Low-Cost Ground and Airborne Technologies to Detect, Classify, Track, and Defeat UAS-borne Threats, Request for Information

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The purpose of the amendment one (1) is to extend the closing date to 4/8/2026. Pre-Solicitation Synopsis � Request for Information (RFI) 1. Class Code: 1095 and 5963 � Effectors and Electronic Modules 2. NAICS Code: 541715 3. Subject: Low-Cost Ground and Airborne Technologies to Detect, Classify, Track, and Defeat UAS-borne Threats, Request for Information 4. Solicitation Number: W911QX-26-BA0001 5. Set-Aside Code: NA 6. Response Date: 30 days from date of posting 7. Place of Performance: US Army Contracting Command � Aberdeen Proving Ground Adelphi Contracting Division 2800 Powder Mill Road Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1138, USA 8. Description: The United States Government provides this Request for Information (RFI) to determine potential responsible offerors capable of meeting the Government�s requirement of (1) modular remote expendable sensing technologies and (2) modular inexpensive effector technologies, which can detect, classify, track, and subsequently disable or destroy multiple drone-borne threats (see Section 9 below). This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, this notice does function as a Request for Information (RFI) for offerors who believe they can meet the Government�s requirement (see Section 9 below). Any responsible source who believes it can meet the requirement may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency, only if received by the closing date and time of this notice. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. 9. Requirement: The Army Research Laboratory is seeking industry partners with innovative affordable Sensing and Effector technologies suitable for immediate integration into a layered, counter-UAS System-of-Systems which is remotely emplaced by unmanned aerial systems. The Sensing solutions must be capable of detecting, classifying, and tracking Group 1 to Group 3 Unattended Aerial System (UAS)-borne. Solutions should be mature, modular, low Size Weight and Power (SWaP), battery powered, low-cost (< $3K per module in quantities of 10K+), with documented physical and electrical interfaces suitable for immediate integration. Solutions may be ground-based or suitable for operation on Class 1 UAS platforms. The Effector solutions must include capabilities to disable or destroy UAS-borne threats and may utilize non-kinetic soft-kill (disable, disrupt, confuse) solutions, or kinetic hard-kill (destroy) solutions. Multi-kill solutions are preferred but not required. Solutions may be ground based, battery powered (preferred) suitable for integration into a Group 1 UAS, or a fully integrated counter-UAS drone with a documented wireless interface. Solutions must also be low cost (<$4K in quantities of 10K+). Responses to this notice are due on or before 30 days after posting by email to Kelly Bennett, kelly.w.bennett.civ@army.mil. Point of Contact for this notice is, and Kelly Bennett, kelly.w.bennett.civ@army.mil.