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This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.
Multiple Award Schedule
This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.
Multiple Award Schedule
This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.
Multiple Award Schedule
This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.
Multiple Award Schedule
This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.
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Pacific Northwest (PNW) Stewardship BPA- Region 6 (OR & WA) - OPEN/CONTINUOUS
03/24/2025: Amendment 005: This amendment incorporates two FAR class deviations to ensure compliance with Executive Orders 14148, 14173, 14168, and 14208, issued since January 20, 2025. It also removes AGAR clauses and provisions that have been rescinded. Solicitation document was replaced with amended clauses and provisions. 03/05/2025: "Instructions for Proposal- PNW STWD BPA" document was replaced with updated instructions. 07/24/2023: Award Notice posted in Attachments for the first 85 awardees. 05/02/2023: Amendment 004 is issued for the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Stewardship BPA with a Revised Schedule of Items to include ALL 17 National Forests/Areas in Region 6 (Oregon & Washington). This BPA solicitation is now Open/Continuous until February 2028. *NOTE: This BPA replaces the previous CORP Stewardship BPA and EBS Stewardship BPA.* **ONLY NEW INTERESTED CONTRACTORS ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT AMENDMENT 004 SF30, Solicitation SF-1449, and A004-Revised Schedule of Items in order to apply for the PNW Stewardship BPA.** Download Attachments 'A004-SOLICITATION-PNW Stewardship BPA', 'A004-SF30-PNW Stewardship BPA', and 'A004-Revised Schedule of Items-12363N23Q4024' for submittal process. Email your proposal documents to Ingrid.Anderson@usda.gov and Nikki.Layton@usda.gov until 02/29/2028. Evaluations of proposals will be completed at intervals as the Forest Service's schedules permits. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Amendment 001: An amendment has been issued for the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Stewardship BPA . These changes are to the solicitation document only and are updates/changes to various sections and clauses therein, as described in the amendment and summarized below. These changes do not impact the technical or price proposal requirements for submission, so no additional information is required in your quote package other than acknowledgement of this amendment. As such, the initial due date for quote submission is unchanged and remains Wednesday, February 22, 2023. Please sign and return the amendment with your quote that is posted in the "Attachments/Links" section. Summary of changes: 1. Revises NAICS Code 115310 Standard Size to $34M on page 1 2. Replaces Section 9 with new language: Ordering on page 13 3. Replaces Section 10 on Page 14 4. Adds language to Section 24: Key Personnel on Page 20 5. Adds language to Section 29: Protection of Improvements on Page 27 6. Revises Section 32: Prevention of Oil Spills on Page 28 7. Replaces Section 51: Type of Contract on Page 49 8. Revises Section 56: Single Or Multiple Awards on Page 58 9. Clarifies & provides revised form: Section 58 Employment of Eligible Workers on Page 70 10.Revises header title for Specific Fire Precautions & Emergency Fire Precautions: Pgs 35&39 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Stewardship BPA shall be awarded under the following authority: Stewardship Authority: Section 604 (16 USC 6591c) of Public Law 108-148 as amended by Section 8205 of Public Law 113-79, the Agricultural Act of 2014—Grants the U.S. Forest Service (Government) permanent authority to enter into stewardship contracts or agreements to achieve land management goals for the National Forests or public lands that meet local and rural community needs. Section 8205 supersedes the temporary authority granted to the Forest Service (Government) in section 347 of Public Law 105-277, the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, 1999. Stewardship authorities permit the Government to solicit this requirement as Full and Open competition. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This BPA will issue future calls for individual Hazardous Fuels and Restoration project areas. The scope covers Federal and Non-Federal lands within 150 miles of and including the administrative boundaries of the Colville, Deschutes, Fremont-Winema, Gifford Pinchot, Malheur, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie, Mt. Hood, Okanogan-Wenatchee, Olympic, Rogue River-Siskiyou, Siuslaw, Umatilla, Umpqua, Wallowa-Whitman, and Willamette National Forests, and the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (CRGNSA). Work may be accomplished on Non-Federal lands, but the BPA call will be issued and administered by a government entity. Multiple awards will be made for this BPA on an individual National Forest basis once the Forest Service has evaluated the technical proposals and pricing submitted in response to the solicitation. Examples of the types of Hazardous Fuels and Restoration work that may be included are cutting and removal of sawtimber, non-sawtimber, and/or biomass; mastication, hand cutting and piling; and road maintenance. The period of performance of the awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements is 10 years from date of contract with option to extend up to 20 years. This BPA will be the primary means in which future Call Orders issued will include: (1) Integrated Resource Service Contract (IRSC) with required timber product removal; (2) Service-based IRSC that includes the option for Timber Subject to Agreement products to be removed when there is no required timber product removal; and (3) Restoration-based Service contract in which no timber product removal is included. Future Call Orders for specific projects will be emailed to only the Contractors awarded under this BPA. As such, it is imperative that all interested individuals have an email account, and that all firms must be actively registered in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) to be eligible for award under this solicitation. If not actively registered by time of proposal evaluations, you will not be given an award until actively registered. Registration in SAM is a free service. If your registration is not active, you will not be considered for award until active. Registration in SAM is a free service. If your registration is not active, you will not be considered for award until active. Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) offers resources that are available free of charge at www.aptac-us.org/find-a-ptac/ in order to assist with both SAM registration and in proposal submission. Points of contact for this solicitation are: Ingrid Anderson, Procurement Analyst, National Stewardship Contracting Branch, ingrid.anderson@usda.gov Nikki Layton, Lead Contract Coordinator, National Stewardship Contracting Branch, nikki.layton@usda.gov Questions must be submitted in writing via email to Ingrid Anderson and Nikki Layton. If you have issues downloading the solicitation attachments, contact Ingrid Anderson at ingrid.anderson@usda.gov . The Contracting Officer for this BPA is Mark T. Phillipp, National Stewardship Contracting Branch, and can be reached at mark.phillipp@usda.gov.
LAND MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED RESOURCES (LMIR) NATIONAL BPA
Edit on 6/03/2024- POSTING CURRENT AWARDEE LIST AS OF 06/03/2024. No other changes. Amendment 4 03/21/2024- Updating/Adding new scopes and location options to LMIR BPA. Updated base evalation verbiage. See Amendment 4 attachments for futher details. POSTING CURRENT AWARDEE LIST AS OF 10/02/2023. No other changes. Edit on 10/12/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Edit on 3/20/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Amendment 3 03/16/2023- Amended the response due date as this is an Open Continuous BPA. No other changes. Amendment 2 01/27/2023- adding Q&A and adding general information and Q&A meeting information that will be on 02/01/2023 10:00am (PT). Call in information below. Amendment 1 01/24/2023-see attachment and updated documents for more detail. Awards start 02/01/2023 but this is an open continuous BPA. Quotes may be accepted the entire life of the BPA. Contractors are NOT required to submit pricing for every item; only the ones they choose. Contractors should only mark wich locations they wish to do the work in. There is not requirement to mark every location on the spreadsheet. The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA that will consist of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering, Project Management, NEPA, Communications, and more. The BPA will have a period of performance from early spring 2023 through early spring 2033 and can be utilities on all Forests and Grasslands and is available for all federal agencies to utilize. This solicitation will remain Open and Continuous to add vendors when determined necessary for the 10-year period it is active. Make sure your firm is updated and registered in the System for Award Management system (SAM) and current to conduct government business. Please read the entire solicitation thoroughly to ensure all requirements in your response are included. SCOPE OF BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT Work includes but is not limited to the following: Typical Service Activities Project Management Subleader to the Project Manager Equipment team leader Inspection Services (Road Construction/Engineering, etc.) Heritage/Archaeologist Landscape Architect Botany Fish Biologist Wildlife Biologist Non-native Fish Control and Eradication/Fish Screening/Bypassing Design and Implementation of Aquatic Organism Passage/Stream Simulation Hydrologist Hazardous Materials Soils Scientist Geologist Tribal Liaison Communications Specialist Community Engagement Specialist/Liaison Technology Specialists Data Steward (lower grade than technical specialist for data entry and admin support needs) Architect/Engineer Surveyor Forester Professional tree services Culturalist Economist Climate Specialists NEPA/Environmental Compliance Coordinator Tree planting Stocking surveys Invasive Plant Control Treating invasive plants using herbicides or manual control methods. Restoration Services Road Decommissioning/Obliteration/Soil De-compaction. Stream/Riparian/Wetland Restoration/Channel Realignment Sediment/Erosion Control. Plant Material Collection/Inventory/Mapping Native Grass and Forb Seed and Straw Production Plant Propagation Tree Climbing and Cone/Seed Collection/Tree Cooler Maintenance and Servicing Aerial Seeding/Mulching Application/Project Material(s) transport
LAND MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED RESOURCES (LMIR) NATIONAL BPA
Amendment 4 03/21/2024- Updating/Adding new scopes and location options to LMIR BPA. Updated base evalation verbiage. See Amendment 4 attachments for futher details. POSTING CURRENT AWARDEE LIST AS OF 10/02/2023. No other changes. Edit on 10/12/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Edit on 3/20/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Amendment 3 03/16/2023- Amended the response due date as this is an Open Continuous BPA. No other changes. Amendment 2 01/27/2023- adding Q&A and adding general information and Q&A meeting information that will be on 02/01/2023 10:00am (PT). Call in information below. Amendment 1 01/24/2023-see attachment and updated documents for more detail. Awards start 02/01/2023 but this is an open continuous BPA. Quotes may be accepted the entire life of the BPA. Contractors are NOT required to submit pricing for every item; only the ones they choose. Contractors should only mark wich locations they wish to do the work in. There is not requirement to mark every location on the spreadsheet. The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA that will consist of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering, Project Management, NEPA, Communications, and more. The BPA will have a period of performance from early spring 2023 through early spring 2033 and can be utilities on all Forests and Grasslands and is available for all federal agencies to utilize. This solicitation will remain Open and Continuous to add vendors when determined necessary for the 10-year period it is active. Make sure your firm is updated and registered in the System for Award Management system (SAM) and current to conduct government business. Please read the entire solicitation thoroughly to ensure all requirements in your response are included. SCOPE OF BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT Work includes but is not limited to the following: Typical Service Activities Project Management Subleader to the Project Manager Equipment team leader Inspection Services (Road Construction/Engineering, etc.) Heritage/Archaeologist Landscape Architect Botany Fish Biologist Wildlife Biologist Non-native Fish Control and Eradication/Fish Screening/Bypassing Design and Implementation of Aquatic Organism Passage/Stream Simulation Hydrologist Hazardous Materials Soils Scientist Geologist Tribal Liaison Communications Specialist Community Engagement Specialist/Liaison Technology Specialists Data Steward (lower grade than technical specialist for data entry and admin support needs) Architect/Engineer Surveyor Forester Professional tree services Culturalist Economist Climate Specialists NEPA/Environmental Compliance Coordinator Tree planting Stocking surveys Invasive Plant Control Treating invasive plants using herbicides or manual control methods. Restoration Services Road Decommissioning/Obliteration/Soil De-compaction. Stream/Riparian/Wetland Restoration/Channel Realignment Sediment/Erosion Control. Plant Material Collection/Inventory/Mapping Native Grass and Forb Seed and Straw Production Plant Propagation Tree Climbing and Cone/Seed Collection/Tree Cooler Maintenance and Servicing Aerial Seeding/Mulching Application/Project Material(s) transport
New Mexico Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (FERM)
Current Award Information posted 2/13/2023. See Attachment. Solicitation is open continous and award information will be updated as needed. Amendment 1- 11/17/2022 See attachments for details (Amendment 01, Revised NM FERM Quote Package, and E_PSR-REVIE_C-GROUP 3 G3-4 EARTHEN BARRIER G3-4 (1). No extension to due date. Update to posting 2/5/242-Updated BPA contact information. No other changes. New Mexico Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (FERM). This solicitation is for road maintenance and construction work to be performed within the New Mexico National Forest area composed of the Carson, Cibola, Gila, Lincoln, Santa Fe, and Kiowa Forests. This solicitation and any resultant Blanket Purchase Agreements may incorporate service, construction, emergency work, and potential for other complex work requirements. See Attachments for more information.
New Mexico Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (FERM)
Current Award Information posted 2/13/2023. See Attachment. Solicitation is open continous and award information will be updated as needed. Amendment 1- 11/17/2022 See attachments for details (Amendment 01, Revised NM FERM Quote Package, and E_PSR-REVIE_C-GROUP 3 G3-4 EARTHEN BARRIER G3-4 (1). No extension to due date. New Mexico Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (FERM). This solicitation is for road maintenance and construction work to be performed within the New Mexico National Forest area composed of the Carson, Cibola, Gila, Lincoln, Santa Fe, and Kiowa Forests. This solicitation and any resultant Blanket Purchase Agreements may incorporate service, construction, emergency work, and potential for other complex work requirements. See Attachments for more information.
New Mexico Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (FERM)
Current Award Information posted 2/13/2023. See Attachment. Solicitation is open continous and award information will be updated as needed. Amendment 1- 11/17/2022 See attachments for details (Amendment 01, Revised NM FERM Quote Package, and E_PSR-REVIE_C-GROUP 3 G3-4 EARTHEN BARRIER G3-4 (1). No extension to due date. New Mexico Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (FERM). This solicitation is for road maintenance and construction work to be performed within the New Mexico National Forest area composed of the Carson, Cibola, Gila, Lincoln, Santa Fe, and Kiowa Forests. This solicitation and any resultant Blanket Purchase Agreements may incorporate service, construction, emergency work, and potential for other complex work requirements. See Attachments for more information.
LAND MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED RESOURCES (LMIR) NATIONAL BPA
POSTING CURRENT AWARDEE LIST AS OF 10/02/2023. No other changes. Edit on 10/12/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Edit on 3/20/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Amendment 3 03/16/2023- Amended the response due date as this is an Open Continuous BPA. No other changes. Amendment 2 01/27/2023- adding Q&A and adding general information and Q&A meeting information that will be on 02/01/2023 10:00am (PT). Call in information below. Amendment 1 01/24/2023-see attachment and updated documents for more detail. Awards start 02/01/2023 but this is an open continuous BPA. Quotes may be accepted the entire life of the BPA. Contractors are NOT required to submit pricing for every item; only the ones they choose. Contractors should only mark wich locations they wish to do the work in. There is not requirement to mark every location on the spreadsheet. The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA that will consist of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering, Project Management, NEPA, Communications, and more. The BPA will have a period of performance from early spring 2023 through early spring 2033 and can be utilities on all Forests and Grasslands and is available for all federal agencies to utilize. This solicitation will remain Open and Continuous to add vendors when determined necessary for the 10-year period it is active. Make sure your firm is updated and registered in the System for Award Management system (SAM) and current to conduct government business. Please read the entire solicitation thoroughly to ensure all requirements in your response are included. SCOPE OF BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT Work includes but is not limited to the following: Typical Service Activities Project Management Subleader to the Project Manager Equipment team leader Inspection Services (Road Construction/Engineering, etc.) Heritage/Archaeologist Landscape Architect Botany Fish Biologist Wildlife Biologist Non-native Fish Control and Eradication/Fish Screening/Bypassing Design and Implementation of Aquatic Organism Passage/Stream Simulation Hydrologist Hazardous Materials Soils Scientist Geologist Tribal Liaison Communications Specialist Community Engagement Specialist/Liaison Technology Specialists Data Steward (lower grade than technical specialist for data entry and admin support needs) Architect/Engineer Surveyor Forester Professional tree services Culturalist Economist Climate Specialists NEPA/Environmental Compliance Coordinator Tree planting Stocking surveys Invasive Plant Control Treating invasive plants using herbicides or manual control methods. Restoration Services Road Decommissioning/Obliteration/Soil De-compaction. Stream/Riparian/Wetland Restoration/Channel Realignment Sediment/Erosion Control. Plant Material Collection/Inventory/Mapping Native Grass and Forb Seed and Straw Production Plant Propagation Tree Climbing and Cone/Seed Collection/Tree Cooler Maintenance and Servicing Aerial Seeding/Mulching Application/Project Material(s) transport
LAND MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED RESOURCES (LMIR) NATIONAL BPA
POSTING CURRENT AWARDEE LIST AS OF 10/02/2023. No other changes. 12363N23Q4023 Land Management Integrated Resources BPA USDA National Forests Edit on 3/20/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Amendment 3 03/16/2023- Amended the response due date as this is an Open Continuous BPA. No other changes. Amendment 2 01/27/2023- adding Q&A and adding general information and Q&A meeting information that will be on 02/01/2023 10:00am (PT). Call in information below. Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer, mobile app or room device Click here to join the meeting Meeting ID: 288 503 108 960 Passcode: QWzB2s Download Teams | Join on the web Or call in (audio only) +1 202-650-0123,,244891250# United States, Washington DC Phone Conference ID: 244 891 250# Find a local number | Reset PIN Learn More | Meeting options Amendment 1 01/24/2023-see attachment and updated documents for more detail. Awards start 02/01/2023 but this is an open continuous BPA. Quotes may be accepted the entire life of the BPA. Contractors are NOT required to submit pricing for every item; only the ones they choose. Contractors should only mark wich locations they wish to do the work in. There is not requirement to mark every location on the spreadsheet. The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA that will consist of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering, Project Management, NEPA, Communications, and more. The BPA will have a period of performance from early spring 2023 through early spring 2033 and can be utilities on all Forests and Grasslands and is available for all federal agencies to utilize. This solicitation will remain Open and Continuous to add vendors when determined necessary for the 10-year period it is active. Make sure your firm is updated and registered in the System for Award Management system (SAM) and current to conduct government business. Please read the entire solicitation thoroughly to ensure all requirements in your response are included. SCOPE OF BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT Work includes but is not limited to the following: Typical Service Activities Project Management Subleader to the Project Manager Equipment team leader Inspection Services (Road Construction/Engineering, etc.) Heritage/Archaeologist Landscape Architect Botany Fish Biologist Wildlife Biologist Non-native Fish Control and Eradication/Fish Screening/Bypassing Design and Implementation of Aquatic Organism Passage/Stream Simulation Hydrologist Hazardous Materials Soils Scientist Geologist Tribal Liaison Communications Specialist Community Engagement Specialist/Liaison Technology Specialists Data Steward (lower grade than technical specialist for data entry and admin support needs) Architect/Engineer Surveyor Forester Professional tree services Culturalist Economist Climate Specialists NEPA/Environmental Compliance Coordinator Tree planting Stocking surveys Invasive Plant Control Treating invasive plants using herbicides or manual control methods. Restoration Services Road Decommissioning/Obliteration/Soil De-compaction. Stream/Riparian/Wetland Restoration/Channel Realignment Sediment/Erosion Control. Plant Material Collection/Inventory/Mapping Native Grass and Forb Seed and Straw Production Plant Propagation Tree Climbing and Cone/Seed Collection/Tree Cooler Maintenance and Servicing Aerial Seeding/Mulching Application/Project Material(s) transport
LAND MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED RESOURCES (LMIR) NATIONAL BPA
12363N23Q4023 Land Management Integrated Resources BPA USDA National Forests Edit on 3/20/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Amendment 3 03/16/2023- Amended the response due date as this is an Open Continuous BPA. No other changes. Amendment 2 01/27/2023- adding Q&A and adding general information and Q&A meeting information that will be on 02/01/2023 10:00am (PT). Call in information below. Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer, mobile app or room device Click here to join the meeting Meeting ID: 288 503 108 960 Passcode: QWzB2s Download Teams | Join on the web Or call in (audio only) +1 202-650-0123,,244891250# United States, Washington DC Phone Conference ID: 244 891 250# Find a local number | Reset PIN Learn More | Meeting options Amendment 1 01/24/2023-see attachment and updated documents for more detail. Awards start 02/01/2023 but this is an open continuous BPA. Quotes may be accepted the entire life of the BPA. Contractors are NOT required to submit pricing for every item; only the ones they choose. Contractors should only mark wich locations they wish to do the work in. There is not requirement to mark every location on the spreadsheet. The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA that will consist of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering, Project Management, NEPA, Communications, and more. The BPA will have a period of performance from early spring 2023 through early spring 2033 and can be utilities on all Forests and Grasslands and is available for all federal agencies to utilize. This solicitation will remain Open and Continuous to add vendors when determined necessary for the 10-year period it is active. Make sure your firm is updated and registered in the System for Award Management system (SAM) and current to conduct government business. Please read the entire solicitation thoroughly to ensure all requirements in your response are included. SCOPE OF BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT Work includes but is not limited to the following: Typical Service Activities Project Management Subleader to the Project Manager Equipment team leader Inspection Services (Road Construction/Engineering, etc.) Heritage/Archaeologist Landscape Architect Botany Fish Biologist Wildlife Biologist Non-native Fish Control and Eradication/Fish Screening/Bypassing Design and Implementation of Aquatic Organism Passage/Stream Simulation Hydrologist Hazardous Materials Soils Scientist Geologist Tribal Liaison Communications Specialist Community Engagement Specialist/Liaison Technology Specialists Data Steward (lower grade than technical specialist for data entry and admin support needs) Architect/Engineer Surveyor Forester Professional tree services Culturalist Economist Climate Specialists NEPA/Environmental Compliance Coordinator Tree planting Stocking surveys Invasive Plant Control Treating invasive plants using herbicides or manual control methods. Restoration Services Road Decommissioning/Obliteration/Soil De-compaction. Stream/Riparian/Wetland Restoration/Channel Realignment Sediment/Erosion Control. Plant Material Collection/Inventory/Mapping Native Grass and Forb Seed and Straw Production Plant Propagation Tree Climbing and Cone/Seed Collection/Tree Cooler Maintenance and Servicing Aerial Seeding/Mulching Application/Project Material(s) transport
LAND MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED RESOURCES (LMIR) NATIONAL BPA
12363N23Q4023 Land Management Integrated Resources BPA USDA National Forests Amendment 3 03/16/2023- Amended the response due date as this is an Open Continuous BPA. No other changes. Amendment 2 01/27/2023- adding Q&A and adding general information and Q&A meeting information that will be on 02/01/2023 10:00am (PT). Call in information below. Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer, mobile app or room device Click here to join the meeting Meeting ID: 288 503 108 960 Passcode: QWzB2s Download Teams | Join on the web Or call in (audio only) +1 202-650-0123,,244891250# United States, Washington DC Phone Conference ID: 244 891 250# Find a local number | Reset PIN Learn More | Meeting options Amendment 1 01/24/2023-see attachment and updated documents for more detail. Awards start 02/01/2023 but this is an open continuous BPA. Quotes may be accepted the entire life of the BPA. Contractors are NOT required to submit pricing for every item; only the ones they choose. Contractors should only mark wich locations they wish to do the work in. There is not requirement to mark every location on the spreadsheet. The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA that will consist of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering, Project Management, NEPA, Communications, and more. The BPA will have a period of performance from early spring 2023 through early spring 2033 and can be utilities on all Forests and Grasslands and is available for all federal agencies to utilize. This solicitation will remain Open and Continuous to add vendors when determined necessary for the 10-year period it is active. Make sure your firm is updated and registered in the System for Award Management system (SAM) and current to conduct government business. Please read the entire solicitation thoroughly to ensure all requirements in your response are included. SCOPE OF BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT Work includes but is not limited to the following: Typical Service Activities Project Management Subleader to the Project Manager Equipment team leader Inspection Services (Road Construction/Engineering, etc.) Heritage/Archaeologist Landscape Architect Botany Fish Biologist Wildlife Biologist Non-native Fish Control and Eradication/Fish Screening/Bypassing Design and Implementation of Aquatic Organism Passage/Stream Simulation Hydrologist Hazardous Materials Soils Scientist Geologist Tribal Liaison Communications Specialist Community Engagement Specialist/Liaison Technology Specialists Data Steward (lower grade than technical specialist for data entry and admin support needs) Architect/Engineer Surveyor Forester Professional tree services Culturalist Economist Climate Specialists NEPA/Environmental Compliance Coordinator Tree planting Stocking surveys Invasive Plant Control Treating invasive plants using herbicides or manual control methods. Restoration Services Road Decommissioning/Obliteration/Soil De-compaction. Stream/Riparian/Wetland Restoration/Channel Realignment Sediment/Erosion Control. Plant Material Collection/Inventory/Mapping Native Grass and Forb Seed and Straw Production Plant Propagation Tree Climbing and Cone/Seed Collection/Tree Cooler Maintenance and Servicing Aerial Seeding/Mulching Application/Project Material(s) transport
New Mexico Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (FERM)
Current Award Information posted 2/13/2023. See Attachment. Solicitation is open continous and award information will be updated as needed. Amendment 1- 11/17/2022 See attachments for details (Amendment 01, Revised NM FERM Quote Package, and E_PSR-REVIE_C-GROUP 3 G3-4 EARTHEN BARRIER G3-4 (1). No extension to due date. Update to posting 2/5/242-Updated BPA contact information. No other changes. New Mexico Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (FERM). This solicitation is for road maintenance and construction work to be performed within the New Mexico National Forest area composed of the Carson, Cibola, Gila, Lincoln, Santa Fe, and Kiowa Forests. This solicitation and any resultant Blanket Purchase Agreements may incorporate service, construction, emergency work, and potential for other complex work requirements. See Attachments for more information.
