SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- soliciting research proposals for new and innovative R&D solutions
- Notice Date
- 3/24/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, NUWC Division Newport, Simonpietri Drive, Newport, RI, 02841-1708
- ZIP Code
- 02841-1708
- Solicitation Number
- BAA042983-A
- Response Due
- 3/26/2005
- Archive Date
- 4/10/2005
- Point of Contact
- Gerard Palmer, Contract Negotiator, Phone 401-832-1645, Fax 401-832-4820,
- E-Mail Address
-
palmerge@npt.nuwc.navy.mil
- Description
- Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport Commercial Acquisition Department Code 59, Bldg 11 Simonpietri Drive Newport, RI 02841-1708. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (S&T BAA). DIVISION-WIDE BAA#042983 This announcement will be open for approximately one year from date of publication until replaced by successor BAA. Proposals may be submitted any time during this period. Commercial Acquisition Dept. POC: Gerard Palmer (401) 832-1645 FAX (401) 832-4820. NUWC POC: Pamela Raposa, (401) 832-1152. This solicitation can be viewed and searched on the Internet at http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/Contract/ (then go to Broad Agency Announcements). The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, (NUWCDIVNPT) Industrial Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Program Office is soliciting research proposals for new and innovative R&D solutions in the subject areas listed below. This constitutes a BAA in accordance with FAR 6.102(d)(2), DoD 3210.6-R, and Department of Defense Grant and Agreement Regulations (DODGARS) 22.315. A formal request for proposal (RFP), solicitation or other announcement will not be made. The Government may make awards in the form of contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions. This announcement also covers, Education Partnership Agreements (EPAs), the Naval Potential Contractor Program (NPCP) agreements, Patent Licensing and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) and Advanced Technology Initiatives. Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Minority Institutions; Tribal Colleges and Universities; and small, HUBZone small, small disadvantaged, women-owned small businesses, and veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business are encouraged to participate. Existing and projected NUWCDIVNPT R&D program funds will be used for contract awards. Offerors are encouraged (but not restricted) to identify past and planned investments that would provide leveraging opportunities for NUWCDIVNPT's limited research funds. NUWC reserves the right to select and fund for award all, some, or none of the proposals in response to this announcement. NUWC provides no funding for direct reimbursement of proposal development costs. In lieu of a full proposal, a ?WHITE PAPER? may be submitted for consideration. WHITE PAPERS Content ? Cover Page ? The cover page shall be labeled ?WHITE PAPER?, and shall include the BAA number, proposed title, technical points of contact, with telephone number, facsimile number, and e-mail address. Technical Concept ? A description of the technology innovation and technical risk areas. SUBMITTAL INSTRUCTION Organizations wishing to participate should submit proposals (3 copies) of their approaches along with a capability statement to the Commercial Acquisition Department, Building 11, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, Attn: Gerard Palmer, Code 593, Simonpietri Dr., Newport, RI 02841-1708. Each proposal should contain the contractors Technical Approach and a Statement of Capabilities. Offerors should provide an estimate of the Cost to the Government with a breakdown of cost elements such as direct labor, overhead, G&A, fee or profit, and any other significant cost factors. Pricing should be based upon the assumption that work would begin no sooner than 60 days after proposal submission. The proposal should also contain contractor point of contact information and, when known, the NUWCDIVNPT individual(s) who is/are aware of your efforts and would possibly be interested in reviewing/evaluating your proposal. This announcement will be open for approximately one year from date of publication or until replaced by successor BAA. Proposals may be submitted any time during this period. Any classified information up to the SECRET level should be separated and forwarded directly to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Attn: Pamela Raposa, Code 10C, Building 990/1, 1176 Howell St., Newport, RI, 02841-1708. Contracts, cooperative agreements, or other transactions resulting from the submission of a classified proposal will be unclassified. An unclassified Statement of Work must accompany any classified proposal. The proposal submissions will be protected from unauthorized disclosure in accordance with FAR 15.207, applicable law, and DOD/DON regulations. Offerors are expected to appropriately mark each page of their submission that