Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) Industry Day RFI   4

*The USG is no longer granting additional requests for this Performance Specification. Please stay tuned to SAM.gov should additional opportunities to receive the Performance Specification become available.

The Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) is envisioned as a next generation platform with a combination of capabilities that will enable Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) battalions to function as a battlefield manager. The ARV will be a modern combat vehicle system, with an open system architecture, capable of fighting for information, that balances competing capability demands to sense, communicate, move, shoot and remain transportable as part of the Fleet Marine forces. The ARV will provide a balanced set of performance, payload, and protection attributes with sufficient size, weight, & power (SWAP) to accommodate future growth and the development of other variants. As the Government continues to develop and refine requirements in support of the ARV, industry feedback is helpful from industry partners who intend to bid as prime vendors. The lead ARV Mission Role Variant (MRV) will be the Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).

The Industry Day timeframe of the ARV requirement will shift from the previously provided date of February 2023 to a later date to be determined likely in the 3rd or 4th Quarter of FY23. This allows the USG to fully assess the meaningful Industry Feedback from this RFI and review any potential changes to the Performance Specification that may result. There will be an amendment to this notice or a related notice posted to SAM.gov regarding the scheduling of the event or subsequent RFIs.

The ARV Industry Day package consists of:

1. The Draft ARV C4UAS Performance Specification
2. Government Request for Information (RFI)
3. MIL-STD-3040
4. MIL-STD-3057

The RFI and MIL-STD-3040 are attached to this announcement.

The Draft Performance Specification and MIL-STD-3057 will be provided subject to Government receipt and verification of the following:

1. Need-to-know justification

• Justification would be considered for firms who intend and provide rationale that supports that they have the capability to propose as a prime contractor in response to a future ARV Engineering and Manufacturing Development Request for Proposal or intend to potentially partner with a prime contractor as a supplier for such a requirement.

2. Your company's approved and current DD-2345

Entities approved to receive the Performance Specification and MIL-STD-3057 will also be provided the Questions and Answers received in response to this posting.

Recipients of the Performance Specification and MIL-STD-3057 are NOT authorized to share, distribute or otherwise make available this material to any other company or entity, even a supplier or partner, without explicit, written permission from the Government to do so.

Please send your requests to Allegra Steinberg at allegra.w.steinberg.civ@army.mil and Melissa Bays Brown at melissa.c.baysbrown.civ@army.mil.

*On 05 Jan 2023 the response date was updated from 2pm EST 23 January 2023 to 2pm EST 10 February 2023.

*On 24 Jan 2023 the FACE acronym in Question 2 of the Draft Performance Specification Questions was updated from Field Artillery Computing Equipment to Future Airborne Capability Environment.

*On 02 Feb 2023 the SOSA acronym in Question 2 of the Draft Performance Specification Questions was
updated from System of Systems Analysis to Sensor Open Systems Architecture.

*On 14 Feb 2023 the Industry Day timeframe of the ARV requirement was updated from February 2023 to a later date to be determined likely in the 3rd or 4th Quarter of FY23.