This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), as contemplated in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6. 102(d)(2) and 35. 016, is a competitive solicitation of proposals focused on research and development of technologies to meet AFTAC’s mission.

This Broad Agency Announcement was published by the Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command to solicit research and development proposals focused on technologies to meet the mission needs of the Air Force Technical Applications Center. The BAA seeks the best approaches across a wide spectrum of technical and business solutions to advance AFTAC's work in areas such as geophysics and seismology, air and space collection and analysis, and materials modeling.

The Special Notice details a two-phase review process for proposals, with initial project summaries and white papers due by dates specified in Attachment 6. Selected offerors will then be invited to submit full proposals for evaluation based on technical merit and importance to AFTAC programs. Awards will be in the form of contracts or other transactions ranging from $150,000 to $5 million over one to five years. All U.S. companies, educational institutions, and non-profits are eligible to participate by addressing one or more of the technology topics identified in the BAA, such as directed energy weapons, nuclear materials analysis, and secure cloud computing solutions.