Targeting Operations and Analytics Development
Overview
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Place of Performance
NAICS
PSC
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Qualification Details
Fit reasons
- NAICS alignment with historical contract wins in similar service areas.
- Scope strongly matches core technical capabilities and delivery model.
Risks
- Past performance thresholds may require one additional teaming partner.
- Potential clarification needed on staffing minimums before bid/no-bid.
Next steps
Validate eligibility requirements, assign capture owner, and schedule partner outreach to confirm teaming strategy before submission planning.
Quick Summary
The Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL - Rome Research Site has issued Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) FA8750-25-S-7002, titled "Targeting Operations and Analytics Development." This Open, 2-Step BAA seeks innovative research to develop, test, evaluate, and integrate technologies aimed at improving the joint targeting cycle, specifically to shorten the killchain, enhance operational awareness, ensure information and connectivity assurance, and enable battle damage assessment. The BAA has an estimated total funding of $499M and remains open for white paper submissions until September 30, 2029.
Scope of Work
The BAA focuses on several key technology areas:
- Dynamic Targeting Engagement At Scale: Technologies for rapid identification, targeting, and engagement of numerous dynamic targets in peer conflict scenarios, including human-on-the-loop (HOTL) and human-in-the-loop (HITL) tools, and low SWaP-C systems.
- Mission Communications: Assuring mission-critical communications in challenging environments, and countering adversarial interference.
- Combat Assessment: Developing tactically relevant, immediate post-strike assessment tools, including multi-source fusion.
- Indications & Warning Analytics: Utilizing all data sources for battlespace context and understanding adversary readiness, intent, and posture via automated I&W/alerting.
- Test and Evaluations: Developing and implementing T&E methodologies to validate technology performance in realistic environments.
Contract Details
- Estimated Total Funding: Approximately $499M.
- Individual Awards: Normally range from $1M to $25M over a maximum of 36 months, with potential for awards up to $99.9M.
- Anticipated Awards: Multiple awards are anticipated.
- Instrument Types: FAR-based Procurement contracts, CFR-based grants and cooperative agreements, or Other Transactions (OT) under 10 USC 4021, 10 USC 4022, and 10 USC 4023. Successful Other Transaction for Prototype agreements may lead to follow-on production contracts.
- Set-Aside: None specified; open to all qualified offerors.
Submission & Evaluation
This is a 2-Step BAA. Initial submissions are white papers only, with formal proposals accepted by invitation. White papers are accepted until September 30, 2029, but suggested submission dates for alignment with projected funding are: FY25 by March 20, 2025; FY26 by Nov 1, 2025; FY27 by Nov 1, 2026; FY28 by Nov 1, 2027; FY29 by Nov 1, 2028. White papers should be 3-5 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font, covering Title/POCs, Task Objective, Technical Summary/Deliverables.
General Evaluation Criteria: Scientific and Technical Merit, Related Experience, Openness/Maturity/Assurance of Solution, and Reasonableness/Realism of Costs.
For Assistance Instruments (per Amendment 4):
- Initial Screening: White papers must demonstrate success and commitment to Gold Standard Science (GSS) (reproducible, transparent, collaborative, etc.), produce immediately demonstrable results, show potential for breakthrough results, include clear R&D benchmarks, and advance the President's policy priorities (e.g., not promoting racial discrimination, denying sex binary, facilitating illegal immigration, or anti-American values).
- Full Evaluation: Primary criteria (equal importance) are Technical Merits (quality, innovation, feasibility, impact) and potential relationship to DoW missions. Cost/Price realism is a secondary consideration. Risk assessments will be conducted.
Eligibility & Restrictions
- General: All qualified offerors may apply.
- Foreign Participation: Generally closed, with exceptions for unclassified fundamental research under specific conditions.
- FFRDCs/Government Entities: Subject to competition limitations and must demonstrate unavailability from the private sector.
- Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI): Offerors must disclose and mitigate.
- Security: Security Risk Reviews (S&T Protection) will be conducted. Specific documentation (SF 424, Security Program Questionnaire, Privacy Act Statement) is required for Senior/Key Personnel.
- Compliance: Offerors must be registered in SAM and comply with NIST SP 800-171 DoD Assessment in SPRS. FASCSA orders may apply to FAR-based awards.
Key Updates from Amendments
- Amendment 3 (April 2, 2026): Republished the BAA, updating FAR references, adjusting the Simplified Acquisition Threshold to $350,000, and the certified cost and pricing data threshold to $2.5M. It also revised proposal formatting, debriefing language, DFARS clauses, and OMBUDSMAN information, and deleted the 15% indirect cost cap for assistance awards.
- Amendment 4 (May 28, 2026): Introduced new language regarding assistance instruments and Gold Standard Science (GSS), including specific white paper requirements and evaluation criteria related to GSS and advancing the President's policy priorities.
Contacts
- Technical Point of Contact: Ariana Emad (ariana.emad@us.af.mil, 315-330-2649)
- Contracting Officer: Amber Buckley (Amber.Buckley@us.af.mil, 315-330-3605)