2019 Air Force C3 and NC3 IR&D Technology Interchange Meetings

Attention Industry & Government Readers! Save the Date! During the week of 7-11 October 2019, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), in conjunction with Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) and Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) contingents at Hanscom AFB MA, responsible for many of the Air Force's Command, Control, Communications, and Networking (C3I&N), Battle Management, and Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) program acquisition, sustainment and R&D activities, is hosting week-long Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Technical Interchange Meetings at the Hanscom Conference Center. The focus of this event is Command and Control (C2) including Multi-Domain C2 (MDC2), Communications and related information assurance and cyber resiliency R&D, to include both conventional and NC3 domains. This invitation is open to all industry IR&D participants, including large, medium-sized and small businesses, as well as academia, National Labs and FFRDCs. Briefings and demonstrations of C3, MDC2, and associated information assurance and cyber resiliency R&D efforts are solicited at both unclassified and classified levels. This engagement has broad goals to increase government awareness, stimulate collaboration and partnering with industry, and to inform and seek alignment between industry's IR&D innovation portfolios and the AF's high-priority science and technology (S&T) needs, and corresponding acquisition & sustainment roadmaps. Along with leading senior subject matter experts (SMEs) from AFRL, AFLCMC and AFNWC, we anticipate C3 & NC3 experts from Air Combat Command, AF Space Command, Air Mobility Command, AF Global Strike Command and HAF/A5 (Air Force Warfighter Integration Capability - AFWIC), Space and Missiles Systems Center to participate. We also expect Missile Defense Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency and other relevant units to play an active role in this event. This team of C3 & NC3 and cyber professionals are in the process of finalizing the relevant topics based on priority S&T need demand signals from the Program Executive Offices (PEOs) for C3I&N, Digital and NC3. Significant emphasis will be placed on the following focus areas within C2, Comms & NC3 constructs. There may be changes to the details of these technical bins:: 1. Multi Domain Command & Control (MDC2) 2. Communications (Specific Areas TBD, such as Resilient, Secure and Distributed Comms, Open Comm Systems, Synchronizing Mission Content and Comms with Disadvantaged Users, and Artifical Intelligence & Machine Learning) 3. Nuclear Command, Control & Communications (NC3) Reminder: This is not the complete list of focus areas, so please stay tuned to this page and related Defense Innovation Marketplace Announcement, https://defenseinnovationmarketplace.dtic.mil/2019-af-c3-nc3/ , for updates. The timing of this initial posting is to inform you of the event, and to save the date. Please note that all updates will be posted in the Defense Innovation Maketplace announcement, https://defenseinnovationmarketplace.dtic.mil/2019-af-c3-nc3/ . If you are interested in participating, please send expression of interest to the following email address: contact@example.gov. Once we receive expression of interest, we will send you additional instructional data on how to nominate IR&D projects. If you do not hear back from the IR&D planning team within one week, please resend the original email. For your situational awareness, below is a schedule of key dates and activities for planning purposes and are subject to change. Date of FBO Posting Window opens for IR&D project nominations by industry and Marketplace Announcement Posting 26 Jun 2019 Window closes for IR&D abstract nominations by industry 14 Aug 2019 Send industry invitations to present at C3 & NC3 IR&D TIMs 9 Sep 2019 Industry provides read-ahead briefings 7-11 Oct 2019 Execute C3 & NC3 IR&D TIMs event Disclaimers The government is not obligated to enter into a contract with any entity as results of IR&D collaborations from our dialogue. Data exchanges, as a result of these dialogue activities, follow the International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR), including export controls and restrictions in accordance with Department of Defense Instruction 5230.24, Department of Defense Directive 5230.25, the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U.S.C., Sec 2751, et seq.), and/or the Export Administration Act of 1979 (Title 50, U.S.C., App. 2401 et seq.), as amended. Some information we intend to share may be classified or unclassified and can only be released as Distribution C, D, or F material. Please be informed using the following URL. (https://discover.dtic.mil/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/distribution_statements_and_reasonsSept2018.pdf. Dates and locations listed for this event are subject to change. Refer other requests for additional documents and data to contact@example.gov. For updates and additional information, please visit the Defense Innovation Maketplace announcement, https://defenseinnovationmarketplace.dtic.mil/2019-af-c3-nc3/ . Thank you and we look forward to this Government-Industry IR&D technology engagement.