This Announcement is to inform industry that the Industry Day will be conducted through the Naval Aviation Systems Consortium (NASC).  An overview of the NASC and information about membership can be found on https://nascsolutions.org. NASC will host an In-Person Industry Day for the USMC Future Attack/Strike Prototype development effort.  If you are interested in attending this event, you must contact the NASC to register.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The United States Marine Corps is initiating the Future Attack/Strike (FASt) development effort to address the future aviation delivered fires and effects needs of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) as a part of the future Aviation Combat Element (ACE) in the 2035-2040 timeframe. Increased capabilities are needed now, to be provided through rapid prototyping to inform the FASt components of the ACE System of Systems (SoS) and to sustain/enhance the current capabilities provided by the inventory of current or pre-existing aircraft until those platforms sundown. This industry day serves three distinct objectives:

Objective 1: The FASt program is currently undergoing a rigorous mission engineering process.  As detailed in the released RFI, the FASt development effort requires sophisticated mission analytical tools and-or methodologies to rigorously assess its ability to conduct critical missions. These tools must be capable of modeling complex operational scenarios, identifying vulnerabilities and capability gaps, and assessing the potential impact of new technologies, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to better define the FASt requirements.

Objective 2: FASt requires a diverse sub-consortium of major primes, small businesses, and non-traditional vendors to collaborate as part of the government/vendor team on these analytical tool models and/or outputs to rapidly fill identified/quantified capability gaps as they emerge.

Objective 3: Provide Marine Aviation’s vision and additional context to industry as a primer for follow-on prototyping beginning in FY28 once the initial mission engineering process is complete.  To that end, follow-on technologies and concepts proposed must be realistically executable within three years for rapid prototypes and by the 2035-2040 window for enduring systems.  Furthermore, these future concepts must account for reality: the USMC will retain a significant inventory of current or pre-existing aircraft. Therefore, new architectures must also intelligently integrate with these enduring assets.