LAND MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED RESOURCES (LMIR) NATIONAL BPA
Amendment 5 03/31/2025- Amendment to update 12363N23Q4023 Solicitation with class deviations. Contractors should use '12363N23Q4023Solicitation-Final_Class Deviation Amendment' as the most current version moving forward. SF-30 Attached as well which is titlted '12363N23Q4023 Amend 5-Final'. Edit on 6/03/2024- POSTING CURRENT AWARDEE LIST AS OF 06/03/2024. No other changes. Amendment 4 03/21/2024- Updating/Adding new scopes and location options to LMIR BPA. Updated base evalation verbiage. See Amendment 4 attachments for futher details. POSTING CURRENT AWARDEE LIST AS OF 10/02/2023. No other changes. Edit on 10/12/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Edit on 3/20/2023- Updating POC info. No other changes. Amendment 3 03/16/2023- Amended the response due date as this is an Open Continuous BPA. No other changes. Amendment 2 01/27/2023- adding Q&A and adding general information and Q&A meeting information that will be on 02/01/2023 10:00am (PT). Call in information below. Amendment 1 01/24/2023-see attachment and updated documents for more detail. Awards start 02/01/2023 but this is an open continuous BPA. Quotes may be accepted the entire life of the BPA. Contractors are NOT required to submit pricing for every item; only the ones they choose. Contractors should only mark wich locations they wish to do the work in. There is not requirement to mark every location on the spreadsheet. The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA that will consist of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering, Project Management, NEPA, Communications, and more. The BPA will have a period of performance from early spring 2023 through early spring 2033 and can be utilities on all Forests and Grasslands and is available for all federal agencies to utilize. This solicitation will remain Open and Continuous to add vendors when determined necessary for the 10-year period it is active. Make sure your firm is updated and registered in the System for Award Management system (SAM) and current to conduct government business. All Current LMIR BPA Awardees can be found on the LMIR BPA Website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/business/lmir/?tab=business/lmir/ Please read the entire solicitation thoroughly to ensure all requirements in your response are included. SCOPE OF BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT Work includes but is not limited to the following: Typical Service Activities Project Management Subleader to the Project Manager Equipment team leader Inspection Services (Road Construction/Engineering, etc.) Heritage/Archaeologist Landscape Architect Botany Fish Biologist Wildlife Biologist Non-native Fish Control and Eradication/Fish Screening/Bypassing Design and Implementation of Aquatic Organism Passage/Stream Simulation Hydrologist Hazardous Materials Soils Scientist Geologist Tribal Liaison Communications Specialist Community Engagement Specialist/Liaison Technology Specialists Data Steward (lower grade than technical specialist for data entry and admin support needs) Architect/Engineer Surveyor Forester Professional tree services Culturalist Economist Climate Specialists NEPA/Environmental Compliance Coordinator Tree planting Stocking surveys Invasive Plant Control Treating invasive plants using herbicides or manual control methods. Restoration Services Road Decommissioning/Obliteration/Soil De-compaction. Stream/Riparian/Wetland Restoration/Channel Realignment Sediment/Erosion Control. Plant Material Collection/Inventory/Mapping Native Grass and Forb Seed and Straw Production Plant Propagation Tree Climbing and Cone/Seed Collection/Tree Cooler Maintenance and Servicing Aerial Seeding/Mulching Application/Project Material(s) transport
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS (N00024-19-R-4145 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA))
(PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 02 APRIL 2020) This is a modification to the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) N00024-19-R-4145 to extend the date for receipt of white papers and full proposals to 6 February 2028 and correct some administrative information. Any white papers that have already been submitted do not need to be resubmitted. Included in this modification to the BAA is revision to the Power Controls section to augment the desired technology interests. Included in this modification to the BAA is the identification of an electronic mail submission address for white papers. Included in this modification to the BAA is also a change to the identified Procuring Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist. The NAVSEA 0241 Points of Contact (POC) are changed as follows: the Primary Point of Contact remains Ms. Sakeena Siddiqi, Procuring Contracting Officer, sakeena.s.siddiqi.civ@us.navy.mil and Secondary Point of Contact shall be Mr. Tyler Pacak, tyler.pacak@navy.mil. All other information contained in the prior announcements through Apr 02, 2020 remain unchanged. (PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 04 JUNE 2019) I. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION This publication constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), as contemplated in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2). A formal Request for Proposals (RFP), solicitation, and/or additional information regarding this announcement will not be issued or further announced. This announcement will remain open for approximately one year from the date of publication or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. Initial responses to this announcement must be in the form of White Papers. Proposals shall be requested only from those offerors selected as a result of the scientific review of the White Papers made in accordance with the evaluation criteria specified herein. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. Awards may take the form of contracts, cooperative agreements, or other transactions agreements. The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) will not issue paper copies of this announcement. NAVSEA reserves the right to select for proposal submission all, some, or none from among the white papers submitted in response to this announcement. For those who are requested to submit proposals, NAVSEA reserves the right to award all, some, or none of the proposals received under this BAA. NAVSEA provides no funding for direct reimbursement of white paper or proposal development costs. Technical and cost proposals (or any other material) submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned. It is the policy of NAVSEA to treat all white papers and proposals as competition sensitive information and to disclose their contents only for the purposes of evaluation. White papers submitted under N00024-10-R-4215 that have not resulted in a request for a proposal are hereby considered closed-out and no further action will be taken on them. Unsuccessful offerors under N00024-10-R- 4215 are encouraged to review this BAA for relevance and resubmit if the technology proposed meets the criteria below. Contract awards made under N00024-10-R-4215 and under this BAA will be announced following the announcement criteria set forth in the FAR. II. GENERAL INFORMATION 1. AGENCY NAME Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 1333 Isaac Hull Ave SE Washington, DC 20376 2. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY TITLE Research and Development of Naval Power and Energy Systems 3. RESPONSE DATE This announcement will remain open through the response date indicated or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. 4. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION 4.1 SUMMARY NAVSEA, on behalf of the Electric Ships Office (PMS 460, organizationally a part of the Program Executive Office Ships) is interested in White Papers for long and short term Research and Development (R&D) projects that offer potential for advancement and improvements in current and future shipboard electric power and energy systems at the major component, subsystem and system level. The mission of PMS 460 is to develop and provide smaller, simpler, more affordable, and more capable ship power systems to the Navy by defining open architectures, developing common components, and focusing Navy, industry, and academia investments. PMS 460 will provide leadership of the developments identified as part of this BAA, will direct the transition of associated technologies developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and will manage the technology portfolio represented by Program Element (PE) 0603573N (Advanced Surface Machinery Systems) for transition into existing and future Navy ships. 4.2 NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP Naval power and energy systems are described in detail in the 2019 Naval Power and Energy Systems Technology Development Roadmap (NPES TDR). The NPES TDR focuses and aligns the power system investments for the Navy, Defense Department, industry and academia to guide future research and development investments to enable the Navy to leverage these investments to meet its future needs more affordably. Included in the NPES TDR are specific recommendations and opportunities for near, mid and long term investments, with a renewed focus on energy management. These opportunities range from an energy magazine to support advanced weapons and sensors to the development of an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES). The NPES TDR aligns electric power system developments with war fighter needs and enables capability-based budgeting. The NPES TDR is responding to the emerging needs of the Navy, and while the plan is specific in its recommendations, it is inherently flexible enough to adapt to the changing requirements and threats that may influence the 30-year ship acquisition plan. The first section of the roadmap establishes why NPES are a critical part of the kill chain based on the capabilities desired by the Navy in the near term, as well as supporting future platforms in the Navys 30-year shipbuilding plan. The second section of the roadmap presents power and energy requirements that are derived from mission systems necessary to support future warfighting needs. The third section describes required initiatives based on capabilities and the projected electrical requirements of the future ships. 4.3 FOCUS AREAS The areas of focus for this BAA include, but are not limited to, the "FYDP/NEAR-TERM" activities as described throughout the NPES TDR; the analysis, development, risk reduction and demonstration of future shipboard (both manned and unmanned) electric power systems and components, emphasizing shipboard power generation, electric propulsion, power conversion, energy storage, distribution and control; power quality, continuity, and system stability; electric power system and component level modeling and simulation; energy storage technologies; electrical system survivability; and power system simplicity, upgradeability, flexibility, and ruggedness. The Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) architecture provides the framework for partitioning the equipment and software into modules and defines functional elements and the power/control and information relationships between them. For power generation, high power distribution, propulsion, and large loads, the architecture includes Medium Voltage AC power (with emphasis on affordability), and Medium Voltage DC power (with emphasis on power density and fault management). For ship service electrical loads, the architecture includes zonal electrical distribution which may be either AC or DC, depending upon the specific application. Also of particular interest are technologies that result in significant energy efficiency, power density improvements and/or carbon footprint improvements over existing propulsion and power system technologies. The NPES TDR partitions the power system in to functional areas that include the following. 4.3.1 ENERGY STORAGE Energy storage modules may support short duration to long duration energy storage applications, which utilize a combination of technologies to minimize power quality and continuity impacts across the system. For the short duration energy storage applications, the module should provide hold-up power to uninterruptible loads for fault clearing and transient isolation, as well as load leveling for pulse power loads. For the mid duration, the module should provide up to approximately 3MW (100 - 150 kW-hr) of standby power for pulse power loads while also providing continuity of operations for a subset of equipment between uninterruptible and full ships load (including emergency power generation starting in a dark ship condition). For long duration applications, energy storage modules should provide the required power as an emergency backup system or to provide increased stealth for specialty equipment. The required duration for this type of application may extend up to days or longer, and may be intermittent or continuous. A number of energy storage technologies for future ship applications are of interest to the Navy, including various electrochemical, capacitor-based, or rotating discussed below: a. Capacitor: Electrochemical capacitor improvements continue to focus on improving energy density while maintaining inherently high-power density. Design improvements include development and integration of higher temperature films, advanced electrolytes, advanced electrode materials, and minimizing equivalent series resistance (ESR). b. Rotating: The Navy has interest in the investment from the transportation industry in flywheel systems that can handle gyroscopic forces continues to support flywheel usage in commercial rail and ground transportation. Additional factors of interest to the Navy include safety, recharge/discharge rates, ship motion impacts, environmental impacts and control. c. Electrochemical: Factors of interest to the Navy with respect to electrochemical energy storage include the ability to maintain state of charge when not in use; change in voltage versus state of charge; charge and discharge capability; the temporary or permanent loss of capacity due to repeated shallow discharges; the ability to shallow charge and discharge or partially charge intermittently during a discharge; battery life considerations such as service-life, cycle life, and shelf-life; off-gas properties that affect the level of ventilation and associated auxiliary systems; and safety enhancements to support qualification for use onboard US Navy ships. Near term Navy interests are in the area of common and scalable hardware and software elements which enable advanced weapons and sensors and in understanding the sizing algorithms for how to optimize energy storage sizing against various competing system requirements (short duration/high power vs. long duration/low power, for example. The specific design issues to be considered include reliability, volumetric and gravimetric power and energy densities, differentiating between high levels of stored energy and high energy density. The relevant information required for characterizing technology performance include: Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of components and systems; production capability; safety evaluation and qualifications performed on relevant subsystems or components (any hazard analyses of systems designs as relevant to notional applications); other military application of the devices; energy storage management system approach; thermal characteristics, constraints, and cooling requirements; auxiliary requirements (load); device impedance (heat generation characteristics); and device efficiency (discharge/recharge). 4.3.2 POWER CONVERSION Industry continues to drive towards increased power density, increased efficiency, higher switching frequencies, and refined topologies with associated control schemes. Innovation in power conversion from the development and implementation of wide-bandgap devices, such as Silicon Carbide (SiC), promise reduction in losses many times over Silicon. The use of high frequency transformers can provide galvanic isolation with reduced size and weight compared to traditional transformers. Advances in cooling methods will be required to handle larger heat loads associated with higher power operation. A typical Navy power conversion module might consist of a solid state power converter and/or a transformer. Advanced topologies and technologies, such as the application of wide band gap devices, are of particular interest. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to address converting high voltage AC/DC to 1000 VDC with power levels on the order of 3MW or larger. The specific design issues to be considered include modularity, open architecture (focusing on future power system flexibility and the ability of a conversion module within a ships power system to be replaced/ upgraded in support of lifecycle mission system upgrades), reliability, cost, and conversion efficiency. Areas of interest include more power-dense converters supporting advanced mission systems and prototyping of full scale conversion based on second generation wide-bandgap devices. 4.3.3 POWER DISTRIBUTION Power distribution typically consists of bus duct/ bus pipe, cables, connections, switchgear and fault protection equipment, load centers, and other hardware necessary to deliver power from generators to loads. Industry has used medium voltage DC (MVDC) transmission as a method to reduce losses across long distances. Complementarily, Industry is developing MVDC circuit protection for use in MVDC transmission variants of approximately 50, 100, and 150 megawatts (MW) at transmission voltages of 20 to 50 kVDC. Analysis includes modeling and simulation to determine methods for assessing the benefits of DC vs AC undersea transmission and distribution systems for offshore oil and gas. Industry and academia continue to invest resources in advanced conductors that have applications in power distribution, power generation, and propulsion. Research is focused on using carbon nanotubes. The development of a room temperature, lightweight, low resistance conductor is of great interest to the Navy. Areas of interest include development of an MVDC distribution system up to 12 kVDC to meet maximum load demands; design of an appropriate in-zone distribution system architecture; development of high speed 1 kVDC and 12 kVDC solid state circuit protection devices that are ship ready, and advanced conductors capable of supporting power distribution. 4.3.4 PRIME MOVERS (INCLUDING POWER GENERATION) Power Generation converts fuel into electrical power. A typical power generation module might consist of a gas turbine or diesel engine (prime mover), a generator (see rotating machine discussion below), a rectifier (either active or passive), auxiliary support sub-modules and module controls. Other possible power generation technologies include propulsion derived ship service (PDSS), fuel cells, or other direct energy conversion concepts. Power generation concepts include 60 Hz wound rotor synchronous generator driven directly by a marine gas turbine (up to 30 MVA rating); commercially derived or militarized design variants of the above; and higher speed, higher frequency, high power density variants of the above with high speed or geared turbine drive. NPES DC technologies permit prime movers and other electrical sources (such as energy storage) to operate at different, non-60Hz electrical frequency speeds, improving survivability, resiliency, and operational availability. Energy storage that is fully integrated with the power generation can enable uninterrupted power to high priority loads, mission systems that reduce susceptibility, and damage control systems to enable enhanced recoverability. The specific design issues to be considered include fuel efficiency, module level power density, machine insulation system characteristics, size, weight, cost, maintainability, availability, harmonic loading, voltage, power, system grounding approaches, fault protection, response to large dynamic (step) or pulse type loading originated from ship propulsion or directed energy/electromagnetic weapons, interface to main or ship service bus, autonomy, limited maintenance, and commercial availability. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to power generation in the 5 to 30 MW range, utilizing gas turbines, diesel engines and other emerging power technologies that address challenges associated with achieving reduced fuel consumption, decreased life cycle and acquisition cost, support of ship integration, enable flexibility, enable power upgrades, and improved environmental compliance. Near term Navy interest includes 10-30 MW (nominally 25 MW) output power rating and the power generation source able to supply two independent electrical buses (where abnormal conditions, including pulsed/stochastic loads, on one bus do not impact the other bus) at 12 kVDC (while also considering 6kVDC, 18kVDC, and 1 kVDC). Enhanced fuel injection, higher operating temperatures and pressures, and optimized thermal management are critical for future prime movers. Advanced controls for increased efficiency, reduced maintenance, and increased reliability include implementation of digital controls; autonomous and unmanned power control; enhanced engine monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics; and distributed controls. Advanced designs for increased efficiency include new applications of thermodynamic cycles such as Humphrey/Atkinson cycle for gas turbines and diesels and Miller cycle for diesel. The Navy is interested in developing a knowledge bank of information on potential generator sets, generator electrical interface requirements, and the impacts of those requirements on generator set performance and size, as a logical next step from the Request for Information released under announcement N00024-16-R-4205. A long-term goal for this effort is to maximize military effectiveness through design choice and configuration option flexibility when developing next-generation distribution plants. The power generation source should fit within the length of a typical engine room (46 feet, including allowances for any needed maintenance and component removal). The power generation source is expected to have the ability to: control steady-state voltage-current characteristic for its interface; to maintain stability; and to adjust control set-points from system level controllers. For any proposed design approach, initial efforts would include conceptual design trade studies that inform the performance level that can be achieved. Trade studies may address Pulsed Load Capability (generator/rectifier design to increase pulse load capability, engine speed variation limits, and impact of cyclic pulse load on component life); Power Density (cost vs. benefits of high speed or high frequency, mounting on common skid, and advanced cooling concepts); Single vs. Dual Outputs (continuous vs. pulse rating for each output, voltage regulation with shared field, and control of load sharing); Efficiency (part load vs. full load optimization, flexible speed regulation, impact of intake and exhaust duct size/pressure drop on engine efficiency); Power Quality (voltage transient, voltage modulation for step, pulse loads, impact of voltage and current ripple requirements, and common mode current); PGM Controls (prime mover speed vs. generator field vs. rectifier active phase angle control, and pulse anticipation); Stability when operating in parallel with other sources; Short Circuit Requirements; and Dark Ship start capability (self-contained support auxiliaries). Trade studies may also address how rotational energy storage can be built into the design of the generator or added to the generator and what parameters need to be defined in order to exploit this capability. Development of advanced coatings and materials that support high temperature operations of a gas turbine is also of interest. Energy harvesting to convert heat energy and specifically low quality heat energy to electricity using solid state components is also of interest to the Navy. 4.3.5 ROTATING MACHINES (INCLUDING GENERATORS AND PROPULSION MOTORS) Recent trends in electrical machines include neural networks; artificial intelligence; expert system; fiber communications and integrated electronics; new ceramic conducting and dielectric materials; and magnetic levitation. High Temperature Superconducting rotors have higher power density than their induction and synchronous rotor counterparts. Wind power generators eliminate excitation losses which can account for 30% of total generator losses. The offshore wind power industry is moving to larger power wind tower generators in the 10MW class. Advanced low resistance room temperature wire and HTS shows promise for these higher power levels because of low excitation losses and low weight due to reduction in stator and rotor iron. HTS motors may be up to 50% smaller and lighter than traditional iron-core and copper machines. They have reduced harmonic vibrations due to minimization of flux path iron and have mitigated thermal cycling failures due to precision control of temperature. Propulsion motor concepts of interest to the Navy include Permanent Magnet Motors (radial air gap, axial air gap, or transverse flux), Induction Motors (wound rotor or squirrel cage), superconducting field type (homopolar DC or synchronous AC). The drivers and issues associated with these designs include acoustic signature, noise (requirements, limitations, modeling, sources, and mitigation methods), shock, vibration, thermal management, manufacturing infrastructure, machine insulation system characteristics, commercial commonality, platform commonality, cost, torque, power, weight, diameter, length, voltage, motor configuration, and ship arrangements constraints. Motor drives that may be explored include cyclo-converter (with variations in control and power device types), pulse width modulated converter/inverter (with many variations in topology), switching (hard switched, soft switched), and matrix converter (with variations in control, topology, cooling, power device type). Technologies for drives and rotating machines which allow the ability to operate as a motor and a generator to facilitate a PDSS installation or on a fully integrated power system to leverage the inherent energy storage in the ship's motion may be explored. Integrated motor/propulsor concepts may be considered either as aft-mounted main propulsion or as a forward propulsor capable of propelling a ship at a tactically useful speed. Areas of interest for future rotating machines include increased magnetic material flux carrying or flux generation capacity; improved electrical insulation material and insulation system dielectric strength; increased mechanical strength, increased thermal conductivity, and reduced sensitivity to temperature; improved structural materials and design concepts that accept higher torsional and electromagnetically induced stress; innovative and aggressive cooling to allow improved thermal management and increased current loading; increased electrical conductor current carrying capacity and loss reduction. 4.3.6 COOLING AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT As the demand and complexity of high energy loads increases, so does the demand and complexity of thermal management solutions. Assessing and optimizing the effectiveness of a thermal management system requires the analysis of thermal energy acquisition, thermal energy transport, and thermal energy rejection, storage, and conversion. The design of the thermal management system aims to transfer the thermal energy loads at the sources to the sinks in the most efficient manner. Areas of interest to the Navy with respect to cooling and thermal management include the application of two phased cooling and other advanced cooling techniques to power electronics and other NPES components and innovative approaches to manage overall ship thermal management issues including advanced thermal architectures, thermal energy storage systems, increases in efficiency, and advanced control philosophies. 