On March
14, the Department of Defense posted 2019 JSOC
Capability and Technology Interest Items and Planned Events. Responses are due
by 5:00 p.m. Eastern on April 12.
The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has
assembled two (2) versions of Special Operations Forces (SOF) Capability and
Technology Interest Items: a SECRET listing and a subset at the UNCLASSIFIED
level. The lists will be available for release to Industry, Academia, and
National Labs in May 2019. JSOC will follow up the release of the Capability
and Technology Interest Items with two events:
1. Appropriate
personnel will be available this year at the 2019 SOF Industry Conference
(SOFIC) 2019, 20-23 May 2019 in Tampa, FL to discuss JSOC UNCLASSIFIED
Capability and Technology Interest Items during the Program Executive Office –
SOF Warrior (PEO-SW) briefing sessions. Exact times/locations for PEO-SW
conference sessions are TBD, but will be available at: http://www.sofic.org.
2. JSOC will
participate in the PEO-SW annual SOF Warrior Operational Requirements
Discussion Symposium (SWORDS) event to be held in the October/November 2019
timeframe. This will be a by invitation only event for selected Industry
partners to present solutions to SOCOM and JSOC representatives.
The JSOC mission is
to conduct studies; training; exercises; research, development, testing, and
evaluation; and acquisition and procurement to ensure interoperability among
SOF, general purpose forces, and interagency and foreign partners. JSOC has
assigned and attached subordinate units and may deploy to support Geographic
Combatant Commander’s training, exercises, activities, and operations.
It is JSOC’s desire
to inform and influence industry’s internal investment decisions in areas that
address SOF’s most sensitive and urgent interest areas. Many in industry have
expertise, capacity, funding, and a desire to better understand and invest in
SOF unique interest areas.
JSOC’s Capability and
Technology Interest Items listing includes multiple interest items in each of
the following categories:
1. Advanced Analytics (AA)
2. Breaching (BR)
3. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE)
4. Communications
5. Electronic Warfare (EW)
6. Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD)
7. Fire Support (FS)
8. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)
9. Knowledge Management (KM)
10. Mobility
11. Power and Energy (P&E)
12. Situational Awareness (SA)
13. Soldier Survival (SS)
14. Target Engagement (TE)
15. Other Need Areas
JSOC plans to provide Industry representatives with several engagement options including, but not limited to, submitting responses to the SOCOM Broad Area Announcement (BAA), submitting applications to participate in SOCOM Technical Experimentation (TE) events, Vendor Loan Agreements (VLA), and entering into a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with SOCOM/JSOC.
Full information is available here.
Source: FedBizOpps
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