contains proprietary information. Multiple awards involving one or more topics listed in this announcement may be awarded. All material submitted to NUWCDIVNPT under this announcement shall be considered Government property. The Government requires unlimited data rights with regard to any procurement, with the possible exceptions 1) of a negotiated position for data rights to existing concepts that may be further developed under a procurement and 2) for efforts conducted under a procurement with leveraged funds. Grants and other transactions are not subject to these same data-rights requirements. Specific deliverables, delivery schedule, and other terms will be negotiated with successful offerors. When multiyear, multitasking, or incrementally-funded approaches are proposed, NUWCDIVNPT reserves the right to terminate funding for the convenience of the Government. Successful/unsuccessful offerors will be notified within approximately 120 days of evaluation. Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the following criteria: 1. Overall scientific, technical, and/or socio-economic merits of the proposal; 2. Potential relevance and contributions of the effort to one or more NUWCDIVNPT missions as identified in the technological groupings provided in this BAA; 3. The offeror's capability, related R&D experience, past performance, facilities, techniques, and unique combinations of these, which are integral factors for achieving the proposal objectives; 4. The qualifications, capability, and experience of key personnel who are critical in achieving the proposal objectives; 5. Realism of the proposed cost and availability of funds including: transition opportunities/impact; separation of Government funds from leveraged internal funds by utilizing separate tasking and audit trails (the amount of past and proposed industry investment as well as the past and proposed Government contract investment should be explicitly indicated). 6. Offerors shall meet the eligibility criteria of either FAR Part 9 for contracts or Subpart D of DoD Grant and Agreement Regulations (DoDGARs). For further information, contact http://alpha.lmi.org/dodgars/, DoD 3210.6-R. 7. 7. Any contractor who may be awarded a contract as a result of this BAA must first be registered in the Central Contractor Registration Database (CCR). For more information and to register on-line, visit the CCR Web Site at http://www.ccr.gov/. 8. Proposed length of the proposal, exclusive of cost and pricing data, should not exceed twenty (20), 8 1/2 x 11 inch typewritten pages and should specify the technical area of concern addressed. 9. If offerors see topics that apply to more than one R&D Technological Grouping, they are encouraged to submit a proposal that covers all the applicable areas. These areas must be clearly identified in the proposal. 10. The BAA subject areas are listed under 24 technological groupings, which are: SEAPOWER 21 / SEATRIAL CONCEPT EXPERIMENTATION SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES UNDERSEA WARFARE MODELING, SIMULATION, AND ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE AND SURFACE SHIP SONAR; SUBMARINE/SURFACE SHIP COMBAT CONTROL AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; TASK FORCE ASW SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTAL AND TACTICAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SURFACE SHIP UNDERSEA WARFARE (USW) SYSTEMS; SUBMARINE ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS; TEST AND EVALUATION; UNDERSEA COMMUNICATIONS; TORPEDO AND TORPEDO TARGET SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT; THERMAL AND ELECTRIC PROPULSION (FOR TORPEDO, TARGET, UUV, MOBILE MINE AND COUNTERMEASURE APPLICATIONS); HIGH-SPEED UNDERSEA MISSILES, PROJECTILES, AND MUNITIONS UNMANNED VEHICLES (UV): UNMANNED UNDERSEA VEHICLES (UUV)/AUTONOMOUS UNDERSEA SYSTEMS (AUS)/UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLES (USV) TECHNOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT TEST BED TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHER, MISSILE AND PAYLOAD INTEGRATION SYSTEMS TORPEDO DEFENSE (LAUNCHERS) TORPEDO DEFENSE (MODELING AND SIMULATION) COUNTERMEASURES TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (CNS) OR OTHER EMERGING/LEAP-AHEAD TECHNOLOGIES THAT OFFER TO DRAMATICALLY ADVANCE SUBMARINE SONAR AND/OR OTHER ADVANCED UNDERWATER SYSTEMS BIOEFFECTS AUDITION AND COMMUNICATION DISTRIBUTED NETWORKED FORCES (DNF), RELATED TECHNOLOGIES AND COMPLEX ANALTICAL TOOLS & METHODS This BAA also includes the following information: Grants and Other Transactions, Education Partnership Agreements, Patent Licensing and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), Advanced Technology Initiatives, Naval Potential Contractor Program (NPCP). SEAPOWER 21 / SEATRIAL CONCEPT EXPERIMENTATION SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES Software Environments and Software Agents to support dynamic and adaptive exchange of information and control among distributed