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FY26 Call For Proposals

Past Call for Proposals

The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy Resilience and Optimization (ODASD(ER&O)), Operational Energy – Innovation (OE-I) is now soliciting Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 proposals for the Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF) and Operational Energy Prototyping Fund (OEPF). The FY26 OEPF and OECIF proposal submission process will be executed in two stages:

  • Stage 1:  proposers will ONLY submit an initial proposal Quad Chart in the format prescribed in the SAFiRE™ online submission portal
    • Development and submission of the Proposal Quad Chart only, via SAFiRE™, commences on 9 June 2025 and closes at 1700 Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 20 Jun 2025
    • OE-I will inform Stage 1 proposers of their down select for Stage 2 by 1700 (5:00 PM EST) on 28 Jul 2025
  • Stage 2:  proposers will be asked to submit a full proposal using the SAFiRE™ online submission portal. All Stage 2 proposals will be presented and reviewed at the OE-I PEB
    • Development and submission of a full proposal, via SAFiRE™, commences 1 Aug 25 and closes at 1700 (5:00 PM EST) on 30 Aug 2025
  • OE-I Proposal Evaluation Board (PEB)
    • OECIF: 22-24 Oct 2025
    • OEPF: 27-29 Oct 2025

Call for Proposals and Supplemental Documents

  1. FY26 OECIF and OEPF Call for Proposals
  2. Executive summary of process changes for the FY 26 call for proposals
  3. SAFiRE User Guide: quad chart questions, example quad, and full proposal questions
  4. Enterprise-wide Energy Visibility and Decision Making (EWEV&DM) supplemental information
  5. Transition maturity framework (TMaF) supplemental information
  6. Letter of intent to POM and transition instructions/template
  7. FY26 OE-I proposal scoring criteria and definitions
  8. Government Proposer Checklist
  9. OPTIONAL Template - Expanded Project Proposal Spend Plan
  10. SAFiRE User Guide 2025

FY25 OECIF Non-Nuclear Rankings Announcement

The Director of Operational Energy - Innovation is pleased to announce this year's list of approved projects for the FY25 Non-Nuclear Call for Proposals. Projects are ranked in priority order, and will be awarded based on availability of funds. Proposers will be formally notified once the 2025 appropriations bill, or an additional continuing resolution, is passed. Award amounts may not match funding requests and are contingent on agreement of scope and deliverables between the PM and the project.

  1. Green Bison, Green Bison, Celeste Brown, Navy
  2. Neural Edge Based Intelligence System, NEBIS, Maya Hoagland, Navy
  3. Electric-GRid Eradication & Neutralization via Autonomous Airborne Delivery of Entangling Strands, E-GRENAADES, Douglas Brown, Combatant Command
  4. Advanced energy transmission for heightened energy readiness, AETHER, Daniel Pike, Air Force
  5. Open' Vehicle Electronic RAGLAN 'Open' Vehicle Electronic Architecture, OVEA, Phillip Landan, Other DoD
  6. Cobalt/Aqua Bison, Cobalt/Aqua Bison, Celeste Brown, Navy
  7. Energy Efficient Comms for Mobility, MAF Satcom, Brian Beal, Air Force
  8. Jade Bison, Jade Bison, Celeste Brown, Navy
  9. Proactive Planning for Mission Objective Driven Logistic, P2MODL, Matthew Young, Navy
  10. Power-beaming On-orbit with Low-SWAP Assembly Robotics, POLARIS, Katherine McBryan, Navy
  11. Rapid Acceleration of Perovskite Technologies for On-Orbit Readiness, RAPTOR, Joey, Luther, Space Force
  12. Collaborative Logistics Aircraft STRATFI Addition, CLA STRATFI Add, Travis Crank, Air Force
  13. Tactical Fuel Data NOW Phase II, TFD NOW 2, Jesse Swanzy, Army
  14. Operational Energy Integration Laboratory, OEIL, John Heinzel, Office of The Secretary of Defense
  15. Base Integration of High-power Vehicles, BIHV, Janie Hancock, Army
  16. C-130 Sequential Electrification Study, Hybrid C-130, Cayle Bradley, Air Force
  17. Generating Non-intrusive Observations for Modeling Electrical Systems, GNOMES, Jonathan Berardino, Navy
  18. Spaceborne, Massively Scalable, High-Efficiency, Solar-to-Microwave Transmitter, Space MAST, Brian Tierney, Combatant Command
  19. Li6T Battery Top-mounted Health Assessment Tool, Li 6T Top Hat, Matthew Huffman, Marine Corps
  20. Track/wheel In-Hub Drive, TIHD, Maroune El-Hosni, Army
  21. Seabed Power for Autonomous Routing of Communications, SPARC2, Blerta Markowski, Navy
  22. Fueling Logistics for Orbital Warfare, FLOW, Matthew Brunner, Navy
  23. Aviation Electrical Power Management Capability, AEPMC, Daniel Llanes, Army
  24. Operational Energy Data Bridge, OEDB, Frank Bohn, Army
  25. Space Wireless On-demand Optical Power Flight (2), SWOOP2, Christoper McKinney, Other DoD
  26. Directed Energy / Electric Vehicle Battery Prototype Evaluation, DEEVBPE, John Heinzel, Army
  27. Microgrid Control for Vehicle Integrated Power, MCVIP, Janie Hancock, Army
  28. Modular Integrated Lightweight e-Axle, MILE, John Putrus, Army
  29. Tactical Hybridization Kit, TacHK, Eric Meier, Army
  30. Space Force Futures Command Operational Energy Roadmap, SFF COER, Timothy Locke, Space Force
  31. Persistent Unattended Ground Sensors, PUGS, Daniel Pike, Air Force
  32. Accelerating Cost Reductions for Space PV Cells, ACRESofPV, Myles Steiner, Space Force
  33. Aviation Universal Charger (Second Year Funding), AUC Year 2, Lloyd Zilch, Navy
  34. Rectenna-Equipped Autonomous Platforms for Extended Range, REAPER, Marissa Brand, Navy
  35. Agile Combat Employment with Hybrid-electric Generation, ACES High, Daniel Pike, Air Force
  36. Terrestrial Operational Wireless Energy Relay, TOWER, Hooman Kazemi, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  37. Hybrid Powered Flying-Emplacement UUV, Hybrid FSG, Stearns Heinzen, Combatant Command
  38. Operational Energy Mission Planning Tool Integration, OEMPTI, Bradley Frounfelker, Army
  39. Voltvault, Voltvault, Richard Bosse, Army
  40. Joint Army AF NREL Navy Modeling Energy Simulation, JAAMES, Noelle Goodeaux, Air Force
  41. Grid on a Skid: Compact, Palletized, 40kW TMS Compliant USAF GPU, Grid on a Skid, Rory Keogh, Air Force
  42. Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Combuster – TurboGenerator, MORFEUS, Joseph Fellner, Air Force
  43. Laser Energy Transfer Standards, LETS, Alex Grede, Navyy
  44. Utility Power from Space for Safe Intense Delivered Energy, UPSSIDE, William Barnds, Navy
  45. Installation Grid Impacts (IGI) of High-Power Capable (HPC) Vehicles, IGI-HPC-V, Camryn Anderson, Army

