Ballistic Missile Defense Organization BMDO (DCT), 7100 Defense Pentagon, 1E1019, Washington DC 20301-7100

A -- FY 96 BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE ORGANIZATION TECHNOLOGY NEEDS BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT SOL HQ0006-96-R-0014 POC Mr. Robert F. Frey, (703) 604-4313, CBD Reference Number BMDO 96-27. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) is soliciting proposals for its 1996 Far-Term Technology Needs Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), Request For Proposal (RFP) number HQ0006-96- R-0014. Note: BMDO plans to issue annual (FY) Far-Term Technology Needs BAAs. Therefore this announcement is open continuously for one year from the date of this announcement. Although BMDO will accept proposals throughout the year, BMDO only guarantees assembly of one Evaluation Board whose schedule coincides with the due dates as listed in this announcement. This Far-Term Technology Needs BAA seeks to initiate advanced development programs which will support Theater Missile Defense (TMD) and National Missile Defense acquisition program requirements in approximately 5-10 years. This time frame was chosen in order to give adequate time to develop the technologies and mature them so they can be the basis of block upgrades to systems currently in acquisition or new acquisition programs. Desired advanced development programs should seek to counter the ballistic missile threats which were presented during the July 9, 1996 Technology Needs Briefing to Industry (TNBI). Interested parties may view the video proceedings for the TNBI on site at the BMDO Technical Information Center (TIC). The video is classified SECRET. A SECRET version of the briefing charts may be obtained through the TIC as well as a reduced set of Unclassified briefing charts. The POC at the BMDO TIC for information on these resources is Ms. Kathleen Briggs at (703) 412-2827 or facsimile (703) 412-2829. BMDO anticipates the award of multiple cost sharing (50/50) contracts with the Government share valued from $150,000 to $500,000. PROPOSALS: Offerors are required to submit proposals in two parts for award: (1) White Papers and (2) Formal Proposals. White Papers are limited to 5 pages and are intended to minimize unnecessary effort in proposal preparation on the part of an offeror whose proposed work may not be of interest to BMDO under this BAA. BMDO plans to evaluate White Papers and respond to offerors not more than 20 days after the BAA due date. Formal proposals must provide the full detail required to make final award decisions. ALL PROPOSALS must address a specific technical topic area and threat category as presented at the TNBI. POINT OF CONTACT AND OBTAINING INFORMATION: Any submissions under this BAA, including ALL proposals must be directed to Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, ATTN: Karla Smith Jackson/DCTR, c/o Digital Systems Research, Inc., 2100 Washington Boulevard, Suite 3000, Arlington, VA 22204. Questions may be directed to Ms. Jackson at (703) 604-4473 or facsimile (703) 604-2557. FAR 3.104-2 implements Section 27 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act 941 U.S.C. 423)(OFPP Act) as amended by Section 814 of Public Law 101-89 which became effective 1 December 1990. Commonly referred to as ''Procurement Integrity,'' this act prohibits certain activities by competing contractors and government procurement officials during the conduct of a Federal Agency Procurement. In accordance with FAR 3.104-4(c)(3), this procurement shall be deemed to have begun upon the date of this announcement and shall end upon the award of a contract incident to each proposal or the written rejection of each specific proposal. SUBMITTING WHITE PAPERS: White papers must be submitted in 3 copies and received by 1500 hours at BMDO on 29 August 1996. Classified submissions will NOT be accepted. White papers are limited to a MAXIMUM of 5 single-spaced pages of technical discussion. One additional page is permitted for use as the cover page (or may be omitted if transmittal letter is used), but must contain only information requested in Section A of this announcement (no technical discussion). Attachments and extra pages for figures, tables, etc. are NOT permitted. White papers must contain the following elements IN THE ORDER SPECIFIED BELOW: A) cover page including the following: BAA Number, technology topic area (Surveillance, Kinetic Energy Weapons, Battle Management Command, Control, and Communication, or Directed Energy Weapons), threat category (Maneuvering Target, Time Critical, Penaided Target, Cruise Missile, Signature-Masked Target, or Previously-Engaged Target), proposal title, technical and administrative points of contact along with complete address, telephone, and fax numbers. B) description of technical approach and objectives to be achieved, C) technical response to evaluation criteria as detailed below in this announcement, D) qualifications of key personnel and relevant company experience, E) rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate of the total costs. SUBMITTING FORMAL PROPOSALS: Formal proposals, if requested by BMDO, must be submitted in 3 copies. Companies whose white papers are considered viable will be invited to submit formal proposals so as to arrive at BMDO no later than 30 days after notification by BMDO. Failure to provide a timely and complete proposal may adversely affect an offerors chance of award. Classified formal proposal submissions WILL BE accepted. Formal proposals are limited to 25-pages EXCLUSIVE OF COST/PRICING DATA. Formal proposals must include the information presented in the white papers, but greater detail is expected (i.e. they will be evaluated as separate and complete proposals). In addition to the information required in the white papers, the following additional information is required in the formal proposals