Special Notice for New Project & Industry Day

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (ACC Warren) has issued a Special Notice for a proposed Unmanned Systems (UxS) Autonomous Mobility project under the Detroit Arsenal Innovation (DAI) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA). The project aims to select two Autonomous Mobility vendors to integrate their systems onto a robotic platform and demonstrate autonomous mobility capabilities during an Army-hosted Autonomy Test scheduled for summer 2026. This 16-month initiative will focus on four critical technical areas: Waypoint Navigation, Convoy Operations (Leader-Follower), Sentry Mode, and Loss of Communications scenarios. The notice was published on April 22, 2025, with a due date of May 20, 2025, and is associated with contract identifier W56HZV-23-9-D001. The project represents a significant opportunity for advanced mobility technology development within the defense sector.

The Special Notice includes an Industry Day event on May 20, 2025, from 9 am to 5 pm at the Velocity Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan, which is exclusively available to current National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC) members. Participation is strictly limited to two personnel per company, and interested parties must register in advance through a specific online form. The event will feature industry briefings from 9-12 pm, a teaming session from 1-5 pm, and potential one-on-one meetings with government representatives. Notably, the government anticipates a potential follow-on production effort estimated at $111,000,000 for up to 211 units, which may be awarded to prototype participants under 10 U.S.C. 4022(f) without competitive procedures if the prototype project is successfully completed. Contractors interested in this opportunity must be NAMC members and capable of demonstrating advanced autonomous mobility technologies for military robotic platforms.