Currently Unfunded

The following projects (unranked) were not approved for funding:

  1. Army Battery Management Tool Development, ABM Tools, Marnie Bailey, Army
  2. Aerial Eye-Safe Optical Power, AESOP, Harshil Dave, Navy
  3. Advanced Rendering and Configuration for Beam Energy Application in Missions, ARCBEAM, Christopher Aguilar, Navy
  4. Battery Analytic Twin Framework for R&M/M & EWEV&DM, BATFORM2, Todd Moe, Combatant Command
  5. Battery Operational Assessment Software Tool, BOAST, Richard Stroman, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  6. Complex Operational Energy Maritime Distribution Planning and Evaluation Tool, COMET, Matthew Wilkens, Navy
  7. Controllers Optimized for Management in Military Applications with Networked Diagnostics for Hybrid-electric, Unmanned, and Battery systems, COMMAND HUB, David Skalny, Army
  8. Combined OptoMechanical PhotovoltAiC Tiles, COMPACT, Margaret Stevens, Navy
  9. China-Proof Mineral Processing Project, CPMPP, Dan Romm, Space Force
  10. Data Center Resilience & Optimization Platform, DROP, Joseph Augustine, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  11. Grounding AC/DC Inverter Systems for Mobile Tactical Platforms, Grounding AC/DC, Cynthia Robbins, Army
  12. Passive Marine Hydrogen Sustainment Nodes, H2-Nodes, David Baker, Army
  13. High Operating Temperature Batteries for Advanced Hybridized Platforms, HOTBATTs, Marshall Schroeder, Army
  14. HYdrogen Portable Operations with Efficient Renewables, HyPOWER, Jeffry Hollman, Combatant Command
  15. Resilient Laser Beamed Power & Comms to UASs, LaserPowerComms, Douglas Brown, Combatant Command
  16. Point of Need Tactical Distributed Power Generation, LightCell, Walker Chan, Army (recommended for OEPF)
  17. Optimized Autonomous Aerial Tanker Distribution, OAATD, Douglas Meador, Air Force
  18. Operational Energy Tactical Refueler, OETR, Joseph Parker, Navy
  19. Operational Power with Energy Reporting, OPER, Amanda Sheppard, Army
  20. Metering and Monitoring of Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Sensing and Processing Algorithms for Small Platforms, Perceptive Elk, Douglas Carssow, Navy
  21. Rapid Energy for Autonomous Arctic Drones, READ, Tori Sweet, Combatant Command
  22. Regenerative Suspension Study, RSS, Nehemiah Mork, Army
  23. Solar Cell Efficiency Improvements, SCEI, Dan Romm, Space Force
  24. Safe Hydrogen on Platform - H2FU Follow-on, Craig Urian, Navy
  25. Ammonia as Energy Storage, AES, David Baker, Army

FY25 OECIF Nuclear Rankings Announcement

The Director of Operational Energy - Innovation is pleased to announce this year's ranking for the FY25 OECIF Nuclear Call for Proposals. OECIF and OEPF seek to fund as many proposals as possible given Congressional appropriation. Project teams will be contacted in rank order below.

