Anti-ship missiles threaten both US Navy and civilian platforms globally. As these threats proliferate, DON RCO seeks to cast a wide net across the industrial base to identify technologies capable of supporting a rapidly deployable radar-reflecting countermeasure. This event is not restricted to existing decoy technologies.

Discussions and demonstrations will center on two Lines of Effort (LOEs):

• LOE 1: Passive Decoy Systems and Prototypes
  Vendors that have developed radar reflecting (i.e., passive) decoys are invited to Disruptor Day to showcase their decoy systems. The DON RCO will provide the ability to take outdoor Radar Cross Section (RCS) measurements during the event for interested vendors.
• LOE 2: Passive Decoy Enabling Technology
  The DON RCO invites industry to showcase enabling technologies, even those technologies that are not currently used in a decoy application. The DON RCO broadly seeks information from vendors that can develop physical articles and physical demonstrations of enabling technologies/capabilities for buoyant self-erecting structures (mechanically or pneumatically) that can be packed, deployed, and rapidly self-erected or inflated. Physical articles and physical demonstrations of conductive fabrics and materials are also desired. Specific Enabling Technologies and Capabilities include:
  • Buoyant self-erecting structure design and construction
  • Mechanical and/or pneumatical self-erecting/inflation technology
  • Deployment or launch mechanism design and technology (non-ordnance based)
  • Deployment or launch tube/structure design and technology
  • Electrically conductive fabrics or materials
  • Self-erecting electrically conductive corner reflector arrays or structureIII. EVENT DETAILS

The Disruptor Day will occur in mid-September, 2026 at Camp Atterbury, IN.

The event will take place on a unique Navy test range and enable vendors to brief their products in a traditional industry day format as well as provide the opportunity to perform various demonstrations, or simply showcase solutions that could support the Lines of Effort above.

The Disruptor Day format is anticipated to allow each vendor an approximately 1-2-hour window to brief their products and perform a demonstration (e.g., self-erecting deployment, corner reflector RCS testing, launch mechanism concepts).