SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Persistent Littoral Undersea Surveillance
- Notice Date
- 4/23/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, ONR, CODE ONR-02 800 N. QUINCY ST. Rm 704, Arlington, VA, 22217
- ZIP Code
- 22217
- Solicitation Number
- BAA04-018
- Response Due
- 8/20/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/4/2004
- Point of Contact
- Dr. Douglas Todoroff, Program Officer, Phone (703) 696-2485, Fax (703) 693-2007, - Brian Glance, Senior Contract Specialist, Phone 703-696-2596,
- E-Mail Address
-
todorod@onr.navy.mil, glanceb@onr.navy.mil
- Description
- The Office of Naval Research (ONR 32) seeks white papers describing innovative technology concepts that will form the foundation for future (circa 2015) naval systems for clandestine undersea surveillance to provide the location of submarines in far- forward and/or contested waters. Concepts should emphasize mobile and/or fixed, multiple mode sensing nodes, networked to provide an adaptive and/or relocatable sensing grid. Concepts should include technologies and approaches which will result in low false alarms, reduced manning, provide tracking with effective attack criteria for existing or emerging weapons, and be operable from ambiguous warning through neutralization of the threat. Successful concepts will incorporate environmental information to optimize deployment and sensing. Concepts should include technologies that are rapidly deployable (within days) and remain survivable to countermeasures for their operational life. It is anticipated that this period will extend from four to six months. These novel concepts must support the future naval undersea warfare directions of Sea Power 21 and Naval Power 21 and should be operable and effective from near the enemy shore to the vicinity of the Sea Base or Strike Group, including shallow and deep water. ONR highly encourages teaming of academia, industry, and government laboratories with a view toward speeding the transition of new science and technology into fielded systems. Priority will be given for concept development proposals addressing a complete undersea surveillance system. Priority will be given to concepts of sufficient maturity such that significant aspects can be demonstrable during fiscal years 2006 and 2007. The technological concepts sought in this offering may lead to further development of a prototype surveillance system demonstrable during FY08-10 using higher category funds. To assist prospective offerors regarding the missions of interest and to promote more responsive white papers, the ONR will conduct a one-day ?Offerors Day? on 21 May 2004. This will provide a forum for potential offerors to obtain information regarding mission operating environments and constraints and obtain a better understanding of the desired advanced capabilities. Potential offerors who wish to attend this briefing must respond with a notice of intent using the form provided on the web site (http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/baa/04_018) no later than three weeks after the date of publication of this BAA, so that adequate meeting facilities can be determined. White papers are initially sought to preclude unwarranted effort on the part of the offeror in preparing full technical and cost proposals without an initial assessment of the operational, technical and logistical feasibility of the concept. Offerors submitting the most promising white papers will be invited to submit a full technical and cost proposal on all or part of their white paper submission. However, any such invitation does not assure a subsequent award. Any offeror may submit a full proposal even if its white paper was not identified as promising or if no white paper is submitted. It is anticipated that funding decisions will be completed by 15 September 2004. Finalizing of contract or assistance agreement terms with selected offerors will follow. Approximately $40,000,000.00 of Applied Research (Budget Category 6.2) funds are anticipated to be available over a three year period beginning October 2004 to conduct these research and development efforts.
- Record
- SN00572102-W 20040425/040423212535 (fbodaily.com)
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