BAA for Advancement of Technologies for Use by Special Operations Forces

JULY 28, 2025, UPDATE: THE 2020 SOCOM BAAST IS AMENDED TO UPDATE THE CONTRACTING OFFICER, CHANGING TO JERRYL MCCOY AND ISSUE AMENDMENT 7 TO THE BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT, WHICH WILL TAKE EFFECT ON AUGUST 1, 2025. AMENDMENT 7 INCLUDES EXTENSIVE CHANGES TO THE BAA. INTERESTED PARTIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO REVIEW THE AMENDMENT IN ITS ENTIRETY. OCTOBER 31, 2024, UPDATE: THE 2020 SOCOM BAAST IS AMENDED TO UPDATE THE CONTRACTING OFFICER, CHANGING TO MICHAEL LONGDON, AND ISSUE AMENDMENT 6, TO THE BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT, WHICH WILL TAKE EFFECT ON NOVEMBER 30, 2024. THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS HAVE BEEN UPDATED: 3.0 CLOSING DATE, 4.0 TECHNOLOGY AREAS OF INTEREST, 5.0 SUPPLEMENTAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION AND 6.0 WHITE PAPER REVIEW CRITERIA. NOVEMBER 16, 2023 UPDATE: THE 2020 SOCOM BAAST IS AMENDED TO: (1) DELETE CONTRACTING/AGREEMENTS OFFICER THUY NYUGEN FROM SECTION 2.0; (2) MAKE NUMEROUS REVISIONS TO SECTION 4 TECHNICAL AREAS OF INTEREST ; (3) REVISE SECTION 5.7 NOTIONAL EVALUATION PERIOD CHANGING CURRENT SUBMISSION DATE THROUGH 5 JANUARY 2024 AND CURRENT EVALUATION PERIOD TO REFLECT 2 FEBRUARY 2024 TO 7 MARCH 2024. OCTOBER 30, 2023 UPDATE: THE 2020 SOCOM BAAST IS AMENDED TO: (1) The BAA statutory authority to: FAR 6.102(d)(2), FAR 35.016, 10 U.S.C. 4001, 10 U.S.C. 4021, 10. U.S.C. 4023, 10 U.S.C. 4022, and 10 U.S.C. 4022(f) and (2) the Agreements Officer from Ramona Delamarter to Ronald Reed and Thuy Nguyen. MARCH 20, 2023 UPDATE: THE 2020 THE 2020 SOCOM BAAST IS AMENDED TO CORRECT THE ATTACHMENT FILE NAME FROM FY20 ST BAA_FNL 15FEB22_AMEND_3.pdf to FY20 ST BAA_FNL 22FEB23_AMEND_3.pdf. FEBRUARY 22, 2023 UPDATE: THE 2020 SOCOM BAAST IS AMENDED TO (1) UPDATE THE CONTRACTING OFFICER, CHANGING FROM THUY NGUYEN TO RAMONA DELAMARTER, (2) UPDATE THE SECONDARY CONTRACTING POC FROM JUANITA REMINGTON TO TERRY ANN LEWIS, AND (3) ISSUE AMENDMENT 3, DATED 15 FEB 2023, TO THE BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT, THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS HAVE BEEN UPDATED: 3.0 CLOSING DATE AND 5.0 SUPPLEMENTAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION. OCTOBER 19 2022 UPDATE: THE 2020 SOCOM BAAST IS AMENDED TO UPDATE THE CONTRACTING OFFICER CHANGING FROM RONALD REED TO THUY NGUYEN, ISSUE AMENDMENT 2, DATED 18 OCT 2022, TO THE BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT, AND CHANGE THE TECHNICAL POINT OF CONTACT EMAIL TO BAAST@SOCOM.MIL JUNE 25 2021 UPDATE: THE 2020 SOCOM BAAST IS AMENDED TO REPLACE THE CLASSIFIED POC. MR. JIM GRIFFIN IS DELETED AS CLASSIFIED POC. DR. CONRAD LOVELL IS THE NEW CLASSIFIED POC. MAY 5 2021 UPDATE: THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS NOTICE HAS BEEN AMENDED TO REFLECT 31 DECEMBER 2025, WHICH IS THE DATE THE SOCOM BAA ENDS. THE GOVERNMENT CONTACTS SECTION HAS BEEN UPDATED TO ADD MS. JUANITA REMINGTON AS ALTERNATE CONTRACTING POC. LASTLY, THE PEO-SR CLASSIFIED ANNEX HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM SECTION 4.1.2 OF THE BAA. MAY 21 UPDATE: THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS NOTICE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 3:00 PM (EASTERN) TUESDAY MAY 26TH. IN ADDITION TO PREVIOUSLY NOTED ISSUES WITH THE URL, THERE HAVE BEEN ISSUES WITH SOME FILES NOT MAKING IT THROUGH THE USSOCOM FIRE WALL. IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES PLEASE REDUCE FILES TO LESS THAN 10MB. PLEASE ALSO CONSIDER COMPRESSING FILES THAT ARE LARGER, OR CONVERTING TO PDF. NOTICE: THIS UPDATE CORRECTS THE URL FOUND IN THE ORIGINAL USSOCOM-BAAST-2020 POSTING. THE CORRECT URL TO SUBMIT WHITE PAPERS IS: https://www.socom.mil/SOF-ATL/Pages/baa.aspx PLEASE ENSURE THAT WHEN COPY AND PASTING THIS URL, THE DASH BETWEEN SOF AND ATL IS INCLUDED. THERE IS A KNOWN ISSUE WITH THE DASH BEING DROPPED WHEN COPY AND PASTING. This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), which sets forth research and development in the focus areas of interest to the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (SOF AT&L), Directorate of Science and Technology (S&T). This BAA is issued under the provisions of 6.102(d)(2) and 35.016 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which provides for the acquisition of basic, applied, and advanced research and that part of development not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement through the competitive selection of proposals, as well as, 10 U.S.C. 4001, 10 U.S.C. 4021, 10 U.S.C. 4022, and 10 U.S.C. 4022(f), which provide the authorities for issuing awards under this announcement for basic, applied research, advance research, development, prototyping projects, and follow-on production. Proposals submitted in response to this BAA and selected for award are considered to be the result of full and open competition and in full compliance with the provisions of Public Law 98-369, "The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984" and subsequent amendments. USSOCOM is interested in receiving white papers from all responsible sources (reference FAR 9.1) from industry, academia, individuals, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, National Laboratories, and Government laboratories capable of pursuing, developing and evolving disruptive capabilities that must be made available to the SOF Operator within the next five to seven years in order to achieve mission success in the Future Operating Environment (FOE). ***This BAA will remain open for 5 years until 31 December 2025, unless superseded, amended, or cancelled.***