Naval Undersea Warfare Center Request for Prototype Projects under N66604-18-9-0001
Background
The Other Transaction Authority (OTA), 10 U.S.C. § 2371b, allows the Department of Defense (DoD) to "carry out prototype projects that are directly relevant to enhancing the mission effectiveness of military personnel and the supporting platforms, systems, components or materials proposed to be carried out by the DoD, or to improvement of platforms, systems, components, or materials in use by the armed forces." Constant innovation and rapid technology advances are occurring throughout the world. Partnerships with commercial industry, the civil maritime sector, and others will be used to leverage these approaches and increase flexibility and agility, reduce cost, improve technology and capability insertion, and decrease program development cycles. The OTA offers an alternative to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)‐based acquisitions, allowing for access to participation by non-traditional defense contractors with innovative solutions that may not normally desire to participate in government procurement.
Requirement
NUWC requires innovative technological solutions to address current and future security threats in the undersea and maritime environment. NUWC is soliciting for the following topics under agreement N66604-18-9-0001:
FY19-01-001 Advanced Signal Sets for Shallow-water, Portable Undersea Tracking Ranges
FY19-01-002 Inter-node communication scheme for portable tracking systems
FY19-01-003 Low probability of intercept acoustic signals for portable undersea tracking ranges
FY19-01-004 Prototype Sensor System for Shallow Water Cross-Domain Port and Harbor Protection
FY19-01-005 CANCELLED
FY19-01-006 Intelligence from Collaborative & Autonomous Decisions (iCAD) - Machine Learning
FY19-01-007 Full Shutoff Valve (FSOV)
FY19-01-008 Next Generation Lightweight Torpedo development effort
FY19-01-009 Extended Range Non-Traditional Sensor System (ER NTSS)
FY19-01-010 Nickel-Zinc Energy Storage Module for Large Platforms
FY19-01-011 Bio-inspired Underwater Sensor Prototypes
FY19-01-012 Underwater Vector Sensor Prototypes
FY19-01-013 SOF Unmanned Technologies
FY19-01-014 SOF Comms
FY19-01-015 SOF Enhanced Navigation
FY19-01-016 SOF Weight
FY19-01-017 SOF Periscopes
FY19-01-018 SOF Power and Energy
FY19-01-019 Combat Systems Prototype Development
FY19-01-020 Seamless SWFTS Re-Architecture
FY19-01-021 DELAYED
FY19-01-022 Passive Acoustic Array
FY19-01-023 Undersea Security - ANTX 2019
FY19-01-024 DELAYED
FY19-01-025 DELAYED
FY19-01-026 Underwater Data Recording Test Unit
FY19-01-027 CANCELLED
Further details are provided in the attachment. Note that the attachment is Distribution D and therefore access controlled. If you do not have access to the attachment, please refer to the below information concerning the Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium (UTIC).
The Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium (UTIC) is a consortium of industry, non-profit, and academic institutions brought together for the purpose of conducting research, development and testing in cooperation with the Government leading to technology demonstrations in undersea and maritime technology applications and solutions. If you have any questions regarding the UTIC or are interested in joining, please visit http://www.underseatech.org/join <http://www.underseatech.org/join> . Please note that in order to respond to the solicitation, your organization must be a member of UTIC.
Also note that in accordance with 10.U.S.C. 2371b(f), and upon a determination that the prototype project for this transaction has been successfully completed, this competitively awarded prototype OTA may result in the award of a follow-on production contract or transaction without the use of competitive procedures. Details concerning potential follow-on production is included in the RPP, its attachments, and its related Statements of Work.
Offers are due by 1200 Eastern on February 19, 2019. Offers submitted after this date and time may be considered ineligible for award.
Christopher J. Kenney, Contract Specialist, Phone 4018324828, Email christopher.j.kenney@navy.mil
