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A -- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SOL N00024-96-R- POC Charles Cirino, SEA 0254, Contracting Officer, (703) 602-8100 x540. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SOL N00024-96-R POC (PART I), C. CIRINO, Contracting Officer, (703) 602-8100. Navy Advanced Technology Demonstrations (ATDs): POC Mr. D. Marker, Program Executive Office for Theater Air Defense Technology Director PEO(TAD)-T, (703) 602-1822, and Mr. R. Britton, Program Executive Office for Surface Combatants/AEGIS Program Director of Advanced Technology (703) 602-7296 x248. PEO(TAD) is the Navy's Acquisition Command for Theater Ballistic Missile Defense and Area/Ship Anti-Air Defense Systems. PEO (SC/AP) is the Navy's Acquisition Command for the AEGIS Weapon System and Surface Combatant Ships. The PEO(TAD) and PEO (SC/AP) have established Technology Directors tasked with providing Science and Technology (S&T) leadership and focus within their respective programs, maintaining dialogue with the S&T community, identifying, assessing and prioritizing candidate technologies, and developing a Research and Development (R&D) investment strategy. The ATD Program is an integral element in developing an R&D investment strategy. The goal of the Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) Program is to demonstrate, in an operational context, high-risk/high-payoff technologies that could significantly impact future Department of the Navy (DON) warfighting or warfighting support capabilities. In support of the DON FY99 ATD Program being conducted by the Office of Naval Research, PEO(TAD) and PEO (SC/AP) are jointly soliciting industry, government, and joint government/industry concepts for ATDs focused on PEO(TAD)/ PEO (SC/AP) warfighting or warfighting support needs. To assist the Director, Naval Surface Warfare Office (N86) of the Chief of Naval Operations in the identification of concepts that should be highly considered for inclusion in the FY99 ATD Program, PEO(TAD) and PEO (SC/AP) will evaluate government, industry, and joint government/industry concepts that address the following PEO(TAD) and PEO (SC/AP) top technology needs. Respective PEO(TAD) Program Office top technology needs over the next three to five years are as follows: Theater Ballistic Missile Defense - 1. Near Real Time Telemetry Assessment. Development of near Real time telemetry (IR, visible) assessment capability which allows for wide bandwidth transceiver/receiver link with kill warhead (old KKV). 2. Integrated GPS Aided Micro Inertial Measurement Unit. Development of low cost navigational quality integrated GPS aided Micro IMU with fast acquisition of GPS without hot start. 3. Tactical Decision Making Under Stress. USS Vincennes incident demonstrated that there is a need for innovative, automatic and man-in-the-loop decision making under stressful conditions. Cooperative Engagement Capability - 1. Multifunction Antenna. Demonstrate application of enabling technologies which will result in light weight, high efficiency, multi-function antenna (CEC & Radar) and will have low radar cross section characteristics. 2. Massively Parallel Processing . Develop a capability to improve processor speed and digital system data rates using commercial based massively parallel processor technology and architectures. Integrated Ship Self Defense - 1. Multiband Radar. Development of an all weather multi-mode multi-function radar that will detect and engage future threats near land environment. Expand the use of electromagnetic spectrum, improve countermeasure capabilities, improve combat identification, and situation awareness. 2. Multi-Spectral IR Full Polarization Discrimination Seeker. Development of a Multi-Spectral IR Full Polarization Discrimination Seeker that will discriminate and track TBM targets from associated objects and background and discriminate and track sea skimming targets in solar corridors. 3. Advanced EO/IR Director. Development of an advanced shipboard multi-function EO/IR director which will integrate all EO/IR sensors into a single platform with minimum impact to the ship. Major functions of the advanced EO/IR director should include AAW, ASW, Visual ID, Non-Cooperative ID (NCID), IRCM, and high resolution 3-D target tracking. The sensor(s) to be installed in this director should be high resolution imaging sensor(s) operating in the 3-12 mm spectral range. 4. Situation Predictor. Development of a Situation Predictor (SP) that can process local and remote track data generated by the Integrated Ship Defense System (ISDS) elements and/or Combat Direction System (CDS) and evaluate the most conservative and threatening track associations. The SP should be able to track, identity, and predict future actions. Additionally, the SP should enable the CO/TAO to focus on the most important scene features and tracks. Standard Missile - 1. Advanced Warhead Design/Lethality Enhancement. Specific requirement drivers needing to be considered with the development of an advanced warhead design with increased lethality enhancement should include reduced space and weight requirements, maintained or increased performance, and the use of lightweight materials in the LEAP KV focusing on achieving high probability of kill for submunition warheads. 2. Advanced Propulsion and Propulsion Management Devices. Priority propulsion technology are as follows: Divert Propulsion. (e.g., Jet reaction control, divert and attitude control system propulsion) and Advanced Booster Propulsion (e.g., first, second, and third stage propulsion technologies). Emphasis in both propulsion areas should be placed on developing and demonstrating propellant and propulsion system component technologies which are insensitive munitions and environmentally compliant, while maintaining high performance capability. Also of interest in both areas are technologies which significantly reduce materials and fabrication costs, while maintaining high quality parts. Additional emphasis in the divert propulsion area should be placed on the ability to duct and provide precision control of high mass flow hot gases ()4000 degree F) from multiple integrated thruster arrays and to provide energy on-demand (i.e., energy management flexibility) from divert thruster arrays for long durations ()300 seconds), while maintaining high energy and packaging efficiency. Applicable divert propulsion technologies include: advanced valve/valve material, hot gas manifold, propellant, motor case, insulation, thruster component, ignition component, propellant management device, and hot gas accumulator technologies. Additional emphasis in the advanced booster area should be placed on energy management flexibility to support multi-mission capability, enhanced VLS operability during launch (i.e., reduced flyout erosion) and providing growth opportunities for the missile. Technologies which significantly reduce weight and maximize propulsive mass fraction are also of interest. Applicable advanced booster technologies include: advanced propellant, motor case/insulation, nozzle, thrust vector control, and thrust vector actuation technologies. 3. Advanced Sensors and Seekers. Specific requirement drivers needed for the development of Advanced Sensors and Seekers include terminal guidance, aimpoint selection, discrimination, acquisition and fuzing. Additional needs include: Window distortion compensation, (the utilization of adaptive optic approaches to remove shock wave, turbulence, and thermal window distortion from the optic paths) and extended aperture, (simultaneous narrow field of view/wide field of view seeker system yielding high resolution) (0190)

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