The Department of the Air Force Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (DAF TENCAP) Consortium is dedicated to supporting the US Air Force and US Space Force in developing prototypes that exploit National capabilities to enhance the warfighters’ lethality, survivability, and combat effectiveness. 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. Upcoming solicitations will encompass a wide range of technology areas, broadly focusing on the following technology focus 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, 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.