Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., PO Box 2002, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6501

A -- DEMAND ACTIVATED MANUFACTURING ARCHITECTURE (DAMA) - UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROGRAM Sol. 1127-38. Due 022295. POC: Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Attention: R. B. Wolfe, Purchasing Division, PO Box 2002, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6501, Facsimile: 615-576-9645. Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., (Company) acting under Contract No. DE-ACO5-84OR21400 issued by the United States Department of Energy (DOE), operates the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Company requests expressions of interest from colleges and universities to provide research support as part of DOE's support of the American Textile Partnership ( a partmership of industry, DOE laboratories, and universities) with regard to the Demand Activated Manufacturing Architecture (DAMA) project. DAMA's mission is to improve operations, and thereby the competitiveness, of the United States Integrated Textile Complex (i.e. the supply chain from the U.S. based fiber suppliers to and including retailers of fabric based products) through the identification of advantageous business practice modifications and the definition of a communications and computer systems architecture to support these modifications. It is anticipated that the program will involve multiple awards, each of which will be in the range of $50,000 to $100,000 over a two-year period of performance, for the support of graduate student research in the targeted areas. It is anticipated that the subcontracts will be awarded during FY95. The research will focus on topics in areas potentially relevant to the DAMA mission. These areas include impacts of future trends in the U.S. consumer environment upon demand for textile complex products, improvements in fabricator approaches to providing ``shelf'' ready products, opportunities for improvement of and standards for electronic interchange and use of texrile complex related information, issues related to usability and reliability of textile complex sourcing data bases, and methods for and the effectiveness of a DAMA learning laboratory. Interested colleges and universities having a textile complex based program (e.g., textile manufacturing, fabrication and/or retailing of fabric based products) and expertise in other areas required to support applicable research (e.g. information/computer science, management, psychology as appropriate to the research) are encouraged to submit a maximum three-page general outline of potential area(s) of research and a statement of qualifications. Colleges and universities which do not have the requisite textile complex based program may meet this requirement by teaming with ogher institutions with said capabilities. Submissions by Historically Black Colleges and Univerisities (HBCUs) and Minority Institutions (MIs) are encouraged. No telephone voice responses or requests will be accepted. This is not a request for proposal. (020)

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