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AOI II: Design Development / Systems Engineering

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The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) through SOF AT&L is seeking innovative commercial items, technologies, and services to enhance design development and systems engineering capabilities. The primary objective is to apply disciplined engineering and design rigor to reduce technical and programmatic risks while improving the capacity for transitioning agilely developed capabilities into formal Programs of Record. Submissions should focus on software development best practices, experimentation, user experience trials, or systems engineering disciplines such as interface definition, requirement derivation, and system architecture. This forecast, titled AOI II: Design Development / Systems Engineering, aims to support SOF-peculiar concepts and missions by integrating rigorous design standards into the rapid investigation of new capabilities.

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USSOCOM seeks innovative commercial technologies to enhance design development and systems engineering capabilities.

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US Special Operations Command (ussocom) → SOF AT&LView Agency

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541330 - Engineering ServicesView NAICS

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AgencyUS Special Operations Command (ussocom) → SOF AT&L

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SOF RACER: As USSOCOM S&T agilely and rapidly investigates capabilities to address SOF-peculiar concepts and missions, disciplined and rigorous engineering and design must be utilized to reduce technical and programmatic risk, as well as improve capacity for eventual transition to Programs Of Record. Submissions should address either innovative commercial items, technologies, or services that aid in design development capabilities (including, but not limited to software development best practices, experimentation, and user experience trials), or systems engineering rigor (interface definition, requirement derivation, system architecture), or both.

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