BACKGROUND/REQUIREMENT
The USAF is seeking to enhance its capabilities to suppress and neutralize enemy air defenses in contested environments. This effort aims to identify and potentially acquire a weapon system that provides similar or improved capabilities compared to the SiAW, focusing on extended range, advanced targeting, counter-countermeasures, and integration with existing and future platforms.
Required Capabilities
Interested vendors are requested to provide information regarding their capabilities to provide a weapon system (or key subsystems) with the following characteristics (at a minimum):
- Extended Range: Weapon system capable of engaging targets at significant standoff distances.
- Targeting:
- Advanced anti-radiation seeker with broad frequency coverage.
- Ability to target modern and advanced radar systems, including frequency-agile and low-probability-of-intercept (LPI) emitters.
- Ability to target modern ballistic threats, and other non-cooperative targets
- Precision navigation and guidance system (e.g., GPS/INS with anti-jamming capabilities).
- Potential for pre-emptive targeting capabilities.
- Ability to re-attack.
- Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM): Robust ECCM capabilities to defeat enemy countermeasures, including chaff, flares, and jamming.
- Lethality: High probability of kill against a wide range of targets.
- Platform Integration:
- Compatibility with F-35, F-16, F-47 and B-21.
- Open architecture design to facilitate integration with future platforms to include foreign partners.
- MIL-STD-1760 and Universal Armament Interface (Rev6) compliance (or equivalent) for aircraft integration.
- Common Flexible Weapon Interface Control Document compliance highly desired
- Reliability and Maintainability: High operational availability and minimal maintenance requirements with ability to meet a 15-year service life.
- Logistics Support: Comprehensive logistics support package, including training, maintenance manuals, spare parts, technical assistance, transportation and shipping at AUR and section level and missile compatibility with both CMBRE + and CE.
- Cybersecurity: Compliant with current cybersecurity standards for weapon systems IAW DoDI 8500.01, DoDI 5200.44, NIST SP 800-53, and CNSSI 1253 .
- Exportability: Expected to be open and modular such that future exportability and potential partner compatibility is not restricted.
- Affordability & Producibility: Capabilities should be affordable and producible in support of delivering quantities of up to 600 production AURs per year.
- Security:Expected to already have facilities and personnel to support classified requirements
- Current access to CORE
- Current ability to handle and process SECRET and TOP SECRET data and materials
