SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Deep Sea Operations (DSOP) - DARPA-BAA-10-20
- Notice Date
- 1/15/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-BAA-10-20
- Archive Date
- 5/20/2010
- Point of Contact
- BAA-10-20 Administrator,
- E-Mail Address
-
BAA10-20@darpa.mil
(BAA10-20@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DARPA-BAA-10-20 DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of Deep Ocean Operations. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. Air and space were once unused operational domains which today are central to our nation's security and economic vitality. As technology drives peer nation parity in traditional domains, the deep ocean offers an unused operational space to achieve significant gains in strategic capability. The program goal is to introduce surveillance that operates at extreme ocean depths to detect quiet submarines overhead. Such surveillance should exploit the unique propagation and signal advantages afforded by operating in the deep ocean. The presumption is that the deep ocean offers advantages for sonar, however non-acoustic solutions that benefit from deep ocean operations are acceptable as well. Success for the program is challenged by the ability to achieve long-range detection and classification; the means to communicate underwater over long distances; and the ability to manage energy to endure. These challenges are magnified by extreme conditions of pressure, temperature, and isolation that constrain solutions. The program will develop systems of configurable technology to achieve ASW surveillance needs over large, operationally relevant, deep ocean areas. The solution space is characterized as one that: • Operates with sensors or sources near the ocean bottom, • Exploits the advantages of distributed nodes, • Configures to a range of operations, environments, and time scales, and • Adapts to the mobility of the surface assets or evolving threats. For proposal to be considered, proposers must have at least a secret facility clearance and evidence of the capability to conduct secret level research. Offerors are strongly encouraged to review the addendum to this BAA before considering a proposal submission. BAA Section 4.1, and BAA Enclosure A, provide the instructions to request the material.
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