On August 18, the U.S. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground, Research Triangle Park (ACC-APG-RTP) Division posted a call for solutions. This open call will be open for submission of innovative solutions from 18 August 2025 to 5 September 2025.
Army Futures Command is seeking innovative, readily available solutions for use by the 4th Infantry Division (4ID) based in Fort Carson, Colorado beginning in early calendar year 2026. These solutions should be capable of extended experimentation with soldiers in the field and focused on at least one of the eight capability focused areas listed in section C. They should also be open to integration with the Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype ecosystem that Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, and Network (PEO-C3N) is developing over the next 18th months with 4ID.
This open call leverages flexible acquisition authorities to enable rapid prototyping, iterative development, and potential pathways to future acquisition. The Army encourages participation from all sectors and business sizes—particularly small businesses and non-traditional defense contractors.
This open call seeks technology ready for insertion in early calendar year 2026 into long-term experimentation with 4ID. The goal is for companies to not just demonstrate their technology’s capabilities to operate in the space between the ground to a few thousand feet above it, the Air-Ground Littoral, but also its potential interoperability with the prototype NGC2 data layer/technology stack.
The Air-Ground Littoral is characterized by the proliferation of low-cost, small, unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), and the associated autonomy, payloads, missions, and platforms to maintain situational awareness and freedom of maneuver. This emergent domain presents both offensive potential and defensive challenges. Potential solutions for experimentation with 4ID should address challenges related to movement and maneuver, mission command, intelligence gathering, reconnaissance and target acquisition, fires, sustainment, protection, or information within this space. More information on these can be found in Section C.
NGC2 is a US Army initiative to modernize its command-and-control systems and provide commanders with faster more efficient decision-making capabilities. The program is doing this by developing modular, open architecture software that will seamlessly connect digital assets, remote sensors, command posts, vehicles and soldiers on the ground with real-time information. PEO C3N has initiated the prototyping phase of NGC2 with 4ID. Key components of NGC2 are the ease with which it integrates with existing commercial technology; relies on modern approaches for continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines; utilizes application programming interfaces (APIs), software development kit (SDK), modular open systems architecture (MOSA), natural language processing (NLP); etc.
Review the Army Futures Command solution call.
Source: SAM
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