USAFA Rapid Acquisition Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)
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Solicitation details, issuing organization, response deadlines, documents, and interested companies for this government contract opportunity.
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The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) has issued a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) titled "USAFA Rapid Acquisition Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)" to seek innovative commercial technologies and services that support its strategic objectives. This CSO operates as an umbrella solicitation that outlines several focused Areas of Interest (AoIs) with specific timeframes during which the academy explores solutions to address critical challenges. These focus areas include AI-powered automated transcript processing for admissions, warfighter training support services, autonomous virtual perimeter monitoring, military exoskeleton technology to enhance warfighter lethality, and strategic outreach services to increase USAFA applicants. Each AoI is tied to a specific call with defined periods in 2025 and 2026, but the initial CSO does not request proposals; instead, calls for proposals will be issued later as amendments when specific commercial requirements emerge based on USAFA priorities. This flexible and streamlined acquisition approach allows the USAFA to rapidly engage with innovative commercial vendors using FAR Part 12 commercial contracts or Other Transactions as deemed appropriate. The CSO emphasizes the treatment of all acquired items, technologies, and services as commercial products and reserves the right to award any combination of proposals that provide the best overall value to the government. This open solicitation remains active until May 29, 2030, and is managed by the Department of Defense office located at the USAF Academy in Colorado. The contract facilitates the acquisition of advanced technologies that help ensure cadets receive cutting-edge education and training aligned with current mission and policy directives.
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USAF Academy, CO, 80840, USASet-Aside
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Call 006 Focused Area of Interest Period - For the period of 27 May 2026 to 18 Jun 2026, the United States Air Force Academy has a focused interest in exploring innovative, commercial methodologies for a comprehensive Brand Analysis and development of a Strategic Brand Roadmap. Please see the attached "FA700025SC001 Call 006 - USAFA Brand Analysis" for more details.
Call 005 Focused Area of Interest Period - For the period of 20 Apr 2026 to 06 May 2026, the United States Air Force Academy has a focused interest in exploring solutions to implement an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered automated high school and college transcript processing and scoring capability. Please see the attached "FA700025SC001 Call 005 - USAFA Admissions AI Transcript" for more details.
Call 004 Focused Area of Interest Period - For the period of 6 Apr 2026 to 20 Apr 2026, the United States Air Force Academy has a focused interest in exploring solutions for Warfighter Training Support Services (WTSS). Please see the attached "FA700025SC001 Call 004 USAFA Warfighter Training Support Services" for more details.
Call 003 Focused Area of Interest Period - For the period of 26 Feb 2026 to 16 Mar 2026, the United States Air Force Academy has a focused interest in exploring solutions for autonomous, self-sufficient virtual perimeter monitoring to provide situational awareness and tracking. Please see the attached "FA700025SC001 Call 003 - USAFA Virtual Perimeter" for more details.
Call 002 Focused Area of Interest Period - For the period of 4 Sep 2025 to 15 Sep 2025, the United States Air Force Academy has a focused interest in exploring how passive and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled exoskeleton technology can enhance warfighter lethality. Please see the attached "FA700025SC001 Call 002 - USAFA Military Exoskeleton Technology" for more details.
Call 001 Focused Area of Interest Period - For the period of 23 Jul 2025 to 4 Aug 2025, the United States Air Force Academy has a focused interest in exploring solutions for strategic outreach services and technology to increase applicants to USAFA. Please see attached "FA700025SC001 CSO Call 001 USAFA Admissions Outreach" for more details.
Please see the full text PDF attachment for details. Note: the Government is not seeking proposals under this initial issuance. Calls for proposals will be issued by the government as amendments to this CSO and may be made at any time during its open period when support for innovative commercial requirements supporting USAFA priorities are identified.
This Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) seeks innovative commercial technologies and services to meet various objectives of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) as detailed in Attachment 8 using a streamlined and flexible acquisition method to ensure cadets continue to receive the world-class education and training required by the mission and policy directives. All items, technologies, and services acquired using a CSO will be treated as commercial items.
This CSO is a “CSO with Calls.” The CSO with calls technique utilizes the publication of this umbrella CSO solicitation that contains the basic information but does not request proposals with its initial issuance. This type of CSO functions as the framework for future Calls by identifying the technical areas detailed in Attachment 8 and the basic terms and administrative information of the CSO. Calls for proposals will be issued by the government as amendments to this CSO and may be made at any time during its open period when support for innovative commercial requirements supporting USAFA priorities are identified. Offerors may submit proposals only in response to a specified AoI issued during an open call for proposals. The Government reserves the right to award any combination of proposals which offer the best overall value to the Government, and to oversee any and all processes and approaches once initiated. Awards as a result of this announcement will be in the form of FAR Part 12 commercial contracts. The Government also reserves the right to award Other Transactions (OT).