SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Industry Day - Infantry Equipping Challenge
- Notice Date
- 8/10/2016
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 339999
— All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, United States Marine Corps, MARCORSYSCOM, 2200 Lester Street, Quantico, Virginia, 22134, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22134
- Solicitation Number
- M6785416I1137
- Archive Date
- 9/16/2016
- Point of Contact
- Lee E Hoyland, Phone: (703) 784-2990
- E-Mail Address
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lee.hoyland@usmc.mil
(lee.hoyland@usmc.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- INFANTRY EQUIPPING CHALLENGE Deputy Commander, Systems Engineering, Interoperability, Architecture and Technology Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, VA ANNOUNCEMENT OVERVIEW This is an announcement for an Industry Day for the Infantry Equipping Challenge (IEC) hosted by Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC). The IEC Industry Day is scheduled for 26 Sep 2016 and will be hosted by the MCSC Commander, BGen Shrader. This event is intended to inform Industry (to include Small Business) of the IEC objectives, planned events, schedules, processes, desired outcomes and to solicit Industry feedback. During this Industry Day event currently fielded Infantry equipment will be displayed and its' requirements, capabilities, operation and areas for possible improvement will be discussed. Presentations on current and future operating environments, potential engineering assessment criteria, and current requirements will also be presented. The IEC is a series of associated events, with both engineering assessments and limited operational evaluations, the overarching schedule of these events will also be presented at the IEC Industry Day. At the conclusion of the open forum, Industry Day general session time will be made available to meet with those vendors desiring individual meetings with MCSC Program Managers and/or subject matter experts. Industry Day will be conducted on MCB Quantico, VA and the general session will occur 0830 - 1430 Eastern Daylight Time. RSVPs to attend the Industry Day's general session and to request an individual meeting with the respective Program Manager(s) are requested back by 14 September 2016. ABOUT THE INFANTRY EQUIPMENT CHALLENGE IEC is MCSC's innovative process to identify and evaluate the best & most relevant equipment for our Infantry Marines and then expedite transition of the associated capabilities as requirements and funding permit. The Challenge will look at equipping opportunities of both the overall Infantry Marine and more specifically, by primary MOS, including the 0311 MOS Riflemen, the 0313 MOS Light Armor Vehicle Marine, the 0331 MOS Machine Gunner, the 0341 MOS Mortarman and the 0351 MOS Infantry Assault Marine. IEC brings together stakeholders from across the Marine Corps requirements, acquisition, and technology development communities in a dynamic process to quickly evaluate and accelerate fielding of technologies that decrease the Infantry's load, increase operational reach and reduce the reliance on the logistical train. MCSC's metric of success for IEC is the accelerated fielding of material solutions for Infantry Marines. In response to Requests for Information (RFI) that will be released for future individual IEC events, MCSC will invite select vendors to provide their gear for government demonstration, technical evaluation and operational field testing by Infantry Marines under operational conditions. Vendors will be provided feedback on all evaluation results and more detailed follow-on evaluations will subsequently be conducted where needed. Focus areas for each individual IEC event will be identified in the respective RFI for that event. General focus areas to be considered for IEC events include the following: • Opportunities for equipment that is lighter, more capable, less burdensome, reduced logistical needs, reduced complexity/maintenance, or better tailored for the Infantry's tasks • Power management, generation, storage, harvesting and scavenging • Infantry food; weight/bulk repackaging • Individual and squad level water filtration systems • Innerwear and outerwear clothing and other worn garments • Medical and casualty gear • Lightweight ammo Certain systems and equipment are already the subject of concerted Marine Corps focus and hence will not be the included in the initial IEC focus areas or are found in other RFI's. (they may, however, be included in later IEC focused events). These areas include: • Small arms • Weapons, optics and sensors, including combined optics • Drones • Night vision goggles • Radios • Body armor INFANTRY EQUIPPING CHALLENGE PLANNED EVENTS MCSC intends to engage the entire spectrum of Infantry stakeholders, including Industry, other Services, government labs, SOCOM, our International partners, etc. To that end, numerous events are being considered, including outreach events for information exchange, narrowly focused evaluation events for individual pieces of gear, and more widely focused evaluation events; anticipation is that the IEC will be conducted through FY17 and beyond. Certain events, however, will be specifically tailored and focused on commercial technologies currently available in Industry. Infantry Equipping Evaluation events that are open to Industry will be announced by separately released RFIs. The calendar year 2016 events that will largely be dedicated to commercially available technologies and gear are as follows: 1. Industry Day 26 Sep 2016 To be conducted per this announcement. 2. Infantry Integration with Industry Workshop 27-29 Sep 2016 This event will provide industry the opportunity to conduct a one-on-one integration project and usability assessment during a one hour period at the MCSC booth at the Modern Day Marine Military Expo (MDMME) on 27-29 September 2016. The registration and details for this event will be advertised via MDMME website and press releases. This will be a first come, first serve event conducted by MCSC's Marine Expeditionary Rifle Squad Office and is open to MDMME exhibitors and visiting industry who will bring in their hardware or equipment for the integration workshop. This opportunity will provide an early assessment for industry that may plan to participate in future Infantry Equipping Challenge events to include the follow on Infantry Equipping Evaluation Event in late Nov. The Infantry Integration with Industry Workshop event was well received from previous industry participants at last year's MDMME. 3. Infantry Equipping Evaluation Event Late Nov-Early December 2016 This will be a one week event consisting of more extensive operational evaluations and engineering assessments. It is anticipated that an RFI announcing this event will be released the last week of September 2016. Focus areas for this event will be more specific and the location will be in the RFI. MCSC POINTS OF CONTACT FOR IEC Industry Day RSVPs and requests for additional information should be directed to Paul Lambert (paul.a.lambert@usmc.mil, 703-432-3515) and Joe Kaminski (Joseph.Kaminski.ctr@usmc.mil, 703-432-3226).
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