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A -- CENTERWIDE BAA PART 3 OF 6 SOL BAA 97-01 DUE 063098 POC G. Palmer, Negotiator at (401) 841-2442 X292; FAX (401) 841-4820 WEB: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/contract/. E-MAIL: G. Palmer, Contract Negotiator, PALMER@CODE59.NPT.NUWC.NAVY.MIL. This solicitation can be viewed and searched on the Internet at www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/contract/contract/announce/baa/97-01/defaul t.htm. LAUNCHER AND MISSILE SYSTEMS Submarine missiles, mission planning, engagement planning, deployment, and tactics. Advanced missile guidance system development. Methods of increasing range, covert targeting, and evasion. Corrosion detection, repair and prevention. Measurement and control techniques for missile capsules, missile tubes, and torpedo tubes. Cruise missile simulation. Advanced concepts for submarine self-defense including anti-air warfare. Submarine launcher technology including acoustic modeling, transient hydrodynamics, structural analysis, and shock analysis. Advanced launcher concepts for the ejection of weapons, countermeasures, and auxiliary devices for submarines. Launch dynamics and cable dynamics. Advanced materials and manufacturing processes. Advanced concepts for pre- and postlaunch weapon/platform communication. Advanced concepts for loading, handling, and stowing of weapons aboard submarines. Advanced methods for evaluating transient acoustic noise signals from launcher systems. Analytical and/or experimental techniques for achieving a better understanding of the physics associated with launching a vehicle from a moving underwater platform. Technology and advanced concepts for launch and retrieval of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) from submarines including concepts for platform vehicle communication prior to launch and during the retrieving process. Technology and advanced concepts for launch of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from submarines including concepts for launch control and platform/vehicle communication. Technology for using weapon launcher systems as a means for deploying and communicating with off-board sensors. Techniques such as drag reduction, noise isolation/suppression/attenuation that reduce the radiated noise, including flow noise associated with the launch of vehicles from submarines. Technology that reduces the cost, size or weight of systems/subsystems associated with submarine loading, handling, stowing, shipping, and launching systems. Integrated structural, acoustic, mechanical, and hydrodynamic design codes for paperless design and design simulation of launcher systems. Technology for the simulation, design and manufacture of elastomeric systems. HIGH-SPEED UNDERSEA MISSILES, PROJECTILES, AND MUNITIONS Undersea gun launch concepts and technologies. Drag reduction (supercavitation, ventilated-cavity, enveloping-vapor-flow). Rocket propulsion and underwater ram-jet power systems. High power and energy metal-water combustion systems. Stability and guidance control techniques. Small warheads and fusing systems. Sensors. Large vehicle system concepts. Undersea systems for detection and tracking of undersea objects. Physics modeling of high-Mach-number undersea flows, including high-Mach-number supercavitating or ventilated flows. Launch concepts. Physics modeling of undersea rocket exhaust interaction with external vehicle flows, including supercavitating or ventilated flows. Technology for the measurement and assessment of high-Mach-number supercavitating or ventilated flows. UNMANNED UNDERSEA VEHICLES (UUV)/AUTONOMOUS UNDERSEA SYSTEMS (AUS)/UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLES (USV) TECHNOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT Precision navigation (traditional and nontraditional methods) including advanced sensor fusion (Doppler velocity sonar [DVS], inertial navigation system [INS], advanced INS concepts, and global positioning system [GPS] updates) applicable to shallow water and open ocean environments. Method to establish GPS fix and establish above-water communications. Innovative and cost-effective solutions to improve on the current state-of-the-art capabilities of UUV acoustic communication systems. Areas of improvement include: 1) providing higher data rate capability, including RF; 2) decreasing the computational load required for a given data rate; 3) providing low probability of intercept (LPI) capability; 4) higher data reliability (robustness toerrors), 5) lossless and lossy data compression; and 6) any other algorithms which will improve the capabilities for a UUV acoustic communication system. Electromagnetic and acoustic signature reduction technologies (both active and passive) including quiet, lightweight, low magnetic signature electric motors, and quiet, efficient propulsors. Autonomous control systems for hydrodynamic maneuvering and control of UUVs especially in littoral environments. Intelligent, fault tolerant controller capable of reliable, long-range unattended operation of UUVs with embedded mission control consisting of mission planning, replanning, collision avoidance, and fault diagnosis and response. Oceanographic data collection, including but not limited to temperature, pressure, and current profiling, in support of tactical decision aids and the national oceanographic database. Sensor systems for object detection, classification, identification, or avoidance. Advanced environmental sensors. Autonomous robotics technologies for undersea work. High performance, low drag shaft seals. Integrated propulsor/motor combinations. Novel propulsion concepts. High-efficiency, high-energy density, safe long-endurance chemical, electrochemical, and thermochemical energy sources for undersea vehicles. Lightweight, stiff, corrosion resistant, acoustically damped vehicle structures. Fault tolerant vehicle systems. Artificial intelligence. Programming technology providing the capability to install tactical software at the operational level. Programming technology providing the capability to prevent compromise of tactical software. Technology and advanced concepts for launch and retrieval of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) from submarines including concepts for platform vehicle communication prior to launch and during the retrieving process. Simulation of undersea launch and retrieval of UUVs. TORPEDO DEFENSE (LAUNCHERS) Universal surface ship launcher for countermeasure devices up to 12.75-inch diameter. Common data and power transmission with countermeasure device and universal launcher. No maintenance, unmanned surface ship launcher design. Advanced launcher concepts for the ejection of weapons, countermeasures, and auxiliary devices from surface ships. Technology for the simulation and design of torpedo defense launchers. Low-cost, modular, portable stimulators for on-board training. TORPEDO DEFENSE (MODELING AND SIMULATION) Acoustic and magnetic properties within various surface ship wakes. Acoustic and magnetic surface reverberation. Acoustic and magnetic multiscatter effect within various wakes. High-speed torpedo operation at shallow depths within various wakes. Models addressing operation in a shallow water environment (propagation loss, multiple bottom types, performance prediction tools, etc.). Models and concepts addressing Terminal Defense issues, fuze influence technologies, and advanced countermeasure operations and tactics. Low-cost, modular, portable stimulators for on-board training. END of Part 3 of 6 (0177)

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