SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Open Proposal Research Announcement for HPEM - Applications, Modeling & Effects, Sources & Components
- Notice Date
- 11/9/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541715
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL - Directed Energy Directorate, 2251 Maxwell Ave, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 87117
- ZIP Code
- 87117
- Solicitation Number
- FA9451-18-S-0004_-0005_-0006
- Point of Contact
- Donald J. Lyles, Phone: 5058460392, Shawn Capehart, Phone: 5058534338
- E-Mail Address
-
donald.lyles@us.af.mil, shawn.capehart@us.af.mil
(donald.lyles@us.af.mil, shawn.capehart@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This special notice serves as an invitation to all interested parties to attend an off-base Open Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico to learn about 3 upcoming Broad Agency Announcements which will solicit innovative research and development concepts for High Power Electromagnetics in the areas of Applications, Modeling & Effects, and Sources & Components. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate (RD), High-Powered Electromagnetics (HPEM) Division (RDH), located at Kirtland AFB, is the Air Force's Center of Excellence for research in HPEM technology and functions as the Air Force Material Command's center for HPEM technology development, acquisition, transformation, and support. The High Power Electromagnetics Division designs, develops and demonstrates advance HPEM technology capability. The vision is that HPEM will be a viable weapons alternative in modern warfare. The HPEM Division's mission is to lead DoD's integrated development of HPEM weapon technology. The objective is to make HPEM technology lightweight, affordable, supportable, and effective on the modern battlefield. This program promotes projects, research, scientific studies, or other initiatives providing farsighted, high payoff research and development leading to advances in HPEM science and technology. Future BAA Announcements (3): FA9451-18-S-0004 Modeling & Effects The objective of this effort is to determine the effectiveness of HPEM technology and to perform numerical simulation to do virtual design and engagement modeling. Effectiveness investigations include the degree to which frequency, bandwidth, irradiance, pulse duration, pulse repetition, and other pulse-shape characteristics influence specific classes of target systems and components as well as battle damage assessment. The numerical simulation effort develops and uses advanced, supercomputer-enabled numerical simulation and optimization algorithms to virtually design HPEM sources and antennas that are capable of delivering the desired effects. Technologies and efforts considered include, effects on infrastructure targets, effects from front door engagements, predictive effects models, innovative particle-in-cell (PIC) codes, understanding of detailed physics involved in high power tube environments (plasma formation, emission, gas desorption) to allow improved material design and better simulation/experiment fidelity in the multi-GW regime, and engagement and mission level modeling and simulation of HPEM systems. FA9451-18-S-0005 Sources & Components The objective of this effort is to conduct research and development on advanced compact rep-rate pulsed power, as well as alternatives to high-power vacuum-tube sources. The goal is to explore improved versions of narrowband High Power Microwave (HPM) sources as well as alternative approaches to developing higher-rep-rate, compact, high-power HPM devices. In addition, alternative approaches to counter-electronics technologies including ultra-short pulsed lasers and charged-particle beams are part of this effort. Technologies and efforts considered are significant size reductions for all parts of the HPM system, materials modeling, prime power, high-energy-density capacitors, permanent magnets, transmission lines, switches, and non-linear transmission lines, as well as high voltage insulators and electron collector/anode materials, and new HPEM materials to enable new sub-system topologies and geometries. FA9451-18-S-0006 Applications The objective of this effort is to design, develop, and demonstrate HPEM technologies for future HPEM systems by addressing key technical barriers. The goal is to develop HPEM technologies that are lightweight, efficient, affordable, and reliable for warfighter applications. Specific technologies being addressed are based on technical gap analysis of Air Force Core Function roadmaps. Technologies and efforts considered are feasibility studies of innovative HPEM applications, military utility assessments, system integration, and demonstration of HPEM capabilities. Open Forum Location: Innovate ABQ (Rainforest Building) 101 Broadway BLVD NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 Date: 29 November 2017, Wednesday Time: 0900 - 1100 Government representatives from AFRL Contracting and the HPEM Technical Areas will be present to provide a short presentation on what to expect from these announcements. The presentation will be followed by a Question & Answer session. If you plan to attend, please send an email NLT 27 November 2017 with your RSVP to the following email addresses: donald.lyles@us.af.mil shawn.capehart@us.af.mil If you are unable to attend, but your company is interested in this requirement, check back to this special notice following 29 November as a top-level copy of the forum minutes and attendees will be posted. Attendance is NO T required to participate in any subsequent solicitations or announcements. This notice is NOT a request for the submission of white papers or proposals at this time. It is informational only. Announcements requesting the submission of white papers are expected to be posted to FBO tentatively in Jan/Feb 2018. This Open Forum will be the first in a series of what is anticipated to be a recurring opportunity for RDH technical representatives to dialogue freely with industry counterparts about HPEM innovations and possible research needs. Future forum dates will be posted in advance. Although Statements of Objectives are not being posted at this time, SOO's will be posted with the BAA's. The Government reserves the right to revise the SOO's based on comments received from this Open Forum and future forums.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFRLPLDED/FA9451-18-S-0004_-0005_-0006/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Event Location:, Innovate ABQ (Rainforest Building), 101 Broadway BLVD NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87102, United States
- Zip Code: 87102
- Zip Code: 87102
- Record
- SN04737101-W 20171111/171109231121-7c9e8c5fd13a0aa0174fb832df2007f9 (fbodaily.com)
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