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Rapidly Reconfigurable Pod-Based System Survivability Suite for Air Operations in Contested Environments

Department of War · Air Force · SBIR Topic · 27.BZ

posted 4 November 2026 · closes 6 January 2027

Summary

The Air Combat Command is seeking SBIR proposals to investigate, design, prototype, and experimentally evaluate a rapidly reconfigurable pod-based survivability suite for aircraft operating in contested environments. The effort focuses on advanced open-architecture modular pods with autonomous edge computing for threat detection, correlation, and countermeasure deployment without requiring host-platform recertification.

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