10 -- UNDERSEA WEAPON AND MINES WORKING GROUP IR&D REVIEW REQUEST Nancy J. Gunderson (SEA02611) (703) 602-7706 The Program Executive Office for Undersea Warfare (PEO(USW)), Undersea Weapons Program Office (PMS404), Arlington, VA, extends an invitation to industry to provide a review of technology development associated with Torpedo technologies (Guidance and Control, Propulsion, Radiated Noise Reduction, Hydrodynamics, and Warhead). In addition, Mine Weapon technologies which enhance lethality, mine control and mine field connectivity are of interest. This review is being conducted in support of Undersea Weapons and Mines Working Group (UWWG) of the Submarine Payload Integrated Product Team (SIPT). The UWWG would like to give Industry the opportunity to provide related briefings on any IR&D efforts they believe are relevant to this working group. Please notify Mr. Pete Perry by 26 September 1997, in writing and via fax, of your desire to provide a briefing (limited to 20 minutes per topic), and a one page synopsis of your brief. Phone number is 703 604-6132, ext. 311, Fax is 703 604-4678. After review of the one page summaries, contractors may be invited to present their concept to the Undersea Weapons Working Group for consideration in future Weapons Technology Development. Contractors responding to this announcement and providing a presentation will not be reimbursed for any associated costs nor will the Government be obligated to enter into a contract following the presentations. The Working Group is especially interested in weapons technologies leading to improved probability of kill and reduce probability of counterkill, life cycle cost reduction, and expansion or enhancement of the torpedo mission capabilities. In addition, innovative, non-OTTO fueled propulsion ideas, which result in lower life cycle cost, are of special interest to the group. The long term focus of these technologies is a torpedo one-half the length and weight of the current heavy weight torpedo which is at least as effective as the current weapons. The working group is charged with evaluating ongoing efforts and recommending to the SIPT the relative priorities of these programs, within the Submarine Technology program. The Undersea Weapons and Mine Working Group is responsible for recommending science and technology, in addition to research and development programmatic priorities to the SPIPT and ultimately to Submarine Warfare sponsor (N87).

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