SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- UNIVERSITY AND NON-PROFIT SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH
- Notice Date
- 11/27/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- N00178 17320 Dahlgren Road Dahlgren, VA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N0017807Q3003
- Response Due
- 9/30/2007
- Archive Date
- 10/30/2007
- Description
- This synopsis is being posted to both the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) webpage located at http://www.fbo.gov and the Navy Electronic Commerce on Line (NECO) website located at http://www.neco.navy.mil. While it is understood that FBO is the single point of entry for posting of synopsis and solicitations to the internet, NECO is the alternative in case FBO is unavailable. Please feel free to use either site to access information posted by the Navy Sea Systems Command. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), through the Dahlgren Laboratory at Dahlgren, VA soliciting scientific and engineering research "white papers" to identify capabilities of University and Non-Profit Institutions to conduct basic research, applied research, and advanced research projects in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. PLEASE NOTE: We are NOT seeking specific research proposals at this time ? we are requesting submission of capability statements only. Specific research proposals may be returned to the submitting institution with a request to submit a capability statement. N00178-06-Q-3009 white papers will be considered as candidate sources until 30 Sept 2008. N00178-05-Q-3010 white papers will be considered as candidate sources until 30 Sept 2007. White papers submitted under BAA N00178-04-Q-3021 are no longer being considered. Research projects are expected to require a high level of technical expertise, primarily involving PhD level personnel; personnel requirements include, but are not limited to, the following categories: distinguished postdoctoral, senior postdoctoral, postdoctoral, professors, and graduate students. Awards under this BAA are expected to take the form of grants, cooperative agreements, other transactions, or contracts. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541710 -- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences. Representative research areas requiring scientific and engineering research expertise for which "white papers" (capability statements) are solicited include: (a) Topic : Expeditionary Concepts and Operations. Develop new technologies in support of Expeditionary Concepts and operations that will be evaluated relative to the projected operational requirements of future maneuver warfare and a technology investment strategy will be developed in the form of a technology roadmap. Specific tasks will include, but not be limited to: 1. Develop exploratory models to be designed, built and evaluated in conjunction with other appropriate advanced models. 2. Development of new or modification of existing technologies that will contribute to long-range detection and tracking of targets. 3. Increase target location accuracy of targeting systems over existing and planned target acquisition systems 4. Expand performance envelope to include urban environments and operations from vehicles 5. Reduction of system size and weight 6. Long-range acoustic detection of targets 7. Hardware in the loop modeling and simulation 8. Sensor clustering 9. Human Systems Integration and Performance 10. Laser Systems Analysis (b) Topic: High-power optical systems and optical / material interactions including: Advanced optical systems and components for high power applications, Thermally induced material failure mechanisms, High-power optical absorption and scattering processes in materials and the a tmosphere, Analysis of high heating rate linear and non-linear processes. Both theoretical and experimental research in this topic is of interest. (c) Topic: Pulsed and High Power Electromagnetic Technologies Technologies including electrical energy storage, pulsed power switching, electromagnetic launcher components, compact high-voltage sources, ultra-wideband technology, high power microwave technologies, detectors and sensors, and all associated modeling. (d) Topic: Realtime Computing Environment Infrastructure Architectures and Technologies Technologies, evaluation methodologies, analysis techniques and test results for computing environment infrastructure technologies and architectures applicable to navy shipboard use in areas that include but are not limited to IPv6, multicast communications, fault tolerance mechanisms, information assurance, wireless sensor networks, network resource management, network time synchronization, and operating systems. (e) Topic: Inhalational Anthrax in the Rabbit: NSWCDD is interested in determining bacterial numbers, germination rates, toxin production, antibody production, and other types of data from selected tissues and biological fluids of immunized and non-immunized rabbits following exposure to B. anthracis Ames spores via inhalation. Targeted tissue/fluids include BAL, blood, lung homogenates, and lymph nodes. (f) Topic: Microarray Data Analysis: NSWCDD is interested in collecting and analyzing microarray data using traditional and state of the art procedures. Both mammalian and prokaryotic arrays and models are of interest. (g) Topic: Support for Animal Research: NSWCDD is interested in collecting tissue (serum, homogenized tissue, lavage fluid, etc.) from a variety of animals (mice, rabbit, pigs, etc.) to support a number of current projects. (h) Topic: Analysis of Large, Dynamic Graphs and Networks Analysis and prediction in large dynamic graphs and networks is of considerable interest for various applications in Defense and Homeland Security. The graphs may be augmented with attributes on the nodes and links, and have missing data such as unobserved links, missing attributes, possible errors or uncertainty in assigning actors to nodes, etc. Of interest are methods that can find and track changes of interesting structures within large dynamic social networks, and predict unobserved links and attributes. Algorithms that can operate on graphs with up to hundreds of thousands of nodes and millions to billions of links are of particular interest. Methods for visualizing large dynamic graphs, particularly those that can accurately and informatively display the changes in time are also of interest. (i) Topic: Technologies for Collective Protection Against Chemical and Biological Warfare Attacks ? NSWCDD is interested in new technologies, components and procedures that will lower the cost of providing collective protection to buildings, ships, vehicles and shelters. Novel filtration, detection, neutralization and decontamination concepts that individually or together can reduce the capital or operation and maintenance cost of collective protection systems will be considered. New concepts for modeling, controls, sealing materials, reactive coatings, testing, monitoring and ingress/egress modules will also be considered. (j) Topic: Research in Chemical and Biological Defense PROGRAM OBJECTIVES: The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) is interested in proposals in the area of chemical and biological warfare defense. Specific areas of interest are as follows: (1) research, analysis, characterization, test, evaluation, verification, validation, and/or modeling related to CBRN or toxic industrial material dispersal including