SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Environmental and Ship Forecasting (EMSF) - Solicitation BAA10-019
- Notice Date
- 9/30/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, ONR, CODE ONR-02, 875 North Randolph St., Suite 1425, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1995
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1995
- Solicitation Number
- BAA10-019
- Archive Date
- 11/30/2010
- Point of Contact
- Juan Carlos Rivera, Phone: 703-696-0802, Dr. Paul Hess,
- E-Mail Address
-
juancarlos.rivera@navy.mil, esmf@onr.navy.mil
(juancarlos.rivera@navy.mil, esmf@onr.navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Cost Proposal Format Instructions Proposal Checklist BAA10-019 Full Solicitation This background is provided for informational purposes only. The Seabasing concept has been maturing over the past few years, and a special emphasis has been placed on the development of technologies needed to make it a reality. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has aligned the Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) programs with the vision of Sea Power 21. Each of these FNCs consists of a number of Enabling Capabilities (EC) that address warfighting capability shortfalls. The Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting program falls under the Connectors and the Sea Base EC in the Seabasing FNC. The Seabasing concept has been developed in order to enable Operational Maneuver from the Sea (OMFTS), the Marine Corps' warfare doctrine where all logistics support will come from the sea, rather than from supply points ashore. This offshore logistics presence creates a number of challenges associated with the transfer of material between ships in order to facilitate and sustain shoreside amphibious operations; one of these challenges is the mitigation of delays in material transfer caused by excessive ship motion. ONR currently has ship-specific, motion-mitigating ramp and crane systems in development, but for general operation of legacy equipment an alternate approach is desired. The ESMF program seeks to provide sea-based military and civilian ship and cargo system operators with seaway environmental forecasting, in order to predict ship motions and determine windows of opportunity for inter/intraship material and personnel movement. The technical objective is to predict specific wind and waves and the resulting ship motions up to 30 seconds in the future, to identify critical environmental conditions in advance of up to 5 minutes for go/no-go decisions for procedures such as crane ops and cargo handling, and to identify any necessary long-term (24-48 hour time horizon) conditions that feed both the boundary conditions of the short-term prediction and any necessary operator guidance for critical seabasing ops decision making; this includes environmental scenarios such as prediction of dominant swell, as well as incoming storm tracks. Enabling the warfighter to make more informed decisions for onboard and ship-to-ship operations is a critical capability for the Sea Basing environment, and the goal of this program.
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