sensors, sensor systems, tactical and staff level commands. Agent Based Software Environments and associated agents that support these capabilities. Software tools and techniques to promote distributed collaborative military staff coordination. Semantic web tools and techniques applied to military command and control environments. Applications of artificial intelligence to software for military command and control systems. Tools and techniques to negotiate dynamic Quality of Service between software applications and network transport mechanisms. Processes, tools, and techniques for establishing performance and effectiveness baselines in deployed or simulated military environments and comparing these to the performance and effectiveness of prototypes of notional alternative systems. Configuration management and control of large-scale deployments of software product lines in highly adaptive runtime environments, i.e. large numbers of related, but frequently changing software artifacts. Tools, processes, and/or systems that allow safe exchange of data at multiple security levels within and across multiple security domains, especially when the participants and/or information exchange requirements may change at run-time. UNDERSEA WARFARE MODELING, SIMULATION, AND ANALYSIS Tools/models to support analysis of complex adaptive systems and dynamic ad hoc networks. Models of small boat acoustic radiated noise based on in-water measurements. Capability to generate performance predictions for nonacoustic sensors (such as MAD, FLIR, LIDAR) using models based on measured data. Develop databases of fishing and merchant ship traffic for littoral warfare areas. Human factor tools/models that can be used to account for decision making time and accuracy, at the operator and command level in naval operations, as a function of training, workload and other variables. Tools/models that support exploration of Effects Based Operations and its relationship to platforms, sensors and payloads. Force level/campaign level modeling. Tools/models to support advanced fleet concepts including network based collaborative warfare (theater and action group level) entailing large numbers of distributed sensors, unmanned vehicles, and payloads. Tools/models to support Undersea Warfare (USW) Investment Strategy (performance vs. cost; leveraging and capitalization). Development of, and tactical performance measurement of, improved mission planning aids and adjuncts, from sonar operator to Battle Group Commander/Sea Combat Commander. Advanced 3D and virtual reality displays for allocating forces, platforms, and weapons over a High Level Architecture (HLA) Runtime Infrastructure (RTI). Advanced display, data transfer, and networking technology among live units, shore-based simulations, and computer generated forces to conduct realistic training in the conduct of undersea warfare within a joint mission area context. Provide advanced acoustic prediction capabilities tailored for mines and mine hunting systems using local environmental parameters, acoustic models and target descriptions. Provide sonar performance modeling, both monostatic and bistatic, including ocean acoustics and targets. Concept assessment for USW surveillance (techniques for analysis, modeling, and experimental validation of advanced sonar performance; computational methods for sonar modeling, simulation, and training in littoral warfare environments; computational methods for modeling sonar transducers and arrays with associated structures). Development of high fidelity representations of torpedo and target wakes at weapon frequencies suitable for use in both high speed digital and real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulations. The wake models should account for acoustic scattering and attenuation of energy from both active and passive sources. Advanced techniques for generation of real-time element-level range-dependent coherent broadband reverberation. SUBMARINE AND SURFACE SHIP SONAR MEMS off-board sensor packages combining sense, processing, power and communications functions (multispectral desired). Surface ship undersea warfare (USW) electronic systems including active sonar processing of signals from large arrays for significant improvements in detection and false alarm rate. Sonar information management techniques which use 1000s of physically distributed off-board sensors. Automatic sensing and control of undersea warfare (USW) systems (sensor selection, detection method selection, sensor positioning, waveform selection, "hands-off" operation [auto-pilot]). Transduction materials technology, both active (transduction) and passive materials. Active materials include piezoelectric ceramics, single crystals and polymers; electrostrictive materials; liquid crystalling elastomers; magnetostrictive materials; and magnetic materials. Passive materials include rubbers, polyurethances; epoxies; fluourpolymers; liquid crystalline elastomers; and composites. Other relevant undersea