The Air Force Research Laboratory has issued a notice for its multiple award contract, or MAC, vehicle intended to create a pool of qualified contractors and streamline its acquisition of science and technology services across all relevant areas.
The MAC has a basic contract period of five years and three one-year options and a combined value of $10 billion, according to the notice posted on SAM.gov Friday.
AFRL will accept questions, comments and company profiles until Jan. 9.
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How Can Industry Support AFRL?
The contract vehicle covers four technical areas of interest: air domain, space domain, cyberspace and electronic warfare domain, and cross-cutting domain.
The technologies AFRL is interested in developing include artificial intelligence, advanced air vehicles, human performance optimization, warfighter survivability, hypersonics, Space Situational Awareness, on-orbit operations and autonomy, satellite, photonics, quantum, communications and networks, human-machine interfaces, additive manufacturing, and positioning, navigation and timing.
Work on the MAC will include basic and applied research, data science and analytics, modeling and simulation, digital architecture, experimentation, integration and deployment.
What Is the AFRL’s Mission?
Established in 1997, the AFRL is in charge of discovery, development and integration of capabilities to support warfighters across the air, space and cyber domains.
In May, the lab issued a request for proposals for tools that can model, analyze, assess and predict mission effects based on sensor data. The effort is intended to understand multi-domain sensing autonomy mission sets and support battlespace decisions for strike, electronic warfare, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
