Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event 2024 (EDGE 2024) Call for Technologies Request for Information (RFI)

Agency:

Department of the Army Office: Future Vertical Lift Cross Functional Team (FVL CFT), AFC Location: Redstone Arsenal, AL

Purpose of Message: FVL CFT is soliciting organizations to nominate technologies for participation in EDGE 24 and the Position, Navigation, and Timing Assessment Exercise (PNTAX), both in September 2024. Background Future Vertical Lift Cross Functional Team (FVL CFT) conducts persistent experimentation (PE) efforts to narrow existing capability gaps to enable rapid development and transition of signature modernization efforts.

EDGE 24 will continue the success of past events to support FVL CFT’s long term plan to modernize the Army in support of the National Defense Strategy, which states future battles will be won with speed, increased autonomy, and dispersed units across degraded environments. In FY2024 & FY2025, FVL CFT conducts PE across multiple venues to continue learning and refine desired learning demands to achieve results with defined requirements for signature efforts.

The focus of this campaign of learning is FVL Ecosystem Launched Effects (LE) Optimization (connectivity, collaborative behaviors/autonomation, and assured operations). The campaign starts at the end of Project Convergence Capstone 4 (April 1, 2024) and ends with Project Convergence Capstone 5 (March 31, 2025). PM UAS is responsible for the acquisition of the Launched Effects capability for the Army. This effort is in coordination with PM UAS.

The experimentation described here will refine the requirements and inform technology insertion into that program through understanding technology readiness. As PM UAS will be presenting at its LE Industry Day on 7 Feb 2024, the Army plans to acquire LE in an iterative manner. The LE Optimization elements represent the key areas that we as an Army community see as initial opportunities consistent with the LE program - independent of airframe selections. Disclaimer This is a Request for Information (RFI) synopsis.

This RFI is for planning purposes only. This is NOT a request for Quotations or Proposals. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. In accordance with FAR 15.202 (e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.

The Government will not reimburse costs incurred by Respondent in response to this RFI or for participating in information exchange regarding details of the RFI. Responses may include data that the respondent does not want disclosed to the public for any purpose or used by the Government except for informational purposes. SEE ATTACHMENTS FOR COMPLETE DETAILS AND POINT OF CONTACTS.