SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Provide Composite Cannon Launched Munition and Weapon Prototype Component R&D Support for the Precision Guided Munition Programs
- Notice Date
- 4/21/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- DAAE30-03-R-0112
- Point of Contact
- Mrs. Karen Thompson, Contract Specialist, (973) 724-3638
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Karen Thompson
(kthomps@pica.army.mil)
- Description
- This notice serves as a Sources Sought Notice/Market Survey for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as a Request for Proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government. There is no solicitation and no further information is available at this time. There will be no contract as a result of this Market Survey and the Government does not intend to pay for information received. The U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC intends to solicit Concept Analysis Engineering Systems (CAES) Inc., Flintstone, MD on a sole source basis for R&D Composite Cannon Launched Munition and Weapon Component Prototype Support for the U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC PGM Programs. The Government requires the contractor to have an extensive experience base and capabilities in the development of high performance components for munitions, weapons and aerospace applications. The contractor must demonstrate capabilities and an extensive experience base in analysis, design, and manufacturing methods for development of the airframe, sabot, obturator, warhead dispense, aerodynamic control surfaces, linkage mechanisms for steering the projectile, high strength composite weapon components, propelling charge development, and cannon launched rocket propulsion technologies. Specifically, the contractor must possess capabilities and analytical tools required for development of high performance munitions and cannon tubes incorporating advanced technology composite materials and propulsion methods. The high performance artillery munitions concepts require use of thick sectioned laminated composite materials capable of sustaining the dynamic loads and high temperature exposure associated with gun launch rocket assisted conditions. The contractor must demonstrate capabilities for three dimensional (3D) laminated composite design and analysis modeling capable of resolving manufacturing, design geometry, and structural- thermal effects on a detailed ply-by-ply basis for 3D applications. This analytical capability is necessary for successful development of high performance munitions because of the stringent demands imposed by the need to minimize parasitic weights using advanced fibers and matrix materials while achieving required performance in primary structural components and at component interfaces where composite materials inherently require special design and manufacturing techniques to accommodate their unique non-isotropic behavior, particularly in thick layered sections. The contractor?s design and analysis codes must demonstrate capabilities for evaluating alternate laminated composite design configurations as candidate approaches to be considered for structural and thermal adequacy and with due regard for the effects imposed by the manufacturing methods used with the 3D geometries involved. Results from these analytical evaluations will be used as an accurate guide for selecting the highest pay-off design approach for the materials to be incorporated, and the manufacturing methods and tools to be employed in achieving demonstrated technical goals with minimal development risk. The contractor must demonstrate capabilities and an extensive experience base in analysis, design, and manufacturing methods, and successfully incorporating composite reinforcement over-wrapped on a thin-walled steel liner, which withstands the operating pressure environment of large caliber artillery cannon tubes. These capabilities must demonstrate application of enabling technologies that include yielding member straightening of the post-machined thin metal liner forging; variable thick section composite hoop and axial reinforcement thickness profile and laminate stacking sequencing to achieve optimal gun tube strength and stiffness at minimum weight; liner and composite thickness distributions achieving required thermal management at optimum stiffness and strength; and swage auto-frettage techniques to achieve a fatigue resistant integrated liner- composite structure in the post-cured gun tube assembly. The contractor must demonstrate capabilities and an extensive experience base in analysis, design, formulation, mixing, testing and manufacturing methods for development of cannon launched rocket motors and propellants, artillery and rifle propellant charges, traveling propellant charges, lethal mechanisms, warheads and explosives, and initiation charge technologies. The contractor must possess all he aforementioned capabilities and an experience base including lightweight artillery projectiles, electro magnetic gun launched hypervelocity projectiles, lightweight gun systems, gun launched rocket assisted projectiles (RAP) and kinetic energy (KE) projectiles, composite over wrapped pressure vessels, composite cannon caliber gun tubes, composite flywheel rotors and armatures, composite support structures, and the analysis and design methods development for 3D applications of laminated composite materials and manufacture. Responses should include contractor capabilities, past experience, and any other relevant supporting information, including any data that may exist. Interested firms are invited to submit responses, either electronically or via hard copy, NO LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THIS ANNOUCEMENT to the following address: Mrs. Karen Thompson, Contract Specialist, U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC, AMSTA-AQ-APA, Building 10, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000. E-mail: kthomps@pica.army.mil, Phone (973) 724-3638. See Numbered Note(s) 22 and 25.
- Web Link
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US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network
(http://procnet.pica.army.mil/cbd/SRCSgt/042120030/042120030.htm)
- Record
- SN00308479-W 20030423/030421213537 (fbodaily.com)
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