Agile Autonomous Technical Data Package to Path Robotic Task Specification

During pre-release, until the topic opens on Oct 28, 2026, you may contact the topic author directly with technical questions. After that, questions go through the Topic Q&A on DSIP.

The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), 22 CFR Parts 120-130, which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services, including export of sensitive technical data, or the Export Administration Regulation (EAR), 15 CFR Parts 730-774, which controls dual use items. Offerors must disclose any proposed use of foreign nationals (FNs), their country(ies) of origin, the type of visa or work permit possessed, and the statement of work (SOW) tasks intended for accomplishment by the FN(s) in accordance with section 3.5 of the Announcement. Offerors are advised foreign nationals proposed to perform on this topic may be restricted due to the technical data under US Export Control Laws. Develop and demonstrate an automated, end-to-end software platform capable of ingesting heterogeneous Technical Data Packages (TDPs)—including 3D CAD models, 2D engineering drawings, Bills of Materials (BOMs), and textual specifications—to autonomously extract engineering intent and generate optimized, collision-free robotic inspection trajectories without manual waypoint programming or hard-coded scripting.The resulting system must bridge the gap between enterprise digital design data and physical automation by converting complex tolerances, geometric constraints, and manufacturing annotations into a standardized data model, simulating the execution virtually, and deploying executable inspection commands directly to physical mobile robotic manipulators. (Design and fabrication of the physical manipulator is not within scope - this project will focus on translating TDPs to robot-ingestible task specification and pathing.) The objective is to drastically compress quality control programming timelines from days to under two hours and enable rapid robotic reconfiguration in highly agile manufacturing environments.

The full objective, description, Phase I, II and III requirements and evaluation criteria are in the official topic on DSIP.