AF CyberWorx Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)

Project ID: FA7000-23-S-C001 FederalOpportunitiesSpecial Notice

Overview

Agency	Air Force Academy
Deadline	08/09/28
Posted	08/19/25
Estimated Value	Not Provided
Set Aside	None
NAICS	Not Provided
PSC	9999
Location	Colorado

Description

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Background

AF CyberWorx is a problem-solving organization focused on human centered design that builds rapid prototypes to improve the user experience. It is located at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, CO. USAFA is designated as a federal laboratory, with the unique position to establish various partnerships and agreements with academia and industry and is chartered with solving the AF's mission problems by engaging users, industry, and academia in human centered design processes that result in solutions for the war fighter. There is interest in capturing the most creative and advanced technologies where the department can make use of defense specific projects and dual-use technologies to further its technological gain. In realizing the potential to leverage superiority in innovative technologies, AF CyberWorx endeavors to create valued partnerships by aligning itself with partners that assist in technology transfer/transition by spin-off technologies and guiding small business economic development with the primary goal of broadening the defense industrial base. This Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) is a competitive solicitation seeking proposals for innovative, commercial technologies, and services that accelerate attainment of critical defense capabilities as detailed in Attachment 8.

Work Details

AF CyberWorx seeks innovative solutions in the human centered design, user experience design, lean startup, agile development, and technology transition and transfer domains. This includes advancement of knowledge on human centered design, user experience design, lean startup, and agile development methods, tools, approaches; institutionalization and normalization of design thinking, service design, content design, product design; organizational transition and transformation solutions related to technology transition and transfer policies; public-private partnerships (P3) and intellectual property (IP) management. Additionally, they seek innovative solutions in communications technologies such as mesh networks with dynamic routing, software defined radios supporting multi-band signals, data transportation security and encryption; covert communications methodologies; new capabilities to acquire, process, disseminate information across force elements; application of communication technologies to enhance mission readiness. They also seek innovative solutions in distributed computing and storage design patterns including software development methodologies/patterns; multi-cloud computing/storage solutions; containerization/scaling of workloads for Enterprise/Edge; DevSecOps development/sustainment; low code/no code platforms; data analytics including big data storage/transport/normalization; artificial intelligence/machine learning solutions/algorithms for strategic/operational/tactical use-cases. Finally, they seek innovative solutions in emerging technologies such as quantum computing/storage technologies; extended reality including augmented reality/virtual reality/mixed reality/new immersive technologies; directed energy applications; nanotechnologies; sensing technologies; robotics/autonomous systems partnering/robotic process automation (RPA); cognitive performance/mental health/resiliency; biomechanical/bio-electrical interfaces.