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The General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) Defense Capability Accelerator (CapX) intends to utilize the Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) procedures throughout Fiscal Year 2026. These CSOs, on behalf of interagency partners within the Department of War (DoW), including Military Departments (MILDEPS), 4th Estate entities, Combatant Commands (CCMDs), and others, will seek innovative, commercial solutions to address specific mission and operational challenges. Disclaimer: This is not a solicitation, and no white papers or proposals are being requested at this time. Specific CSO solicitations will be released separately as funding becomes available. A general set of anticipated CSO topic areas are provided as a part of this notice. I. CSO Authority Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) procedures are authorized by Section 880 of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and as amended by Section 7227 of the FY23 NDAA. CSOs are subject to the limitations outlined in the General Services Acquisition Manual (GSAM) Part 571 and the associated CSO Guide. CSO procedures can be utilized to competitively procure innovative commercial products and commercial services to include innovative technologies and solutions using the commercial solutions opening. II. CSO Pilot Program Benefits GSA developed this program to be implemented outside the normal Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) requirements to engage traditional and non-traditional Government contractors, including start-up companies. This pilot program is intended to promote competition with a streamlined approach to acquire innovative commercial products and commercial services. This pilot program offers the following benefits: 1. Streamlined solicitation requiring only minimal corporate and technical information. 2. Fast track vendor selection timelines. 3. Simplified contract administration procedures and requirements. 4. Preference for the vendor retaining core intellectual property. III. Planned Topic Areas GSA anticipates issuing CSO announcements focused on the following general topic areas. This list of topics is not all encompassing and CSOs may be issued that are not defined in these topic areas. Integrated Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Automation Ecosystems This topic seeks commercial solutions that enable fully integrated, secure, and scalable data and AI ecosystems to support national security missions. Capabilities of interest include federated data engineering, metadata-driven interoperability, and data mesh or knowledge graph architectures that support modular data sharing across organizations. Solutions should enhance decision-making through advanced AI/ML techniques such as generative and agentic AI, predictive analytics, adaptive learning, red teaming, and autonomous decision-support. Solutions may also include automation technologies like robotic process automation (RPA) and agentic workflows to improve business process efficiency across government environments. This topic may explore tools that support enterprise data governance, including tagging, policy enforcement, and system-level reciprocity; as well as data product development pipelines, catalogs, curated datasets, and Agile/SAFe-based delivery. Solutions may also include mission-focused application development, financial operations optimization, and security/policy auditing to ensure visibility into cyber and platform risks. Overall, emphasis is placed on delivering measurable mission outcomes through user-centric applications, composable architectures, and enterprise-ready analytics that operate across multi-domain, contested, and federated environments. Autonomous and Uncrewed Systems Innovation This topic area supports the development of commercial platforms, sensors, autonomy stacks, and control architectures for uncrewed systems (UXS) across maritime, aerial, ground, and space domains. This topic area seeks commercial capabilities that enable contested-environment resilience, modular integration, and advanced teaming or mission autonomy behaviors. Solutions may include modular UAS architectures with government-integrable interfaces, low-cost or attritable flight systems, alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technologies, companion compute boards to offload flight controllers for ML/AI workloads, and commercially available detection systems adaptable to autonomous platforms. GEOINT AI, Analytics, and Geospatial Tradecraft Modernization This topic focuses on enhancing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) through automation, data fusion, and analytic tradecraft innovation. This topic area is seeking technologies that apply AI/ML to spatial, temporal, and spectral data; automate imagery analysis and feature extraction; improve real-time situational awareness; and modernize analytic workflows using agentic AI. Solutions may include next-generation geospatial visualization tools, enriched geospatial data production pipelines, and mission-tailored analytic toolkits designed to increase accuracy, timeliness, and operational relevance of GEOINT products. Resilient Positioning, Communication, and Spectrum Operations This topic covers technologies that preserve secure communication, navigation assurance, and electromagnetic maneuverability in degraded or denied environments. Solutions may address interference, cyber intrusion, or physical disruption through novel waveforms, advanced sensing and timing, mesh networking, spectrum-resilient architectures, and interference-mitigation tools. Potential interest areas include radio frequency (RF)-based multifunction systems that provide affordable resilient Alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (Alt-PNT) and communications solutions for munition and UxS applications, and technologies that offer a digital “last line of defense” during test and evaluation events. Adaptive Sustainment and Distributed Logistics This topic seeks innovative logistics and sustainment technologies that can operate effectively in contested or disrupted environments. Solutions may include autonomous cross-domain delivery platforms, distributed production or 3D manufacturing, predictive supply chain analytics, smart packaging and distribution systems, and authenticated material tracking. Solutions should emphasize resilience, agility, and operational continuity when traditional supply routes are denied or compromised, with particular attention to energy independence and reduced single points of failure. Advanced Munitions Enabling Technologies This area supports enabling technologies for advanced munitions systems, excluding the direct purchase of weapons. Solutions may include commercial innovations in materials, power systems, sensing, secure networking, modeling and simulation, and digital sustainment engineering. Additional areas of interest include smart sights, autonomous subsystems, advanced manufacturing methods, and modular software-defined control components. Cyber Operations, Resilience, and Identity Analytics This topic seeks commercial solutions that enhance cyber defense, resilience, and situational awareness across enterprise and mission systems. Areas of interest include AI-enabled threat detection, cyber threat hunting, Zero Trust architectures, secure multi-cloud tools, and operational analytics that support mission assurance in contested environments. A specific area of interest includes identity intelligence, behavior-based attribution, and persona-level behavioral analysis to detect, characterize, and counter persona-driven cyber threats associated with online agent operators. Approaches should explore the fusion of technical identity signals with behavioral indicators to help the Government understand how authentic and adversarial personas interact within cyberspace. Other Innovative Capabilities Other commercial and dual-use technologies that demonstrate novel approaches aligned with national security missions. This may include secure AI model deployment at the edge, hardened compute bundles, multi-domain system prototyping, and tools for coalition data interoperability and secure collaboration. Solutions should emphasize agility, resilience, or speed-to-decision. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Future CSO notices will detail problem statements and solution objectives along with specific Solution Brief submission requirements. If you would like more information regarding GSA’s CSO procedures, please visit www.gsa.gov/policy-regulations/policy/acquisition-policy/procurement-innovation-resource-center. If you would like to be considered an interested party to these potential CSOs, please complete the CSO Industry Interest Survey (link: https://forms.gle/W13ar5K6PXVRdccj8). Should you have any questions regarding this notice, you may contact the listed AAS CO or CS via email.
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