dispersal by industrial accidents, dispersal by attacks on industrial facilities, dispersal by weapons, transport and dispersion in atmosphere, soil, surface or ground water, or building/structure interiors; (2) research, analysis, characterization, test, evaluation, and/or modeling of the hardware and software components of CBRN/TIM collective protection systems and the performance of such systems, in whole or in part; (3) research, analysis, characterization, test, evaluation and/or modeling of the hardware and software components of CBRN/TIM individual protection systems and the performance of such systems, in whole or in part; (4) research, analysis, characterization, test, evaluation and/or modeling of the hardware, software, or other components of CBRN/TIM decontaminants and decontamination systems and the performance of such systems, in whole or in part; (5) research, development, instrumentation, analysis and/or experimentation of hardware or software for the purpose of CBRN weapon performance assessment or characterization of other general areas of CBRN weapon/TIM release effects, effectiveness and performance, target vulnerability to such CBRN weapons/TIMs, CBRN/TIM damage mechanism lethality, and CBRN/TIM defense effectiveness modeling. (k) Topic: Data Mining Require expertise in the areas of network analysis and link analysis. In addition expertise in the area of text data mining is needed. Text data mining needs include feature extraction, clustering, and classification. Finally expertise in visualization and projection of high dimensional data is solicited. (l) Topic: Next Generation of Technologists Provide support for developing and maintaining a cadre of active research scientists who can distill and extend results from worldwide research and apply them to Naval problems, to promote hiring and development of new scientists, and to encourage collaboration with universities, private industry, and other Navy and Department of Navy laboratories, in particular the corporate Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Establish a long-term program to create the next generation of Technologists at Naval R&D centers; generate and sustain the interest and excitement of adolescents in careers in mathematics, physics, engineering and or other sciences, invigorate the science and math curricula, and enhance science and math training for teachers. All white papers received will be maintained for a period not to exceed three years and will be considered as candidate sources for research projects during that period. Offerors may replace, update, or withdraw white paper submissions at any time. All white papers submitted for topics may be considered for research efforts at the Dahlgren Laboratory. The Dahlgren Laboratory anticipate making multiple awards of grants, cooperative agreements, other transactions, or contracts. When appropriate, research grants will be the preferred award method. All white papers received that indicate interest in a particular research area will be reviewed for potential research projects in that area. Please identify the area in which your research is to be considered. Selection of a source for each separate research project will be based primarily on "best match" of technical merit (offeror?s interest, expertise, and capability) and potential for contribution to accomplishment of Navy/DOD missions, as presented in the white papers and considering other relevant information available to the evaluator. Anticipated cost will be considered in the selection, but cost will not be the primary determining factor. The selected source for each project will be requested to submit a detailed proposal. Submission of a white paper or a detailed p roposal does not assure the offeror of a subsequent award. White papers should be submitted as a MS Word file either (1) as an email attachment to dlgr_nswc_xds13@navy.mil OR (2) on CD or ZIP disk to Grants Officer (N00178-06-Q-3009), NSWCDD (Code XDS13), 17320 Dahlgren Road, Dahlgren, VA 22448-5100. Hard copy submissions (other than the grant certification package) are neither required nor desired. White papers should be formatted as follows: A. Cover Page (one page) - identify offeror by name and address, include point of contact (Office of Sponsored Programs, etc.) with telephone number and email address, include date of submission, indicate that submission is in response to this BAA; B. Overview (one page) - provide overview of offeror?s capabilities (physical plant and equipment as well as human resources); C. Costing (one page) - provide representative salary costs (hourly rates) for the following labor categories: distinguished postdoctoral, senior postdoctoral, postdoctoral, professors, and graduate students. In addition, identify and provide all applicable indirect (facility and administration) rates that would be charged on each research project; provide name, address, and point of contact, including telephone number, of applicable government auditor and government Administrative Grants Officer/Administrative Contracting Officer; D. Specific Research Area Information [one page for each research area (listed above) in which you have interest/capability to conduct research projects] ? provide specific capability information applicable to the research area to supplement information provided in the overview; identify/discuss specific human resources expertise, specific facilities or equipment relevant to the research area, offeror?s prior participation in related research projects, and any other relevant information. DO NOT submit a specific research proposal unless requested. Please identify the topic area applicable to your white paper submission. In addition, all offerors should submit (in hard copy to the address shown above) a completed and signed NSWCDD Grant Certification package that can be accessed at the NSWCDD Home Page (http://www.nswc.navy.mil/supply/grants/grants.htm) Each grant or cooperative agreement that may be awarded to an institution of higher education under this announcement must contain the Military Recruiting on Campus clause in DODGARS 22.520(f), which may be accessed at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/32106r_041398/part22.pdf. Any institution that has been identified under the procedures established by the Secretary of Defense to implement P.L. 103-337, section 558, is not eligible to receive a grant or cooperative agreement in Response to this solicitation. Questions regarding this announcement may be submitted to Grants Officer (N00178-07-Q-3003), NSWCDD (Code XDS13), 17320 Dahlgren Road, Dahlgren, VA 22448-5100, to email dlgr_nswc_xds13@navy.mil or to facsimile (540) 653-6810. This announcement will remain open and white papers will be accepted through 30 September 2007. Awards may be made at any time after this notification is published, but only those offerors who have submitted white papers will be considered. This notice constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for University and Non-Profit Scientific and Engineering Research for Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, and, as such, solicits the participation of all offerors capable of satisfying the Government?s needs. This BAA should not be construed as a commitment or authorization to incur costs in anticipation of a grant, cooperative agreement, other transaction, or contract; the Government is not bound to make any awards under this announcement.
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