A4A - Aircraft Maintenance Assistance

Air Combat Command is seeking industry input through a sources-sought notice for an AI-driven solution to cleanse, standardize, and analyze historical U.S. Air Force aircraft maintenance data from legacy systems like IMDS and REMIS, with the goal of improving repair decision-making and increasing mission-capable rates. The initiative, titled A4A - Aircraft Maintenance Assistance under solicitation FA4890-260713, focuses on deploying a commercial AI capability that transforms unstructured maintenance narratives into standardized formats using ATA codes with at least 90% accuracy, while delivering prescriptive troubleshooting guidance with confidence ratings, enabling natural-language queries from maintainers, and identifying chronic failure trends for predictive maintenance. The solution must be deployable within 30 days of contract award and capable of sustaining at least five months of live operational testing in an IL4-compliant secure environment, ensuring alignment with Department of Defense standards for controlled unclassified information. Performance evaluation will prioritize technical outcomes—such as data accuracy, troubleshooting effectiveness, and system responsiveness—over cost, indicating a likely trade-off award approach rather than lowest price technically acceptable. The contract performance location is in Hampton, Virginia, under the oversight of the Department of Defense, with primary points of contact at the contracting office in that location. No formal pricing, contract value, or clause-specific requirements are included in this pre-proposal phase, as the solicitation serves only as market research to assess industry capabilities; all technical requirements are defined in a draft Statement of Objectives and are not yet binding contractual obligations.