E-2D Large Language Model Entity (ELLMENT)
SBIR Opportunity Analysis
The Department of the Navy is seeking an SBIR solution to develop a traceable, explainable large language model for Naval Flight Officers and mission crew aboard the E-2D aircraft, with the goal of providing real-time natural language decision support from operational data. The work calls for a modular, self-contained AI/NLP system that can summarize, reason over, and extract meaning from documents, mission logs, communications, and other high-volume sources, with Phase I focused on architecture, model selection, corpus curation, and evaluation, and Phase II on lab deployment and operator-in-the-loop testing. Important context includes stand-alone operation under information assurance policies, source attribution and model transparency, future extensibility to multimodal ingestion, and the possibility that Phase II work may become classified; the contractor must be U.S. owned and operated and able to obtain and maintain secret-level clearances. The opportunity is open under DON26BZ01-NV010, with the posting opening on May 6, 2026 and applications due June 3, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. UTC.