materials technologies. Transducer technology, including underwater acoustic transducers; underwater magnetic transducers; component parts; supporting electronics; broadband technologies; and other relevant underwater transducer technologies. Towed and deployed sensors and array technology (environmentally-adaptive sonar; tactical towed arrays for passive and active sonars [vertical directionality and tactical speed operation also desired]; quick response towed array bearing ambiguity resolution algorithms and hardware technologies; low-cost small acoustic sensors with directional response; hydrodynamic and hydroacoustic analysis for towed and hull-mounted arrays; fiber optic sensor technology for acoustic, temperature, pressure/depth, and magnetic/heading sensors; improved telemetry designs with increased bandwidth and channel capacity for sensors and arrays; affordable optical components [lasers, amplifiers, connectors, filters, photo-multipliers, etc.] for towed and hull-mounted arrays; volumetric towed array technology, including hydrodynamic devices and techniques for generation and control of volumetric array aperture; towed array handling system technology for large aperture arrays and fiber optic arrays; towed array and handler technologies to improve operability and reliability; towed, low frequency, lightweight active arrays, deployed array technology, including low-cost and expendable systems, computer-based decision aids for improved performance in sonar detection, classification and localization; synthetic high strength-to-weight ratio load-bearing materials; sensor, array, and signal processing technologies for reliable, high-performance towed and deployed arrays for littoral applications.). Hull array technology (low-cost, small acoustic sensors with directional response; hydrodynamic and hydroacoustic analysis including finite element analysis for towed and hull-mounted arrays; improved telemetry schemes with increased bandwidth and channel capacity for optical sensors and arrays; optical components [amplifiers, connectors, filters, photo-multipliers, etc.] for towed and hull-mounted arrays; multi-axis motion sensors [conventional and fiber optic] for hull-mounted arrays; large area hydrophone planar arrays and the associated acoustic baffles and decouplers; sonar dome and window materials with frequency-selective transmissivity; hull-mounted arrays with vertical directionality; composite structures [analysis of and manufacturability of]; synthetic high strength-to-weight ratio load-bearing materials; structural acoustics analysis). High frequency (HF) active technology using vertical and horizontal conformal array as transponder and receiver for in stride mine avoidance, IS&R and bottom topography mapping. Active and passive. Underwater acoustic measurements technology. Full spectrum signal processing for USW (passive sonar signal/post processing techniques to counter postulated quieter threats; passive sonar signal processing for detection, classification, or localization [DCL] of short duration and/or nonstationary signals; accurate passive range estimation algorithms; active sonar signal/post processing, including detection, classification, normalization, and rejection of reverberation, false targets, and clutter; image processing techniques for sonar detection and classification; passive/active signal/post processing techniques for torpedo DCL; automatic processing techniques for passive and active signals and noise associated with a greater number of hydrophones; software development methods for sonar processing including signal, data, and display processing software). Data fusion technology (submarine/surface ship/air/unmanned vehicle [UV] platforms). Technologies which enable the (1) fusion of organic Mine Countermeasure (MCM) tactical sensor information and environmental data on naval platforms engaged in cooperative organic mine defense, and (2) presentation of data and information to USW, MCM and other tactical operators on a common workstation. Broadband signal processing. Acoustic communications, which include detection resistant capabilities (adaptation of submarine and surface ship sonars for acoustic communications links capable of supporting voice, text, and imaging [video] transmissions). Mine and obstacle avoidance sonars (obstacle avoidance sonar, ultrasonic imaging sonars). Multistatic capable sonars. Human-machine interface technology (display and/or processing techniques to reduce sonar operator effort in detection, classification, localization [DCL], and related operations; operator machine interface devices applied to sonar; display technologies applies to sonar; virtual reality and three-dimensional display concepts for sonar). Coordinated, automatic operation of USW systems using onboard and off-board systems to achieve battlegroup operation as a single ?system.? Signal processing techniques for shallow water localization. (End 1 of 4)
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