Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6396

A -- UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE RESEARCH CENTER PROGRAM TO SUPPORT A DEMAND ACTIVATED MANUFACTURING ARCHITECTURE (DAMA) DUE 022895. POC Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Attention: Frank V. Damiano, Senior Contract Administrator, Office of Science and Technology Partnership, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6396, Facsimile: 615-576-4181, e-mail:fvd@cosmail2.ctd.ornl.gov. Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., (the Company) acting under Contract No. DE-AC05-84OR21400 issued by the United States Department of Energy (DOE), operates the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ORNL is soliciting expressions of interest from colleges and universities to provide research support as part of DOE's support of the American Textile Partnership (a partnership of industry, DOE laboratories, and universities) with regard to the Demand Activated Manufacturing Architecture (DAMA) project. DAMA's mission is to improve operations, and thereby the competitiveness, of the United States Integrated Textile Complex (i.e. the supply chain from U.S. based fiber suppliers to and including retailers of fabric based products) through the identification of advantageous business practice modifications and the definition of a communications and computer systems architecture to support these modifications. The program will provide for support of research relevant to DAMA through a subcontract in the range of $750,000 over a two year period of performance. It is anticipated that the subcontracts will be awarded during FY95. The research should focus on topics in areas potentially relevant to the DAMA mission. These areas include impacts of future trends in the U.S. consumer environment upon demand for textile complex products, improvements in fabricator approaches to providing ``shelf'' ready products, opportunities for improvement of and standards for electronic interchange and use of textile complex related information, issues related to usability and reliability of textile complex sourcing data bases, and methods for and the effectiveness of a DAMA learning laboratory. A significant portion of the research shall be carried out by graduate students under the guidance of other college/university staff. Interested colleges and universities having a broad textile complex based program (e.g. textile manufacturing, fabrication and/or retailing of fabric based products) and expertise in other areas required to support applicable research (e.g., information/computer sciences, management, psychology as appropriate to the research) currently in existence or should team with an institution with such a program are encouraged to submit a maximum five-page general outline of a research agenda which the institute would carry out as part of this research effort. This institute should have experience performing work for the textile complex and have available to it sufficient qualified individuals to supervise and carry out this effort in addition to its current research. Submissions by Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Institutions (MIs) are encouraged to submit the statement of qualifications. No telephone voice responses or requests will be accepted. This is not a request for proposal. (025)

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