SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Barrel Buster Charrette
- Notice Date
- 3/28/2018
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, NAVSEA HQ, SEA 02, 1333 Isaac Hull Avenue SE, Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia, 20376, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20376
- Solicitation Number
- N00024-18-SN-BBCH
- Archive Date
- 4/14/2018
- Point of Contact
- Kellen Bucher, Phone: 2027810874
- E-Mail Address
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kellen.bucher@navy.mil
(kellen.bucher@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Synopsis: The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) will be conducting a "Barrel Buster Charrette" for an energy efficient naval surface ship on April 2 - 4, 2018, in Washington, DC. The "charrette" is a structured workshop that will generate insights into how to leverage new technologies and create new approaches to design that will better integrate systems for optimal efficiency and function. During the charrette, experts from many different fields will work together to produce breakthrough thinking that refines and focuses key opportunities to produce substantial, practicable solutions to major design challenges. Background : With ever-increasing energy requirements for future mission systems on naval ships, platform efficiency and integration must advance in order to maintain or surpass current mobility capabilities (speed, range). During past ship designs, it has been noted that energy efficient solutions and technologies are often not at an appropriate maturity level to be included. This can be partially attributed to the rapid pace at which new technologies are emerging and partially to the criteria for regarding a technology as sufficiently "mature" to be a candidate for incorporation in a new ship design. For these reasons, energy efficiency performance has not been optimal. This makes the technologies and their systemic combinations ripe for exploration. The process of developing a design for a future ship will therefore seek to eschew past restrictions and look both incrementally and systemically at what is possible. Objectives : The overall goal of the Barrel Buster program is to undertake a process that will result in breakthrough thinking and new opportunities for resolving crucial design issues for new surface ships. Central to generating this type of thinking is the "charrette" workshop and subsidiary activities, including concept design processes, which will efficiently identify and evaluate key opportunities for energy efficiency. A second key step is to deepen understanding of the opportunities by using set-based design to explore possible ship designs and further testing of how these ideas would work in practice. The final output, to demonstrate implementation of Barrel Buster goals, will be a ship design that incorporates ship design practices, techniques, and potential technologies required to achieve substantial improvements in future surface ship efficiency. Focus : The work will specifically focus on opportunities related to Hull, Mechanical and Electrical (HM&E) systems and components, with certain elements selected for particular focus. Specific combat and weapons systems design will be outside the boundaries of this study, but methodologies for providing power and cooling requirements to these systems are included. Facilitation: The Barrel Buster Charrette will be facilitated by Rocky Mountain Institute. Participants will include engineers from NAVSEA and Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) staff, as well as other experts from the Navy environment. These experts will be complemented by technology and design specialists from the maritime industry. Each participant will be expected to contribute intensively to the charrette. They will offer their own ideas and expertise while also helping shape others' ideas to be effective and impactful. The charrette will include both plenary and breakout sessions, with an emphasis on maximizing individual involvement and interaction. The charrette agenda and roster will be developed and reviewed by NAVSEA's Technology Office. After the charrette, all working notes, presentations and immediate results from the charrette will be compiled into a "flash report" and provided to NAVSEA and all charrette participants. NAVSEA will issue the information obtained as well as the results of the charrette to any interested parties upon request. To request this information, please contact Ann Cate at: ann.cate.ctr@navy.mil no later than Friday, April 20, 2018 at 4:00 pm Eastern. The request will be confirmed via an email response. Please provide your name, company, position title, city, state, phone and e-mail address in addition to a completed DD Form 2345 (MILITARILY CRITICAL TECHNICAL DATA AGREEMENT). Limited space is available to participate in the charrette. If you would like to attend the charrette, please limit your company's request to three individuals identifying their area of expertise and participation prioritization. Attendees must be US Citizens or Permanent Resident Aliens and must represent bona fide US Department of Defense (DoD) contractors as the presentation materials may include limited distribution information. Evidence in the form of a completed DD Form 2345 will be required prior to registration. In order to register for attendance, email the following address: kellen.bucher@navy.mil no later than Friday, March 30, 2018 at 4:00 pm Eastern. Registration will be confirmed via a responding e-mail and failure to register will prohibit admittance. Please provide the planned attendee's name, company, position title, area of expertise, city, state, phone and e-mail address in addition to the DD 2345, referenced above. Due to space limitations, the Government may not be able to accommodate all requests. Additional attendance by representatives from different divisions or operating units of the same company may be allowed on a case by case basis, but only if space is available after the registration due date noted above. No recording of any kind will be allowed during the meeting. Note: This is NOT a "bidders conference" and this announcement is not a contract, request for proposal, a promise to contract, or a commitment of any kind. The Government will not assume liability for costs incurred by any offeror for presentations, marketing efforts or data offered for examination; therefore, the cost of preparing information in response to this notice is not considered an allowable direct charge to the Government. The Government intends to provide the presentation material and a list of attendees to the participants of the charrette.
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