The U.S. Air Force has issued two separate research announcements to meet the need for an artificial intelligence-based advanced tracking architecture and technologies supporting space domain awareness.
The Air Force Research Laboratory plans to issue multiple awards in the form of procurement contracts or other transaction agreements to meet the two technology requirements, according to separate presolicitation notices published Tuesday on SAM.gov.
Each tech requirement will have a total ceiling value of approximately $99 million.
The advanced research announcements are effective until July 12, 2029.
Advanced Tracking Architecture Using AI
AFRL is interested in research that seeks to design, build, test and deliver innovative technology platforms and techniques for Next-Generation Target Tracking architectures.
Such architectures will use artificial intelligence, machine learning and machine inferencing algorithms in a high performance computing framework as they exploit a broad array of data sources.
Characterization and Assessment for Space Domain Awareness
The service branch seeks research projects to design, develop and demonstrate technologies for intelligent data collection, tasking, processing, analysis and dissemination to support space domain awareness and superiority.
AFRL is also interested in applications and experimental techniques from ground, orbital and cyber intelligence analysis to facilitate an integrated, predictive SDA capability.
“Only white papers will be accepted as initial submissions; formal proposals will be accepted by invitation only,” the notice reads.
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