Munitions Open Solicitation for Advanced and Innovative Capabilities

For release is the Munitions Open Solicitation for Advanced and Innovative Capabilities dated March 20, 2026. PAE Fires, as one of the Army’s core modernization enterprises, is responsible for shaping, integrating, and delivering the Army’s most critical fires capabilities – today and into the future. This initiative is focused on modernizing the Army’s Organic Industrial Base by actively seeking innovative technologies to rapidly and efficiently research, develop, prototype, test, evaluate, procure, and/or field critical enabling advanced fires capabilities that address near-term and mid-term threats. This solicitation aims to provide the Army with access to innovative solutions to maintain a competitive edge over adversaries while enabling flexible business arrangements with the industrial base to implement the National Defense Strategy and Army Vision. The Army may select vendors whose solutions demonstrate the greatest potential to achieve the Army’s missions.

ACC-RSA is maximizing existing authorities by publishing this open solicitation combining any single authority or a combination of the authorities below:

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2) – Other Competitive Procedures
FAR 35.016, Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFARS) 235.016 Broad Agency Announcement/DFARS 235.006-71 – Competition
10 U.S.C. 4021 – Research projects: transactions other than contracts and grants
10 U.S.C. 4022 – Authority for the Department of Defense (DoD) to carry our certain prototype projects
10 U.S.C. 4023 – Procurement for experimental purposes
10 U.S.C. 3458 – Authority to acquire innovative commercial products and commercial services using general solicitation competitive procedures/ DFARS 212.70 – Defense Commercial Solutions Opening
Employee Stock Ownership Pilot (ESOP) Program authorized by Section 874 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, as amended by Section 872 of the NDAA for...