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

99 -- ENERGETICS AREAS PARTNERING ANNOUNCEMENT SOL N68936-99-R-0191 POC Anita Dale, Contract Specialist, (760) 939-9656 This announcement is being issued as a full and open competitive announcement under the authority of 10 USC 2519 "Federal Defense Laboratory Diversification Program." The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), China Lake, CA, is soliciting short concept papers to support the NAWCWD Energetics Strategic Plan. NAWCWD intends to develop business-based partnerships between government, industry and academia in several strategic thrust areas that have been defined to place NAWCWD in leadership positions for the 21st Century. One such thrust is Energetics. NAWCWD's energetics thrust goal is to strengthen its mission capabilities, improve business practices and develop the skill mix and expertise needed to support the warfighter of the 21st Century. Concept papers selected from this announcement will be competitively selected with the intention of establishing formal partnerships with NAWCWD. Successful partnerships will consist of government, industry and academia having nationally recognized experts and resources (expertise, real property, investment capital, etc.) and will be capable of providing world class support to the energetics discipline. NAWCWD will bring to these partnerships one of the nation's largest holdings in and, air and sea space. NAWCWD offers environmental permits not otherwise available to academia and private industry to conduct RDT&E activities. NAWCWD offers some of the most extensive and complex RDT&E facilities worldwide, and employs recognized world experts in the energetics discipline. The objective of successful partnering is to unite complementary capabilities and resources, reduce government/industry/academia duplication and reduce operational costs by exploiting synergistic opportunities to share facilities, equipment, personnel, workload and infrastructure costs. The "best of the best" are, therefore, being sought to pursue the development of business-based partnerships for research and cooperative activities in the following energetics areas: Area 1 -- Warheads -- Penetrators (Soil, Concrete, Rubble); Blast and Fragmentation Warheads; Warhead Modeling and Design (air, surface, and subsurface); Materials and Material Behavior. Area 2 -- Fuzes -- Micro Mechanical Micro electronics and novel electronic packaging; Compact Power supplies; Modeling and Design (electronics, mechanical); Detonation transfer analysis; Safety analysis. Area 3 -- Energetics Materials -- Synthesis of Energetic Ingredients, Binders, and Plasticizer; Propellant and Explosive Formulation and Processing; Liquid Fuels; Modeling and Detonation Mechanics;Scale-up to Production; Simulation of Explosive Phenomena;Insensitive Munitions; Hazardous Waste processes. Area 4 -- Propulsion -- Synthesis of Energetic Ingredients, Binders, and Plasticizer; Propellant Formulations & Processing; Composite materials; Nozzles, Actuators, and Controls; Plume Signal Mitigation; High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion. Area 5 -- Test & Evaluation -- Environmental conditioning; Insensitive Munitions; Propulsion (Solid & Air Breathing); Test & Evaluation instrumentation (radiographic, video, pressure, temperature, etc); Facilities Design. Area 6 -- Rapid Prototyping -- Specialty Prototyping technologies; Composites; Structural, aerodynamics, thermal and materials analysis and design; Computer integrated prototyping/manufacturing. The NAWCWD is seeking new and creative ideas for establishment of a new business model that is designed to maximize success for all potential partners. In order to establish successful partnerships, innovative business concepts and practices will be employed utilizing NAWCWD as the "anchor site" for each partnership. Potential partners should submit concept papers describing viable partnering concepts that will enable the goals of this announcement to be achieved. The NAWCWD requests that papers not only describe overall goals and objectives of the partnership, but also describe proposals for new ways of teaming which might be considered. To maximize potential benefits of this effort, NAWCWD is receptive to any and all creative ideas that could be considered for adoption. These ideas should not be limited to what has been done before, and will be considered as a demonstration of creative possibilities for consideration. Unique and untested partnership concepts will be considered as will location of partnerships within the confines of NAWCWD and its vicinity. In addition to any new concepts proposed, responses should include relevant technical achievements in the area of energetics; the level of effort available and required (e.g., in-house workload, manpower, facilities, permits, etc.); energetics business projections for the next five years; perceived benefits and concerns associated with the described partnership; desired partnership duration; and references from prior or current partnering relationships. The following will be used as evaluation criteria: 1) Extent to which the national defense security objectives will be advanced or enhanced, 2) Technical excellence offered, 3) Qualifications of participants in research, development and test activities offered by the partnership, 4) Assessment of timely private sector investment, other than through the partnership, 5) Potential effectiveness of the partnership in furthering the development and application of energetics technology and state of the market for energetics, 6) Extent of financial commitment of eligible firms to the partnership, 7) Extent to which the partnership does not unnecessarily duplicate partnerships with other agencies, 8) Extent to which the partnership reduces duplication of facilities, and 9) Assessment of past partnerships. Following competitive selection of concept papers, NAWCWD will utilize various legal authorities to formalize the partnership arrangements. These mechanisms could include Cooperative Agreement(s), Other Transaction(s), Commercial Service Agreement(s), GOCO, COCO, land leases, privatization of operations, and procurement contracts that would be pursued without further competition. Offerors of concept papers selected for further consideration will be invited to participate with NAWCWD in the development of a joint business plan. A cooperative effort to draft subsequent formal documents to legalize partnership arrangements is desired. Government funding is not available for reimbursement of expenses incurred to develop and implement partnerships. Parties interested in partnering with NAWCWD should possess financial capital for real property investments and a broad customer base with the expectation of sharing NAWCWD's infrastructure operating costs and in-house facilities on a pro-rata basis. In view of security considerations, parties interested in partnering with NAWCWD must not be owned or substantially controlled by foreign governments, firms, institutions or individuals. This announcement is open for the submission of concept papers for a period of one year from the publication date of the announcement. An initial date of 30 November 1999 has been established to encourage earlier submissions so as to facilitate earlier progression toward fulfilling partnership goals. Those parties submitting concept papers by the initial date will be perceived as most interested and will be given priority consideration. A maximum of five (5) pages per concept paper is desired. If attachments accompany concept papers, attachments should not exceed a total of fifteen (15) additional pages. A hardcopy original and one electronic version should be submitted. Send the original to: Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, ATTN: Anita Dale, Code 210000D, 1 Administration Circle, China Lake, CA 93555-6100. Send the electronic version to: dalear@navair.navy.mil Supplemental announcements may be issued as required. If additional information pertaining to this announcement is required you may contact Al Lopez by email at: lopezag@navair.navy.mil A CD describing NAWCWD's energetics capabilities is also available from Mr. Lopez upon request. Posted 09/24/99 (I-SN384312). (0267)

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