INNOVATION AT MISSION SPEED

Department of the Air Force Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (DAF TENCAP) Consortium

Who We Are

Department of the Air Force Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (DAF TENCAP) Consortium is a dynamic and collaborative space with a mission to support the US Air Force and US Space Force in developing prototypes that exploit National capabilities to enhance the warfighters’ lethality, survivability, and combat effectiveness. Through it’s OT, the Consortium will deliver cutting-edge technology and prototypes in the relevant technology areas of Air, Space, Cyberspace, and Intelligence.

What We Do

We support warfighters through innovation and technology—delivering the future faster. DAF TENCAP Consortium builds partnerships between industry, academia, and non-traditional innovators to develop new capabilities in key technology areas and solve immediate operational needs.

Technology Areas

Approaches that fuse air, space, cyberspace, and land domain information to enhance warfighter effectiveness.

Large-scale analytics, multi-source data fusion, and solutions for structured/unstructured data to improve surveillance, space situational awareness (SSA), and intelligence workflows.

Technologies that predict, identify, and analyze potential points of failure, and implement controls to minimize operational impact from external events.

Technologies that increase the effectiveness of electronic attack, use electronic support to detect and identify threats, and provide electronic protection.

Sensor and radar improvements that enhance persistent surveillance and provide high-fidelity tracking on manned and unmanned platforms.

Capabilities to detect, track, and counter UAS and small UAS threats and address related operational concerns.

AI, ML, neural networks, computer vision, LLMs, and related analytics to accelerate data processing, exploitation, and decision support. 

Technologies that strengthen, accelerate, or close long‑range kill chains. 

Benefits of Membership 

Information
Provides visibility into Government needs and priorities, enabling members to direct research and development (R&D) and independent research and development (IR&D) investments to meet them.
Revenue
Minimizes cash flow challenges through rapid, single-point-contracting capability of Consortium Management Firm (CMF).
Access
DAF TENCAP provides a direct connection to the Government which allows members to identify, prioritize, prepare for, and shape upcoming activities.
Market Expansion
Creates a channel for small businesses and new suppliers to identify opportunities and establish customer relationships.
Speed
Operates through flexible contracting vehicle capable of multiple taskings with a single set of terms and conditions.

Speed

Market Expansion

Information

Access

Revenue

Who Should Join

The Department of the Air Force Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (DAF TENCAP), offers federally-funded research and business opportunities for large and small companies and academia, especially small and emerging companies that have not traditionally worked with the government in the past. DAF TENCAP members focus on identifying, developing, and testing cutting-edge capabilities at the speed of innovation.

Traditional Defense Contractors

Non-traditional Innovators

Non-Profits

Academic & Research Institutions