Trusted Partner Program - Industry Day Notification

The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Army Research Office (ARO) is seeking proposals for the Trusted Partner Program, which aims to support projects at all security levels, including Controlled Unclassified Information, Secret, and Top Secret. The program will focus on basic and applied research, data science and analytics, technology development, digital architecture, modeling and simulation, experimentation and testbed development, integration and demonstration, and technology transition to military capabilities. The contract is expected to be an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract, and the Government anticipates awards of up to five or more contracts. • The technical areas of focus include biology, material science, electronics, chemistry, information sciences, and physics. • The program will also focus on interdisciplinary areas such as applied artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, contested logistics technologies, quantum and battlefield information dominance, scared directed energy, and scaled hypersonics. • The proposal submission process will involve a two-phase process, with the first phase involving pre-evaluation screening compliance and the second phase involving evaluation of volumes 1-5. • The evaluation factors will include technical, management, past performance, small business participation, and cost.