Fusion of Cooperative Information Sharing for Uncrewed Air Systems (FOCISAUS)

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 Department of the Air Force seeks mature, innovative solutions ready for prototype development and demonstration in cooperative perception for uncrewed or autonomous air systems. The objective of this topic is to develop and demonstrate a scalable prototype that enables distributed sensing nodes to share, prioritize, and fuse mission-relevant information in near real time to improve object detection, tracking, navigation, and operator situational awareness in cluttered and bandwidth-constrained environments. Solutions should support efficient information exchange, adaptive transmission under changing network conditions, and a credible data fusion design that converts distributed sensor observations into actionable fused products. Offerors should propose technologies with demonstrated Phase I-type maturity and a clear path to prototype integration, testing, and transition.

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