AI Service for Physical Systems Topic Announcement

The buyer seeks innovative, early-stage platform technologies that advance intelligent, adaptive, and scalable AI systems operating in or interfacing with the physical world. The requested scope includes physical AI applications such as robotics and cyber-physical systems, implantable, ingestible, or wearable AI devices, neural or bio-integrated platforms, and built-environment or infrastructure-scale systems. The buyer excludes narrow device-layer add-ons, instrumentation, UI or dashboards, teleoperation apps, single-sensor improvements, generic wearables lacking closed-loop autonomy or adaptability, biological cataloging or data-lake plays without novel embodied control or controlled training datasets, speculative bio-AI, and human-robot interaction or embodied AI around humans that omit safety, reliability, and security considerations. Only onshore, USA organizations qualify for this eligibility requirement. The contractor will perform all work offsite. The buyer accepts proposals to determine the budget and provides a quick screening checklist for applicants. The buyer provides no additional evaluation criteria or key dates in the announcement.