Request for Information: Collaborative Integrated Air and Missile Defense requirements

The RFI for the Collaborative Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) program, PMW 150, seeks to leverage AI to enhance the IAMD planning process. NAVWAR aims to automate human functions and enable concurrent collaboration to reduce planning time and rapidly adjust plans to new developments and revised Commander's intent. While specific performance benchmarks are not yet released, the goal is to significantly accelerate complex, force-level IAMD planning. All A-E performance specifications in Section 2.1 are considered of equal importance for the RFI response, with implementation prioritization determined by factors like warfighter needs, technology maturity, and funding. Key challenges include manual data fusion and ensuring collaborative evaluation of courses of action (COAs). The program emphasizes AI's role in reasoning/generative capabilities for data capture, evaluating Commander's intent, providing quantitative COA metrics, and explaining derivations via predictive AI. NAVWAR intends to hold an Industry Day in CY26, prior to an RFP release.

This Request For Information (RFI) from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) seeks industry solutions for the Collaborative Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Planning Program (CIPP). The RFI aims to gather information on software solutions, particularly those leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), to enhance and expedite IAMD planning for the U.S. Navy. The CIPP provides IAMD planning capabilities through a suite of software applications, integrating with existing Navy systems and infrastructure. Key requirements for AI-based systems include capabilities for mission analysis, Course of Action (COA) development, COA analysis (including realistic simulations with AI agents), COA comparison and selection, and transition to execution. Respondents are asked to submit white papers detailing existing solutions, implementation strategies, relevant experience, and data rights, by November 3, 2025.