Replanning for Evasive Autonomy to Counter Threats

Department of War · Special Operations Command · SBIR Topic · 26.BZ

posted 1 July 2026 · closed 19 August 2026

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Summary

The Department of Defense Special Operations Command seeks proposals to develop an AI-enabled autonomy software system that can generate game‑theoretically optimized courses of action for a swarm of up to 200 unmanned aerial systems operating in contested, degraded environments. The effort focuses on decentralized multi‑agent planning and adversarial reasoning to support AFSOC’s Adaptive Airborne Enterprise (A2E) vision and the SOCOM FANTOM Futures line of effort, with potential transition to broader military and commercial drone applications.

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