SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Department of Defense Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) - ONRBAA13-014
- Notice Date
- 5/13/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, ONR, CODE ONR-02, 875 North Randolph St., Suite 1425, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1995
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1995
- Solicitation Number
- ONRBAA13-014
- Archive Date
- 9/14/2013
- Point of Contact
- Vanessa Seymour, Phone: 703-696-4591, Christopher R Williamson, Phone: (703) 696-6774
- E-Mail Address
-
vanessa.seymour@navy.mil, chris.r.williamson@navy.mil
(vanessa.seymour@navy.mil, chris.r.williamson@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Quad Chart 13 MAY 2013 ONRBAA13-014 13 MAY 2013 The Office of Naval Research is interested in receiving white papers and full proposals for Department of Defense Explosive Ordnance Disposal Applied Research Science and Technology (S&T) projects which offer potential for advancement and improvement of multi-Service EOD operations. ONR has a need to develop and demonstrate emerging technologies for dismounted missions to detect/locate, access, diagnose/identify, and render safe/neutralize explosive hazards, including Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) to support the DoD EOD mission. The EOD mission is to render safe ordnance, including conventional and unconventional, improvised, chemical, biological, and nuclear IEDs and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). It includes land and underwater location, identification, render-safe, and recovery (or disposal) of foreign and domestic ordnance. EOD conducts demolition of hazardous munitions, pyrotechnics, and retrograde explosives using detonation and burning techniques. The EOD mission is unique from the role of other forces, such as combat engineers that support movement of U.S. and allied forces. An IED is a device placed in an improvised manner incorporating destructive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic, or incendiary chemicals to destroy, incapacitate, harass, or distract. It can include military stores, but normally is devised from non-military components. White papers and full proposals for exploratory development are sought in the following areas: a) Rapid Desensitization/Neutralization of Energetic Materials: This effort supports the EOD Explosive Hazardous Device Render Safe/Neutralization mission. It is focused on developing a dismounted (man portable) capability to rapidly de-sensitize loose or exposed energetic material such that it can be moved safely and will not ignite during handling, storage, or transportation. The technology approach should allow for ease of manual use and application, and have a low environmental impact. The neutralization capability weight should not exceed 20 lbs for neutralizing up to 20 lbs. of energetics. Priority materials to be neutralized include insensitive high explosives or insensitive munitions explosive fills. b) Buried Hazard Removal System: This effort supports the EOD Buried Explosive Hazards Diagnosis and Identification mission. It is focused on dismounted (man-portable) capabilities that can be used to remove or expel a suspected buried threat that cannot be fully diagnosed in situ. The targets may be buried in loose or packed earth at various depths. Targets may weigh as much as 50 lbs with various geometries. Capabilities should be able to be deployed manually or robotically using existing EOD robots. Manual deployments should provide or enable standoff between the operator and target site. Systems using explosives or energetics should use materials currently available in DoD inventories. The capability should weigh less than 10 lbs.
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