Electric Boat Corporation, 75 Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT 06340-4989

A -- ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT TEAM 2020 CONSORTIUM SOL T2020S001 DUE 083199 POC Dr. Mark S. Bennett, 860-433-0843 WEB: Web site currently under construction, Not Available at this time. E-MAIL: Click here to e-mail the point of contact., mbennett@ebmail.gdeb.com. The Team 2020 Consortium, in support of the DARPA Payload and Sensors Program, is soliciting innovative technologies to enable new or more extensive submarine missions in future warfare particularly in support of joint/allied force power projection from the sea. This program is the result of a previously announced agreement between DARPA, ASN(RDA), and the Submarine Warfare Division of CNO (N87) to conduct jointly a study of "future fast-attack-submarine design concepts, focusing on advanced payloads and sensor systems, and their attendant implications for platform design." It was triggered by a recent Defense Science Board report on future submarines that highlighted the anticipated need for larger, more diverse, and more flexible payloads to maintain submarine warfighting effectiveness in the 21st century. The program, which will be conducted over the next 18 months, is structured as the initial phase of a potentially longer development effort. It will be executed in a multi-disciplinary format spanning the C4ISR, weapons development, and ship design arenas, and consider "all attack submarine payloads, sensor systems and subsystems, and other total ship systems aspects of underwater platform design" other than the propulsion train and reactor. Of particular interest to Team 2020 are 'technology providers' beyond those typically involved with the Navy or submarine communities. Candidate technologies should support the following operational concepts: covert local sensor network setup for battle space preparation and attendant local Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); rapid response, close-coupled precision strike; and harbor/riverine penetration, with attendant special forces insertion/extraction and support. Covert deployment and operation of air and ballistic missile defenses as well as submarine hosting of force-level command and control functions are also under consideration. Possible weapon and sensor capability concepts including alternative approaches to real-time high bandwidth submarine networking, submarine launch and employment of unmanned aerial vehicles, indigenous operation and use of adjunct underwater vehicles, and containerized, remotely operated weapons caches. Initial submarine platform concepts will stress improvements in payload capacity, modular payload storage, and ease of payload and adjunct vehicle deployment and recovery. Interested parties should contact Dr. Mark S. Bennett, Electric Boat Corporation, 75 Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340-4989; Phone: 860-433-0843, or e-mail: mbennett@ebmail.gdeb.com. Responding parties will be asked to submit a "Technology Push" package briefly describing the technology offered and the operational context it supports. Proprietary Data Agreements will be signed as appropriate. Specific technologies of interest are wide, but should support one or more of the following areas: Platform Technologies, Weapons Technologies, Sensor and Communication Technologies, or Logistics Technologies. Posted 08/06/99 (W-SN364521). (0218)

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