This solicitation closed on June 3, 2026
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AI Overview
This RFP seeks automated software test generation and augmentation technology to improve debloating specifications. The solution must help developers identify and remove unnecessary code dependencies while ensuring critical functionality remains intact, addressing high failure rates in current debloating transformations.
This summary is AI-generated from the official solicitation.
Key Details
Official Description
Modern software development practices such as industrialized code reuse and artificial intelligence (AI) assistance enable developers to produce increasingly complex and capable software more quickly and cheaply than ever before. The tools to ensure that all this software is well-tested and that all of the included code is well-tailored to the deployment scenario, however, have lagged by comparison.
Modern applications often include hundreds to thousands of libraries and other dependencies, wit...
Change History
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
Opportunity DON26TZ01-NV008 no longer available
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
**Change Summary:** Only Q1 received an updated answer. The Navy clarified that any application type with modern software components is acceptable for debloating validation, and explicitly noted that embedded and cyber-physical systems are NOT required, as they add complexity beyond enterprise applications.
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
**Summary of Q&A Changes:** One new question added (Q1) asking about Navy's preferred application types for debloating validation (cybersecurity tools, web services, embedded software, mission-critical systems, etc.). Previous Q&A numbering renumbered accordingly (Q2-Q10). No substantive answer changes to existing questions.
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
Status changed from Pre-Release to Open
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
8 new answers added: A1: Exception-path and configuration-dependent behavior are priority augmentation areas. A2: Phase II prototype must integrate with Navy CI/CD environments (e.g., software factories). A3: Generated tests primarily intended to drive debloaters more effectively. A4: Phase I is proof-of-concept feasibility demonstration only. A5: All technical approaches acceptable; no specific technique required. A6: Focus on test augmentation; tool-agnostic; tests consumable by various debloating tools. A7: Assume access to source, docs, configs, and existing test cases. A8: Any source language acceptable for Phase I.
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
Added 8 new Q&As clarifying scope: exception-path preservation priority (Q1), CI/CD integration expectations (Q2), test coverage vs. semantic validation (Q3), Phase I feasibility vs. prototype scope (Q4), AI approach flexibility (Q5), debloating tool selection (Q6), source code/documentation access (Q7), and target programming languages (Q8). Original Q1 renumbered as Q9 with unchanged answer.
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
Q1 received an answer clarifying that post-generation analysis of build artifacts and their configurations is in scope, addressing proposers' uncertainty about whether optimization must occur pre-build or can include post-generation approaches.
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
This Q&A clarifies whether DON26BZ01-NV030 seeks optimization solutions for pre-build phases (material, geometry, AM parameters) or post-build artifact analysis, and whether proposers should expect access to detailed build package representations for feature-level optimization.
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
Close Date changed from 2026-04-22 to 2026-06-03
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
Open Date changed from 2026-03-25 to 2026-05-06
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
Status changed from Removed to Pre-Release
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
Opportunity DON26TZ01-NV008 no longer available
Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
New opportunity: Automated Software Test Generation and Augmentation for Improved Debloating
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