SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Optical Techniques, Devices, and Measurements
- Notice Date
- 8/20/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave. S.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20375
- ZIP Code
- 20375
- Solicitation Number
- NRL-13-AT05
- Archive Date
- 9/21/2013
- Point of Contact
- Evangelina R. Toledo, Phone: 2027672842
- E-Mail Address
-
evangelina.toledo@nrl.navy.mil
(evangelina.toledo@nrl.navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Request for information (RFI) issued by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for information and planning purposes only. No awards will be made from the responses to this announcement. However, responses may be used to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy for a future acquisition. The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) carries out a variety of research, development, and applications-oriented activities in the generation of sensing systems, integrated optics communication systems, platform protection systems, threat materials characterization and threat surrogates development. The research both theoretical and experimental, is concerned with discovering and understanding the basic principles and mechanisms involved in optical devices, materials and phenomena. These research efforts include a number of inter-related tasks that vary in both their technical dimensions and deliverable products. However, several tasks may support the same mission and must be coordinated or interfaced. These tasks include device research and development. Many of the experimental equipment items and facilities necessary to carry out these tasks are unique to the Naval Research Laboratory, which dictates that a major portion of the tasks be performed at NRL. The tasks will deal with a number of programs including fiber optic acoustic sensors; seismic, electric and magnetic field sensors; fiber optic sensors for smart structures; chemical (both agent and non-agent) sensors; explosives sensors; biological agent sensors; microwave photonics and fiber optics for sensing, electronic warfare, radar; and communication links multi component polymers for optical, electronic, and mechanical applications, optical emitters, focal plane arrays, and quantum optics. In many of the sensor programs, emphasis will be placed on signal processing, both electronic and optical, and system integration as well as the development of the transducer. Work will involve system integration of a unique sensor design with an appropriate interrogation system to process sensor data. Chemical and Biological warfare (CBW) sensor development efforts span a broad range from basic measurement phenomenology to system prototyping and deployed system support. Signal processing efforts may include novel optical techniques for the interrogation and/or demodulation of sense networks as well as electronic, firmware, and software processing techniques and their implementation. The work on fiber optics for radar, electronic warfare, and radar will focus on the design, fabrication, evaluation, and analysis of modulators, photo detectors, amplifiers, and other fiber optic components. The design, fabrication and evaluation of new optical devices and electro-optic circuits in the areas of microwave photonics, laser transmitters, signal processing, microwave generations and microwave systems are required. The development and fabrication of mid-infrared (2-12 µm) optical fibers and waveguide devices for IR-transmitting optical links, bright infrared sources, optical switching and other applications is also required. Also required are specialty optics, such as windows and lenses based on glasses, ceramics and crystals with superior thermal, mechanical, and optical performance. Additionally, advanced thin films are needed for fabrication of flexible, rugged photovoltaic devices, thermoelectric devices and materials at several wavelengths for enabling new applications or improved functionality. The work with multicomponent polymer materials includes advances in the fields of gradient index optics, in high dielectric strength capacitor materials, novel electromechanical actuators, and nonlinear optics. The work on optical emitters will focus on the design, growth, processing, and testing of semiconductor emitters operating at infrared wavelengths beyond 2 µm. The work on focal plane arrays will focus on the design, growth, processing, and testing of infrared detector arrays operating in the SWIR, MWIR, LWIR, and VLWIR spectral bands. The work on quantum optics will focus on the design, growth, processing, and testing of structures suitable for recording, storing, detecting and entangling qbits. The work includes the design and synthesis of novel colloidal semiconductor and metallic nanostructures for chemical and biological sensing, cellular imaging and optical detection. The work will involve (a) field measurements and analysis of signatures, propagation effects, devices, and sensors, and (b) laboratory measurements and analysis of optical devices, systems and optical phenomena including development of detection algorithms and analysis of sensor characteristics or performance. In addition the work will support the measurement programs by providing for the design and construction of electronic circuitry for control of optical systems. The work shall be performed at field sites in the US, at foreign sites, at sea, and at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington DC. All contractor personnel shall possess a favorably completed DoD investigation and a final DoD granted Secret or Top Secret Security clearance with the eligibility of SCI as required by the personnel qualifications sections at the time of proposal submission. NRL intends to award an IDIQ contract with CPFF and FFP orders. Interested parties should submit the information requested herein. The RFI is for planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a request for proposal (RFP) or as an obligation on the part of NRL to acquire any product or services. The NRL does not intend to award a contract based on the RFI or otherwise pay for the information requested. Submission of a response to this RFI is voluntary. The voluntary submission of a response to this RFI shall not obligate the NRL to pay or entitle the submitter to any compensation. All information and data received in response to this RFI marked or designated as corporate or proprietary information will be protected as such. Please transmit responses by email to Evangelina Toledo, Contract Specialist, at evangelina.toledo@nrl.navy.mil in either Microsoft Word or pdf format. All responses must be received on or before 06 September 2013, 12:30 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Naval Research Laboratory, Waashington DC, District of Columbia, 20375, United States
- Zip Code: 20375
- Zip Code: 20375
- Record
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