4.3.7 POWER CONTROLS Controls manage power and energy flow within the ship to ensure delivery to the right load in the right form at the right time. Supervisory power system control typically resides on an external distributed computer system and therefore does not include hardware elements unless specialized hardware is required. The challenge to implement Tactical Energy Management (TEM) is to integrate energy storage, power generation, and interfaces with advanced warfighting systems and controls. TEM is critical to enabling full utilization of the capabilities possible from technologies under development. The state complexity and combat engagement timelines for notional future warfighting scenarios are expected to exceed the cognitive capacity and response times of human operators to effectively manage the electric plant via existing control system schema in support of executing ship missions. The survivability requirements for military ships combined with the higher dynamic power characterisitics (pulse load) characteristics of some mission systems will require more sophisticated control interfaces, power management approaches, and algorithms than are commercially available. The Navy is pursuing a long term strategy to create a unified, cyber secure architecture for machinery control systems that feature a common, reusable, cyber hardened machinery control domain specific infrastructure elements; a mechanism for transitioning new technology from a variety of sources in an efficient and consistent manner; and a mechanism to provide life cycle updates and support in a cost effective and timely manner. TEM controls will be expected to maintain awareness of the electric plant operating state (real time modeling); interface with ship mission planning (external to the electric plant control systems) for energy resource prioritization, planning, and coordination towards the identification of resource allocation states that dynamically optimize mission effectiveness; identify and select optimal trajectories to achieving those optimal resource allocation states; and actuate the relevant electric plant components to move the electric plant state along those optimized trajectories towards the optimal resource allocation state. TEM controls would enable reduced power and energy system resource requirements for a given capability (or improved capability for a given set of resources); increased adaptability of the Navy’s power and energy system design to keep pace with an evolving threat environment; and maximized abilities to execute the ship’s mission. The Navy is interested in potential applications of distributed control architectures that have led to the development of intelligent agents that have some autonomous ability to reason about system state and enact appropriate control policies. A simple example of these agents in a control system is the use of autonomous software coupled with smart meters in a smart grid implementation. The agents, smart meters in this example, can temporarily shut off air conditioning but not the refrigerator in residences during grid peak power usage times when the cost per watt is highest on hot days. The agent software acts autonomously within its authority to comply with programmed customer desires. The Navy is interested in TEM controls within a modular open systems architecture framework such that they are agnostic of, but affordably customizable to, specific ship platforms and power system architectures. TEM controls may reside between (i.e. interface with) embedded layers within individual power system components, ships’ supervisory machinery control systems, and ships’ mission planning systems. Initial or further development or modification of these interfaces may be required to achieve desired performance behaviors and characteristics. TEM controls are expected to develop within a model-based system engineering and digital engineering environment and will be initially evaluated in a purely computational environment, representing Navy-developed shipboard-representative power and energy system architecture(s), but will be progressively evaluated on systems with increasing levels of physical instantiation (i.e., controller-hardware-in-loop and power-hardware-in-loop with progressive levels of representative power system components physically instantiated). When implementing a TEM based control scheme, the overall power system should increase installed power generation available to mission and auxiliary loads; reduce power system design margins; hone the installed stored energy required for mission critical capability; and allow higher power transients (ramp rates and step loads). Other areas of interest to the Navy with respect to controls include improvements to traditional machinery control and automation, advanced power management, cyber security, and advanced controls for distributed shared energy storage and maintaining electrical system stability. The Navy is also interested in non-intrusive load monitoring, power system data analytics, real time system monitoring and onboard analysis and diagnostics capabilities. 4.3.8 SYSTEM INTERPLAY, INTERFACING, AND INTEGRATION Increasingly, the Navy is recognizing the need for incorporating flexibility and adaptability into initial ship designs and recognizing that the integration of new systems and the ability to rapidly reconfigure them will be an ongoing challenge throughout a platform's life cycle in order to maintain warfighting relevancy. The ability to support advanced electrical payload warfighting technologies requires not only power and energy systems delivered with the flexibility and adaptability to accommodate them, but a NPES engineering enterprise with the capability and capacity (knowledge, labor, and capital) for continuous systems integration. The Navy can more affordably meet this challenge by shifting as much effort as possible into the computational modeling and simulation regime. An Integrated Power System (IPS) provides total ship electric power including electric propulsion, power conversion and distribution, energy storage, combat system support and ship mission load interfaces to the electric power system. Adding Energy Storage and advanced controls to IPS results in an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) in order to accommodate future high energy weapons and sensors. The IPES Energy Magazine is available to multiple users, and provides enhanced power continuity to the power distribution system. The flexibility of electric power transmission allows power generating modules with various power ratings to be connected to propulsion loads and ship service in any arrangement that supports the ships mission at the lowest total ownership cost (TOC). Systems engineering in IPS/IPES is focused on increasing the commonality of components used across ship types (both manned and unmanned) and in developing modules that will be integral to standardization, zonal system architectures, and generic shipbuilding strategies with standard interfaces that are Navy-controlled. IPES offers the potential to reduce signatures by changing the frequency and amplitude of acoustic and electromagnetic emissions. Integrated energy storage can reduce observability by enabling the reduction and elimination of prime movers, thereby reducing thermal and acoustic signatures. The modules or components developed will be assessed for applicability both to new construction and to back-fit opportunities that improve the energy efficiency and mission effectiveness. Areas of Navy interest are to continuously improve IPS/IPES by performing analysis, modeling...
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS (N00024-19-R-4145 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA))
(PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 02 APRIL 2020) This is a modification to the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) N00024-19-R-4145 to extend the date for receipt of white papers and full proposals to 6 February 2028 and correct some administrative information. Any white papers that have already been submitted do not need to be resubmitted. Included in this modification to the BAA is revision to the Power Controls section to augment the desired technology interests. Included in this modification to the BAA is the identification of an electronic mail submission address for white papers. Included in this modification to the BAA is also a change to the identified Procuring Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist. The NAVSEA 0241 Points of Contact (POC) are changed as follows: the Primary Point of Contact remains Mr. Jerry Low, Procuring Contracting Officer, jerry.low1@navy.mil and Secondary Point of Contact shall be Mr. Tyler Pacak, tyler.pacak@navy.mil. All other information contained in the prior announcements through Apr 02, 2020 remain unchanged. (PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 04 JUNE 2019) I. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION This publication constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), as contemplated in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2). A formal Request for Proposals (RFP), solicitation, and/or additional information regarding this announcement will not be issued or further announced. This announcement will remain open for approximately one year from the date of publication or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. Initial responses to this announcement must be in the form of White Papers. Proposals shall be requested only from those offerors selected as a result of the scientific review of the White Papers made in accordance with the evaluation criteria specified herein. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. Awards may take the form of contracts, cooperative agreements, or other transactions agreements. The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) will not issue paper copies of this announcement. NAVSEA reserves the right to select for proposal submission all, some, or none from among the white papers submitted in response to this announcement. For those who are requested to submit proposals, NAVSEA reserves the right to award all, some, or none of the proposals received under this BAA. NAVSEA provides no funding for direct reimbursement of white paper or proposal development costs. Technical and cost proposals (or any other material) submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned. It is the policy of NAVSEA to treat all white papers and proposals as competition sensitive information and to disclose their contents only for the purposes of evaluation. White papers submitted under N00024-10-R-4215 that have not resulted in a request for a proposal are hereby considered closed-out and no further action will be taken on them. Unsuccessful offerors under N00024-10-R- 4215 are encouraged to review this BAA for relevance and resubmit if the technology proposed meets the criteria below. Contract awards made under N00024-10-R-4215 and under this BAA will be announced following the announcement criteria set forth in the FAR. II. GENERAL INFORMATION 1. AGENCY NAME Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 1333 Isaac Hull Ave SE Washington, DC 20376 2. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY TITLE Research and Development of Naval Power and Energy Systems 3. RESPONSE DATE This announcement will remain open through the response date indicated or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. 4. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION 4.1 SUMMARY NAVSEA, on behalf of the Electric Ships Office (PMS 460, organizationally a part of the Program Executive Office Ships) is interested in White Papers for long and short term Research and Development (R&D) projects that offer potential for advancement and improvements in current and future shipboard electric power and energy systems at the major component, subsystem and system level. The mission of PMS 460 is to develop and provide smaller, simpler, more affordable, and more capable ship power systems to the Navy by defining open architectures, developing common components, and focusing Navy, industry, and academia investments. PMS 460 will provide leadership of the developments identified as part of this BAA, will direct the transition of associated technologies developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and will manage the technology portfolio represented by Program Element (PE) 0603573N (Advanced Surface Machinery Systems) for transition into existing and future Navy ships. 4.2 NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP Naval power and energy systems are described in detail in the 2019 Naval Power and Energy Systems Technology Development Roadmap (NPES TDR). The NPES TDR focuses and aligns the power system investments for the Navy, Defense Department, industry and academia to guide future research and development investments to enable the Navy to leverage these investments to meet its future needs more affordably. Included in the NPES TDR are specific recommendations and opportunities for near, mid and long term investments, with a renewed focus on energy management. These opportunities range from an energy magazine to support advanced weapons and sensors to the development of an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES). The NPES TDR aligns electric power system developments with war fighter needs and enables capability-based budgeting. The NPES TDR is responding to the emerging needs of the Navy, and while the plan is specific in its recommendations, it is inherently flexible enough to adapt to the changing requirements and threats that may influence the 30-year ship acquisition plan. The first section of the roadmap establishes why NPES are a critical part of the kill chain based on the capabilities desired by the Navy in the near term, as well as supporting future platforms in the Navys 30-year shipbuilding plan. The second section of the roadmap presents power and energy requirements that are derived from mission systems necessary to support future warfighting needs. The third section describes required initiatives based on capabilities and the projected electrical requirements of the future ships. 4.3 FOCUS AREAS The areas of focus for this BAA include, but are not limited to, the "FYDP/NEAR-TERM" activities as described throughout the NPES TDR; the analysis, development, risk reduction and demonstration of future shipboard (both manned and unmanned) electric power systems and components, emphasizing shipboard power generation, electric propulsion, power conversion, energy storage, distribution and control; power quality, continuity, and system stability; electric power system and component level modeling and simulation; energy storage technologies; electrical system survivability; and power system simplicity, upgradeability, flexibility, and ruggedness. The Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) architecture provides the framework for partitioning the equipment and software into modules and defines functional elements and the power/control and information relationships between them. For power generation, high power distribution, propulsion, and large loads, the architecture includes Medium Voltage AC power (with emphasis on affordability), and Medium Voltage DC power (with emphasis on power density and fault management). For ship service electrical loads, the architecture includes zonal electrical distribution which may be either AC or DC, depending upon the specific application. Also of particular interest are technologies that result in significant energy efficiency, power density improvements and/or carbon footprint improvements over existing propulsion and power system technologies. The NPES TDR partitions the power system in to functional areas that include the following. 4.3.1 ENERGY STORAGE Energy storage modules may support short duration to long duration energy storage applications, which utilize a combination of technologies to minimize power quality and continuity impacts across the system. For the short duration energy storage applications, the module should provide hold-up power to uninterruptible loads for fault clearing and transient isolation, as well as load leveling for pulse power loads. For the mid duration, the module should provide up to approximately 3MW (100 - 150 kW-hr) of standby power for pulse power loads while also providing continuity of operations for a subset of equipment between uninterruptible and full ships load (including emergency power generation starting in a dark ship condition). For long duration applications, energy storage modules should provide the required power as an emergency backup system or to provide increased stealth for specialty equipment. The required duration for this type of application may extend up to days or longer, and may be intermittent or continuous. A number of energy storage technologies for future ship applications are of interest to the Navy, including various electrochemical, capacitor-based, or rotating discussed below: a. Capacitor: Electrochemical capacitor improvements continue to focus on improving energy density while maintaining inherently high-power density. Design improvements include development and integration of higher temperature films, advanced electrolytes, advanced electrode materials, and minimizing equivalent series resistance (ESR). b. Rotating: The Navy has interest in the investment from the transportation industry in flywheel systems that can handle gyroscopic forces continues to support flywheel usage in commercial rail and ground transportation. Additional factors of interest to the Navy include safety, recharge/discharge rates, ship motion impacts, environmental impacts and control. c. Electrochemical: Factors of interest to the Navy with respect to electrochemical energy storage include the ability to maintain state of charge when not in use; change in voltage versus state of charge; charge and discharge capability; the temporary or permanent loss of capacity due to repeated shallow discharges; the ability to shallow charge and discharge or partially charge intermittently during a discharge; battery life considerations such as service-life, cycle life, and shelf-life; off-gas properties that affect the level of ventilation and associated auxiliary systems; and safety enhancements to support qualification for use onboard US Navy ships. Near term Navy interests are in the area of common and scalable hardware and software elements which enable advanced weapons and sensors and in understanding the sizing algorithms for how to optimize energy storage sizing against various competing system requirements (short duration/high power vs. long duration/low power, for example. The specific design issues to be considered include reliability, volumetric and gravimetric power and energy densities, differentiating between high levels of stored energy and high energy density. The relevant information required for characterizing technology performance include: Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of components and systems; production capability; safety evaluation and qualifications performed on relevant subsystems or components (any hazard analyses of systems designs as relevant to notional applications); other military application of the devices; energy storage management system approach; thermal characteristics, constraints, and cooling requirements; auxiliary requirements (load); device impedance (heat generation characteristics); and device efficiency (discharge/recharge). 4.3.2 POWER CONVERSION Industry continues to drive towards increased power density, increased efficiency, higher switching frequencies, and refined topologies with associated control schemes. Innovation in power conversion from the development and implementation of wide-bandgap devices, such as Silicon Carbide (SiC), promise reduction in losses many times over Silicon. The use of high frequency transformers can provide galvanic isolation with reduced size and weight compared to traditional transformers. Advances in cooling methods will be required to handle larger heat loads associated with higher power operation. A typical Navy power conversion module might consist of a solid state power converter and/or a transformer. Advanced topologies and technologies, such as the application of wide band gap devices, are of particular interest. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to address converting high voltage AC/DC to 1000 VDC with power levels on the order of 3MW or larger. The specific design issues to be considered include modularity, open architecture (focusing on future power system flexibility and the ability of a conversion module within a ships power system to be replaced/ upgraded in support of lifecycle mission system upgrades), reliability, cost, and conversion efficiency. Areas of interest include more power-dense converters supporting advanced mission systems and prototyping of full scale conversion based on second generation wide-bandgap devices. 4.3.3 POWER DISTRIBUTION Power distribution typically consists of bus duct/ bus pipe, cables, connections, switchgear and fault protection equipment, load centers, and other hardware necessary to deliver power from generators to loads. Industry has used medium voltage DC (MVDC) transmission as a method to reduce losses across long distances. Complementarily, Industry is developing MVDC circuit protection for use in MVDC transmission variants of approximately 50, 100, and 150 megawatts (MW) at transmission voltages of 20 to 50 kVDC. Analysis includes modeling and simulation to determine methods for assessing the benefits of DC vs AC undersea transmission and distribution systems for offshore oil and gas. Industry and academia continue to invest resources in advanced conductors that have applications in power distribution, power generation, and propulsion. Research is focused on using carbon nanotubes. The development of a room temperature, lightweight, low resistance conductor is of great interest to the Navy. Areas of interest include development of an MVDC distribution system up to 12 kVDC to meet maximum load demands; design of an appropriate in-zone distribution system architecture; development of high speed 1 kVDC and 12 kVDC solid state circuit protection devices that are ship ready, and advanced conductors capable of supporting power distribution. 4.3.4 PRIME MOVERS (INCLUDING POWER GENERATION) Power Generation converts fuel into electrical power. A typical power generation module might consist of a gas turbine or diesel engine (prime mover), a generator (see rotating machine discussion below), a rectifier (either active or passive), auxiliary support sub-modules and module controls. Other possible power generation technologies include propulsion derived ship service (PDSS), fuel cells, or other direct energy conversion concepts. Power generation concepts include 60 Hz wound rotor synchronous generator driven directly by a marine gas turbine (up to 30 MVA rating); commercially derived or militarized design variants of the above; and higher speed, higher frequency, high power density variants of the above with high speed or geared turbine drive. NPES DC technologies permit prime movers and other electrical sources (such as energy storage) to operate at different, non-60Hz electrical frequency speeds, improving survivability, resiliency, and operational availability. Energy storage that is fully integrated with the power generation can enable uninterrupted power to high priority loads, mission systems that reduce susceptibility, and damage control systems to enable enhanced recoverability. The specific design issues to be considered include fuel efficiency, module level power density, machine insulation system characteristics, size, weight, cost, maintainability, availability, harmonic loading, voltage, power, system grounding approaches, fault protection, response to large dynamic (step) or pulse type loading originated from ship propulsion or directed energy/electromagnetic weapons, interface to main or ship service bus, autonomy, limited maintenance, and commercial availability. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to power generation in the 5 to 30 MW range, utilizing gas turbines, diesel engines and other emerging power technologies that address challenges associated with achieving reduced fuel consumption, decreased life cycle and acquisition cost, support of ship integration, enable flexibility, enable power upgrades, and improved environmental compliance. Near term Navy interest includes 10-30 MW (nominally 25 MW) output power rating and the power generation source able to supply two independent electrical buses (where abnormal conditions, including pulsed/stochastic loads, on one bus do not impact the other bus) at 12 kVDC (while also considering 6kVDC, 18kVDC, and 1 kVDC). Enhanced fuel injection, higher operating temperatures and pressures, and optimized thermal management are critical for future prime movers. Advanced controls for increased efficiency, reduced maintenance, and increased reliability include implementation of digital controls; autonomous and unmanned power control; enhanced engine monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics; and distributed controls. Advanced designs for increased efficiency include new applications of thermodynamic cycles such as Humphrey/Atkinson cycle for gas turbines and diesels and Miller cycle for diesel. The Navy is interested in developing a knowledge bank of information on potential generator sets, generator electrical interface requirements, and the impacts of those requirements on generator set performance and size, as a logical next step from the Request for Information released under announcement N00024-16-R-4205. A long-term goal for this effort is to maximize military effectiveness through design choice and configuration option flexibility when developing next-generation distribution plants. The power generation source should fit within the length of a typical engine room (46 feet, including allowances for any needed maintenance and component removal). The power generation source is expected to have the ability to: control steady-state voltage-current characteristic for its interface; to maintain stability; and to adjust control set-points from system level controllers. For any proposed design approach, initial efforts would include conceptual design trade studies that inform the performance level that can be achieved. Trade studies may address Pulsed Load Capability (generator/rectifier design to increase pulse load capability, engine speed variation limits, and impact of cyclic pulse load on component life); Power Density (cost vs. benefits of high speed or high frequency, mounting on common skid, and advanced cooling concepts); Single vs. Dual Outputs (continuous vs. pulse rating for each output, voltage regulation with shared field, and control of load sharing); Efficiency (part load vs. full load optimization, flexible speed regulation, impact of intake and exhaust duct size/pressure drop on engine efficiency); Power Quality (voltage transient, voltage modulation for step, pulse loads, impact of voltage and current ripple requirements, and common mode current); PGM Controls (prime mover speed vs. generator field vs. rectifier active phase angle control, and pulse anticipation); Stability when operating in parallel with other sources; Short Circuit Requirements; and Dark Ship start capability (self-contained support auxiliaries). Trade studies may also address how rotational energy storage can be built into the design of the generator or added to the generator and what parameters need to be defined in order to exploit this capability. Development of advanced coatings and materials that support high temperature operations of a gas turbine is also of interest. Energy harvesting to convert heat energy and specifically low quality heat energy to electricity using solid state components is also of interest to the Navy. 4.3.5 ROTATING MACHINES (INCLUDING GENERATORS AND PROPULSION MOTORS) Recent trends in electrical machines include neural networks; artificial intelligence; expert system; fiber communications and integrated electronics; new ceramic conducting and dielectric materials; and magnetic levitation. High Temperature Superconducting rotors have higher power density than their induction and synchronous rotor counterparts. Wind power generators eliminate excitation losses which can account for 30% of total generator losses. The offshore wind power industry is moving to larger power wind tower generators in the 10MW class. Advanced low resistance room temperature wire and HTS shows promise for these higher power levels because of low excitation losses and low weight due to reduction in stator and rotor iron. HTS motors may be up to 50% smaller and lighter than traditional iron-core and copper machines. They have reduced harmonic vibrations due to minimization of flux path iron and have mitigated thermal cycling failures due to precision control of temperature. Propulsion motor concepts of interest to the Navy include Permanent Magnet Motors (radial air gap, axial air gap, or transverse flux), Induction Motors (wound rotor or squirrel cage), superconducting field type (homopolar DC or synchronous AC). The drivers and issues associated with these designs include acoustic signature, noise (requirements, limitations, modeling, sources, and mitigation methods), shock, vibration, thermal management, manufacturing infrastructure, machine insulation system characteristics, commercial commonality, platform commonality, cost, torque, power, weight, diameter, length, voltage, motor configuration, and ship arrangements constraints. Motor drives that may be explored include cyclo-converter (with variations in control and power device types), pulse width modulated converter/inverter (with many variations in topology), switching (hard switched, soft switched), and matrix converter (with variations in control, topology, cooling, power device type). Technologies for drives and rotating machines which allow the ability to operate as a motor and a generator to facilitate a PDSS installation or on a fully integrated power system to leverage the inherent energy storage in the ship's motion may be explored. Integrated motor/propulsor concepts may be considered either as aft-mounted main propulsion or as a forward propulsor capable of propelling a ship at a tactically useful speed. Areas of interest for future rotating machines include increased magnetic material flux carrying or flux generation capacity; improved electrical insulation material and insulation system dielectric strength; increased mechanical strength, increased thermal conductivity, and reduced sensitivity to temperature; improved structural materials and design concepts that accept higher torsional and electromagnetically induced stress; innovative and aggressive cooling to allow improved thermal management and increased current loading; increased electrical conductor current carrying capacity and loss reduction. 