DIRECTORATE OF CONTRACTING, ATZC-DOC, 1733 PLEASONTON ROAD, FORT BLISS, TX 79916-6816

A -- A -- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR AIR DEFENSE ARMY AFTER NEXT PROJECT 2025 SOL DABT51-97-R-0038 DUE 050997 POC Contract Specialist JOHNA ROBERTS (915) 568-3995 Program Manager MAJ Randy Floyd (915) 568-4961 (Site Code DOCSUP) Broad Agency Announcement97-1, for research and development projects in Air Defense Army After Next Project 2025. INTRODUCTION: Directorate of Combat Development, Fort Bliss, Texas, is soliciting white papers for innovative research and development projects in Army After Next Project 2025. The intent of this BAA is to identify emerging technologies and research efforts that will improve Air Defense Artillery dominance across the full spectrum of conflict. GOAL: (1) The goal of this research and development (R&D) program is to employ innovative technological approaches to provide the Air Defense Artillery community with increased capabilities under future operational constraints. (2) To address the challenges of warfighting in the 2025 time period through the application of industry's emerging technologies. Our purpose is to invite applicable areas of industry to participate in the first Army After Next (AAN) Industry Day at Fort Bliss, Texas, June 13 and 14. This Industry Day will increase the involvement and interchange of ideas between industry and military agencies in an effort to enhance air and missle defense warfighting capabilities. TECHNOLOGY AREAS OF INTEREST: This BAA is focused on five major areas. (1) Nature of the Air Defense Battlespace, (2) C4ISR, (3) Space Defense, (4) Theater Air Defense, and (5) Close-in Aerial Defense. Projects to be considered should include technologies to increase lethality, mobility, battle space transperancy, and force protection/survivability. This area would include but not be liimited to emerging technology in warfighting at the operational and tactical levels which can increase precision weaponry, defense against theater ballistic missles, air-launched missles, and low-cost (and low-observable) cruise missles. Issues should be integrated with strategic defense as well, since by 2025 many weapon systems will have ranges sufficient for either mission. This thrust will help to develop technology in support of the long-range future of Air Defense. Focusing on the development of an innovative concept for conducting Air Defense missions and tasks in the long range future -- out to 2025. Suggested technology areas are (1) Nature of the Air Defense Battlespace: Projects could include, but not be limited to, advanced aerospace warfare capabilities; to include: Space vehicles (Transport; Platforms for firing to earth -- kinetic energy projectiles, launched missiles, directed energy; systems for ISR and information warfare), Airborne Laser, Long-Range Precision Strike Missiles (Ballistic, Cruise-VLO), F-22/JASF manned aircraft, UAVs-HALE, Mini and micro, VLO, rotary wing aircraft. (2) C4ISR: Projects to be considered should include, but not be limited to, sensor-to-shooter links, target acquisition, cueing and fire control. An over-arching theater network to supply data for other battlefield operating systems. Fire control technologies which provide the opportunity for human command-by-negotiation as necessary, that will be interpreted and applied by machine intelligence. (3) Space Defense: Projects to consider would include, but are not limited to, prototype development projects for Air Defense operations in space to eliminate fast-moving, high danger threats in orbit or passing through outer space. Ground-, air-, and space-based systems that detect target and engage enemy systems posing a substantial threat to theater operations. (4) Theater Air Defense: Projects to be considered would include, but are not limited to, protection applications, long-range, high-altitude atmospheric threats to theater operations in theater-wide air defense operations. To include High-to-Medium Altitude Air Defense against missiles; aircraft and information operations; long-range cruise missile defense; boost-phase ballistic missile defense; and Offensive Counter Air. (5) Close-In Air Defense: Projects to be considered would include, but are not limited to, dealing with the many air threats presented to ground forces with a serious challenge and may penetrate space and theater based air defenses. Concepts should address these threats detailing actions that best describe how this threat can be defeated by air defense operations integral to combined arms operations of terrestrial forces. Air Defense capabilities inherent in such operations will also provide a capability to conduct air defense missions otherwise assigned to theater and space based air defense forces to ground air defense forces. For example, in a robust cruise missile threat environment, close-in air defense systems may have the capability to contrubute to the counter cruise missile fight and ground forces may be assigned to conduct cruise missile defense operations in addition to close-in defense tasks. Many ground forces will have combat systems which will give them the capability to conduct air defense operations from organic combined arms weapons systems rather than from dedicated air defense platforms. Favorable considered projects would include, but are not limited to, those weapons systems with multi-tasked capability for close battle, fire support and air defense simultaneously; projects using high-energy pulse weapons, beam energy, and techniques to conduct action for defeating or deceiving information warfare techniques in which the enemy system's programming is turned on itself. All interested offerors shall request a copy of the proposer information pamphlet from the Directorate of Contracting, 1733 Pleasonton Road, ATTN: ATZC-DOC (Johna Roberts), Fort Bliss, Texas 79916-6816. Interested offerors may also fax their request to (915) 568-0836. White papers may be submitted any time prior to the closing date of May 9, 1997 to USAADASCH, Director Combat Development, ATTN: Major Randy Floyd, Army After Next, Air Defense Artillery Integrated Concept Team Leader, Fort Bliss, Texas 79916-3802. Submission procedures are as follows: Ten (10) copies of all white papers must be limited to tem (10) pages (including figures, charts and tables) on single-sided, double-spaced pages; font to be not smaller than 12 point; one inch margins left/right/top/bottom. White papers shall contain a rought cost estimate. Following evaluation of the white papers, the contracting officer reserves the right to request a proposal from any, all, part of, or none of the white papers. The primary basis for selecting proposals for acceptance shall be technical, cost, importance to agency programs and funds availability. Awards may be pursued on a case by case basis as program funding becomes available. The contracts expected to be negotiated are cost plus fixed fee research and development services (CPFF R&D services). Other appropriate proposed procurement approaches will be considered. This BAA is an expression of interest only and does not commit the Government to pay any proposal costs related to this BAA or to make any contract awards. A solicitation will not be issued for this proposal request. This notice constitutes a BAA as authorized by FAR 6.102(d)(2)(I). P (0115)

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