Special Topic: Predictive Sustainment, Real-Time Data

The Army Applications Laboratory (AAL), under the Department of the Army’s ACC-APG Durham office, is seeking innovative solutions to enhance predictive sustainment and real-time data capture for tactical vehicle platforms. This Special Notice focuses on addressing the challenges of transmitting telemetry data—including maintenance faults, fuel levels, potable water supplies, and ammunition counts—within degraded, disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) bandwidth environments. The objective is to provide command-and-control nodes with real-time visibility into forward-deployed assets to ensure precise bulk distribution, minimize Non-Mission Capable rates, and maintain operational status reporting during Large Scale Combat Operations.

Proposed solutions must connect directly to vehicle platforms to transmit logistical and maintenance data to command systems, enabling proactive decision-making and strategic overmatch through predictive logistics analysis. This research and development effort is categorized under NAICS 541715 for Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) and PSC AJ13 for General Science & Technology R&D Services; General Science & Technology; Experimental Development.

The primary place of performance for this initiative is Austin, Texas. Responses are due by June 12, 2026, and the government has provided one supporting document, "Predictive Sustainment Special Topic-20MAY26.pdf," for additional context. Administrative oversight is managed by the W6QK ACC-APG Durham office.