Special Topic: Predictive Sustainment, Real-Time Data

The Army Applications Laboratory and the Pathway for Innovation and Technology are seeking solutions for Predictive Sustainment: Real-Time Data to improve how tactical units capture and transmit vehicle platform data for sustainment decisions. The work focuses on connecting directly to vehicle electronic control units, collecting maintenance faults and logistics data such as fuel, water, and ammunition, and enabling predictive sustainment analysis and data optimization at the edge. Solutions must function on vehicle power, store data for up to 24 hours, and transmit through common communications methods with minimal signature so commanders can act in degraded, disconnected, intermittent, and limited bandwidth environments. The effort is intended to reduce non-mission-capable rates and support combat operations in large-scale combat operations, with place of performance in Austin, Texas. White papers are due June 12, 2026, and the Army anticipates awarding one or more contracts with a 12-month performance period before inviting selected firms to submit full proposals.