About this opportunity
AI summaryThe U.S. Army Materiel Command requests white paper solutions to establish a potential Public-Private Partnership for producing lethal energetic payloads for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Electronic Safe and Arming Devices. The initiative seeks commercial partners to leverage private investment, modernize Pine Bluff Arsenal facilities to Industry 4.0 and 5.0 automation standards, and scale flexible manufacturing lines across approximately 100,000 square feet of available storage and production space. Respondents must email white papers to the designated addresses by 4:00 PM CST on December 14, 2026, using the specified subject line. This market research opening does not constitute a Request for Proposals or a procurement action under the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
Scope of work
- Development and production of lethal energetic payloads for sUAS
- Development and production of Electronic Safe and Arming Devices (ESAD)
- Scaling low-cost, modernized sUAS lethality and energetic payload manufacturing
- Flexible production lines accommodating modular manufacturing capabilities for differing explosives
- Modular manufacturing for varying payload sizes, explosive safe and arming devices, and energetic airframes
- Modernizing Government facilities to Industry 4.0 and 5.0 automation standards
- Leveraging private investment for authorized co-production and facility-use activities
Documents to include with your response
- White paper submission
Key dates
- Response due date
- 4:00 PM CST on 14 DEC 2026
How to submit
- Method
- Instructions
- Submit responses to the designated email addresses with subject line: PSO Response Production of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Lethality Payloads at Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA).
Contract details
- Place of performance
- Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA), area 34-000
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- W519TC27CSUAS
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Buying office
- Dept of the Army › ACC
- Notice type
- Special Notice
- Responses due
- Dec 14, 2026, 5:00 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Oct 30, 2026
- Place of performance
- Pine Bluff, AR
- Contracting contact
- Debby C. Broyles
debby.c.broyles.civ@army.mil
5206931301 - Additional contact
- Heather Johns
heather.b.johns.civ@army.mil
Source: SAM.gov. Read the official notice for the complete description and current instructions.
Incumbent and award research
No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.
Source: USAspending.gov federal award data (U.S. federal public data). A contract is called the incumbent only when the notice or its documents cite it by number.