4.3.6 COOLING AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT As the demand and complexity of high energy loads increases, so does the demand and complexity of thermal management solutions. Assessing and optimizing the effectiveness of a thermal management system requires the analysis of thermal energy acquisition, thermal energy transport, and thermal energy rejection, storage, and conversion. The design of the thermal management system aims to transfer the thermal energy loads at the sources to the sinks in the most efficient manner. Areas of interest to the Navy with respect to cooling and thermal management include the application of two phased cooling and other advanced cooling techniques to power electronics and other NPES components and innovative approaches to manage overall ship thermal management issues including advanced thermal architectures, thermal energy storage systems, increases in efficiency, and advanced control philosophies. 4.3.7 POWER CONTROLS Controls manage power and energy flow within the ship to ensure delivery to the right load in the right form at the right time. Supervisory power system control typically resides on an external distributed computer system and therefore does not include hardware elements unless specialized hardware is required. The challenge to implement Tactical Energy Management (TEM) is to integrate energy storage, power generation, and interfaces with advanced warfighting systems and controls. TEM is critical to enabling full utilization of the capabilities possible from technologies under development. The state complexity and combat engagement timelines for notional future warfighting scenarios are expected to exceed the cognitive capacity and response times of human operators to effectively manage the electric plant via existing control system schema in support of executing ship missions. The survivability requirements for military ships combined with the higher dynamic power characterisitics (pulse load) characteristics of some mission systems will require more sophisticated control interfaces, power management approaches, and algorithms than are commercially available. The Navy is pursuing a long term strategy to create a unified, cyber secure architecture for machinery control systems that feature a common, reusable, cyber hardened machinery control domain specific infrastructure elements; a mechanism for transitioning new technology from a variety of sources in an efficient and consistent manner; and a mechanism to provide life cycle updates and support in a cost effective and timely manner. TEM controls will be expected to maintain awareness of the electric plant operating state (real time modeling); interface with ship mission planning (external to the electric plant control systems) for energy resource prioritization, planning, and coordination towards the identification of resource allocation states that dynamically optimize mission effectiveness; identify and select optimal trajectories to achieving those optimal resource allocation states; and actuate the relevant electric plant components to move the electric plant state along those optimized trajectories towards the optimal resource allocation state. TEM controls would enable reduced power and energy system resource requirements for a given capability (or improved capability for a given set of resources); increased adaptability of the Navy’s power and energy system design to keep pace with an evolving threat environment; and maximized abilities to execute the ship’s mission. The Navy is interested in potential applications of distributed control architectures that have led to the development of intelligent agents that have some autonomous ability to reason about system state and enact appropriate control policies. A simple example of these agents in a control system is the use of autonomous software coupled with smart meters in a smart grid implementation. The agents, smart meters in this example, can temporarily shut off air conditioning but not the refrigerator in residences during grid peak power usage times when the cost per watt is highest on hot days. The agent software acts autonomously within its authority to comply with programmed customer desires. The Navy is interested in TEM controls within a modular open systems architecture framework such that they are agnostic of, but affordably customizable to, specific ship platforms and power system architectures. TEM controls may reside between (i.e. interface with) embedded layers within individual power system components, ships’ supervisory machinery control systems, and ships’ mission planning systems. Initial or further development or modification of these interfaces may be required to achieve desired performance behaviors and characteristics. TEM controls are expected to develop within a model-based system engineering and digital engineering environment and will be initially evaluated in a purely computational environment, representing Navy-developed shipboard-representative power and energy system architecture(s), but will be progressively evaluated on systems with increasing levels of physical instantiation (i.e., controller-hardware-in-loop and power-hardware-in-loop with progressive levels of representative power system components physically instantiated). When implementing a TEM based control scheme, the overall power system should increase installed power generation available to mission and auxiliary loads; reduce power system design margins; hone the installed stored energy required for mission critical capability; and allow higher power transients (ramp rates and step loads). Other areas of interest to the Navy with respect to controls include improvements to traditional machinery control and automation, advanced power management, cyber security, and advanced controls for distributed shared energy storage and maintaining electrical system stability. The Navy is also interested in non-intrusive load monitoring, power system data analytics, real time system monitoring and onboard analysis and diagnostics capabilities. 4.3.8 SYSTEM INTERPLAY, INTERFACING, AND INTEGRATION Increasingly, the Navy is recognizing the need for incorporating flexibility and adaptability into initial ship designs and recognizing that the integration of new systems and the ability to rapidly reconfigure them will be an ongoing challenge throughout a platform's life cycle in order to maintain warfighting relevancy. The ability to support advanced electrical payload warfighting technologies requires not only power and energy systems delivered with the flexibility and adaptability to accommodate them, but a NPES engineering enterprise with the capability and capacity (knowledge, labor, and capital) for continuous systems integration. The Navy can more affordably meet this challenge by shifting as much effort as possible into the computational modeling and simulation regime. An Integrated Power System (IPS) provides total ship electric power including electric propulsion, power conversion and distribution, energy storage, combat system support and ship mission load interfaces to the electric power system. Adding Energy Storage and advanced controls to IPS results in an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) in order to accommodate future high energy weapons and sensors. The IPES Energy Magazine is available to multiple users, and provides enhanced power continuity to the power distribution system. The flexibility of electric power transmission allows power generating modules with various power ratings to be connected to propulsion loads and ship service in any arrangement that supports the ships mission at the lowest total ownership cost (TOC). Systems engineering in IPS/IPES is focused on increasing the commonality of components used across ship types (both manned and unmanned) and in developing modules that will be integral to standardization, zonal system architectures, and generic shipbuilding strategies with standard interfaces that are Navy-controlled. IPES offers the potential to reduce signatures by changing the frequency and amplitude of acoustic and electromagnetic emissions. Integrated energy storage can reduce observability by enabling the reduction and elimination of prime movers, thereby reducing thermal and acoustic signatures. The modules or components developed will be assessed for applicability both to new construction and to back-fit opportunities that improve the energy efficiency and mission effectiveness. Areas of Navy interest are to continuously improve IPS/IPES by performing analysis, modeling and simulation, lif...
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS (N00024-19-R-4145 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA))
(PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 02 APRIL 2020) This is a modification to the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) N00024-19-R-4145 to extend the date for receipt of white papers and full proposals to 6 February 2028 and correct some administrative information. Any white papers that have already been submitted do not need to be resubmitted. Included in this modification to the BAA is revision to the Power Controls section to augment the desired technology interests. Included in this modification to the BAA is the identification of an electronic mail submission address for white papers. Included in this modification to the BAA is also a change to the identified Procuring Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist. The NAVSEA 0241 Points of Contact (POC) are changed as follows: the Primary Point of Contact remains Mr. Jerry Low, Procuring Contracting Officer, jerry.low1@navy.mil and Secondary Point of Contact shall be Ms. Angel Jaeger, angel.jaeger.civ@us.navy.mil. All other information contained in the prior announcements through Apr 02, 2020 remain unchanged. (PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 04 JUNE 2019) I. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION This publication constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), as contemplated in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2). A formal Request for Proposals (RFP), solicitation, and/or additional information regarding this announcement will not be issued or further announced. This announcement will remain open for approximately one year from the date of publication or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. Initial responses to this announcement must be in the form of White Papers. Proposals shall be requested only from those offerors selected as a result of the scientific review of the White Papers made in accordance with the evaluation criteria specified herein. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. Awards may take the form of contracts, cooperative agreements, or other transactions agreements. The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) will not issue paper copies of this announcement. NAVSEA reserves the right to select for proposal submission all, some, or none from among the white papers submitted in response to this announcement. For those who are requested to submit proposals, NAVSEA reserves the right to award all, some, or none of the proposals received under this BAA. NAVSEA provides no funding for direct reimbursement of white paper or proposal development costs. Technical and cost proposals (or any other material) submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned. It is the policy of NAVSEA to treat all white papers and proposals as competition sensitive information and to disclose their contents only for the purposes of evaluation. White papers submitted under N00024-10-R-4215 that have not resulted in a request for a proposal are hereby considered closed-out and no further action will be taken on them. Unsuccessful offerors under N00024-10-R- 4215 are encouraged to review this BAA for relevance and resubmit if the technology proposed meets the criteria below. Contract awards made under N00024-10-R-4215 and under this BAA will be announced following the announcement criteria set forth in the FAR. II. GENERAL INFORMATION 1. AGENCY NAME Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 1333 Isaac Hull Ave SE Washington, DC 20376 2. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY TITLE Research and Development of Naval Power and Energy Systems 3. RESPONSE DATE This announcement will remain open through the response date indicated or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. 4. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION 4.1 SUMMARY NAVSEA, on behalf of the Electric Ships Office (PMS 460, organizationally a part of the Program Executive Office Ships) is interested in White Papers for long and short term Research and Development (R&D) projects that offer potential for advancement and improvements in current and future shipboard electric power and energy systems at the major component, subsystem and system level. The mission of PMS 460 is to develop and provide smaller, simpler, more affordable, and more capable ship power systems to the Navy by defining open architectures, developing common components, and focusing Navy, industry, and academia investments. PMS 460 will provide leadership of the developments identified as part of this BAA, will direct the transition of associated technologies developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and will manage the technology portfolio represented by Program Element (PE) 0603573N (Advanced Surface Machinery Systems) for transition into existing and future Navy ships. 4.2 NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP Naval power and energy systems are described in detail in the 2019 Naval Power and Energy Systems Technology Development Roadmap (NPES TDR). The NPES TDR focuses and aligns the power system investments for the Navy, Defense Department, industry and academia to guide future research and development investments to enable the Navy to leverage these investments to meet its future needs more affordably. Included in the NPES TDR are specific recommendations and opportunities for near, mid and long term investments, with a renewed focus on energy management. These opportunities range from an energy magazine to support advanced weapons and sensors to the development of an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES). The NPES TDR aligns electric power system developments with war fighter needs and enables capability-based budgeting. The NPES TDR is responding to the emerging needs of the Navy, and while the plan is specific in its recommendations, it is inherently flexible enough to adapt to the changing requirements and threats that may influence the 30-year ship acquisition plan. The first section of the roadmap establishes why NPES are a critical part of the kill chain based on the capabilities desired by the Navy in the near term, as well as supporting future platforms in the Navys 30-year shipbuilding plan. The second section of the roadmap presents power and energy requirements that are derived from mission systems necessary to support future warfighting needs. The third section describes required initiatives based on capabilities and the projected electrical requirements of the future ships. 4.3 FOCUS AREAS The areas of focus for this BAA include, but are not limited to, the "FYDP/NEAR-TERM" activities as described throughout the NPES TDR; the analysis, development, risk reduction and demonstration of future shipboard (both manned and unmanned) electric power systems and components, emphasizing shipboard power generation, electric propulsion, power conversion, energy storage, distribution and control; power quality, continuity, and system stability; electric power system and component level modeling and simulation; energy storage technologies; electrical system survivability; and power system simplicity, upgradeability, flexibility, and ruggedness. The Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) architecture provides the framework for partitioning the equipment and software into modules and defines functional elements and the power/control and information relationships between them. For power generation, high power distribution, propulsion, and large loads, the architecture includes Medium Voltage AC power (with emphasis on affordability), and Medium Voltage DC power (with emphasis on power density and fault management). For ship service electrical loads, the architecture includes zonal electrical distribution which may be either AC or DC, depending upon the specific application. Also of particular interest are technologies that result in significant energy efficiency, power density improvements and/or carbon footprint improvements over existing propulsion and power system technologies. The NPES TDR partitions the power system in to functional areas that include the following. 4.3.1 ENERGY STORAGE Energy storage modules may support short duration to long duration energy storage applications, which utilize a combination of technologies to minimize power quality and continuity impacts across the system. For the short duration energy storage applications, the module should provide hold-up power to uninterruptible loads for fault clearing and transient isolation, as well as load leveling for pulse power loads. For the mid duration, the module should provide up to approximately 3MW (100 - 150 kW-hr) of standby power for pulse power loads while also providing continuity of operations for a subset of equipment between uninterruptible and full ships load (including emergency power generation starting in a dark ship condition). For long duration applications, energy storage modules should provide the required power as an emergency backup system or to provide increased stealth for specialty equipment. The required duration for this type of application may extend up to days or longer, and may be intermittent or continuous. A number of energy storage technologies for future ship applications are of interest to the Navy, including various electrochemical, capacitor-based, or rotating discussed below: a. Capacitor: Electrochemical capacitor improvements continue to focus on improving energy density while maintaining inherently high-power density. Design improvements include development and integration of higher temperature films, advanced electrolytes, advanced electrode materials, and minimizing equivalent series resistance (ESR). b. Rotating: The Navy has interest in the investment from the transportation industry in flywheel systems that can handle gyroscopic forces continues to support flywheel usage in commercial rail and ground transportation. Additional factors of interest to the Navy include safety, recharge/discharge rates, ship motion impacts, environmental impacts and control. c. Electrochemical: Factors of interest to the Navy with respect to electrochemical energy storage include the ability to maintain state of charge when not in use; change in voltage versus state of charge; charge and discharge capability; the temporary or permanent loss of capacity due to repeated shallow discharges; the ability to shallow charge and discharge or partially charge intermittently during a discharge; battery life considerations such as service-life, cycle life, and shelf-life; off-gas properties that affect the level of ventilation and associated auxiliary systems; and safety enhancements to support qualification for use onboard US Navy ships. Near term Navy interests are in the area of common and scalable hardware and software elements which enable advanced weapons and sensors and in understanding the sizing algorithms for how to optimize energy storage sizing against various competing system requirements (short duration/high power vs. long duration/low power, for example. The specific design issues to be considered include reliability, volumetric and gravimetric power and energy densities, differentiating between high levels of stored energy and high energy density. The relevant information required for characterizing technology performance include: Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of components and systems; production capability; safety evaluation and qualifications performed on relevant subsystems or components (any hazard analyses of systems designs as relevant to notional applications); other military application of the devices; energy storage management system approach; thermal characteristics, constraints, and cooling requirements; auxiliary requirements (load); device impedance (heat generation characteristics); and device efficiency (discharge/recharge). 4.3.2 POWER CONVERSION Industry continues to drive towards increased power density, increased efficiency, higher switching frequencies, and refined topologies with associated control schemes. Innovation in power conversion from the development and implementation of wide-bandgap devices, such as Silicon Carbide (SiC), promise reduction in losses many times over Silicon. The use of high frequency transformers can provide galvanic isolation with reduced size and weight compared to traditional transformers. Advances in cooling methods will be required to handle larger heat loads associated with higher power operation. A typical Navy power conversion module might consist of a solid state power converter and/or a transformer. Advanced topologies and technologies, such as the application of wide band gap devices, are of particular interest. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to address converting high voltage AC/DC to 1000 VDC with power levels on the order of 3MW or larger. The specific design issues to be considered include modularity, open architecture (focusing on future power system flexibility and the ability of a conversion module within a ships power system to be replaced/ upgraded in support of lifecycle mission system upgrades), reliability, cost, and conversion efficiency. Areas of interest include more power-dense converters supporting advanced mission systems and prototyping of full scale conversion based on second generation wide-bandgap devices. 4.3.3 POWER DISTRIBUTION Power distribution typically consists of bus duct/ bus pipe, cables, connections, switchgear and fault protection equipment, load centers, and other hardware necessary to deliver power from generators to loads. Industry has used medium voltage DC (MVDC) transmission as a method to reduce losses across long distances. Complementarily, Industry is developing MVDC circuit protection for use in MVDC transmission variants of approximately 50, 100, and 150 megawatts (MW) at transmission voltages of 20 to 50 kVDC. Analysis includes modeling and simulation to determine methods for assessing the benefits of DC vs AC undersea transmission and distribution systems for offshore oil and gas. Industry and academia continue to invest resources in advanced conductors that have applications in power distribution, power generation, and propulsion. Research is focused on using carbon nanotubes. The development of a room temperature, lightweight, low resistance conductor is of great interest to the Navy. Areas of interest include development of an MVDC distribution system up to 12 kVDC to meet maximum load demands; design of an appropriate in-zone distribution system architecture; development of high speed 1 kVDC and 12 kVDC solid state circuit protection devices that are ship ready, and advanced conductors capable of supporting power distribution. 4.3.4 PRIME MOVERS (INCLUDING POWER GENERATION) Power Generation converts fuel into electrical power. A typical power generation module might consist of a gas turbine or diesel engine (prime mover), a generator (see rotating machine discussion below), a rectifier (either active or passive), auxiliary support sub-modules and module controls. Other possible power generation technologies include propulsion derived ship service (PDSS), fuel cells, or other direct energy conversion concepts. Power generation concepts include 60 Hz wound rotor synchronous generator driven directly by a marine gas turbine (up to 30 MVA rating); commercially derived or militarized design variants of the above; and higher speed, higher frequency, high power density variants of the above with high speed or geared turbine drive. NPES DC technologies permit prime movers and other electrical sources (such as energy storage) to operate at different, non-60Hz electrical frequency speeds, improving survivability, resiliency, and operational availability. Energy storage that is fully integrated with the power generation can enable uninterrupted power to high priority loads, mission systems that reduce susceptibility, and damage control systems to enable enhanced recoverability. The specific design issues to be considered include fuel efficiency, module level power density, machine insulation system characteristics, size, weight, cost, maintainability, availability, harmonic loading, voltage, power, system grounding approaches, fault protection, response to large dynamic (step) or pulse type loading originated from ship propulsion or directed energy/electromagnetic weapons, interface to main or ship service bus, autonomy, limited maintenance, and commercial availability. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to power generation in the 5 to 30 MW range, utilizing gas turbines, diesel engines and other emerging power technologies that address challenges associated with achieving reduced fuel consumption, decreased life cycle and acquisition cost, support of ship integration, enable flexibility, enable power upgrades, and improved environmental compliance. Near term Navy interest includes 10-30 MW (nominally 25 MW) output power rating and the power generation source able to supply two independent electrical buses (where abnormal conditions, including pulsed/stochastic loads, on one bus do not impact the other bus) at 12 kVDC (while also considering 6kVDC, 18kVDC, and 1 kVDC). Enhanced fuel injection, higher operating temperatures and pressures, and optimized thermal management are critical for future prime movers. Advanced controls for increased efficiency, reduced maintenance, and increased reliability include implementation of digital controls; autonomous and unmanned power control; enhanced engine monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics; and distributed controls. Advanced designs for increased efficiency include new applications of thermodynamic cycles such as Humphrey/Atkinson cycle for gas turbines and diesels and Miller cycle for diesel. The Navy is interested in developing a knowledge bank of information on potential generator sets, generator electrical interface requirements, and the impacts of those requirements on generator set performance and size, as a logical next step from the Request for Information released under announcement N00024-16-R-4205. A long-term goal for this effort is to maximize military effectiveness through design choice and configuration option flexibility when developing next-generation distribution plants. The power generation source should fit within the length of a typical engine room (46 feet, including allowances for any needed maintenance and component removal). The power generation source is expected to have the ability to: control steady-state voltage-current characteristic for its interface; to maintain stability; and to adjust control set-points from system level controllers. For any proposed design approach, initial efforts would include conceptual design trade studies that inform the performance level that can be achieved. Trade studies may address Pulsed Load Capability (generator/rectifier design to increase pulse load capability, engine speed variation limits, and impact of cyclic pulse load on component life); Power Density (cost vs. benefits of high speed or high frequency, mounting on common skid, and advanced cooling concepts); Single vs. Dual Outputs (continuous vs. pulse rating for each output, voltage regulation with shared field, and control of load sharing); Efficiency (part load vs. full load optimization, flexible speed regulation, impact of intake and exhaust duct size/pressure drop on engine efficiency); Power Quality (voltage transient, voltage modulation for step, pulse loads, impact of voltage and current ripple requirements, and common mode current); PGM Controls (prime mover speed vs. generator field vs. rectifier active phase angle control, and pulse anticipation); Stability when operating in parallel with other sources; Short Circuit Requirements; and Dark Ship start capability (self-contained support auxiliaries). Trade studies may also address how rotational energy storage can be built into the design of the generator or added to the generator and what parameters need to be defined in order to exploit this capability. Development of advanced coatings and materials that support high temperature operations of a gas turbine is also of interest. Energy harvesting to convert heat energy and specifically low quality heat energy to electricity using solid state components is also of interest to the Navy. 4.3.5 ROTATING MACHINES (INCLUDING GENERATORS AND PROPULSION MOTORS) Recent trends in electrical machines include neural networks; artificial intelligence; expert system; fiber communications and integrated electronics; new ceramic conducting and dielectric materials; and magnetic levitation. High Temperature Superconducting rotors have higher power density than their induction and synchronous rotor counterparts. Wind power generators eliminate excitation losses which can account for 30% of total generator losses. The offshore wind power industry is moving to larger power wind tower generators in the 10MW class. Advanced low resistance room temperature wire and HTS shows promise for these higher power levels because of low excitation losses and low weight due to reduction in stator and rotor iron. HTS motors may be up to 50% smaller and lighter than traditional iron-core and copper machines. They have reduced harmonic vibrations due to minimization of flux path iron and have mitigated thermal cycling failures due to precision control of temperature. Propulsion motor concepts of interest to the Navy include Permanent Magnet Motors (radial air gap, axial air gap, or transverse flux), Induction Motors (wound rotor or squirrel cage), superconducting field type (homopolar DC or synchronous AC). The drivers and issues associated with these designs include acoustic signature, noise (requirements, limitations, modeling, sources, and mitigation methods), shock, vibration, thermal management, manufacturing infrastructure, machine insulation system characteristics, commercial commonality, platform commonality, cost, torque, power, weight, diameter, length, voltage, motor configuration, and ship arrangements constraints. Motor drives that may be explored include cyclo-converter (with variations in control and power device types), pulse width modulated converter/inverter (with many variations in topology), switching (hard switched, soft switched), and matrix converter (with variations in control, topology, cooling, power device type). Technologies for drives and rotating machines which allow the ability to operate as a motor and a generator to facilitate a PDSS installation or on a fully integrated power system to leverage the inherent energy storage in the ship's motion may be explored. Integrated motor/propulsor concepts may be considered either as aft-mounted main propulsion or as a forward propulsor capable of propelling a ship at a tactically useful speed. Areas of interest for future rotating machines include increased magnetic material flux carrying or flux generation capacity; improved electrical insulation material and insulation system dielectric strength; increased mechanical strength, increased thermal conductivity, and reduced sensitivity to temperature; improved structural materials and design concepts that accept higher torsional and electromagnetically induced stress; innovative and aggressive cooling to allow improved thermal management and increased current loading; increased electrical conductor current carrying capacity and loss reduction. 4.3.6 COOLING AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT As the demand and complexity of high energy loads increases, so does the demand and complexity of thermal management solutions. Assessing and optimizing the effectiveness of a thermal management system requires the analysis of thermal energy acquisition, thermal energy transport, and thermal energy rejection, storage, and conversion. The design of the thermal management system aims to transfer the thermal energy loads at the sources to the sinks in the most efficient manner. Areas of interest to the Navy with respect to cooling and thermal management include the application of two phased cooling and other advanced cooling techniques to power electronics and other NPES components and innovative approaches to manage overall ship thermal management issues including advanced thermal architectures, thermal energy storage systems, increases in efficiency, and advanced control philosophies. 4.3.7 POWER CONTROLS Controls manage power and energy flow within the ship to ensure delivery to the right load in the right form at the right time. Supervisory power system control typically resides on an external distributed computer system and therefore does not include hardware elements unless specialized hardware is required. The challenge to implement Tactical Energy Management (TEM) is to integrate energy storage, power generation, and interfaces with advanced warfighting systems and controls. TEM is critical to enabling full utilization of the capabilities possible from technologies under development. The state complexity and combat engagement timelines for notional future warfighting scenarios are expected to exceed the cognitive capacity and response times of human operators to effectively manage the electric plant via existing control system schema in support of executing ship missions. The survivability requirements for military ships combined with the higher dynamic power characterisitics (pulse load) characteristics of some mission systems will require more sophisticated control interfaces, power management approaches, and algorithms than are commercially available. The Navy is pursuing a long term strategy to create a unified, cyber secure architecture for machinery control systems that feature a common, reusable, cyber hardened machinery control domain specific infrastructure elements; a mechanism for transitioning new technology from a variety of sources in an efficient and consistent manner; and a mechanism to provide life cycle updates and support in a cost effective and timely manner. TEM controls will be expected to maintain awareness of the electric plant operating state (real time modeling); interface with ship mission planning (external to the electric plant control systems) for energy resource prioritization, planning, and coordination towards the identification of resource allocation states that dynamically optimize mission effectiveness; identify and select optimal trajectories to achieving those optimal resource allocation states; and actuate the relevant electric plant components to move the electric plant state along those optimized trajectories towards the optimal resource allocation state. TEM controls would enable reduced power and energy system resource requirements for a given capability (or improved capability for a given set of resources); increased adaptability of the Navy’s power and energy system design to keep pace with an evolving threat environment; and maximized abilities to execute the ship’s mission. The Navy is interested in potential applications of distributed control architectures that have led to the development of intelligent agents that have some autonomous ability to reason about system state and enact appropriate control policies. A simple example of these agents in a control system is the use of autonomous software coupled with smart meters in a smart grid implementation. The agents, smart meters in this example, can temporarily shut off air conditioning but not the refrigerator in residences during grid peak power usage times when the cost per watt is highest on hot days. The agent software acts autonomously within its authority to comply with programmed customer desires. The Navy is interested in TEM controls within a modular open systems architecture framework such that they are agnostic of, but affordably customizable to, specific ship platforms and power system architectures. TEM controls may reside between (i.e. interface with) embedded layers within individual power system components, ships’ supervisory machinery control systems, and ships’ mission planning systems. Initial or further development or modification of these interfaces may be required to achieve desired performance behaviors and characteristics. TEM controls are expected to develop within a model-based system engineering and digital engineering environment and will be initially evaluated in a purely computational environment, representing Navy-developed shipboard-representative power and energy system architecture(s), but will be progressively evaluated on systems with increasing levels of physical instantiation (i.e., controller-hardware-in-loop and power-hardware-in-loop with progressive levels of representative power system components physically instantiated). When implementing a TEM based control scheme, the overall power system should increase installed power generation available to mission and auxiliary loads; reduce power system design margins; hone the installed stored energy required for mission critical capability; and allow higher power transients (ramp rates and step loads). Other areas of interest to the Navy with respect to controls include improvements to traditional machinery control and automation, advanced power management, cyber security, and advanced controls for distributed shared energy storage and maintaining electrical system stability. The Navy is also interested in non-intrusive load monitoring, power system data analytics, real time system monitoring and onboard analysis and diagnostics capabilities. 4.3.8 SYSTEM INTERPLAY, INTERFACING, AND INTEGRATION Increasingly, the Navy is recognizing the need for incorporating flexibility and adaptability into initial ship designs and recognizing that the integration of new systems and the ability to rapidly reconfigure them will be an ongoing challenge throughout a platform's life cycle in order to maintain warfighting relevancy. The ability to support advanced electrical payload warfighting technologies requires not only power and energy systems delivered with the flexibility and adaptability to accommodate them, but a NPES engineering enterprise with the capability and capacity (knowledge, labor, and capital) for continuous systems integration. The Navy can more affordably meet this challenge by shifting as much effort as possible into the computational modeling and simulation regime. An Integrated Power System (IPS) provides total ship electric power including electric propulsion, power conversion and distribution, energy storage, combat system support and ship mission load interfaces to the electric power system. Adding Energy Storage and advanced controls to IPS results in an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) in order to accommodate future high energy weapons and sensors. The IPES Energy Magazine is available to multiple users, and provides enhanced power continuity to the power distribution system. The flexibility of electric power transmission allows power generating modules with various power ratings to be connected to propulsion loads and ship service in any arrangement that supports the ships mission at the lowest total ownership cost (TOC). Systems engineering in IPS/IPES is focused on increasing the commonality of components used across ship types (both manned and unmanned) and in developing modules that will be integral to standardization, zonal system architectures, and generic shipbuilding strategies with standard interfaces that are Navy-controlled. IPES offers the potential to reduce signatures by changing the frequency and amplitude of acoustic and electromagnetic emissions. Integrated energy storage can reduce observability by enabling the reduction and elimination of prime movers, thereby reducing thermal and acoustic signatures. The modules or components developed will be assessed for applicability both to new construction and to back-fit opportunities that improve the energy efficiency and mission effectiveness. Areas of Navy interest are to continuously improve IPS/IPES by performing analysis, modeling and simula...
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS (N00024-19-R-4145 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA))
(PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 02 APRIL 2020) This is a modification to the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) N00024-19-R-4145 to extend the date for receipt of white papers and full proposals to 6 February 2028 and correct some administrative information. Any white papers that have already been submitted do not need to be resubmitted. Included in this modification to the BAA is revision to the Power Controls section to augment the desired technology interests. Included in this modification to the BAA is the identification of an electronic mail submission address for white papers. Included in this modification to the BAA is also a change to the identified Procuring Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist. The NAVSEA 0241 Points of Contact (POC) are changed as follows: the Primary Point of Contact remains Mr. Jerry Low, Procuring Contracting Officer, jerry.low1@navy.mil and Secondary Point of Contact shall be Ms. Angel Jaeger, angel.jaeger.civ@us.navy.mil. All other information contained in the prior announcements through Apr 02, 2020 remain unchanged. (PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 04 JUNE 2019) I. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION This publication constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), as contemplated in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2). A formal Request for Proposals (RFP), solicitation, and/or additional information regarding this announcement will not be issued or further announced. This announcement will remain open for approximately one year from the date of publication or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. Initial responses to this announcement must be in the form of White Papers. Proposals shall be requested only from those offerors selected as a result of the scientific review of the White Papers made in accordance with the evaluation criteria specified herein. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. Awards may take the form of contracts, cooperative agreements, or other transactions agreements. The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) will not issue paper copies of this announcement. NAVSEA reserves the right to select for proposal submission all, some, or none from among the white papers submitted in response to this announcement. For those who are requested to submit proposals, NAVSEA reserves the right to award all, some, or none of the proposals received under this BAA. NAVSEA provides no funding for direct reimbursement of white paper or proposal development costs. Technical and cost proposals (or any other material) submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned. It is the policy of NAVSEA to treat all white papers and proposals as competition sensitive information and to disclose their contents only for the purposes of evaluation. White papers submitted under N00024-10-R-4215 that have not resulted in a request for a proposal are hereby considered closed-out and no further action will be taken on them. Unsuccessful offerors under N00024-10-R- 4215 are encouraged to review this BAA for relevance and resubmit if the technology proposed meets the criteria below. Contract awards made under N00024-10-R-4215 and under this BAA will be announced following the announcement criteria set forth in the FAR. II. GENERAL INFORMATION 1. AGENCY NAME Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 1333 Isaac Hull Ave SE Washington, DC 20376 2. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY TITLE Research and Development of Naval Power and Energy Systems 3. RESPONSE DATE This announcement will remain open through the response date indicated or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. 4. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION 4.1 SUMMARY NAVSEA, on behalf of the Electric Ships Office (PMS 460, organizationally a part of the Program Executive Office Ships) is interested in White Papers for long and short term Research and Development (R&D) projects that offer potential for advancement and improvements in current and future shipboard electric power and energy systems at the major component, subsystem and system level. The mission of PMS 460 is to develop and provide smaller, simpler, more affordable, and more capable ship power systems to the Navy by defining open architectures, developing common components, and focusing Navy, industry, and academia investments. PMS 460 will provide leadership of the developments identified as part of this BAA, will direct the transition of associated technologies developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and will manage the technology portfolio represented by Program Element (PE) 0603573N (Advanced Surface Machinery Systems) for transition into existing and future Navy ships. 4.2 NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP Naval power and energy systems are described in detail in the 2019 Naval Power and Energy Systems Technology Development Roadmap (NPES TDR). The NPES TDR focuses and aligns the power system investments for the Navy, Defense Department, industry and academia to guide future research and development investments to enable the Navy to leverage these investments to meet its future needs more affordably. Included in the NPES TDR are specific recommendations and opportunities for near, mid and long term investments, with a renewed focus on energy management. These opportunities range from an energy magazine to support advanced weapons and sensors to the development of an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES). The NPES TDR aligns electric power system developments with war fighter needs and enables capability-based budgeting. The NPES TDR is responding to the emerging needs of the Navy, and while the plan is specific in its recommendations, it is inherently flexible enough to adapt to the changing requirements and threats that may influence the 30-year ship acquisition plan. The first section of the roadmap establishes why NPES are a critical part of the kill chain based on the capabilities desired by the Navy in the near term, as well as supporting future platforms in the Navys 30-year shipbuilding plan. The second section of the roadmap presents power and energy requirements that are derived from mission systems necessary to support future warfighting needs. The third section describes required initiatives based on capabilities and the projected electrical requirements of the future ships. 4.3 FOCUS AREAS The areas of focus for this BAA include, but are not limited to, the "FYDP/NEAR-TERM" activities as described throughout the NPES TDR; the analysis, development, risk reduction and demonstration of future shipboard (both manned and unmanned) electric power systems and components, emphasizing shipboard power generation, electric propulsion, power conversion, energy storage, distribution and control; power quality, continuity, and system stability; electric power system and component level modeling and simulation; energy storage technologies; electrical system survivability; and power system simplicity, upgradeability, flexibility, and ruggedness. The Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) architecture provides the framework for partitioning the equipment and software into modules and defines functional elements and the power/control and information relationships between them. For power generation, high power distribution, propulsion, and large loads, the architecture includes Medium Voltage AC power (with emphasis on affordability), and Medium Voltage DC power (with emphasis on power density and fault management). For ship service electrical loads, the architecture includes zonal electrical distribution which may be either AC or DC, depending upon the specific application. Also of particular interest are technologies that result in significant energy efficiency, power density improvements and/or carbon footprint improvements over existing propulsion and power system technologies. The NPES TDR partitions the power system in to functional areas that include the following. 4.3.1 ENERGY STORAGE Energy storage modules may support short duration to long duration energy storage applications, which utilize a combination of technologies to minimize power quality and continuity impacts across the system. For the short duration energy storage applications, the module should provide hold-up power to uninterruptible loads for fault clearing and transient isolation, as well as load leveling for pulse power loads. For the mid duration, the module should provide up to approximately 3MW (100 - 150 kW-hr) of standby power for pulse power loads while also providing continuity of operations for a subset of equipment between uninterruptible and full ships load (including emergency power generation starting in a dark ship condition). For long duration applications, energy storage modules should provide the required power as an emergency backup system or to provide increased stealth for specialty equipment. The required duration for this type of application may extend up to days or longer, and may be intermittent or continuous. A number of energy storage technologies for future ship applications are of interest to the Navy, including various electrochemical, capacitor-based, or rotating discussed below: a. Capacitor: Electrochemical capacitor improvements continue to focus on improving energy density while maintaining inherently high-power density. Design improvements include development and integration of higher temperature films, advanced electrolytes, advanced electrode materials, and minimizing equivalent series resistance (ESR). b. Rotating: The Navy has interest in the investment from the transportation industry in flywheel systems that can handle gyroscopic forces continues to support flywheel usage in commercial rail and ground transportation. Additional factors of interest to the Navy include safety, recharge/discharge rates, ship motion impacts, environmental impacts and control. c. Electrochemical: Factors of interest to the Navy with respect to electrochemical energy storage include the ability to maintain state of charge when not in use; change in voltage versus state of charge; charge and discharge capability; the temporary or permanent loss of capacity due to repeated shallow discharges; the ability to shallow charge and discharge or partially charge intermittently during a discharge; battery life considerations such as service-life, cycle life, and shelf-life; off-gas properties that affect the level of ventilation and associated auxiliary systems; and safety enhancements to support qualification for use onboard US Navy ships. Near term Navy interests are in the area of common and scalable hardware and software elements which enable advanced weapons and sensors and in understanding the sizing algorithms for how to optimize energy storage sizing against various competing system requirements (short duration/high power vs. long duration/low power, for example. The specific design issues to be considered include reliability, volumetric and gravimetric power and energy densities, differentiating between high levels of stored energy and high energy density. The relevant information required for characterizing technology performance include: Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of components and systems; production capability; safety evaluation and qualifications performed on relevant subsystems or components (any hazard analyses of systems designs as relevant to notional applications); other military application of the devices; energy storage management system approach; thermal characteristics, constraints, and cooling requirements; auxiliary requirements (load); device impedance (heat generation characteristics); and device efficiency (discharge/recharge). 4.3.2 POWER CONVERSION Industry continues to drive towards increased power density, increased efficiency, higher switching frequencies, and refined topologies with associated control schemes. Innovation in power conversion from the development and implementation of wide-bandgap devices, such as Silicon Carbide (SiC), promise reduction in losses many times over Silicon. The use of high frequency transformers can provide galvanic isolation with reduced size and weight compared to traditional transformers. Advances in cooling methods will be required to handle larger heat loads associated with higher power operation. A typical Navy power conversion module might consist of a solid state power converter and/or a transformer. Advanced topologies and technologies, such as the application of wide band gap devices, are of particular interest. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to address converting high voltage AC/DC to 1000 VDC with power levels on the order of 3MW or larger. The specific design issues to be considered include modularity, open architecture (focusing on future power system flexibility and the ability of a conversion module within a ships power system to be replaced/ upgraded in support of lifecycle mission system upgrades), reliability, cost, and conversion efficiency. Areas of interest include more power-dense converters supporting advanced mission systems and prototyping of full scale conversion based on second generation wide-bandgap devices. 4.3.3 POWER DISTRIBUTION Power distribution typically consists of bus duct/ bus pipe, cables, connections, switchgear and fault protection equipment, load centers, and other hardware necessary to deliver power from generators to loads. Industry has used medium voltage DC (MVDC) transmission as a method to reduce losses across long distances. Complementarily, Industry is developing MVDC circuit protection for use in MVDC transmission variants of approximately 50, 100, and 150 megawatts (MW) at transmission voltages of 20 to 50 kVDC. Analysis includes modeling and simulation to determine methods for assessing the benefits of DC vs AC undersea transmission and distribution systems for offshore oil and gas. Industry and academia continue to invest resources in advanced conductors that have applications in power distribution, power generation, and propulsion. Research is focused on using carbon nanotubes. The development of a room temperature, lightweight, low resistance conductor is of great interest to the Navy. Areas of interest include development of an MVDC distribution system up to 12 kVDC to meet maximum load demands; design of an appropriate in-zone distribution system architecture; development of high speed 1 kVDC and 12 kVDC solid state circuit protection devices that are ship ready, and advanced conductors capable of supporting power distribution. 4.3.4 PRIME MOVERS (INCLUDING POWER GENERATION) Power Generation converts fuel into electrical power. A typical power generation module might consist of a gas turbine or diesel engine (prime mover), a generator (see rotating machine discussion below), a rectifier (either active or passive), auxiliary support sub-modules and module controls. Other possible power generation technologies include propulsion derived ship service (PDSS), fuel cells, or other direct energy conversion concepts. Power generation concepts include 60 Hz wound rotor synchronous generator driven directly by a marine gas turbine (up to 30 MVA rating); commercially derived or militarized design variants of the above; and higher speed, higher frequency, high power density variants of the above with high speed or geared turbine drive. NPES DC technologies permit prime movers and other electrical sources (such as energy storage) to operate at different, non-60Hz electrical frequency speeds, improving survivability, resiliency, and operational availability. Energy storage that is fully integrated with the power generation can enable uninterrupted power to high priority loads, mission systems that reduce susceptibility, and damage control systems to enable enhanced recoverability. The specific design issues to be considered include fuel efficiency, module level power density, machine insulation system characteristics, size, weight, cost, maintainability, availability, harmonic loading, voltage, power, system grounding approaches, fault protection, response to large dynamic (step) or pulse type loading originated from ship propulsion or directed energy/electromagnetic weapons, interface to main or ship service bus, autonomy, limited maintenance, and commercial availability. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to power generation in the 5 to 30 MW range, utilizing gas turbines, diesel engines and other emerging power technologies that address challenges associated with achieving reduced fuel consumption, decreased life cycle and acquisition cost, support of ship integration, enable flexibility, enable power upgrades, and improved environmental compliance. Near term Navy interest includes 10-30 MW (nominally 25 MW) output power rating and the power generation source able to supply two independent electrical buses (where abnormal conditions, including pulsed/stochastic loads, on one bus do not impact the other bus) at 12 kVDC (while also considering 6kVDC, 18kVDC, and 1 kVDC). Enhanced fuel injection, higher operating temperatures and pressures, and optimized thermal management are critical for future prime movers. Advanced controls for increased efficiency, reduced maintenance, and increased reliability include implementation of digital controls; autonomous and unmanned power control; enhanced engine monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics; and distributed controls. Advanced designs for increased efficiency include new applications of thermodynamic cycles such as Humphrey/Atkinson cycle for gas turbines and diesels and Miller cycle for diesel. The Navy is interested in developing a knowledge bank of information on potential generator sets, generator electrical interface requirements, and the impacts of those requirements on generator set performance and size, as a logical next step from the Request for Information released under announcement N00024-16-R-4205. A long-term goal for this effort is to maximize military effectiveness through design choice and configuration option flexibility when developing next-generation distribution plants. The power generation source should fit within the length of a typical engine room (46 feet, including allowances for any needed maintenance and component removal). The power generation source is expected to have the ability to: control steady-state voltage-current characteristic for its interface; to maintain stability; and to adjust control set-points from system level controllers. For any proposed design approach, initial efforts would include conceptual design trade studies that inform the performance level that can be achieved. Trade studies may address Pulsed Load Capability (generator/rectifier design to increase pulse load capability, engine speed variation limits, and impact of cyclic pulse load on component life); Power Density (cost vs. benefits of high speed or high frequency, mounting on common skid, and advanced cooling concepts); Single vs. Dual Outputs (continuous vs. pulse rating for each output, voltage regulation with shared field, and control of load sharing); Efficiency (part load vs. full load optimization, flexible speed regulation, impact of intake and exhaust duct size/pressure drop on engine efficiency); Power Quality (voltage transient, voltage modulation for step, pulse loads, impact of voltage and current ripple requirements, and common mode current); PGM Controls (prime mover speed vs. generator field vs. rectifier active phase angle control, and pulse anticipation); Stability when operating in parallel with other sources; Short Circuit Requirements; and Dark Ship start capability (self-contained support auxiliaries). Trade studies may also address how rotational energy storage can be built into the design of the generator or added to the generator and what parameters need to be defined in order to exploit this capability. Development of advanced coatings and materials that support high temperature operations of a gas turbine is also of interest. Energy harvesting to convert heat energy and specifically low quality heat energy to electricity using solid state components is also of interest to the Navy. 4.3.5 ROTATING MACHINES (INCLUDING GENERATORS AND PROPULSION MOTORS) Recent trends in electrical machines include neural networks; artificial intelligence; expert system; fiber communications and integrated electronics; new ceramic conducting and dielectric materials; and magnetic levitation. High Temperature Superconducting rotors have higher power density than their induction and synchronous rotor counterparts. Wind power generators eliminate excitation losses which can account for 30% of total generator losses. The offshore wind power industry is moving to larger power wind tower generators in the 10MW class. Advanced low resistance room temperature wire and HTS shows promise for these higher power levels because of low excitation losses and low weight due to reduction in stator and rotor iron. HTS motors may be up to 50% smaller and lighter than traditional iron-core and copper machines. They have reduced harmonic vibrations due to minimization of flux path iron and have mitigated thermal cycling failures due to precision control of temperature. Propulsion motor concepts of interest to the Navy include Permanent Magnet Motors (radial air gap, axial air gap, or transverse flux), Induction Motors (wound rotor or squirrel cage), superconducting field type (homopolar DC or synchronous AC). The drivers and issues associated with these designs include acoustic signature, noise (requirements, limitations, modeling, sources, and mitigation methods), shock, vibration, thermal management, manufacturing infrastructure, machine insulation system characteristics, commercial commonality, platform commonality, cost, torque, power, weight, diameter, length, voltage, motor configuration, and ship arrangements constraints. Motor drives that may be explored include cyclo-converter (with variations in control and power device types), pulse width modulated converter/inverter (with many variations in topology), switching (hard switched, soft switched), and matrix converter (with variations in control, topology, cooling, power device type). Technologies for drives and rotating machines which allow the ability to operate as a motor and a generator to facilitate a PDSS installation or on a fully integrated power system to leverage the inherent energy storage in the ship's motion may be explored. Integrated motor/propulsor concepts may be considered either as aft-mounted main propulsion or as a forward propulsor capable of propelling a ship at a tactically useful speed. Areas of interest for future rotating machines include increased magnetic material flux carrying or flux generation capacity; improved electrical insulation material and insulation system dielectric strength; increased mechanical strength, increased thermal conductivity, and reduced sensitivity to temperature; improved structural materials and design concepts that accept higher torsional and electromagnetically induced stress; innovative and aggressive cooling to allow improved thermal management and increased current loading; increased electrical conductor current carrying capacity and loss reduction. 4.3.6 COOLING AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT As the demand and complexity of high energy loads increases, so does the demand and complexity of thermal management solutions. Assessing and optimizing the effectiveness of a thermal management system requires the analysis of thermal energy acquisition, thermal energy transport, and thermal energy rejection, storage, and conversion. The design of the thermal management system aims to transfer the thermal energy loads at the sources to the sinks in the most efficient manner. Areas of interest to the Navy with respect to cooling and thermal management include the application of two phased cooling and other advanced cooling techniques to power electronics and other NPES components and innovative approaches to manage overall ship thermal management issues including advanced thermal architectures, thermal energy storage systems, increases in efficiency, and advanced control philosophies. 4.3.7 POWER CONTROLS Controls manage power and energy flow within the ship to ensure delivery to the right load in the right form at the right time. Supervisory power system control typically resides on an external distributed computer system and therefore does not include hardware elements unless specialized hardware is required. The challenge to implement Tactical Energy Management (TEM) is to integrate energy storage, power generation, and interfaces with advanced warfighting systems and controls. TEM is critical to enabling full utilization of the capabilities possible from technologies under development. The state complexity and combat engagement timelines for notional future warfighting scenarios are expected to exceed the cognitive capacity and response times of human operators to effectively manage the electric plant via existing control system schema in support of executing ship missions. The survivability requirements for military ships combined with the higher dynamic power characterisitics (pulse load) characteristics of some mission systems will require more sophisticated control interfaces, power management approaches, and algorithms than are commercially available. The Navy is pursuing a long term strategy to create a unified, cyber secure architecture for machinery control systems that feature a common, reusable, cyber hardened machinery control domain specific infrastructure elements; a mechanism for transitioning new technology from a variety of sources in an efficient and consistent manner; and a mechanism to provide life cycle updates and support in a cost effective and timely manner. TEM controls will be expected to maintain awareness of the electric plant operating state (real time modeling); interface with ship mission planning (external to the electric plant control systems) for energy resource prioritization, planning, and coordination towards the identification of resource allocation states that dynamically optimize mission effectiveness; identify and select optimal trajectories to achieving those optimal resource allocation states; and actuate the relevant electric plant components to move the electric plant state along those optimized trajectories towards the optimal resource allocation state. TEM controls would enable reduced power and energy system resource requirements for a given capability (or improved capability for a given set of resources); increased adaptability of the Navy’s power and energy system design to keep pace with an evolving threat environment; and maximized abilities to execute the ship’s mission. The Navy is interested in potential applications of distributed control architectures that have led to the development of intelligent agents that have some autonomous ability to reason about system state and enact appropriate control policies. A simple example of these agents in a control system is the use of autonomous software coupled with smart meters in a smart grid implementation. The agents, smart meters in this example, can temporarily shut off air conditioning but not the refrigerator in residences during grid peak power usage times when the cost per watt is highest on hot days. The agent software acts autonomously within its authority to comply with programmed customer desires. The Navy is interested in TEM controls within a modular open systems architecture framework such that they are agnostic of, but affordably customizable to, specific ship platforms and power system architectures. TEM controls may reside between (i.e. interface with) embedded layers within individual power system components, ships’ supervisory machinery control systems, and ships’ mission planning systems. Initial or further development or modification of these interfaces may be required to achieve desired performance behaviors and characteristics. TEM controls are expected to develop within a model-based system engineering and digital engineering environment and will be initially evaluated in a purely computational environment, representing Navy-developed shipboard-representative power and energy system architecture(s), but will be progressively evaluated on systems with increasing levels of physical instantiation (i.e., controller-hardware-in-loop and power-hardware-in-loop with progressive levels of representative power system components physically instantiated). When implementing a TEM based control scheme, the overall power system should increase installed power generation available to mission and auxiliary loads; reduce power system design margins; hone the installed stored energy required for mission critical capability; and allow higher power transients (ramp rates and step loads). Other areas of interest to the Navy with respect to controls include improvements to traditional machinery control and automation, advanced power management, cyber security, and advanced controls for distributed shared energy storage and maintaining electrical system stability. The Navy is also interested in non-intrusive load monitoring, power system data analytics, real time system monitoring and onboard analysis and diagnostics capabilities. 4.3.8 SYSTEM INTERPLAY, INTERFACING, AND INTEGRATION Increasingly, the Navy is recognizing the need for incorporating flexibility and adaptability into initial ship designs and recognizing that the integration of new systems and the ability to rapidly reconfigure them will be an ongoing challenge throughout a platform's life cycle in order to maintain warfighting relevancy. The ability to support advanced electrical payload warfighting technologies requires not only power and energy systems delivered with the flexibility and adaptability to accommodate them, but a NPES engineering enterprise with the capability and capacity (knowledge, labor, and capital) for continuous systems integration. The Navy can more affordably meet this challenge by shifting as much effort as possible into the computational modeling and simulation regime. An Integrated Power System (IPS) provides total ship electric power including electric propulsion, power conversion and distribution, energy storage, combat system support and ship mission load interfaces to the electric power system. Adding Energy Storage and advanced controls to IPS results in an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) in order to accommodate future high energy weapons and sensors. The IPES Energy Magazine is available to multiple users, and provides enhanced power continuity to the power distribution system. The flexibility of electric power transmission allows power generating modules with various power ratings to be connected to propulsion loads and ship service in any arrangement that supports the ships mission at the lowest total ownership cost (TOC). Systems engineering in IPS/IPES is focused on increasing the commonality of components used across ship types (both manned and unmanned) and in developing modules that will be integral to standardization, zonal system architectures, and generic shipbuilding strategies with standard interfaces that are Navy-controlled. IPES offers the potential to reduce signatures by changing the frequency and amplitude of acoustic and electromagnetic emissions. Integrated energy storage can reduce observability by enabling the reduction and elimination of prime movers, thereby reducing thermal and acoustic signatures. The modules or components developed will be assessed for applicability both to new construction and to back-fit opportunities that improve the energy efficiency and mission effectiveness. Areas of Navy interest are to continuously improve IPS/IPES by performing analysis, modeling and simula...
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS (N00024-19-R-4145 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA))
(PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 02 APRIL 2020) This is a modification to the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) N00024-19-R-4145 to extend the date for receipt of white papers and full proposals to 6 February 2028 and correct some administrative information. Any white papers that have already been submitted do not need to be resubmitted. Included in this modification to the BAA is revision to the Power Controls section to augment the desired technology interests. Included in this modification to the BAA is the identification of an electronic mail submission address for white papers. Included in this modification to the BAA is also a change to the identified Procuring Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist. The NAVSEA 0241 Points of Contact (POC) are changed as follows: the Primary Point of Contact remains Mr. Jerry Low, Procuring Contracting Officer, jerry.low1@navy.mil., and Secondary Point of Contact shall be Ms. Angel Jaeger, angel.jaeger.civ@us.navy.mil. All other information contained in the prior announcements through Apr 02, 2020 remain unchanged. (PLEASE SEE LATEST BAA ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN, POSTED 04 JUNE 2019) I. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION This publication constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), as contemplated in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2). A formal Request for Proposals (RFP), solicitation, and/or additional information regarding this announcement will not be issued or further announced. This announcement will remain open for approximately one year from the date of publication or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. Initial responses to this announcement must be in the form of White Papers. Proposals shall be requested only from those offerors selected as a result of the scientific review of the White Papers made in accordance with the evaluation criteria specified herein. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. Awards may take the form of contracts, cooperative agreements, or other transactions agreements. The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) will not issue paper copies of this announcement. NAVSEA reserves the right to select for proposal submission all, some, or none from among the white papers submitted in response to this announcement. For those who are requested to submit proposals, NAVSEA reserves the right to award all, some, or none of the proposals received under this BAA. NAVSEA provides no funding for direct reimbursement of white paper or proposal development costs. Technical and cost proposals (or any other material) submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned. It is the policy of NAVSEA to treat all white papers and proposals as competition sensitive information and to disclose their contents only for the purposes of evaluation. White papers submitted under N00024-10-R-4215 that have not resulted in a request for a proposal are hereby considered closed-out and no further action will be taken on them. Unsuccessful offerors under N00024-10-R- 4215 are encouraged to review this BAA for relevance and resubmit if the technology proposed meets the criteria below. Contract awards made under N00024-10-R-4215 and under this BAA will be announced following the announcement criteria set forth in the FAR. II. GENERAL INFORMATION 1. AGENCY NAME Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 1333 Isaac Hull Ave SE Washington, DC 20376 2. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY TITLE Research and Development of Naval Power and Energy Systems 3. RESPONSE DATE This announcement will remain open through the response date indicated or until extended or replaced by a successor BAA. White Papers may be submitted any time during this period. 4. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION 4.1 SUMMARY NAVSEA, on behalf of the Electric Ships Office (PMS 460, organizationally a part of the Program Executive Office Ships) is interested in White Papers for long and short term Research and Development (R&D) projects that offer potential for advancement and improvements in current and future shipboard electric power and energy systems at the major component, subsystem and system level. The mission of PMS 460 is to develop and provide smaller, simpler, more affordable, and more capable ship power systems to the Navy by defining open architectures, developing common components, and focusing Navy, industry, and academia investments. PMS 460 will provide leadership of the developments identified as part of this BAA, will direct the transition of associated technologies developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and will manage the technology portfolio represented by Program Element (PE) 0603573N (Advanced Surface Machinery Systems) for transition into existing and future Navy ships. 4.2 NAVAL POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP Naval power and energy systems are described in detail in the 2019 Naval Power and Energy Systems Technology Development Roadmap (NPES TDR). The NPES TDR focuses and aligns the power system investments for the Navy, Defense Department, industry and academia to guide future research and development investments to enable the Navy to leverage these investments to meet its future needs more affordably. Included in the NPES TDR are specific recommendations and opportunities for near, mid and long term investments, with a renewed focus on energy management. These opportunities range from an energy magazine to support advanced weapons and sensors to the development of an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES). The NPES TDR aligns electric power system developments with war fighter needs and enables capability-based budgeting. The NPES TDR is responding to the emerging needs of the Navy, and while the plan is specific in its recommendations, it is inherently flexible enough to adapt to the changing requirements and threats that may influence the 30-year ship acquisition plan. The first section of the roadmap establishes why NPES are a critical part of the kill chain based on the capabilities desired by the Navy in the near term, as well as supporting future platforms in the Navys 30-year shipbuilding plan. The second section of the roadmap presents power and energy requirements that are derived from mission systems necessary to support future warfighting needs. The third section describes required initiatives based on capabilities and the projected electrical requirements of the future ships. 4.3 FOCUS AREAS The areas of focus for this BAA include, but are not limited to, the "FYDP/NEAR-TERM" activities as described throughout the NPES TDR; the analysis, development, risk reduction and demonstration of future shipboard (both manned and unmanned) electric power systems and components, emphasizing shipboard power generation, electric propulsion, power conversion, energy storage, distribution and control; power quality, continuity, and system stability; electric power system and component level modeling and simulation; energy storage technologies; electrical system survivability; and power system simplicity, upgradeability, flexibility, and ruggedness. The Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) architecture provides the framework for partitioning the equipment and software into modules and defines functional elements and the power/control and information relationships between them. For power generation, high power distribution, propulsion, and large loads, the architecture includes Medium Voltage AC power (with emphasis on affordability), and Medium Voltage DC power (with emphasis on power density and fault management). For ship service electrical loads, the architecture includes zonal electrical distribution which may be either AC or DC, depending upon the specific application. Also of particular interest are technologies that result in significant energy efficiency, power density improvements and/or carbon footprint improvements over existing propulsion and power system technologies. The NPES TDR partitions the power system in to functional areas that include the following. 