Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Code 210000D, 1 Administration Circle, China Lake, CA 93555-6100

A -- ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT OF INSENSITIVE MUNITIONS SOL N68936-97-0051 DUE 121996 POC Anita R. Dale, Contract Specialist, (619) 939-9656 or Doreen Paul, Contracting Officer, (619) 939-9665. The Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division (NAWCWPNS), China Lake, CA, is sponsoring a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) under the Insensitive Munitions Advanced Development (IMAD) program. The IMAD program has been established to develop and aid the implementation of appropriate solid rocket propulsion technology into operational systems. The Navy wishes to identify and explore new concepts or principles that will provide high performance tactical rocket motors with minimum threat to personnel and equipment without losing performance or effectiveness. Solid propellant rocket motor developers and other qualified sources are invited to submit abstracts for the development and demonstration of solid propellant rocket motor insensitive munitions technology. The research effort should focus on meeting the propulsion requirements of one of the following missiles or their officially recognized successor: AMRAAM, HARM, RAM, STANDARD MISSILE, TOMAHAWK. Additional areas of interest include IM technologies applicable to large metallized solid propellant tactical booster motors, High performance IM minimum smoke propellants, Theatre Ballistic Missile Defense, new propulsion concepts, ATD's that are slated to be funded such as Low Cost Missile System Booster, MAKE and Naval Surface Fire Support. Prospective offerors shall prepare and submit an abstract which describes the effort proposed and includes data to sustain why this approach will benefit the selected system. A systems approach should be taken. Abstracts will be evaluated based on the following criteria listed in descending order of importance with items 4 and 5 being equal: 1) Overall applicability to the Navy's mission and the suitabilty of the approach presented for the selected system; 2) the techical merits of the proposed approach and its contricution to the IM solid propellant technology base; 3) the offeror's capabilities, related experience and facilities or unique combinations of these qualities that are integral factors for achieving the proposed objective(s); 4) the experience of the principal investigator and the team's key personnel who are critical to achievement of the proposal objective(s); 5) the offeror's record of performance in solid propellants or directly related fields; and 6) the reasonableness and realism of proposed costs and fee and the availability of funds. The magnitude of effort and the number of contracts to be awarded will depend upon the availability of funds. Abstracts shall include cost estimates associated with the proposed effort, to include a breakdown of estimated costs into tasks/phases and a total cost summary. Discussions will be held with those offerors submitting abstracts determined to be of interest to the Government. The Government's interest will be determined by comparing the abstract(s) submitted to the stated criteria. A BAA Packet re-stating the above criteria and providing detailed information for developing and submitting a proposal, if requested to do so, is available. To obtain a copy of the BAA packet, send your written request to: Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, ATTN: Code 210000D, Anita Dale, 1 Administration Circle, China Lake, CA 93555-6100, or fax your request to 619-939-7510. No portions of this BAA have been set-aside for competition by historically black colleges and universities and minority institutions. This BAA is open for the submission of abstracts until 12/19/96. (0317)

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