Special Notice – Army ICAM Industry Working Day 2026

This Special Notice announces the Army ICAM Industry Working Day 2026, a planning event hosted by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground. The event is scheduled for May 8, 2026, at the MITRE Corporation facility in McLean, Virginia, and is organized by the Army's Capability Program Executive for Command and Control Information Network (CPE C2IN) and Product Lead for Enterprise-Identity, Credential and Access Management (PdL E-ICAM). The notice explicitly states this is a planning announcement and not a formal solicitation, request for proposals, or commitment to award a contract. The solicitation number is 36C10X26Q0085, with primary contacts Mr. Shawn Jamerson and Mr. Kenneth Faulcon at Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground. The government will invite up to 35 qualified vendors with a maximum of two representatives per company to attend the full-day event.

The event's purpose is to facilitate information sharing and collaboration between Army stakeholders and industry partners on emerging Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) solutions and modernization efforts supporting the Army's Zero Trust security strategy. The company registration deadline is April 24, 2026, at 1200 EST via a provided online registration form, with one designated point of contact per company required to submit attendee information. Eligible vendors must demonstrate capabilities in AI-driven ICAM systems, Zero Trust Architecture deployment, comprehensive identity lifecycle management, federated identity management, and knowledge of interoperable policy languages in federated environments. The morning session features five strategic challenge working sessions addressing AI threat countering, post-quantum cryptography milestones, decentralized identity implementation, non-person/non-human identities, and multi-protocol federation across information domains. Qualified vendors attending the morning sessions may participate in afternoon one-on-one appointment sessions and must submit a maximum 10-page document addressing acquisition approaches, contracting vehicles, evaluation criteria, and performance measurement strategies for ICAM capabilities. Attendees must be U.S. citizens with government-issued identification; the government will not reimburse expenses or provide compensation for participant time or information.