Adaptive Warfighting Architectures   7

The Adaptive Capabilities Office (ACO), working in close partnership with the military services, develops adaptive warfighting architectures that combine emerging technologies with new warfighting constructs to address the challenges faced by military forces in contested environments. Over the past few decades, the effective projection of military power has become increasingly dependent on complex combinations of capabilities resident in all domains in order to achieve combined effects not possible from individual platforms or services. The combination of effects created by systems in or delivered through all domains, from the seafloor to space, including those via cyber and the electromagnetic spectrum, dictates a different approach to concept development. While in the past the delivery of effects could be described by linear kill chains' with a single execution path, this new level of complexity demands an understanding of kill webs'- complex representations of effect chains with multiple possible paths that require adaptive architectures that can handle the rapidly changing context of modern combat. These adaptive architectures must be developed through a coherent campaign of study and analysis, constructive modeling and simulation (M&S), and live, virtual, and constructive experimentation that support concept and doctrine development in response to rapidly changing conditions. ACO is seeking innovative ideas and disruptive technologies that support this process and that focus on increasing the lethality and freedom of movement of U.S. military forces in increasingly less permissive environments against peer and near peer adversaries.

Background
The purpose of this Amendment is to close the BAA for all submissions on June 1, 2022 at 1 PM (ET). Please see the new Adaptive Warfighting Architectures BAA HR001122S0042 to be published on June 2, 2022. The announcement seeks revolutionary research ideas in developing and maturing all domain adaptive warfighting architectures.

Work Details
Section III: Detailed Proposal Information requires a Statement of Work (SOW) that clearly defines the technical tasks/subtasks to be performed, their durations, and dependencies among them. It also requires a detailed description of the approach to be taken to accomplish each defined task/activity, identification of the primary organization responsible for task execution, completion criteria for each task/activity, definition of all deliverables, and identification of any tasks/subtasks that will be accomplished on-campus at a university. Additionally, it requires a description of the results, products, transferable technology, expected technology transfer path, comparison with other ongoing research indicating advantages and disadvantages of the proposed effort, discussion of proposer’s previous accomplishments and work in closely related research, description of security management architecture and/or approach for the proposed effort, description of the facilities that would be used for the proposed effort, and formal teaming arrangements which will be used to execute this effort.

Volume II, Cost Proposal requires detailed cost information including direct labor costs, indirect costs, travel costs, other direct costs, material/equipment costs, consultant costs, subcontract costs, cost-sharing details if applicable. All proposers must submit a cover sheet with specific details such as BAA number (HR001120S0043), lead organization submitting proposal, type of organization selected among specified categories (e.g., LARGE BUSINESS), proposer’s reference number (if any), technical point of contact details, administrative point of contact details, award instrument requested with place(s) and period(s) of performance mentioned along with other required information.

Period of Performance
The estimated period of performance start is approximately 120 calendar days after proposal submission.