The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate, in an operational maintenance and sustainment environment, that AI-enabled industrial base analysis can identify the parts, suppliers, and production constraints governing readiness for a defined platform group and convert that understanding into sourcing options a sustainment organization can act on.
Additional key objectives include:
- Establish a normalized data foundation across procurement, demand, readiness, supplier, and industrial base sources for the selected platform group
- Map cross platform demand to common suppliers, factories, sub tier manufacturers, distributors, and material inputs
- Produce demand forecasts from historical purchases, platform usage, maintenance cycles, and readiness needs
- Identify parts affecting readiness, cost, lead time, or surge capacity, together with single points of failure, monopoly suppliers, long lead items, and fragile sub tier dependencies
- Provide sourcing options and service level parameters, and the business case analysis and qualification documentation needed for transition
If you feel your organization has the technical capabilities and would like to be considered for this project, please complete the form below and upload your organization’s technical capabilities statement.
Interested Submissions Due by 9/3/26.
We encourage participation of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs), including Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) and Women’s Business Enterprises (WBEs).