4.3.1 ENERGY STORAGE Energy storage modules may support short duration to long duration energy storage applications, which utilize a combination of technologies to minimize power quality and continuity impacts across the system. For the short duration energy storage applications, the module should provide hold-up power to uninterruptible loads for fault clearing and transient isolation, as well as load leveling for pulse power loads. For the mid duration, the module should provide up to approximately 3MW (100 - 150 kW-hr) of standby power for pulse power loads while also providing continuity of operations for a subset of equipment between uninterruptible and full ships load (including emergency power generation starting in a dark ship condition). For long duration applications, energy storage modules should provide the required power as an emergency backup system or to provide increased stealth for specialty equipment. The required duration for this type of application may extend up to days or longer, and may be intermittent or continuous. A number of energy storage technologies for future ship applications are of interest to the Navy, including various electrochemical, capacitor-based, or rotating discussed below: a. Capacitor: Electrochemical capacitor improvements continue to focus on improving energy density while maintaining inherently high-power density. Design improvements include development and integration of higher temperature films, advanced electrolytes, advanced electrode materials, and minimizing equivalent series resistance (ESR). b. Rotating: The Navy has interest in the investment from the transportation industry in flywheel systems that can handle gyroscopic forces continues to support flywheel usage in commercial rail and ground transportation. Additional factors of interest to the Navy include safety, recharge/discharge rates, ship motion impacts, environmental impacts and control. c. Electrochemical: Factors of interest to the Navy with respect to electrochemical energy storage include the ability to maintain state of charge when not in use; change in voltage versus state of charge; charge and discharge capability; the temporary or permanent loss of capacity due to repeated shallow discharges; the ability to shallow charge and discharge or partially charge intermittently during a discharge; battery life considerations such as service-life, cycle life, and shelf-life; off-gas properties that affect the level of ventilation and associated auxiliary systems; and safety enhancements to support qualification for use onboard US Navy ships. Near term Navy interests are in the area of common and scalable hardware and software elements which enable advanced weapons and sensors and in understanding the sizing algorithms for how to optimize energy storage sizing against various competing system requirements (short duration/high power vs. long duration/low power, for example. The specific design issues to be considered include reliability, volumetric and gravimetric power and energy densities, differentiating between high levels of stored energy and high energy density. The relevant information required for characterizing technology performance include: Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of components and systems; production capability; safety evaluation and qualifications performed on relevant subsystems or components (any hazard analyses of systems designs as relevant to notional applications); other military application of the devices; energy storage management system approach; thermal characteristics, constraints, and cooling requirements; auxiliary requirements (load); device impedance (heat generation characteristics); and device efficiency (discharge/recharge). 4.3.2 POWER CONVERSION Industry continues to drive towards increased power density, increased efficiency, higher switching frequencies, and refined topologies with associated control schemes. Innovation in power conversion from the development and implementation of wide-bandgap devices, such as Silicon Carbide (SiC), promise reduction in losses many times over Silicon. The use of high frequency transformers can provide galvanic isolation with reduced size and weight compared to traditional transformers. Advances in cooling methods will be required to handle larger heat loads associated with higher power operation. A typical Navy power conversion module might consist of a solid state power converter and/or a transformer. Advanced topologies and technologies, such as the application of wide band gap devices, are of particular interest. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to address converting high voltage AC/DC to 1000 VDC with power levels on the order of 3MW or larger. The specific design issues to be considered include modularity, open architecture (focusing on future power system flexibility and the ability of a conversion module within a ships power system to be replaced/ upgraded in support of lifecycle mission system upgrades), reliability, cost, and conversion efficiency. Areas of interest include more power-dense converters supporting advanced mission systems and prototyping of full scale conversion based on second generation wide-bandgap devices. 4.3.3 POWER DISTRIBUTION Power distribution typically consists of bus duct/ bus pipe, cables, connections, switchgear and fault protection equipment, load centers, and other hardware necessary to deliver power from generators to loads. Industry has used medium voltage DC (MVDC) transmission as a method to reduce losses across long distances. Complementarily, Industry is developing MVDC circuit protection for use in MVDC transmission variants of approximately 50, 100, and 150 megawatts (MW) at transmission voltages of 20 to 50 kVDC. Analysis includes modeling and simulation to determine methods for assessing the benefits of DC vs AC undersea transmission and distribution systems for offshore oil and gas. Industry and academia continue to invest resources in advanced conductors that have applications in power distribution, power generation, and propulsion. Research is focused on using carbon nanotubes. The development of a room temperature, lightweight, low resistance conductor is of great interest to the Navy. Areas of interest include development of an MVDC distribution system up to 12 kVDC to meet maximum load demands; design of an appropriate in-zone distribution system architecture; development of high speed 1 kVDC and 12 kVDC solid state circuit protection devices that are ship ready, and advanced conductors capable of supporting power distribution. 4.3.4 PRIME MOVERS (INCLUDING POWER GENERATION) Power Generation converts fuel into electrical power. A typical power generation module might consist of a gas turbine or diesel engine (prime mover), a generator (see rotating machine discussion below), a rectifier (either active or passive), auxiliary support sub-modules and module controls. Other possible power generation technologies include propulsion derived ship service (PDSS), fuel cells, or other direct energy conversion concepts. Power generation concepts include 60 Hz wound rotor synchronous generator driven directly by a marine gas turbine (up to 30 MVA rating); commercially derived or militarized design variants of the above; and higher speed, higher frequency, high power density variants of the above with high speed or geared turbine drive. NPES DC technologies permit prime movers and other electrical sources (such as energy storage) to operate at different, non-60Hz electrical frequency speeds, improving survivability, resiliency, and operational availability. Energy storage that is fully integrated with the power generation can enable uninterrupted power to high priority loads, mission systems that reduce susceptibility, and damage control systems to enable enhanced recoverability. The specific design issues to be considered include fuel efficiency, module level power density, machine insulation system characteristics, size, weight, cost, maintainability, availability, harmonic loading, voltage, power, system grounding approaches, fault protection, response to large dynamic (step) or pulse type loading originated from ship propulsion or directed energy/electromagnetic weapons, interface to main or ship service bus, autonomy, limited maintenance, and commercial availability. Navy interests are in the area of innovative approaches to power generation in the 5 to 30 MW range, utilizing gas turbines, diesel engines and other emerging power technologies that address challenges associated with achieving reduced fuel consumption, decreased life cycle and acquisition cost, support of ship integration, enable flexibility, enable power upgrades, and improved environmental compliance. Near term Navy interest includes 10-30 MW (nominally 25 MW) output power rating and the power generation source able to supply two independent electrical buses (where abnormal conditions, including pulsed/stochastic loads, on one bus do not impact the other bus) at 12 kVDC (while also considering 6kVDC, 18kVDC, and 1 kVDC). Enhanced fuel injection, higher operating temperatures and pressures, and optimized thermal management are critical for future prime movers. Advanced controls for increased efficiency, reduced maintenance, and increased reliability include implementation of digital controls; autonomous and unmanned power control; enhanced engine monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics; and distributed controls. Advanced designs for increased efficiency include new applications of thermodynamic cycles such as Humphrey/Atkinson cycle for gas turbines and diesels and Miller cycle for diesel. The Navy is interested in developing a knowledge bank of information on potential generator sets, generator electrical interface requirements, and the impacts of those requirements on generator set performance and size, as a logical next step from the Request for Information released under announcement N00024-16-R-4205. A long-term goal for this effort is to maximize military effectiveness through design choice and configuration option flexibility when developing next-generation distribution plants. The power generation source should fit within the length of a typical engine room (46 feet, including allowances for any needed maintenance and component removal). The power generation source is expected to have the ability to: control steady-state voltage-current characteristic for its interface; to maintain stability; and to adjust control set-points from system level controllers. For any proposed design approach, initial efforts would include conceptual design trade studies that inform the performance level that can be achieved. Trade studies may address Pulsed Load Capability (generator/rectifier design to increase pulse load capability, engine speed variation limits, and impact of cyclic pulse load on component life); Power Density (cost vs. benefits of high speed or high frequency, mounting on common skid, and advanced cooling concepts); Single vs. Dual Outputs (continuous vs. pulse rating for each output, voltage regulation with shared field, and control of load sharing); Efficiency (part load vs. full load optimization, flexible speed regulation, impact of intake and exhaust duct size/pressure drop on engine efficiency); Power Quality (voltage transient, voltage modulation for step, pulse loads, impact of voltage and current ripple requirements, and common mode current); PGM Controls (prime mover speed vs. generator field vs. rectifier active phase angle control, and pulse anticipation); Stability when operating in parallel with other sources; Short Circuit Requirements; and Dark Ship start capability (self-contained support auxiliaries). Trade studies may also address how rotational energy storage can be built into the design of the generator or added to the generator and what parameters need to be defined in order to exploit this capability. Development of advanced coatings and materials that support high temperature operations of a gas turbine is also of interest. Energy harvesting to convert heat energy and specifically low quality heat energy to electricity using solid state components is also of interest to the Navy. 4.3.5 ROTATING MACHINES (INCLUDING GENERATORS AND PROPULSION MOTORS) Recent trends in electrical machines include neural networks; artificial intelligence; expert system; fiber communications and integrated electronics; new ceramic conducting and dielectric materials; and magnetic levitation. High Temperature Superconducting rotors have higher power density than their induction and synchronous rotor counterparts. Wind power generators eliminate excitation losses which can account for 30% of total generator losses. The offshore wind power industry is moving to larger power wind tower generators in the 10MW class. Advanced low resistance room temperature wire and HTS shows promise for these higher power levels because of low excitation losses and low weight due to reduction in stator and rotor iron. HTS motors may be up to 50% smaller and lighter than traditional iron-core and copper machines. They have reduced harmonic vibrations due to minimization of flux path iron and have mitigated thermal cycling failures due to precision control of temperature. Propulsion motor concepts of interest to the Navy include Permanent Magnet Motors (radial air gap, axial air gap, or transverse flux), Induction Motors (wound rotor or squirrel cage), superconducting field type (homopolar DC or synchronous AC). The drivers and issues associated with these designs include acoustic signature, noise (requirements, limitations, modeling, sources, and mitigation methods), shock, vibration, thermal management, manufacturing infrastructure, machine insulation system characteristics, commercial commonality, platform commonality, cost, torque, power, weight, diameter, length, voltage, motor configuration, and ship arrangements constraints. Motor drives that may be explored include cyclo-converter (with variations in control and power device types), pulse width modulated converter/inverter (with many variations in topology), switching (hard switched, soft switched), and matrix converter (with variations in control, topology, cooling, power device type). Technologies for drives and rotating machines which allow the ability to operate as a motor and a generator to facilitate a PDSS installation or on a fully integrated power system to leverage the inherent energy storage in the ship's motion may be explored. Integrated motor/propulsor concepts may be considered either as aft-mounted main propulsion or as a forward propulsor capable of propelling a ship at a tactically useful speed. Areas of interest for future rotating machines include increased magnetic material flux carrying or flux generation capacity; improved electrical insulation material and insulation system dielectric strength; increased mechanical strength, increased thermal conductivity, and reduced sensitivity to temperature; improved structural materials and design concepts that accept higher torsional and electromagnetically induced stress; innovative and aggressive cooling to allow improved thermal management and increased current loading; increased electrical conductor current carrying capacity and loss reduction. 4.3.6 COOLING AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT As the demand and complexity of high energy loads increases, so does the demand and complexity of thermal management solutions. Assessing and optimizing the effectiveness of a thermal management system requires the analysis of thermal energy acquisition, thermal energy transport, and thermal energy rejection, storage, and conversion. The design of the thermal management system aims to transfer the thermal energy loads at the sources to the sinks in the most efficient manner. Areas of interest to the Navy with respect to cooling and thermal management include the application of two phased cooling and other advanced cooling techniques to power electronics and other NPES components and innovative approaches to manage overall ship thermal management issues including advanced thermal architectures, thermal energy storage systems, increases in efficiency, and advanced control philosophies. 4.3.7 POWER CONTROLS Controls manage power and energy flow within the ship to ensure delivery to the right load in the right form at the right time. Supervisory power system control typically resides on an external distributed computer system and therefore does not include hardware elements unless specialized hardware is required. The challenge to implement Tactical Energy Management (TEM) is to integrate energy storage, power generation, and interfaces with advanced warfighting systems and controls. TEM is critical to enabling full utilization of the capabilities possible from technologies under development. The state complexity and combat engagement timelines for notional future warfighting scenarios are expected to exceed the cognitive capacity and response times of human operators to effectively manage the electric plant via existing control system schema in support of executing ship missions. The survivability requirements for military ships combined with the higher dynamic power characterisitics (pulse load) characteristics of some mission systems will require more sophisticated control interfaces, power management approaches, and algorithms than are commercially available. The Navy is pursuing a long term strategy to create a unified, cyber secure architecture for machinery control systems that feature a common, reusable, cyber hardened machinery control domain specific infrastructure elements; a mechanism for transitioning new technology from a variety of sources in an efficient and consistent manner; and a mechanism to provide life cycle updates and support in a cost effective and timely manner. TEM controls will be expected to maintain awareness of the electric plant operating state (real time modeling); interface with ship mission planning (external to the electric plant control systems) for energy resource prioritization, planning, and coordination towards the identification of resource allocation states that dynamically optimize mission effectiveness; identify and select optimal trajectories to achieving those optimal resource allocation states; and actuate the relevant electric plant components to move the electric plant state along those optimized trajectories towards the optimal resource allocation state. TEM controls would enable reduced power and energy system resource requirements for a given capability (or improved capability for a given set of resources); increased adaptability of the Navy’s power and energy system design to keep pace with an evolving threat environment; and maximized abilities to execute the ship’s mission. The Navy is interested in potential applications of distributed control architectures that have led to the development of intelligent agents that have some autonomous ability to reason about system state and enact appropriate control policies. A simple example of these agents in a control system is the use of autonomous software coupled with smart meters in a smart grid implementation. The agents, smart meters in this example, can temporarily shut off air conditioning but not the refrigerator in residences during grid peak power usage times when the cost per watt is highest on hot days. The agent software acts autonomously within its authority to comply with programmed customer desires. The Navy is interested in TEM controls within a modular open systems architecture framework such that they are agnostic of, but affordably customizable to, specific ship platforms and power system architectures. TEM controls may reside between (i.e. interface with) embedded layers within individual power system components, ships’ supervisory machinery control systems, and ships’ mission planning systems. Initial or further development or modification of these interfaces may be required to achieve desired performance behaviors and characteristics. TEM controls are expected to develop within a model-based system engineering and digital engineering environment and will be initially evaluated in a purely computational environment, representing Navy-developed shipboard-representative power and energy system architecture(s), but will be progressively evaluated on systems with increasing levels of physical instantiation (i.e., controller-hardware-in-loop and power-hardware-in-loop with progressive levels of representative power system components physically instantiated). When implementing a TEM based control scheme, the overall power system should increase installed power generation available to mission and auxiliary loads; reduce power system design margins; hone the installed stored energy required for mission critical capability; and allow higher power transients (ramp rates and step loads). Other areas of interest to the Navy with respect to controls include improvements to traditional machinery control and automation, advanced power management, cyber security, and advanced controls for distributed shared energy storage and maintaining electrical system stability. The Navy is also interested in non-intrusive load monitoring, power system data analytics, real time system monitoring and onboard analysis and diagnostics capabilities. 4.3.8 SYSTEM INTERPLAY, INTERFACING, AND INTEGRATION Increasingly, the Navy is recognizing the need for incorporating flexibility and adaptability into initial ship designs and recognizing that the integration of new systems and the ability to rapidly reconfigure them will be an ongoing challenge throughout a platform's life cycle in order to maintain warfighting relevancy. The ability to support advanced electrical payload warfighting technologies requires not only power and energy systems delivered with the flexibility and adaptability to accommodate them, but a NPES engineering enterprise with the capability and capacity (knowledge, labor, and capital) for continuous systems integration. The Navy can more affordably meet this challenge by shifting as much effort as possible into the computational modeling and simulation regime. An Integrated Power System (IPS) provides total ship electric power including electric propulsion, power conversion and distribution, energy storage, combat system support and ship mission load interfaces to the electric power system. Adding Energy Storage and advanced controls to IPS results in an Integrated Power and Energy System (IPES) in order to accommodate future high energy weapons and sensors. The IPES Energy Magazine is available to multiple users, and provides enhanced power continuity to the power distribution system. The flexibility of electric power transmission allows power generating modules with various power ratings to be connected to propulsion loads and ship service in any arrangement that supports the ships mission at the lowest total ownership cost (TOC). Systems engineering in IPS/IPES is focused on increasing the commonality of components used across ship types (both manned and unmanned) and in developing modules that will be integral to standardization, zonal system architectures, and generic shipbuilding strategies with standard interfaces that are Navy-controlled. IPES offers the potential to reduce signatures by changing the frequency and amplitude of acoustic and electromagnetic emissions. Integrated energy storage can reduce observability by enabling the reduction and elimination of prime movers, thereby reducing thermal and acoustic signatures. The modules or components developed will be assessed for applicability both to new construction and to back-fit opportunities that improve the energy efficiency and mission effectiveness. Areas of Navy interest are to continuously improve IPS/IPES by performing analysis, modeling and simu...
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Strategic Distribution and Disposition SDD
DLA is going through a major Digital Business Transformation (DBX) and iscaptured as a critical capability in the DLA Strategic Plan 2021-2026. The 5GSmart-warehouse project directly supports the DLA DBX in the DLA Strategic Plan. DLA seeks interested parties to enhance DLA business processes using state-of-the-art emerging technologies and innovative business practices. Vendors whoreceive awards are intended to be organizations with demonstrated expertise inrelevant areas of DLA business processes. The SDD mission will be accomplishedthrough sharply focused awards, typically three to 24 months in duration, thatwill be executed by successful contract awardees. Through the 5G Smart warehouse project, DLA seeks to provide both a proactivelogistics response in a manner that consistently meets its customer needs. These objectives are to be accomplished through DLA's continued RDT&E activities ofindustry 4.0 technologies mentioned in section 1. It is envisioned that thesetechnologies, going forward will lead DLA Distribution and Disposition serviceswith the highest level of innovation needed to augment or replace many DLA'slegacy technologies that achieved Initial Operation Capability (IOC) in the 1999’s.Many of the current warehouse systems are unsustainable, ineff icient, andpresent many cybersecurity considerations, with DLA’s mission changing overthe past 20 years, and cyber threats are now on the forefront. It is critical to DLADistribution to add and/or replace legacy technologies with state-of-the-arttechnologies that are designed with cybersecurity considerations and evaluatedthrough RDT&E activities. See attached BAA for more information. Amendment 01 BAA0001-23 is hereby amended to remove the language"INITIAL CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS: (60 DAYS)" located onpage 2 of BAA-0001-23. Amendment 02 BAA0001-23 is hereby amended to change the phrase "Other Direct Costs" to "Indirect Costs". The full amendment and updated BAA can befound in the attachment section. Amendment 03 BAA0001-23 is hereby amended to include Intellectual Property and Data Rights Clauses; Identification and Assertion of use, Release, or Disclosure Restrictions; and Government Furnished Property Clauses and Instructions. Amendment 04 BAA0001-23_ is hereby amended to include eligibility standards.
Strategic Distribution and Disposition SDD
DLA is going through a major Digital Business Transformation (DBX) and iscaptured as a critical capability in the DLA Strategic Plan 2021-2026. The 5GSmart-warehouse project directly supports the DLA DBX in the DLA Strategic Plan. DLA seeks interested parties to enhance DLA business processes using state-of-the-art emerging technologies and innovative business practices. Vendors whoreceive awards are intended to be organizations with demonstrated expertise inrelevant areas of DLA business processes. The SDD mission will be accomplishedthrough sharply focused awards, typically three to 24 months in duration, thatwill be executed by successful contract awardees. Through the 5G Smart warehouse project, DLA seeks to provide both a proactivelogistics response in a manner that consistently meets its customer needs. These objectives are to be accomplished through DLA's continued RDT&E activities ofindustry 4.0 technologies mentioned in section 1. It is envisioned that thesetechnologies, going forward will lead DLA Distribution and Disposition serviceswith the highest level of innovation needed to augment or replace many DLA'slegacy technologies that achieved Initial Operation Capability (IOC) in the 1999’s.Many of the current warehouse systems are unsustainable, ineff icient, andpresent many cybersecurity considerations, with DLA’s mission changing overthe past 20 years, and cyber threats are now on the forefront. It is critical to DLADistribution to add and/or replace legacy technologies with state-of-the-arttechnologies that are designed with cybersecurity considerations and evaluatedthrough RDT&E activities. See attached BAA for more information. Amendment 01 BAA0001-23 is hereby amended to remove the language"INITIAL CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS: (60 DAYS)" located onpage 2 of BAA-0001-23. Amendment 02 BAA0001-23 is hereby amended to change the phrase "Other Direct Costs" to "Indirect Costs". The full amendment and updated BAA can befound in the attachment section. Amendment 03 BAA0001-23 is hereby amended to include Intellectual Property and Data Rights Clauses; Identification and Assertion of use, Release, or Disclosure Restrictions; and Government Furnished Property Clauses and Instructions.
