• The Department of Air Force seeks vendors for Advanced Energy Storage Technologies capable of improving installation energy resilience and mission continuity.
• This acquisition has no specific set-aside for small businesses under NAICS codes relevant to advanced technology or energy storage.
• Solutions must support a diversified portfolio of onsite, resilient energy solutions to meet DoD's energy resilience mandate by 2030.
Description
BACKGROUND INFORMATION The Department of Air Force (DAF), Air Force Office of Energy Assurance (AFOEA), in support of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), is seeking qualified vendors to submit solutions for Advanced Energy Storage Technologies capable of improving installation energy resilience and mission continuity. 2. PROBLEM DESCRIPTION Despite the Department of Defense's (DoD) modernization and mission assurance goals, current installation energy resilience approaches remain constrained by an overreliance on grid-supplied electricity and traditional diesel backup generation. Many DoW installations operate with limited integration of advanced onsite energy systems, and existing backup power strategies are often insufficient to support sustained operations during extended grid disruptions caused by extreme weather events, cyber threats, or adversary action. To address these vulnerabilities, Congress has mandated that DoD achieve by 2030 at least 99.9% energy resilience year-round (no more than 8.76 hours of total annual downtime) for all critical missions at DoD installations. Meeting this requirement necessitates a transition away from sole dependence on diesel generators toward a diversified portfolio of onsite, resilient energy solutions capable of sustaining mission-essential loads during prolonged outages. Under this Special Topic, AFOEA is seeking advanced energy storage technologies—spanning electrochemical, mechanical, thermal, and hybrid systems that offer promising capabilities to support this shift. To accelerate deployment of these capabilities, AFOEA is seeking demonstration-ready, non-lithium advanced energy storage technologies from commercial-ready providers to prototype solutions for DoD installation use cases. Selected solutions should enable flexible deployment with behind-the-meter and/or in-front-of-the-meter applications and leverage DoD installations or national labs as test beds, where needed. Under this effort, vendors are encouraged to propose third-party financed, cost-effective approaches that enhance mission resilience while delivering value through energy services to installations, grid operators, or other stakeholders. 3. THE OPPORTUNITY Entities are invited to submit solutions against this opportunity that meet or exceed the desired capabilities described below. All submissions must be made to the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, in conformance with the requirements, and processes identified within the official Tradewinds announcement available at SAM.gov. For the content requirements of the video submission, submitters shall follow the instructions in paragraph 4 below. Aside from the video content instructions identified in paragraph 4 below, submitting entities shall follow all requirements and processes within the Tradewinds Announcement v10.0, available on SAM.gov. A. Submissions against this opportunity will be collected between June 04, 2026, and July 3, 2026…
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