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Robotic and Autonomous Construction Equipment (RA-CE)
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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
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Warren, MI, USASet-Aside
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Submission Closed
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Revised 29 JUN 2026. RFI closing date revised to 22 JUL 2026, 5:00pm EST.
The objective of this RFI is to assess the current state of commercially available remote and autonomous technologies that can be integrated with existing construction equipment platforms to enable remote and autonomous operation for combat engineering missions. The U.S. Army is seeking information from OEMs and other technology providers regarding solutions that can retrofit or be integrated with medium dozers, High Mobility Engineer Excavators (HMEE), and skid steer loaders. Additionally, the Army is interested in site reconnaissance and surveying capabilities provided by unmanned aerial systems (UASs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), as well as mobile or compact command and control solutions.
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