dennis Beauclair, Jr. (DJ) then please follow up your email with your original submission email attached.
5 August 2026 - Call for Solutions (CfS)
The Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Division D, on behalf of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is seeking innovative solutions for AI Assurance & Autonomous System Validation.
The CfS PDF document outlines the problem, attributes, instructions, submission requirements, and evaluation criteria.
The deadline to submit questions is 10 August 2026 at 1500 EDT.
All emails related to this CfS must have the Subject Line: "Call for Solution - [Your Company Name] - ATEC_RIW26_003"
Phase 1 submission deadline is 19 August at 1500 EDT.
This Call for Solutions is issued in accordance with the Army Open Solicitation (AOS); “W9128Z-25-S-A002” the link to the AOS posting can be found in this CfS post’s link section. Please review the AOS posting and associated attachments, in addition to this call for solutions posting, for further information on how the AOS is structured.
Update #2 ·
Update - 12 August 2026 - ATEC_RIW26_003
Please review the attached Q&A brief document.
The Q&A period has ended. Any questions submitted from this point onward are not guaranteed to be answered.
Send all emails and solution submissions to ACC contracting POCs, Whitney Jackson and Dennis Beauclair, Jr. (DJ), listed in this posting. When you submit your phase 1 solution, you will receive a reply email acknowledging receipt. If you do not receive an email acknowledging receipt by the next morning from either Whitney Jackson or Dennis Beauclair, Jr. (DJ) then please follow up your email with your original submission email attached.
5 August 2026 - Call for Solutions (CfS)
The Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Division D, on behalf of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is seeking innovative solutions for AI Assurance & Autonomous System Validation.
The CfS PDF document outlines the problem, attributes, instructions, submission requirements, and evaluation criteria.
The deadline to submit questions is 10 August 2026 at 1500 EDT.
All emails related to this CfS must have the Subject Line: "Call for Solution - [Your Company Name] - ATEC_RIW26_003"
Phase 1 submission deadline is 19 August at 1500 EDT.
This Call for Solutions is issued in accordance with the Army Open Solicitation (AOS); “W9128Z-25-S-A002” the link to the AOS posting can be found in this CfS post’s link section. Please review the AOS posting and associated attachments, in addition to this call for solutions posting, for further information on how the AOS is structured.
Update #1 ·
5 August 2026 - Call for Solutions (CfS)
The Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Division D, on behalf of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is seeking innovative solutions for AI Assurance & Autonomous System Validation.
The CfS PDF document outlines the problem, attributes, instructions, submission requirements, and evaluation criteria.
The deadline to submit questions is 10 August 2026 at 1500 EDT.
All emails related to this CfS must have the Subject Line: "Call for Solution - [Your Company Name] - ATEC_RIW26_003"
Phase 1 submission deadline is 19 August at 1500 EDT.
This Call for Solutions is issued in accordance with the Army Open Solicitation (AOS); “W9128Z-25-S-A002” the link to the AOS posting can be found in this CfS post’s link section. Please review the AOS posting and associated attachments, in addition to this call for solutions posting, for further information on how the AOS is structured.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| ATEC HQ 003 Questions and Answers.pdf | ||
| ATEC HQ 003 AI Assurance Autonomous System Validation.pdf |
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