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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF OCTOBER 19,1995 PSA#1455Defense Nuclear Agency, 6801 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, VA 22310-3398 A -- BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT - PART II SOL DNA001-BAA01-96 POC
Thomas L. Cox, Negotiator, (703) 325-1196, Scott G. Morton, Contracting
Officer, (703) 325-1200. Continued from BAA PART I - Proposals are
solicited for the following TECHNICAL AREAS (Note that the word
''INNOVATIVE'' is implied in each Subtopic):AREA A - Weapons Effects -
Enhanced Paylaods Program - Exploring innovative technologies to
enhance warhead lethality against threat Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD) targets. Of interest are concepts which extend lethality range to
effect and/or which may produce either physical or functional WMD
kills. Innovative concepts, methodologies, and experimental techniques
will be considered. AREA B: Nuclear Operations - Nuclear Weapon System
Safety Assessments - New and innovative concepts to improve on
traditional probabilistic risk assessment techniques and methodologies,
as well as operations are desired to increase the overall safety of
these assets are required. Abnormal environments that may be
encountered include mechanical insults (e.g., drops, vehicle
accidents), thermal insults (e.g. fuel fires), electrical insults
(e.g., lightning, electrical power), and combinations of these
environments. Concepts should employ innovative ideas and make use of
new and emerging technologies. AREA C: Nuclear Hardening/Survivability
- EMP Protected Composite Materials - Composite materials are becoming
increasingly prevalent in high technology military applications. These
materials need to be fashioned in such a manner as to afford intrinsic
EMP and electromagnetic environmental effects (E3) protection. This
protection must not come at the cost of diminished strength or
significant change in weight. AREA D: Space Nuclear & Propulsion
Technology, TOPAZ International Program - Critical Space Nuclear Power
and Propulsion Technology Development. DNA is interested in developing
key technologies (at the component or sub-component level) supporting
thermionic and/or thermoelectric space nuclear power systems, and key
technologies supporting direct thermal or electric nuclear propulsion
systems. Successful offerors must demonstrate that their proposed
technology is key in indicating cost/mass/volume or performance
characteristics of a thermionic, thermoelectric or propulsion space
nuclear system, and requires dditional development before such
indicators can be determined with confidence. AREA E: Atmospheric
Nuclear Weapons Effects - Data Presentation and Evaluation. Develop new
and innovative techniques for presenting and analyzing nuclear effects
data generated for system designers and operators. Starting from the
output of already developed prediction tools, develop new ways of data
presentation which will be fast running and simple to use. AREA F:
Pulsed Power Technology - Subtopic (1) - LINAC Replacement for Piece
Parts Testing - Feasibility study for a replacement for Linear
Accelerators (LINACs) for radiation hardened piece part certification
testing. The proposal should indicate innovative basic design concept
feasibility and the research leading to development of a new, improved,
affordable replacement for LINACs currently used for piece part upset
testing. For advanced piece parts with small feature sizes and short
carrier lifetimes, the structure in the time history of traditional
L-band LINACs will result in part responses producing spurious upset
thresholds and photo current outputs when compared to nuclear weapon
radiation. Such testing capability requires improved temporal and
spectral fidelity, increased reproducibility and reliability, low
life-cycle cost for operation and maintenance, low cost per shot, light
weight, and high shot repetition rate, and should be user-friendly.
Desired design goals are: Ability to produce nuclear weapon radiation
responses in advanced piece parts and packages, dose rates ( 1.0E+12
rad(Si)/s and doses of (30,000 rads (Si) average over an area of (10 cm
2 with a dose uniformity of ((2%, (2-5 ns rise time (10-90%), 20-100 ns
pulse width (FWHM), ((2% shot reproducibility, and (10 pulses/s
repetition rate. A long pulse (100 ns - 1 ms) capability is also
desirable. An E beam and x-ray capabilities are desired. Subtopic (2)
- Combined Effects Testing Pulser - Feasibility study for a compact
x-ray pulser for combined effects testing. The proposal should indicate
innovative basic design concept feasibility and the research leading to
development of an affordable and compact pulser for use with the
Nuclear Infrared Clutter Simulator/Nuclear Optical Dynamic Display
System (NICS/NODDS), other ''drop-in'' applications for
operability/performance evaluations, and for Distributed Interactive
Simulation (DIS) applications. The objective is to identify the
technicl approach for developing a compact high fidelity x-ray pulser
and as well as any barriers to its implementation by users. Innovative
technology is required to develop a pulser which would provide
''drop-in'' testing capability for addressing such emerging issues as
system operability and system degradation which require a high
repetitive exposure rate. Such testing capability requires improved
temporal and spectral fidelity, increased reproducibility and
reliability, low life-cycle cost for operation and maintenance, low
cost per shot, light weight, and high shot repetition rate, and should
be user-friendly. Desired design goals are:(140 kV end point voltage,
(1.0E-4 cal/cm2 average fluence,(200 rads (Si) average dose over an
area of 1000 cm2 with a dose uniformity of (10%, (2.0E+10 rad (Si)/s
