Robotic and Autonomous Construction Equipment (RA-CE)

The U.S. Army, through the Department of Defense’s W6QK Acc- Dta office in Warren, Michigan, has issued a Request for Information (RFI) titled Robotic and Autonomous Construction Equipment (RA-CE), solicitation number PANDTA-26-P-0000RA-CE, with a response deadline of July 22, 2026, at 5:00pm EST. This RFI is strictly for market research and planning purposes and is not a solicitation for proposals, quotations, or bids, nor does it represent any commitment to award a contract. The goal is to identify commercially available remote and autonomous technologies that can be retrofitted or integrated onto existing combat engineering platforms including medium dozers (65,000-lb class), High Mobility Engineer Excavators (HMEE-IV), and skid steer loaders (7,000-lb class with 2,500-lb lift capacity). The Army is also evaluating unmanned aerial and ground systems for site reconnaissance and surveying, requiring capabilities such as LiDAR, EO/IR, SAR, and photogrammetry, alongside mobile or compact command and control systems that support one-to-many supervised control and secure real-time data transfer of 3D point clouds, imagery, and telemetry. Technology solutions must employ open, modular architectures like ROS 2, MOSA-compliant interfaces, RAS-G, or UVC. Proposed systems must comply with multiple military standards including MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-464 (Figure RE102-4), MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-1472, while also meeting cybersecurity requirements aligned with CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, and NIST SP 800-218 for secure software development. Supply chain and manufacturing compliance with the Buy American Act, Berry Amendment, Specialty Metals provisions, and FAR/DFARS Section 889 is mandatory, and respondents must describe their domestic manufacturing footprint and U.S. supply chain dependencies. Responses must be submitted via email to david.s.berosik.civ@army.mil with the subject “Response to RA-CE RFI,” in MS Word or PDF format, limited to ten pages per solution excluding title pages and certification attachments. All technical