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On July 3, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) issued a statement about the 2023 Technology Interest Items List. JSOC has assembled two (2) versions of the 2023 Technology Interest Items list: a SECRET list and a subset at the UNCLASSIFIED level. Both lists will be available for release in the July 2023 timeframe.
This notice is NOT a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The JSOC mission is to conduct studies; training; exercises; research, development, testing, and evaluation; and acquisition and procurement to ensure interoperability among Special Operations Forces (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 demonstrated expertise, capacity, funding, and a desire to better understand and invest in SOF unique interest areas.
Factors that make this unique collaboration opportunity attractive include: 1) Increasing Military Budget Austerity – SOF is a judicious transition partner whose future resourcing is among the most well-preserved of the military services. It is JSOC’s desire to improve collaboration in an era where budget austerity tends to erect barriers to open communication. 2) Intellectual Property (IP) – The commercialization of dual-use (government/ commercial) technology can reduce costs to the government, but government contracting IP clauses can restrict industry’s ability to capitalize on their own IP. Our proposed collaboration model preserves and protects industry’s ownership of their intellectual property.
Why does it matter? The technical advantage of US Special Operations is both critical and time sensitive. The time involved in the formal Requirements, Contracting and Acquisition processes can delay the identification, development, demonstration and fielding of cutting-edge capabilities and negatively affect that technical advantage. Teaming with problem solvers early can mitigate process delay and help SOF maintain our technical advantage and provide our industry partners with unique insight.
The purpose of this Special Notice is to: 1) provide Industry with information needed to obtain copies of the 2023 Technology Interest Items list in order to help focus industry research and development decisions toward JSOC’s unique interests; and 2) briefly discuss various ways of industry engagement with Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and JSOC.
The Technology Interest Items list includes multiple interest items in each of the following categories:
- Advanced Analytics (AA)
- Command and Control/Mission Planning
- Communications
- Contested Area Situational Awareness
- Contested Communications
- Electronic Warfare (EW)
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)
- Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)
- Logistics
- Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC)
- Military Free Fall (MFF)
- Power and Energy (P&E)
- Scalable Effects Engagement (SEE)
- Signature Management (SM)
- Situational Awareness (SA)
- Soldier Survival (SS)
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, and entering into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with SOCOM/JSOC.
Review the JSOC 2023 Technology Interest Items List notice.
Source: SAM
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