Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFOSR -- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 801 N. Randolph St, Arlington, VA, 22203-1977

A -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) FOR RESIDENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAM (RRAP) SOL Reference-Number-RFI-001 DUE 071700 POC Thomas McLean, Jr, Contracting Officer, Phone 703 696-5958, Fax 703 696-9733, Email thomas.mclean@afosr.af.mil -- Karen Buck, Contract Negotiator, Phone 703 696-9751, Fax 703 696-9733, Email WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=R&ProjID=Reference-Num ber-RFI-001&LocID=1542. E-MAIL: Thomas McLean, Jr, thomas.mclean@afosr.af.mil. This notice is to obtain market information and capabilities of potential sources for planning purposes. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is contemplating a follow-on contract to the RRAP contract number F49620-96-C-0001 with National Research Council (NRC)-National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The RRAP provides highly competitive, postdoctoral research awards (associateships) for postdoctoral scientists and engineers to accomplish specific research projects during one-year assignments within the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) facilities. The contractor will manage and administer the program. Other duties include advertising the program, receiving applications, holding boards consisting of nationally and internationally distinguished scientists to review applications and rank candidates, providing a nationally recognized award to winning candidates, administering the assignment of award winners to AFRL directorates, and establishing and operating a certification process for advisors within AFRL. The objectives of the program are: (1) to provide postdoctoral scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability with opportunities to conduct research in the Air Force Laboratories, (2) to provide world-renowned leading researchers a sabbatical opportunity to perform research on problems largely of their own choice, and (3) to contribute thereby to the overall research effort of the Air Force. Please forward comments, statements of interest, and qualifications concerning this RFI to the attention of points of contact listed below. Comments, statements of interests, and qualifications should not exceed two pages. Responses to this RFI are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. See note number 25. Posted 06/16/00 (D-SN465641). (0168)

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