average dose rate, (20 ns rise time (10-90%), 20-30 ns pulse width
(FWHM), ((10% shot reproducibility, (12 pulses/hr repetition rate. AREA
G: Radiation Hardened Microelectronics - Radiation Hardened/Tolerant
Microelectronics and Photonics. Development and demonstration of
radiation hardened/tolerant microelectronics, photonics and electronic
packaging technology including hardness assurance, advanced
diagnostics, silicon insulating materials, compound materials and
quantum mechanics. AREA H: Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) -
Electromagnetic Effects Modeling. Innovative and cost-effective methods
to model the effects of EMP and other high-energy environments in a
form amendable to modeling and simulation. Methods of bounding error
are also of interest. AREA J: Testing Hardware - Optical Materials. A
systematic investigation of the physical processes resulting from the
interaction of radiation with optical materials. This understanding
would allow us to take the DNA correlated knowledge based on known
materials and extrapolate to new future materials. This analysis
capability would ameliorate the void resulting from the UGT moratorium
and allow the use of existing AGT's to verify the suitability of
optical materials for systems that must survive in hostile radiation
environments. AREA K: Environmental Quality - Environmental Technology
Program. Technology Thurst Areas for research, development and testing
of environmental technologies, address the technology's applications,
and/or demonstrate/validate the technology to meet environmental
requirements. The examples cited are intended to be representative,
notexclusive nor directive. Subtopic (1) - Cleanup - Assess, monitor,
characterize, investigate, develop remedial techniques and technologies
to achieve more efficient and effective environmental cleanup of soil,
sediment, groundwater, surface water and structures already
contaminated by past practices with hazardous materials (including
unexploded ordnance), radioactive (low-level or mixed wastes) and toxic
substances located at DoD and DOE facilities. Subtopic (2) - Compliance
- Develop and address technologies, perform marine risk assessments,
and monitor, control, manage and support waste treatment and disposal,
not directly related to site restoration, but related to meeting
current and future environmental compliance requirements. Subtopic (3)
- Pollution Prevention - Reduce or eliminate the creation of
pollution. Subtopic (4) - Conservation - (1) Research, develop, test
and/or demonstrate technologies to assess, conserve, protect, preserve,
restore and manage the facility's natural and cultural resources,
including conservation of wetlands, forests, threatened and endangered
species, historic and archeological sites, rivers and waterways, and
coastal barrier islands, (2) Provide access to training and testing
areas for benefits such as recreation, agriculture, forestry, and
multiple uses, and (3) Comply with national and local environmental
laws. AREA L - Technology Transfer - Unique and innovative proposals to
promote the transfer of DNA-sponsored and/or DNA-relevant technologies,
to include spin-on applications of technology developed outside DoD to
meet DNA requirements, spin-off applications of DNA technologies
outside of DoD, and dual-use development of technologies to
simultaneously respond to both DNA/DoD and non-DoD needs. Dual-use
proposals are particular, but not exclusive, interest. DNA has
particular interest in proposals that promote technology transfer to
and from, and thereby contribute to, sustainment of competence within
the nuclear weapons effects R & D contractor base. Proposals should not
be for long-term R & D: All proposals must clearly show how the
proposed effort will be likely to involve significant technology
transfer (spin-on, spin-off, or dual-use) within 24 months following
award. Because of potential commercial application, all proposals must
address cost sharing/matching funds. These funds may be from any
non-DNA source (e.g. business partner, corporate IRD, or other
sources). Proposal where cost sharing is not otherwise appropriate will
be given consideration. While the appropriateness of the cost
sharing/matching funds will be considered for each proposal, there are
no predetermined ratios or requirements. General topic areas of
principal concern to DNA include: structural dynamics, testing
technology, underground technologies, safety, modeling, pulsed power
and electromagnetic applications, and microelectronics. AREA M (GRANT
PROPOSALS ONLY) - Bioenvironmental Hazards Research - In accordance
with DoD Appropriations Act FY 95 for continued bioenvironmental
hazards research and in compliance with U.S.C. 2361 the Defense Nuclear
Agency (DNA) is soliciting proposals from major research universities
working in close collaboration with a historically black college or
university to conduct bioenvironmental hazards research specializing in
topics of concern to the DoD. This effort, initiated in FY 89, has been
and is currently performed under a grant to Tulane University working
in collaboration with Xavier University. The program will consist of a
DoD-focused interdisciplinary effort covering such diverse disciplines
as toxicology, medicine, epidemiology, environmental health sciences,
cell and molecular biology, chemistry, ecology and information
sciences. The grant recipient is expected to have the necessary
infrastructure in place to support the depth and breadth of the
proposed program. Information on DNA solicitations, already released,
can be obtained by calling the DNA Hotline at (703) 325-1173. Reference
Synopsis No. 96-03 (0290) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0003 19951018\A-0003.SOL)
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