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INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE- Smart Shooter (SMASH) 2000L Optics and Spare Parts

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The 42nd Contracting Squadron at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, intends to award a sole source contract to SmartShooter Inc. for the procurement of six SMASH 2000L fire control optics and a comprehensive spare parts and field maintenance package. These AI-driven, computerized optics are designed for use by the 42d Security Forces Squadron to provide automated target tracking and kinetic defeat of Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems to protect critical base infrastructure. The procurement falls under NAICS code 333310 for Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing. Managed by the Department of the Air Force, the solicitation is identified as FY2642SFSSmash2000LISS with a response deadline of August 18, 2026. Performance will take place in Alabama.

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Air Force sole source contract for SmartShooter AI optics and maintenance in Alabama.

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Department Of Defense → Department Of The Air ForceView Agency

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333310 - Commercial and Service Industry Machinery ManufacturingView NAICS

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AL, 36112, USA

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AgencyDepartment Of Defense → Department Of The Air Force
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The 42nd Contracting Squadron at Maxwell AFB, AL hereby gives NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE to SmartShooter Inc., 13405 Elevation Lane, Herndone, VA 20171, to provide all products and support required by the statement of requirement (SOR) for SMASH 2000L fire control optics. (NAICS) code is 333310 – Commercial And Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing.

Brief Description of Requirement: The purpose of this requirement is to procure six (6) Smart Shooter SMASH 2000L (SMASH 3000) Fire Control Optics and one (1) comprehensive spare parts and field maintenance package for the 42d Security Forces Squadron (42 SFS) at Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), AL. This procurement provides dismounted security forces with lightweight, computerized, AI-driven fire control optics capable of automated target tracking and kinetic defeat of Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) to defend critical base infrastructure. 

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Real Time Enhanced Fine Tracking in Directed Energy Applications
Solicitation # DAF26TZ05-NV005
The contract seeks the development of a real-time 3D imaging and tracking system to enhance fine tracking capabilities in directed energy applications, particularly for low-flying targets like drones against cluttered backgrounds where traditional 2D imaging struggles. Current systems rely on 2D correlation trackers that require pre-identified target templates, which are unreliable due to limited depth information and perspective distortions. The solution focuses on leveraging 3D coherent imaging, such as digital holography, which provides complex-valued 2.5D images with amplitude and phase data that reveal range information robust to atmospheric scintillation and speckle. This 3D data enables improved pose estimation and aimpoint maintenance critical for fine tracking loops that must operate above 1 kHz to compensate for dynamic aero-optical distortions over long standoff ranges. The system must incorporate active coherent or partially coherent illumination to enable day-night operation while mitigating non-uniform illumination and noise, and must integrate advanced image restoration techniques combining physics-based models and machine learning to correct anisoplanatic phase errors computationally efficiently. The effort is divided into two phases: Phase I requires analysis of existing 3D imaging methods, development of system-level requirements, design of algorithms for enhanced 3D tracking and aimpoint maintenance, and creation of a hardware concept with latency and throughput analysis for real-time closed-loop operation. Phase II will implement and demonstrate a prototype system on high-speed processors, integrating illumination, imaging hardware, and tracking software for real-time performance in either laboratory or outdoor environments. The ultimate goal is to produce a computationally efficient, end-to-end processing pipeline that exploits 3D data to maintain precise aimpoints on non-cooperative targets through turbulent atmospheres. The system must support integration into directed energy platforms and deliver both software algorithms and a validated hardware prototype capable of real-time operation, with emphasis on small business compliance under an SBIR/STTR mandate for entities under 500 employees.
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