AFCO CM CSO

AIR FORCE CRYPTOLOGIC OFFICE

COMMERCIAL SOLUTIONS OPENING

FA7037-21-S-C001

15 OCTOBER 2026

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1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

1.1 The Air Force Cryptologic Office (AFCO) Cyberspace Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Multi-Domain Innovation (CM) Division provides the U.S Department of Defense’s (DoD) ability to oversee ISR-Cyber and present integrated multi-domain cross functional capability for Combatant Commander (CCMD) and the air component.
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AFCO-CM is looking for new and innovative capabilities in Electromagnetic Warfare (EW), Information Operations (IO), and electromagnetic digital communications. The ideal is to leverage mature technologies in novel ways for a field demonstration within a year through application of novel material approaches or innovative services.

2. PURPOSE

2.1 This Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO), in accordance with 10 USC 3458 and RDFARS 212.70 Defense Commercial Solutions Opening, is a competitive solicitation of proposals focused on technologies to meet AFCO/CM’s mission. AFCO/CM seeks the best approaches to meet the technology objectives within the capability areas listed below. Detailed topics associated with each capability area appear in Attachment 6. 2.2 "Innovative" means any technology, process, or method, including research and development that is new as of the date of submission of a proposal, or any new application as of the date of submission.

2. CSO APPROACH AND OVERVIEW

3.1 This CSO seeks the best commercial approaches to meet various technology objectives of AFCO/CM. All items, technologies, and services acquired using a CSO will be treated as commercial items. The Government encourages proposals that span a wide spectrum of possible technical and business solutions in response to the specific technology topics stated in Attachment 6. The Government reserves the right to award funding to any combination of proposals which offer the best overall value to the Government, and to oversee any and all processes and approaches once initiated. Awards of efforts as a result of this announcement will be in the form of contracts or other transactions (OT) as codified in 10 U.S.C. §2371b (section 2371b). 3.2 Funding for participation in this program is highly competitive and the price of proposed technologies should be considered. Awards resulting from this CSO will be made based on the evaluation results of a two-phased proposal process described in Section 5. The Government reserves the right to fund all, some, one, or none of the