Base Notice:Teaming-Enabled Architecture for Manned-Unmanned Systems(TEAMS) W15QKN-16-9-1001-RPP03

This is not a Request for Project Proposals and/or Task Request, but for planning purposes only. A project award will not be awarded from this announcement. The Government intends to announce a Request for Project Proposal (RPP) for execution of project award(s) in support of Aviation Initiative related research areas. The purpose of this announcement is to provide members of the Vertical Lift Consortium, and industry in general, advanced notification of Government intent. As a result of the Vertical Lift Initiative Industry Day in May 2009, one (1) consortium formed, the Vertical Lift Consortium (VLC). It is the intent of the Government to make award(s) to Vertical Lift Consortium member(s) as a result of Request for Project Proposal 03. The anticipated effort is entitled: Teaming-Enabled Architectures for Manned-Unmanned Systems (TEAMS). TEAMS seeks to develop a Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) reference architecture for aircraft systems suitable to guide the maturation and eventual transition of MUM-T technologies across multiple product lines of teaming-enabled systems. This effort seeks to prototype an iterative, architecture-centric, and model-based approach to define the architectures and accompanying processes, methods, tools, and environments necessary to rapidly mature and affordably transition increasingly complex MUM-T technologies with particular attention to trust and assurance. The Request for Project Proposals (W15QKN-16-9-1001-RPP03) will be issued to the Vertical Lift Consortium's Administrative Agent, Advanced Technology International (ATI), who will then issue the request to the Consortium. For information on the Vertical Lift Consortium and / or how to become a member, visit http://www.verticalliftconsortium.org.