AFLCMC Data Operations Commercial Solutions Opening
AFLCMC Data Operations CSO 1.0 Overview This Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) is intended to be a streamlined vehicle to allow for the establishment of a modern Data Operations (DataOps) solution supporting a variety of critical national security systems. This CSO authority is established under section 803 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 (Pub. L. 117-81) and Class Deviation 2022-O0007. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) programs require the utilization and leveraging of the latest technology advances from a large variety of prospective Contractors. AFLCMC invites innovating technical approach proposals addressing all aspects of DataOps focusing on the below objective areas. However, these enumerated focus areas are minimum requirements, and AFLCMC is open to the identification of technologies useful for modernizing DataOps for sophisticated security and weapon systems. This requires delivering an enduring, secure, robust, efficient, responsive, agile, elastic, and extensible classified DataOps solution. This CSO will focus on existing and emerging technologies and platforms across AFLCMC, Department of the Air Force (DAF), Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community, as well as leveraging commercial markets to perform an integrated analysis of the capabilities of varying technologies that support our critical national security systems and prioritize investments over time. The CSO may result in the award of FAR Part 12 Contracts or Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) under 10 USC 4022, through Calls via Amendments to the CSO. The Government anticipates future Calls to be competitively solicited. These Calls will contain specific Areas of Interest, User Stories and/or Problem Statements related to program specific DataOps Focus Areas. These specific Areas of Interest are what prospective Contractors shall focus their solutions towards. The Government reserves the right to issue separate Calls for each DataOps Focus Area or combine several Focus Areas under an individual Call. Disclaimer: No proposals or white papers are being requested at this time. Those will be requested via Calls published under the CSO solicitation. AFLCMC is not obligated to make any awards from any publicized Call, and all awards under this CSO are explicitly subject to the availability of funds and successful negotiations. The Government is not responsible for any monies expended by any vendor prior to the issuance of any awarded contract/agreement. AFLCMC reserves the right to modify the solicitation requirements of this CSO and each subsequent Call at its sole discretion. This CSO seeks to fund innovative technologies that propose new solutions to expand AFLCMC’s capabilities as it relates to modern DataOps Focus Areas. AFLCMC is interested in capabilities from all interested vendors to include, but not limited to, traditional defense contractors, nontraditional defense contractors, large businesses, small businesses, and research institutions (collectively referred as vendors). It should be noted, many of the critical national security systems operate in varying classification environments, including highly classified environments – such as collateral, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information, and Special Access Program. Though some DataOps Focus Areas may require unclassified work, respondents should be aware that vendors cleared to work, or the ability to be cleared to work, in highly classified environments will be necessary for any award. The CSO is a streamlined acquisition process that seeks to reduce acquisition timelines and acquire new, innovative solutions that vendors can bring forth to meet the stated Areas of Interest detailed in each Call. 2.0 DataOps Technology Focus Areas AFLCMC is seeking capabilities to prove out end-to-end DataOps for representative modern embedded weapon systems. The desired end-state is a DataOps capability/prototype that enables a weapon system to exploit data across the full lifecycle of an embedded weapon system (development, integration, test, deployment, operations and sustainment) across all classification levels. An ideal partner has first-party ability to directly modify underlying commercial hyperscale and edge cloud fabric to meet the project’s requirements across all classification levels and supporting partners would be considered as enabling providers supporting specific aspects of the potential solution. Each Technology Focus Area identifies an area where prospective vendors can bring substantial value to meet the DataOps mission. These focus areas are meant to be read expansively and are not limited to the enumerated Focus Areas. Additional Focus Areas may be included via amendments to this CSO. AFLCMC prefers to bucket several Focus Areas into singular Calls, which means vendors that can optimize several Focus Areas will be preferred. AFLCMC requires provider(s) to deliver an innovative state-of-the-art commercial solution that innovates all or some of the following capability areas. Whether using a single vendor or using multiple vendors, AFLCMC’s intended Minimum Viable Product (MVP) should contain the following Six Foundational Attributes: 1. Hybrid Cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS: AFLCMC seeks solutions for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (Saas) that can be hosted in a hybrid cloud architecture. For the purposes of this CSO, “hybrid cloud” is defined as: a virtual environment provided to a single customer that combines private cloud compute, storage, and services running on-premises with compute, storage, and services running in a public cloud along with the ability to move information seamlessly and transparently between them. All offerings will be templated, extensible, and elastically scalable on converged and/or hyperconverged infrastructure. All offerings will support “bring your own ‘X’,” such that AFLCMC can re-host existing workloads without interruption. All offerings will comply with relevant Department of Defense instructions, regulations, and policies such that they will be readily accreditable and interoperable with existing DoD networks and information systems at the Unclassified, Secret, and Top-Secret classification levels. Additionally, all offerings will be accredited or readily accreditable to handle Special Access Program (SAP) and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) handling caveats at the Secret and Top-Secret classification levels. 2. Information Transport AFLCMC is seeking solutions for information transport that complies with relevant Department of Defense instructions, regulations, and policies such that any transport solution offering will be readily accreditable and interoperable with existing Department of Defense Information Networks (DODIN). Information Transport offerings will also be required to interoperate with the hybrid IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions offered under technology focus area (1). All Information Transport offerings must operate in multi-level classification environments, enabling multi-modal connectivity from anywhere in the Continental United States (CONUS) via a high-bandwidth/low-latency transport solution. Cryptographic transport shall meet National Security Agency (NSA) Type 1 encryption products or equivalent cryptographic solutions. Further, AFLCMC requires capability to support edge resources to operate in disconnected, intermittently connected or low-bandwidth (DIL) environments. Initial connectivity shall encompass Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Edwards AFB, Tinker AFB and an off-base facility in the Dayton, Ohio greater metropolitan area. 3. Fielding Operations AFLCMC is seeking solutions to rapidly deploy the solutions acquired under focus areas (1) and (2). To support our system program offices, AFLCMC desires rapid “full network/crypto” deployability to new locations within 30 days from award. Connections should include all enterprise capabilities such as NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, existing classified, SAP capable, hyper-elastic cloud regions and other program networks. Moreover, AFLCMC seeks automated disaster recovery functionality to support Continuity of Operations (CoOPS). 4. Crypto-Net Managements/Commercial Solutions for Classified AFLCMC requires innovative commercial products to be used to protect classified data, including both data-in-transit (DIT) and data-at-rest (DAR). To the maximum extent practicable, technologies for AFLCMC shall be procured in accordance with requests Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) services to comply with the Committee on National Security Systems Policy (CNSSP) No. 11, National Policy Governing the Acquisition of Information Assurance and IA-Enabled Information Technology Products.” 5. Network Operations Center (NOC) / Security Operations Center (SOC) AFLCMC is seeking solutions to support, enable, and augment network administration and cybersecurity operations for solutions acquired under focus areas (1) and (2). Solutions will include services that enable real-time and near real-time metering, auditing, logging, monitoring, and status reporting of the entire virtual environment. 6. Help Desk AFLCMC requires a customer support help desk to assist end-users in navigating, utilizing and accessing data within the cloud environments. AFLCMC envisions a software-as-a-service that can manage all communication and network channels, establish performance metrics and monitoring, and is maximally available to meet mission requirements. AFLCMC is interested in additional focus areas beyond the above six (6) Foundational DataOps focus areas. AFLCMC may issue Calls against the below supplemental focus areas. These supplemental focus areas are meant to be read expansively and not limited to the enumerated areas. Additional Focus Areas beyond those enumerated below may be included via an individual Call against this CSO. Vendors that meet some or all the above Focus Areas may also identify capabilities for the additional focus areas. I. Secure Access Service Edge AFLCMC has a requirement to provide consistent, fast and secure access to dispersed end users operating in permanent military installations as well as forward operating base. Services should establish identity-driven security compliant with US Government security parameters for all classification levels (Unclassified, Secret, Top Secret and SAP programs). II. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) AFLCMC has a requirement to explore implementing SDN for fully networked Command, Control and Communications (C3) functionality, particularly in day-to-day Military Operating Base (MOB) and sustainment missions. SDN should contain a high degree of network programmability and reconfigurability to meet the needs of different government systems and emphasize advantageous situational awareness for faster response times. Further, AFLCMC is interested in other ways SDN can be applied to military environments while preserving data security. III. Edge Hyper-Converged Infrastructure AFLCMC anticipates migrating away from discrete, hardware-defined systems toward software-defined environments permitting all functionality through commercial service platforms while protecting data at all classification levels (unclassified, secret, top secret, SAP). IV. Zero Trust Architecture Given the security posture of many programs, AFLCMC requires zero trust security architecture by “never trusting, always verifying” network security. AFLCMC desires strong identity verification, validation of device compliance before granting access and ensuring least privilege access. V. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Infrastructure as code is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. AFLCMC seeks partners who would be able to expedite the onboarding process for new players by inflating an IaC instance within a cloud environment, enabling immediate executability of licenses, cloud resource management, and other capabilities. VI. Cloud Native Design On-premises (on-prem) infrastructure comes with an immense number of limitations as well as a high threshold for entry for new players in terms of hardware investments and schedule lead times. Utilization of cloud native designs for all network mapping, tooling, IaaS, etc. is of extreme interest to AFLCMC. VII. Software defined perimeter enabling classified data processing AFLCMC participates in work ranging from CUI all the way up to TS/SAR/SCI. Having cloud native, logically defined perimeters around separate enclaves that exist at various classification levels is critical to mission success. Organizations should be prepared to provide a body of evidence to demonstrate logical controls that safeguard information at different impact levels (ILs). VIII. Augmented and virtual reality capabilities (e.g., training, maintenance, etc.) AFLCMC requires commercial augmented and virtual reality capabilities to assist USAF maintenance and service technicians to interface with USAF systems. Applications should have practical maintenance applications as well as training capabilities. IX. Data Encryption (at rest, in motion, FIPS 140-3) Experience with encrypting and safeguarding data is critical to DoD success and cybersecurity. FIPS 140.3 is the standard that shall be used in designing and implementing cryptographic modules that federal departments and agencies operate or are operated for them under contract. The standard provides four increasing, qualitative levels of security intended to cover a wide range of potential applications and environments. The security requirements cover areas related to the secure design, implementation, and operation of a cryptographic module. These areas include cryptographic module specification; cryptographic module interfaces; roles, services, and authentication; software/firmware security; operating environment; physical security; non-invasive security; sensitive security parameter management; self-tests; life-cycle assurance; and mitigation of other attacks. Organizations with familiarization and expertise with establishing and maintaining compliant data encryption could be of use to the DoD. X. Cyber, Secure Processing Due to the sensitive nature of the USAF mission, the ability to leverage cyber secure processing, compliant with DoD standards for all impact levels is required. XI. Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) data factories AFLCMC seeks to find new and innovative ways to deploy and enable AI/ML to identify areas of interest within large data sets. These data factories should be able to pinpoint concerns, operational or safety threats, and shall help alleviate Human in the loop (HITL) man hours currently required to analyze data sets. XII. Big Data capability (data warehousing, data lakes, restructured data engineering) Test sets drive a requirement to capture, transport, and analyze massive amounts of data in near-real-time, as well as a requirement to host portions of that data for an indefinite amount of time. AFLCMC has interest in organizations that have experience with long-term data lakes, and data storage with the ability to enable petabyte and exabyte transport at high speeds between various CONUS and OCONUS locations. XIII. Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Development (CD) software pipeline AFLCMC utilizes a DEVSECOPS framework for many of its projects. CI/CD pipelines enable ALFCMC to adapt to emerging threats. Entities with experience in optimization and automation of CI/CD pipelines would be of particular use to the DoD. XIV. Application Development + application refactoring for cloud deployment AFLCMC sees a future use case of being able to pull data developed from another DoD organization to be easily digested and absorbed from a cloud environment and then re-tooled to meet mission requirements. AFLCMC requires a cloud-based platform to host both the outputs of application development (IE app store) as well as a toolkit to refactor an applications targeted use. XV. Existing capability refactoring/integration for Application Programming Interface (API) microservice architecture AFLCMC has a potential future requirement to establish a microservice architecture to iteratively build new applications/capability without impacting availability of systems. AFLCMC requires microservice refactoring within designated cloud-based platforms. XVI. Reverse Engineering AFLCMC has a potential future requirement for reverse engineering services. In instances where AFLCMC lacks sufficient engineering data for varying aircraft or supporting system parts, AFLCMC desires the ability to conduct reverse engineering services to produce underlying engineering data necessary for alternate sourcing of parts or manufacturing of the parts. XVII. Additive Manufacturing AFLCMC desires additive manufacturing services with the capacity for potential on-premises manufacture of varying parts. AFLCMC seeks commercial application of 3d printers and other technologies that permit immediate production of parts to reduce mission incapable awaiting parts (MICAP) status of critical systems/assets. 3.0 CSO with Calls This CSO is a hybrid solicitation against which both Closed Calls and/or Open Period Calls can be published via amendments to the CSO. All Calls issued under this CSO will include specific instructions including dates, Areas of Interest/Focus Areas, evaluation criteria and proposal instructions to offerors. While each offer shall adhere to this CSO, the Calls may contain other information of which the proposing vendors should also strictly adhere. Each Call will be announced on the Government Point of Entry (beta.SAM.gov), which may result in the award of a FAR Part 12 contract or an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) under 10 USC 4022. 3.1 Closed Calls (One-Step or Two-Step) Over the period of this CSO, Calls may be issued to request white papers and/or proposals for specific Areas of Interest/Focus Areas. It will be determined on a Call-by-Call basis whether the announcement is for a one-step (proposals only) or a two-step process (White Paper first, then Proposals by invite-only). The submission for white papers and proposals shall be submitted at a specific date and time as set for in each particular Call. White papers and/or proposals may not be reviewed if submitted after the stated date and time. 3.1.1 One-Step Calls Step 1: Proposal due date and time will be provided in Calls issued against this CSO. AFLCMC will make selections from vendor proposals only in accordance with the evaluation criteria contained in the Call. 3.1.2 Two-Step Calls Step 1: White Paper due date and time will be provided in Calls issued against this CSO. AFLCMC, at its sole discretion, may or may not request a presentation or discussion with Government personnel about the White Paper. Step 2: Proposal due date and time will be provided in Requests for Proposal (RFPs) sent to offers that submit White Papers who are evaluated favorably in accordance with the evaluation criteria contained in each Call. 3.2 Open Period Calls (Two-Step) This CSO may also have Open Period Calls. Open Period Calls will only be issued under a two-step process (see 3.1.2 above). After an Open Call is published, white papers may be submitted at any time during an Open Period for the Areas of Interest/Focus Areas detailed within the Call. It is important to note that only white papers submitted in response to specific Areas of Interest/Focus Areas detailed in the Call will be considered. Step 1: White Paper due date and time will be provided in Calls issued against this CSO. AFLCMC, at its sole discretion, may or may not request a presentation or discussion with Government personnel about the White Paper. Step 2: Proposal due date and time will be provided in Requests for Proposal (RFPs) sent to offers that submit White Papers who are evaluated favorably in accordance with the evaluation criteria contained in each Call. 4.0 Definitions CSO with Calls: This allows for the publication of an umbrella CSO solicitation that contains overarching information but does not request white papers or proposals. The CSO functions as a framework identifying the technical areas and giving the basic terms and administrative information of the CSO. The requests for white papers and/or proposals are done by issuing Calls that are published via amendments to the CSO. Calls can be issued at any time during the period of performance of the CSO. Each Call will be tailored to best fit the acquisition approached identified by the Government. The Calls may also include specific terms and/or conditions that apply to that particular Call such as technical details, security requirements and/or other pertinent clauses. Proposals or white papers are submitted only when Calls under this CSO are published. Open Period Calls: This type of Call allows for white paper and proposal submittals at any time within a specified period as set forth in the subsequent Call. Closed Calls: This type of Call allows for white paper and/or proposal submittals at a specified date and time as set forth in the subsequent Call. This process and the dates associated with it are more structured than Open Period Calls. Areas of Interest/ Focus Areas: These are specific requests for innovative solutions that AFLCMC will detail in each subsequent Call and will derive from the Technology Focus Areas (2.0 above). Vendor’s innovative solutions should focus on addressing the specific Technology Focus Areas contained within a specific Call. White Paper: A brief (usually 2-5 pages) summary of the proposed technical approach with an accompanying rough order of magnitude (ROM) price. Pitch Day: Pitch Day is a tool that can be used as part of the Call process. When used, Pitch Day gives vendors an opportunity to meet AFLCMC personnel in-person and provide a Pitch of their proposed technology. If a Pitch Day is utilized, specific details explaining the process and evaluation methods will be contained within a specific Call. Other Transaction: Refers to the type of Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) that may be placed as a result of this CSO and associated Calls. This type of OT is authorized by 10 USC 4022 for prototype projects directly relevant to enhancing the mission effectiveness of military personnel and the supporting platforms, systems, components, or materials proposed to be acquired or developed by the Department of Defense (DoD), or for the improvement of platforms, systems, components, or materials in use by the armed forces. This type of OTA is treated by DoD as an acquisition instrument, commonly referred to as an “other transaction” for a prototype project or a Section 4022 “other transaction.” Prototype Project: Can generally be described as a proof of concept, model, reverse engineering to address obsolescence, pilot, novel application of commercial technologies for defense purposes, agile development activity, creation, design, development, demonstration of technical or operational utility, or combinations of the foregoing. A process, including a business process, may also be the subject of a prototype project. Although assistance terms are generally not appropriate in OT agreements in 10 U.S.C. 4022, ancillary work efforts that are necessary for completion of the prototype project, such as test site training or limited logistics support, may be included in prototype projects. A prototype may be physical, virtual, or conceptual in nature. The quantity of prototypes/commercial solutions should generally be limited to that needed to prove technical or manufacturing feasibility or evaluate military utility. Innovative: This refers to any technology, process, or method, including research and development that is new as of the date of proposal submission; or any new application of an existing technology, process or method as of the proposal date. Nontraditional Defense Contractor: As defined in 10 U.S.C. 2302(9) as an entity that is not currently performing and has not performed, for at least the one-year period preceding the solicitation of sources by the DoD for the procurement or transaction, any contract or subcontract for the DoD that is the subject for full coverage under the cost accounting standards prescribed pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 1502 and the regulations implementing such section. This includes all small business concerns under the criteria and size standards in 13 C.F.R. Part 121. Small Business Concern: Defined in the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632) and 13 C.F.R. Part 121. 5.0 Contract/Agreement Details As stated in the Overview Section, Calls issued under this CSO can result in the award of either a FAR Part 12 Contract or an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) under 10 U.S.C. 4022. Regardless of the contract instrument, AFLCMC chooses to pursue the Contract/Agreement type for all as Fixed Price, which includes Firm Fixed Price (FFP) and Fixed Price Incentive (FPI). Future solicitations are not accepting offers for grants or cooperative agreements as the purpose of this CSO is to transfer something of value directly to the Government. The Government will be the sole decision authority on whether to pursue a FAR Part 12 Contract, an OTA or no award at all. The Government reserves the right to award some, all or none of the proposal from the responses to each Call. The Contracting/Agreements Officer reserves the right to negotiate directly with the offeror on the terms and conditions prior to execution of the resulting contract/agreement on behalf of the Government. Be advised that only a Contracting/Agreements Officer has the authority to enter into, or modify, a binding contract/agreement on behalf of the United States Government. 5.1 Prototyping This CSO may result in the award of prototype projects, which include not only commercially available technologies fueled by commercial or strategic investment, but also concept demonstrations, pilots, and agile development activities that can incrementally improve commercial technologies, existing government-owned capabilities, and/or concepts for broad defense and/or public application. The Government reserves the right to award a FAR Part 12 contract or an Other Transaction (OT) under 10 U.S.C. 4022 agreement (including an OT for a prototype project and a follow-on OT or contract for production), or a no award at all. Calls issued under this CSO constitute competitive procedures. AFLCMC may competitively award OTs for prototype projects that provide for the award or a follow-on production contract or OT for production to participants in the OT for prototype projects without the use of further competitive procedures, if the participant in the OT for prototype projects successfully completes the prototype project, as permitted by 10 USC 4022(f). 5.1.1 Iterative Prototyping A contract or OT for a prototype awarded under this CSO shall allow for an iterative prototyping process. An iterative prototyping process will allow the Government to modify, by mutual agreement, the scope of a prototype contract or OT to allow for the adaptation and modification of the technology being prototyped to meet additional unique and discrete purposes/mission sets. The sequential prototype iterations may result in a separate prototype project rather than a modification of the original prototype contract or OT. These additional unique and discrete purposes/mission sets can be generated by AFLCMC or originate within any organization that AFLCMC supports. 5.1.2 Successful Completion of a Prototype A prototype project is complete upon the written determination of the appropriate approving official (program manager and Contracting/Agreements Officer) for the matter in question that the efforts conducted under a prototype contract or OT: (1) met the key technical goals of a project; (2) met the metrics incorporated into the prototype contract or OT; or (3) accomplished a particularly favorable or unexpected result that justifies the transition to a production contract or OT. Furthermore, prior to successful completion of a prototype project under this CSO, the Government can transition any aspect of the prototype project determined to provide utility into production while other aspects of the prototype project have yet to be completed. 5.1.3 Follow-on Production of a Prototype After award of a prototype using OT authority, the Government and vendor may negotiate a follow-on contract or OT for production or solution integration with or without further competition. Any concept/technology/solution successfully proven through a Prototype OT can be transitioned to a production contract. The Government reserves the right to award a follow-on contract or OT before the prototype is compete, under competitive procedures as provided in 10 U.S.C. 4022. Any Call posted by the Government under this CSO could result in the potential award of a follow-on production or solution integration contract or OT. The Government reserves the right to extend the performance to all, some or none of the selected solutions and decisions will be made based on the availability of government funds. 5.2 Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) Specifics In accordance with 10 U.S.C. 4022(c), if an Agreement for a prototype is utilized and if that Agreement provides for payments in a total amount in excess of $5M, the Agreement will include a mandatory clause that provides for the Comptroller General the ability to examine the records of any party to the agreement or any entity that participates in the performance of the agreement. The $5M amount includes the base agreement plus any options. Additionally, to enter into an OT for a Prototype agreement under 10 U.S.C. 4022, one of the following conditions must be met: There is at least one nontraditional defense contractor or nonprofit research institution participating to a significant extent in the prototype project. All significant participants other than the Federal Government are small business concerns or nontraditional defense contractors. Parties to the transaction other than the Federal Government must pay at least one third of the prototype total cost. The senior procurement executive determines that exceptional circumstances justify the use of an OT to provide an innovative business arrangement not feasible under a contract or to expand the defense supply base in a manner not practical under a contract. All OTAs awarded under this CSO will contain prohibitions on the use of certain telecommunications devices in accordance with DFARS 52.204-25. Further specifics and requirements as it relates to OTs may be applicable and included in subsequent Calls published under this CSO. 6.0 Closed Calls This CSO will have Close Calls that consist of either a one-step or two-step process, which will be specified in each individual Call. For a one-step Call, only proposals will be solicited. For a two-step Call, white papers will be solicited first and then, consistent with this section, subsequent Requests for Proposals may follow after the Government reviews the White Paper. Any part of this process may be modified or altered by AFLCMC in the Calls or through an amendment to this CSO. It is important to note that at no stage is AFLCMC obligated to make any awards and all awards are subject to the availability of funds and successful negotiations. The Government is not responsible for any monies expended by vendors prior to the issuance of any contract/agreement award. 6.1 One-Step Closed Call Process 6.1.1 Call Published AFLCMC intends on publishing a Call via an amendment to this CSO. The Call will specifically state the CSO Call type (Closed, One-Step). This Call will provide a required date and time for submission of the proposal. The Call would also...
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