Unmanned Aerial System

The government authority located in Washington, DC is seeking a kinetic One-Way Attack Unmanned Aerial System that features enhanced terminal guidance capability on approach to a target. The system must passively perceive and navigate through complex, cluttered, and unstructured environments at mission-relevant speeds. Utilizing a designated target as a destination, the system must navigate to the target location and object by building a model of its current position relative to that target. The agency requires the system to utilize passive sensors to perceive the local environment and to identify, analyze, and select suitable navigation paths through unstructured, dynamic environments. Bidders must develop, install, and demonstrate prototype systems determined to be the most feasible solution from a feasibility study on a passive visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping navigation system. The system must navigate to both static and dynamic targets while identifying obstacles between the platform and the target, developing and executing a navigation plan, and dynamically adjusting to changes in the surrounding environment. All data, compute, and sensors utilized for navigation must remain organic to the aircraft, with no cloud compute or reach-back authorized. The agency requires a Modular Open System Approach that is open-software compatible and utilizes industry-standard flight controls such as Mavlink or Ardupilot. Only United States organizations are eligible to bid on this opportunity. The selected contractor will perform the work offsite, and the agency is currently looking for proposals to establish the budget.