ROME, N.Y. – U.S. Air Force researchers are approaching industry for next-generation cyber warfare systems and weapons to prepare for and fight wars and build enduring cyber advantages.
Officials of the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y., issued an advanced research announcement (FA8750-25-S-7006) last Friday for the Applications for Cyber Warfare: Genesis project.
This project seeks to make U.S. adversaries doubt their military capabilities, and their abilities to carry out anonymous cyber attacks. It also seeks to ready the Joint Force to respond rapidly to such attacks.
The project also seeks to help the U.S. and its allies, train cyber warfighters to operate amid network and system degradation, provide cyber intelligence, and address gaps, ambiguities, and policy to enable intelligence gathering for cyberspace operations.
Confounding cyber attackers
Researchers also are interested in technologies that can confound cyber attackers, such as high-assurance architectures, advanced endpoint monitoring, tailored data collection strategies, automated data analytics, network automation, network restoration, and network deception.
Technologies of interest include cyber systems and architectures; command and control of cyber operations; effects based capabilities; predictive analysis; intelligence gathering; intelligence processing; stealth delivery; stealth and persistence capabilities; and planning. Total funding for this five-year project is about $999 million, and several contractors will be involved.
Companies interested should email white papers to the Air Force's Thomas Parisi no later than 20 Dec. 2025 for 2026 projects; by 30 Sept. 2026 for 2027 projects; by 20 Sept. 2027 for 2028 projects; by 30 Sept. 2028 by 2029 projects; and by 30 Sept. 2029 for 2030 projects, at [email protected]. Those submitting promising white papers may be asked for formal proposals.
Email technical questions or concerns to Thomas Parisi at [email protected], and business questions to Amber Buckley at [email protected]. More information is online at https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/5e53b962562745ab9e999172565f6137/view.
