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Air Force pod-based aircraft survivability and self-protection for contested air operations
Air Force/AFRL/ACC efforts to develop and field rapidly reconfigurable, open-architecture, externally carried pod systems for aircraft self-protection, electronic warfare, and multi-spectral threat warning, including the AFRL Agile Pod, SBIR/STTR topics, funding, requirements, and congressional oversight of survivability investments.
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30 days back, 14 ahead · hollow = scheduledWhat's happening
Updated 6d agoThe only item on file is a DoD SBIR/STTR topic in which Air Force ACC seeks proposals for a rapidly reconfigurable pod-based aircraft survivability suite. The question period opens 2026-12-02 and proposals are due 2027-01-06. No recent legislative, oversight, or other activity appears in the provided items.
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Contracts
1 contractACC SBIR/STTR topic for a rapidly reconfigurable pod-based survivability suite: question period opens 2026-12-02, responses due 2027-01-06.
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Who covered it, when
A dot per article · ringed = earliest in our sourcesNo coverage in the last 30 days.
Forces at work
share of articles- Procurement & funding1 · 100%ACC is soliciting SBIR research proposals for a rapidly reconfigurable pod-based aircraft survivability suite, with a question period opening 2026-12-02 and a 2027-01-06 response deadline.Air Force ACC · DoD SBIR/STTR
What's next
Times ETSBIRACC11d agoAir Force ACC seeks SBIR research proposals for a rapidly reconfigurable pod-based aircraft survivability suite, with question period opening 2026-12-02 and responses due 2027-01-06.Closes in 52 daysDoW SBIR 2027 BAADefenseLifecycle6 linked
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Contracts
1SBIRACC11d agoAir Force ACC seeks SBIR research proposals for a rapidly reconfigurable pod-based aircraft survivability suite, with question period opening 2026-12-02 and responses due 2027-01-06.Closes in 52 daysDoW SBIR 2027 BAADefenseLifecycle6 linked