Submissions Closed 03 December 2025 11:59 PM ET

U.S. Citizens Only

Purpose
SOFWERX, in collaboration with USSOCOM Program Executive Office - Maritime (PEO-M), will host a series of events to enable USSOCOM PEO-M to transition to a predictive maintenance model. This Predictive Maintenance Effort aims to create a comprehensive maintenance environment that leverages telemetry, maintenance records, and supply data to optimize craft material readiness and minimize downtime which will be achieved by identifying critical data sources, orchestrating data integration and accessibility, developing monitoring and analytical tools, analyzing maintenance supply chain costs, and identifying secure data extraction methods. Ultimately, this effort will inform the development of a cutting-edge Predictive Maintenance System, enhancing the operational availability and effectiveness of USSOCOM maritime assets.

Background/Synopsis
USSOCOM PEO-M is proactively transitioning from a condition-based maintenance model to a preventative and predictive maintenance approach. To facilitate this transition and leverage the latest technological advancements, USSOCOM is hosting a series of events which aims to bring together key PEO-M stakeholders with industry leaders and subject matter experts to identify emerging technologies relevant to predictive maintenance.

Objective
This event will help to establish a comprehensive maintenance environment that leverages telemetry, maintenance records, and supply data to optimize craft material readiness and minimize downtime. This will be achieved by:

Identifying and prioritizing critical data sources: Surveying existing systems to determine available and needed data, assessing their capabilities, and recommending data capture strategies to inform predictive and conditional maintenance decisions and establish trend lines.
Orchestrating data integration and accessibility: Defining processes for ingesting, organizing, standardizing, storing, and making data available to end users, with consideration for automation and simplification of data collection.
Developing monitoring and analytical tools: Presenting a plan to monitor and communicate readiness levels, analyze readiness trends, identify readiness drivers, and track craft utilization.
Analyzing maintenance supply chain costs: Monitoring cost metrics and trends for labor and material, identifying cost drivers, assessing the strategic depth of repair parts, and recommending solutions to reduce high labor costs.
Identifying secure data extraction methods: Exploring and recommending secure methods for extracting parametric data from craft networks beyond the existing manual process.

Why You Should Participate
USSOCOM seeks to enter into non-FAR or FAR-based agreements with Industry, Academic, and National Lab partners whose solutions are favorably evaluated by PEO-M Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). As such, the follow-on Assessment Event (AE) is considered competitive and solutions will be evaluated independently of one another primarily for technical merit. This serves dually as notification of the intent to research the feasibility of an agreement under 10 U.S. Code, Section 4022 and/or Section 4022(f), and as notice of pre-solicitation activities IAW FAR 5.204.

Event Timeline
COMPLETED Phase 1 - 30 September 2025 Government Only Collaboration Event (CE): SOFWERX will host a Government Only Collaboration Event (CE) with various stakeholders to identify and prioritize desirements for the Predictive Maintenance effort and will also identify current limitations with existing technology/processes and ideate ways to fill capability gaps. Problem statement(s) will be developed to frame stakeholder needs. Outcomes from the Government Only Collaboration Event will shape the Industry, Academia, and Laboratory Collaboration Event at a later date. RSVP NLT 26 September.

Tentative Agenda
All times listed are in ET
1:00 – 1:05: SOFWERX Welcome
1:05 – 1:25: Stakeholder Overview & Problem Set
1:25 – 2:25: Current Limitations Breakout
2:25 – 2:45: Break
2:45 – 3:45: Ways to Overcome Current Limitations Breakout
3:45 – 3:55: Prioritization
3:55 – 4:30: Problem Statement Development
4:30 – 4:40: Problem Statement Briefs
4:40 – 5:00: Path Forward

Note: Agenda is subject to change

This event will be held in-person at SOFWERX, with the option to participate virtually.

COMPLETED Phase 2 - 12 November 2025 to 03 December 2025 Submissions to the Assessment Event (AE) Open: Interested respondents who could potentially provide solutions that meet the needs of USSOCOM are encouraged to submit their capability for USSOCOM review. To submit your technology for potential Phase 5 attendance, please review the assessment criteria and follow the submission instructions that will be near the bottom of this webpage on/around a later date.

COMPLETED Phase 2a - 20 November 2025 Q&A Telecon: Interested offerors may participate in a virtual Q&A session to better understand the PM's specific technology objectives. The telecon will take place on 20 November from 1:00-2:00 PM ET. RSVP at the bottom of the webpage.

Phase 3 - 04 December 2025 to 17 December 2025 Downselect: USSOCOM will downselect those respondents/submissions they feel have the highest potential to satisfy their technology needs. Favorably evaluated submissions will receive an invitation to attend the AE on/around 18 December.

Phase 4 -13 January 2026 to 15 January 2026 Assessment Event (AE): During the AE, selected participants will be allotted a one-on-one session with the USSOCOM evaluation panel to pitch, demonstrate, and/or discuss their solutions. The forum will include a Q&A portion and discussions may continue outside of the event. Solution brief presentation guidelines will be outlined in the event invitation and solutions will be assessed according to the criteria in the link provided below. If the USSOCOM evaluation panel favorably evaluates a solution brief, negotiations for Phase 5 may immediately begin.

This event will be held in-person at SOFWERX.

Phase 5 - Path Forward: Successfully negotiated awards may fall under any combination of these categories:

Business to business research and development agreement as a sub-award through the SOFWERX Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA) (15 U.S. Code Section 3715)
OTA for research or prototype projects (10 U.S. Code Sections 4021, 4022)
- An award under 10 U. S. Code, Section 4022 may result in the further award of a follow-on production agreement without additional competition based on successful prototype completion. The Government may make this follow-on production award based upon successful prototype criteria, which will be determined for each prototype project.
Procurement for experimental purposes (10 U.S. Code Section 4023)
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (15 U.S. Code Section 3710a)
Prizes for advanced technology achievements (10 U. S. Code Section 4025) and/or prize competitions (15 U.S. Code 3719)
FAR-based procurement contract

NOTE: Awardees may need to be compliant with NIST SP 800-171, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in Non-Federal Systems and Organizations

PEO-M: Combatant Craft Predictive Maintenance Government Only CE