and should appear in the following order: E) cost breakdown, including SF 1411 and DD 1861(if applicable). Also include the following: F)clear Statement of Work(SOW) citing specific tasks and contractor requirements. An additional G) section may also be used if there is other pertinent information such as proprietary claims, data rights issues, use of government facilities, equipment (GFE), and/or property (GFP). Use of separate volumes for cost data is acceptable, but not required. Separately priced options will not be considered in proposal evaluation. Subcontractor cost proposals (if applicable) should be provided as an attachment to the prime's cost proposal. EVALUATION CRITERIA: Evaluations will be conducted by technical personnel expert in each topic area from BMDO and each of the Services. Each white paper will be evaluated against the following criteria in descending order of importance: (1) Quality of Technical Approach, (2) Relevance to BMDO/Service Needs, (3) Related Experience, (4) Potential for Payoff to BMDO Mission, (5) Uniqueness. Each formal proposal will be evaluated against the same criteria as the white papers, but will include a sixth and seventh criteria - Commercialism/Dual-Use Potential and cost. Formal proposals will be selected for award by a Source Selection Decision Authority after receiving formal recommendations from the Source Selection Evaluation Team. Each proposal will be evaluated on its own merit without regard to other proposals submitted under this announcement. The merit of the formal proposals will also be evaluated in relation to the value and realism of the costs proposed, any GFE/GFP required, and availability of funds. CONTRACT AWARD: BMDO anticipates making the first contract award in the first quarter of FY 1997 though no minimum or maximum number of awards can be guaranteed. Contract awards will be made utilizing a maximum government Cost-Sharing arrangement of (50/50). BMDO anticipates the Government share of individual contracts to range from $150,000 to a maximum of $500,000, the contractor share may exceed $500,000. Periods of performance can range up to 18 months. NOTE: The objective of this procurement is to achieve specific technical objectives, not to provide sustaining research funds for a funding period. Therefore, the period proposed should be driven by how long a period of time is expected to be necessary to achieve the technical objective. Bidders may propose any combination of teaming or subcontracting arrangements. There are no limits on the number of proposals which may be submitted from a given company. Proposals requiring substantial performance by a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) CANNOT be considered under this BAA. Contractors are encouraged to use the BMDO Technical Information Center located at 1755 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 708, Arlington, VA 22202, phone (703) 412- 2827, Internet: tic@s1.drc.com, fax: (703) 412-2829. This CBD notice itself constitutes the Broad Agency Announcement as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d)(2). No preproposal conference will be held. Additional information (including questions and answers) from the Technology Needs Briefing to Industry and other information that becomes available may be obtained from the BMDO Acquisition Reporting Bulletin Board (BARBB) at (703) 769-8394; the BARBB System Administrator may be contacted at (703) 486-3266 extension 358. No Request For Proposal (RFP) or other solicitation is available. BMDO reserves the right to select for award all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. TOPIC AREAS: Proposals are solicited in one or any combination of the following technology areas: (1) Surveillance: Surveillance entails detection of a threat to be launched or already in flight and determining the characteristics of the threat, its launch point and/or predicted impact point, so defensive measures can be taken against the threat. The technologies anticipated provide increased detection and tracking in high clutter backgrounds, improved range and angle resolution, rapid response tracking, target identification, discrimination, and kill assessment. Both passive and active optical and microwave technologies are open to consideration with distributed sensor resource management. (2) Interceptors: These technology needs include interceptors against threats which have short flight times, maneuvering threats, threats which have high clutter backgrounds, low or masked signature threats. In addition, improved seekers for target acquisition, imaging and aimpoint selection, discrimination against closely spaced objects, improved guidance, propulsion, structures, and electrical energy sources are desired. Seekers of interest include both microwave with conformal antennas and improved domes and passive and active optical systems capable of imaging the threats and resolving aimpoints. (3) Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications: These needs include joint force threat evaluation and weapons assignments, high speed secure communications, high speed processing, data fusion, retargeting capability, adaptive real-time resource allocation algorithms, and common, efficient operator consoles. Battle management includes high volume threat evaluation in near real time, rapid dissemination of force orders, rapid dissemination of unit engagements, and distributed autonomous operation. (4) Directed Energy Weapons: Follow-on technology needs address time critical engagements against boosting targets, atmospheric characterization and compensation, lightweight large optics, laser power, efficiency, and brightness enhancements, beam control, critical component weight reduction and manufacturing technologies, thermal control and emerging alternate beam generator technologies. (0227)

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