18 -- VS-01-01 BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT, SPACE VEHICLES TECHNOLOGY

Notice Date

July 27, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL -- PL "Space Vehicles Directorate", 2251 Maxwell Ave, Kirtland AFB, NM, 87117

ZIP Code

87117

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-VS-01-01

Response Due

September 28, 2001

Point of Contact

Nancy Brunson, Contracting Officer, Phone 505 846 6188, Fax 505 846 6022, Email Nancy.Brunson@Kirtland.af.mil

Description

MODIFICATION 2 TO VS-01-01 BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT, SPACE VEHICLES TECHNOLOGY: The following change is made to VS-01-01 Broad Agency Announcement, Space Vehicles Technology. Add the following Kirtland AFB Technical Area Number (11): SPACE QUALIFIABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGIES. Technical Point of Contact: Pawel Tlomak, (505) 853-1889, fax (505) 846-7877, e-mail pawel.tlomak@kirtland.af.mil. Contracting Point of Contact: Nancy Brunson, (505) 846-6188, fax (505) 846-6022, e-mail nancy.brunson@kirtland.af.mil. Proposals are desired in all areas of space qualifiable photovoltaic technologies. This includes areas involving multijunction solar cells, thin film solar cells, concentrator cells, and any other type of cell that is likely to improve the metrics used to measure solar cell and array performance and lifetime. In the area of multijunction solar cells, proposals are sought to improve performance beyond the present 30% efficient cells by insertion of additional junctions in the existing triple junction cells, or improvements to existing triple junction cells. Other areas of consideration include, but are not limited to, transparent conductive layers to eliminate grid fingers, system designs incorporating prisms to split the incoming spectrum and transmit the light to frequency dependent subcells, multi-terminal cells, direct energy conversion schemes, etc. In the area of thin-film solar cells, proposals are sought to improve the performance of thin film solar cells including the efficiency, cost per watt, the power density (W/kg), interconnectability, schemes to enable monolithic integration, and improving on orbit lifetimes. Near-term interest areas include the development of material systems for multifunctional coatings resistant to space ionizing radiation, atomic oxygen, and thermal cycling on orbit, providing high dielectric strength, transparent in the solar spectrum, providing optimum passive or active thermal control. Proposals are expected to include, but are not limited to, low-temperature sputtering and plasma enhanced deposition processes, DC and RF magnetron sputtering, electron beam and laser assisted deposition. Of paramount interest are coating technologies providing conformal thin-film layers for large-area module-size monolithically integrated photovoltaics suitable for industrial scale-up. Contractors are encouraged to provide samples of coated and uncoated solar cells and submodules at the time of proposal submittal. Technical Proposals NOT TO EXCEED ten (10) technical pages with cost and administrative as separate item in accordance with the BAA, will be accepted for this technical area only until 1500 (3:00 PM) MDT, 28 September 2001.=20 Point of Contact Nancy Brunson, Contracting Officer, (505) 846-6188, Fax (505) 846-6022, e-mail nancy.brunson@kirtland.af.mil Pawel Tlomak, Technical Point of Contact, (505) 853-1889, Fax (505) 846-7877, e-mail pawel.tlomak@kirtland.af.mil

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Record

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