REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- A U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command leader shared projected requirements for the command during Redstone Arsenal's Advance Planning Briefing for Industry March 9.
The objective of APBI, hosted March 8-9 by Team Redstone, was to provide information on the Army's aviation and missile technology efforts and requirements as well as information on potential contract opportunities. The forum assists industry, research and academia partners in the private sector in planning and preparing for those future requirements.
"APBI is a great forum where we can communicate, to the best of our ability, what we project, in terms of industry support, contracting opportunities and being able to support the command," said William "Bill" A. Colson, USASMDC/ARSTRAT Technical Center director.
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 various Team Redstone organizations.
APBI includes briefings on programs that will be issuing solicitations for competitive bids within the next three-to-five years. APBI is unclassified and open to all interested contractors, large and small businesses, and academia, as well as other government stakeholders.
"I gave a good summary of what we believe our contracting requirements will be in the next two-to-three years and that gives industry a chance to be thinking about which opportunities they will be interested in," Colson said. "We depend on industry to support our mission so it is a very important forum for us to be a part of."
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.
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