  1. (PerSeiSense) Long-lived Sensors Powered by Radioisotope Power Source (RIPS), PerSeiSense, Aaron Atchley, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
  2. Classified
  3. Training and Education, Whitman Dailey, Andrew Wilhelm, Jeth Fogg, Air Force Institute of Technology, United States Military Academy at West Point, N&NC
  4. Legal and Regulatory Taxonomy for Maritime  Nuclear Defense Applications + DoD Maritime Nuclear Asset Transportation Capability Study, TMNDA + MNATC, Gerardo Figueroa, David Dewey, Office Chief of Engineers
  5. Small Low-Power Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, REMORA, Fred Schauer, Air Force Institute of Technology
  6. Classified
  7. Triply-periodic lattices for compact reactors, 3D LATTICE, David Dewey, Idaho National Laboratory
  8. Solid-state Nuclear Autonomous Power Conversion, SNAP-C, Casey Schorzman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  9. Handling Existing Sr-90 Transferred for Innovation Applications, HESTIA, James Winter, Zeno Power Systems Inc.
  10. Cost Reduction for Unobligated U Enrichment, ROTOR WINDING, David Dewey, Centrus Energy - American Centrifuge Operating
  11. Domestic UraNium Enrichment (DUNE), DUNE, Mary Hossier, Navy OE
  12. Department of Defense (DoD) Advanced Reactor Criteria and Baseline Understanding of Enterprise Scalability (Project DARC BLUES), DARC BLUES, Corey Chance, SAF/IEE
  13. Bus Analysis for Large-scale Advanced Nuclear Control & Energy Distribution, BALANCED, Lindsay Kaldon, AFRL
  14. Pump for Enabling Advanced Power Systems, PEAPS, Lindsay Kaldon, AFRL

Award amounts may not match funding requests and are contingent on agreement of scope and deliverables between the PM and the project.

FY25 OEPF Rankings Announcement

The Director of Operational Energy - Innovation is pleased to announce this year's ranking for the FY25 OECIF Nuclear Call for Proposals. OECIF and OEPF seek to fund as many proposals as possible given Congressional appropriation. Project teams will be contacted in rank order below.

  1. Storage Long-term of Energy storage Enabling Prepositioning in Naval-transported Ground vehicles via 6Ts at Zero volts, SLEEPING 6TZ's, David Skalny, US Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)
  2. Autonomous Maritime Patrol Aircraft Extended Demonstration Program, AMPA EDP, Todd Moe, USSOUTHCOM
  3. Next Generation Advanced Munitions Loader (MHU-83), NGAML, Michael Black, Raglan LLC
  4. Operational Energy Support Management and Execution, OE SME, David Pogue, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)
  5. Power TRansmitted Over Laser to UAS, PTROL – UAS, Douglas Brown, PowerLight Technologies
  6. Scalable High Efficiency Photovoltaics, SCALE, Casey Schorzman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  7. Balance of Systems Edge Computer Ph. 2, BoSEC 2, Marissa Brand, NIWC PAC
  8. Army Aviation Common Li-ion Battery Integration, DODAACLIB 2, Patrick Taylor, US Army DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center
  9. Universal Power Gateway – Requirement Advancement and De-risking Effort, UPGRADE, Frank Bohn, US Army C5ISR Center
  10. Connected, Autonomous, Multi-use, hybrid-Electric, Littoral vehicle for Autonomous Perimeter Security, CAMEL, Marissa Brand, NIWC PAC
  11. Airborne Expeditionary Renewable Energy System (AERES) Demonstration, AERES Demo, Peggy Davidson, US Naval Research Laboratory
  12. USN Boat & Combatant Craft Electric Propulsion Technology Prototyping, USNElectricBoat, Christian Rozicer, Program Office Executive USC (PMS300G) USN Boats & Craft Program
  13. Fire Limiting & Arresting Materials Enhancing Lithium ion Energy Storage Safety United States secure supply chain Advancement, FLAMELESS USA, James Mainero, Ground Vehicle System Center
  14. Sensorless Controls for EMALS OEPF, Sensorless, David Grullon, NAVAIR/NAWCAD
Award amounts may not match funding requests and are contingent on agreement of scope and deliverables between the PM and the project.

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Operational Energy Management System (OEMS)
Interim Authority to Test and Train (IATT)

As of May 2021, OEMS is operational in Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud, managed by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) Acquisition & Sustainment (A&S)/Energy Resilience and Optimization (ER&O)/Operational Energy-Innovation (OE-I). OEMS is operating under an Interim Authority to Test and Train (IATT) following Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements as it progresses through a full Authority to Operate (ATO) process determination.

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