Endless Forge
AFRL is seeking innovative products, technologies, and services that advance Manufacturing as a Service for scalable, resilient, platform-agnostic weapons-system production and industrial-base responsiveness.
⚑ Federal contract solicitation; applicant restrictions are not specified in the notice beyond DOD/AFRL procurement context. · No set-aside used. · Focus is on manufacturing technologies/services for defense production scaling, not basic research.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 45 partial | funds applied research; prototyping/demonstration stage; deep-tech content |
| IPPRA | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
Description
Endless Forge (EF) is Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS), an adaptive, surge-adaptive, resilient, and scalable manufacturing capability to enable US industrial base dominance. EF represents a new manufacturing paradigm, shifting away from vertically integrated and sequential value chains to adaptive and fast-acting regionalized production networks. If successful, EF will offer the DAF the ability to scale any weapon system at speed through a platform-agnostic approach that can respond to battlefield performance. AFRL is interested in innovative products, technologies, and services related to the attached areas of Interest (AOI). Amendment 1 of the Solictation includes Industry day information as well as updates highlighted in red First set of Questions and Answers is included as an attachment. These remain valid/in force even with Amendment 1 being issued.
Eligibility
Applicant restrictions (federal contract). Set-aside: No Set aside used. Notice type: Solicitation. Organization: DEPT OF DEFENSE / DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE / FA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL/PZL.
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