Summary
This is a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) — a rolling competitive procurement tool under 10 U.S.C. §4022 — issued by Space Systems Command's Kronos Program of Record within the Department of the Air Force, not a grant program. It seeks innovative commercial products, technologies, and services to advance operational command and control (C2), battle management, and space intelligence capabilities for the Kronos Family of Systems. The CSO is structured in staggered calls/phases across multiple Areas of Interest, with this active posting reflecting the Kronos CSO 2.0 update that extends the response due date to August 21, 2026.