Active Solicitation · DEPT OF DEFENSE

    MISSION ENGINEERING AUTOMATION TESTBED (MEAT)

    Sol. N0016426SNB05Special NoticeCRANE, IN
    Open · 49d remaining
    DAYS TO CLOSE
    49
    closes Jul 1, 2026
    POSTED
    May 4, 2026
    Publication date
    NAICS CODE
    928110
    Primary industry classification
    PSC CODE
    AC13
    Product & service classification

    AI Summary

    The Department of Defense is issuing a Request for Solutions for the Mission Engineering Automation Testbed (MEAT) project. This initiative aims to develop prototypes for enhancing joint force capabilities in Live, Virtual, and Constructive environments. Interested vendors must be members of the S2MARTS Consortium to participate.

    Contract details

    Solicitation No.
    N0016426SNB05
    Notice Type
    Special Notice
    Posted Date
    May 4, 2026
    Response Deadline
    July 1, 2026
    NAICS Code
    928110AI guide
    PSC / Class Code
    AC13
    Issuing Office
    NSWC CRANE
    Primary Contact
    Jordan Black
    City
    CRANE
    State
    IN
    ZIP Code
    47522-5001
    AI Product/Service
    service

    Description

    • Purpose

    This Special Notice is issued to provide awareness of the release of a Request for Solutions (RFS) for an other transaction project in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 4022. The RFS, Mission Engineering Automation Testbed (MEAT), opportunity has been issued as part of the Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trust Systems (S2MARTS) consortium managed by National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL) and administered by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division. 

    • Background and Summary
      • Other Transaction Consortium

    Vendors interested in responding to this RFS must be members of the Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS) Consortium. Interested parties may visit S2MARTS.org for membership information.

      • Project Overview

    The government is seeking to further establish prototypes within the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) environment to analyze joint force capabilities. The goal of these Prototypes Developed are to perform Mission Engineering (ME) and LVC integration. The overarching goal of prototypes developed across these mission engineering domains is to establish a secure, interoperable, and automated ecosystem that accelerates the integration of advanced modeling, simulation, and analytics capabilities into Live, Virtual, and Constructive Environments. These prototypes aim to enable seamless tool interoperability, support multi-level security and cross-domain data exchange, and foster open architecture alignment for scalable enterprise-wide adoption.

    Key dates

    1. May 4, 2026Posted Date
    2. July 1, 2026Proposals / Responses Due

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    MISSION ENGINEERING AUTOMATION TESTBED (MEAT) is a federal acquisition solicitation issued by DEPT OF DEFENSE. Review the full description, attachments, and submission requirements on SamSearch before the response deadline.

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