The Air Force Research Laboratory has issued a broad agency announcement, or BAA, soliciting white papers on new hardware and software for secure, robust and cost-efficient information processing systems for cyber technologies and command, control, communications, computers and intelligence capabilities of the U.S. Air Force.
The AFRL will select and invite formal proposals from qualified vendors responding to the open, two-step BAA with a total five-year estimated funding of about $99.9 million, according to the lab’s solicitation posted on SAM.gov on Monday.
Submission Deadlines
For alignment with the projected fiscal year funding, the AFRL suggests white paper submission on or before Dec. 18 for FY 2025; Sept. 1, 2025 for FY 2026; Sept. 2, 2026 for FY 2027; Sept. 3, 2027 for FY 2028; and Sept. 4, 2028 for FY 2029.
Multiple awards are expected under the solicitation, with each contract’s term typically under 36 months and value ranging from $100,000 to $5 million. An individual vendor may be awarded several other transaction contracts.
The solicitation is a follow-on of an earlier BAA entitled “Foundations of Trusted Systems” issued in May 2020. The AFRL updated the BAA in June, with the iteration closing in September.
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