SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Blast Effects Computational Support
- Notice Date
- 6/14/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DTRA Annex 8725 John J. Kingman Road, MSC 6201, Fort Belvoir, VA, 22060-6201
- ZIP Code
- 22060-6201
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-TDO049976221
- Point of Contact
- Donald Shires, Contracting Officer, Phone (703) 325-6684, Fax (703) 325-9294,
- E-Mail Address
-
donald.shires@dtra.mil
- Description
- See Commerce Business Daily Note 22. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) intends to issue a sole source contract to George Mason University (GMU) for Blast Effects Computational Support. This project will include computational support for calculating blast environment in and around structures. In the first year of this effort, the contractor will focus on the development of technologies to assist in the prediction of blast effects on structures. Additional focus areas will include development of blast mitigation techniques; development of bombing forensic techniques; and development of building response algorithms and software for assisting in the design of blast-resistant structures. The Computational Fluid Dynamics Group at GMU?s School of Computational Sciences has mounted a considerable effort in the area of blast effect prediction. It pioneered first-principles-based fluid-structure interaction codes that are currently being used, by DTRA contractors, in assessing the effects of blasts on structures. This group developed some of the codes that were used in the forensic analysis of the explosions in the World Trade Center (first explosion), Khobar towers (Saudi Arabia), Nairobi (Kenya) and the USS Cole (Aden, Yemen). The Evolutionary Design Group at GMU?s School of Information Technology and Engineering has conducted research on evolutionary design with specific applications to structural engineering, including the development of Inventor, an evolutionary design tool, initially developed for designing steel skeleton structures of tall buildings. The most recent version, Inventor 2003, is a universal multi-population Java-based tool intended for distributed and Internet applications. It can be integrated with various design-specific simulation programs, and was recently integrated with the gas flow simulation software developed by the Computational Fluid Dynamics Group. Present research is focused on proactive approaches to security of structural systems and infrastructure systems. The objective of this effort is to leverage previous work at GMU related to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computations structural dynamics (CSD) codes and evolutionary design methods, to develop fast running PC-based vulnerability assessment and blast mitigation design tools. The statutory authority for other than full and open competition is 10 USC 2304 (c)(1) implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1, 'Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.'
- Record
- SN00603137-W 20040616/040614212319 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |