REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command plays a role in Redstone Arsenal's Advance Planning Briefing for Industry.
The objective of APBI, scheduled March 4-5, is to provide information on the Army aviation and missile technology efforts and requirements as well as information on potential contract opportunities. This forum will assist industry, research and academia partners in the private sector in planning and preparing for those future requirements.
"Despite the approaching inclement weather, the APBI attendance (the first day) was a success," said Christina Ryan, USASMDC/ARSTRAT Office of Small Business Programs associate director. "SMDC is committed in supporting the annual APBI worthwhile event. Our participation demonstrates SMDC's commitment to the business community who ultimately assist the Warfighter with their mission."
APBI's purpose is to promote transparency in acquisition strategies by providing long-range technology and capability development objectives to industry as well as information on the potential business opportunities available with SMDC and other Team Redstone organizations.
APBI includes briefings on programs that will be issuing solicitations for competitive bids within an approximately three-to-five-year timeframe. APBI is unclassified and open to all interested contractors, large and small businesses, and academia as well as other government stakeholders.
One of SMDC's contract mechanisms is the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance Contract, or SETAC.
Another contract mechanism used by SMDC is the Test Execution Services and Launch Augmentation, or TESTLA. TESTLA acquisition was planned as a competitive bridge between SMDC's Lethality Testing and Criteria Development contract and the planned Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration, or D3I, acquisition.
Awardees compete in technical support areas such as: flight tests; ground tests; payloads; electronic warfare; directed energy; conventional and asymmetric threats; telemetry and sensors; power and energy; cyber and space; surveillance and reconnaissance; experimental, phenomenology and component; and modeling and simulation.
APBI briefings have been posted online at: https://conference.redstone.army.mil/event.aspx?event_id=11
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