SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Special Notice: Call for Proposals for Participation in the 2019 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) - ANTX Quad Chart Template
- Notice Date
- 11/1/2018
- 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 Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, NUWC Newport Division, Simonpietri Drive, Newport, Rhode Island, 02841-1708, United States
- ZIP Code
- 02841-1708
- Solicitation Number
- N6660419RANTX
- Archive Date
- 12/31/2018
- Point of Contact
- Christopher J. Kenney, Phone: 4018324828
- E-Mail Address
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christopher.j.kenney@navy.mil
(christopher.j.kenney@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- ANTX 2019 Proposal Quad Chart Template Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport announces a call for proposals to participate in the 2019 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX). This year's event will be conducted as a collaboration between NUWC NPT and the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA), a Rhode Island nonprofit corporation. Exercises will be conducted throughout the 2019 fiscal year, with specific dates and venues to be coordinated with the individual participant(s), and a culminating exercise showcase event will be held during the week of 26 - 30 August 2019 in Newport, RI. All participants who conduct exercises, regardless of execution date, will be invited to showcase their results at the culminating event. Under the authority of the Partnership Intermediary Agreement between NUWC Division Newport and SENEDIA, signed 6 October 2016, "SENEDIA provides assistance, counseling, advice and otherwise cooperates with small business firms, institutes of higher and educational institutes that need or can make productive use of technology-related assistance from a Federal laboratory." SENEDIA collaboration is provided to encourage participation by small business and academic institutions, but participation is not limited to these organizations, nor is the need to be a member of SENEDIA implied. Again this year the Commander, Navy Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC) is providing its Gulf of Mexico (GOM) location as a satellite operating venue opportunity for participants. Participants may elect to conduct an in-water exercise either at CNMOC's operating area near Stennis Space Center, MS or at NUWC's Narragansett Bay Test Facility (NBTF) in Newport, RI. (Locations may be recommended by the review panel based on technical and/or logistics requirements. See below for criteria.) ANTX is a recurring event that was created for the U.S. Navy to see the future of naval technology in action today. Warfare Centers, other Navy commands, academic institutions, and industry are invited to showcase their technologies and capabilities during this event. This event provides an opportunity to test autonomous systems (both in motion and at rest) and related technologies, while gaining access to the NBTF ranges, facilities, and people or the facilities and people of the CNMOC GOM operation area (OPAREA). ANTX provides a low risk environment where scientists, engineers, and sailors can evaluate technological innovations at the research & development level before they become militarized and interfaced within Navy operations. The theme for ANTX 2019 is "Prepare For Battle: Undersea Security" or "US 19" for short. Key tasks include identifying science, technologies, and future concepts that explore and interact with the maritime domain, connecting assets from the seafloor to space and ensuring their security, in order to bring data home. Desired exercise construct, or capabilities that enable a portion there of: •• Survey, analyze, and explore the maritime domain •• Enhance the understanding of the operational environment using improved geophysical sensing capabilities •• Locate, analyze, and identify relevant maritime domain features •• Capabilities to install and maintain systems, from the seafloor to the ocean surface •• Capabilities to work together with systems, from the seafloor to the ocean surface •• Security of maritime assets •• Monitoring, anticipating, recognizing, and responding to changes in the maritime domain •• Securing and preserving maritime assets Areas to be considered include, but are not limitd to: •· Undersea Security warfighting concepts •· Mobile, expeditionary, and fixed sensors (all domains and spectrums) •· Ocean observing and surveying systems •· Wide area search and surveillance •· Change detection •· Threat monitoring •· Data analytics, fusion, and distribution •· Security of maritime assets •· Swimmer defense •· Counter-Unmanned Systems (Counter-UxS) •· Seafloor system emplacement, interaction, and maintenance •· Underwater data and power transfer and generation •· Unmanned and autonomous undersea vehicles •· Tactical Decision Aids (TDAs) •· Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) environments Potential participants in this year's ANTX event are asked to submit a proposal for participation by filling out the "ANTX 2019 Proposal Quad Chart". Please be sure to select which in-water execution location is preferred and the earliest date an exercise can be executed. Multiple proposals (quads) may be submitted. The intent is to select the most relevant and promising technology for Navy observation. A panel of government subject matter experts will review each proposal and select exercise participants. Selection criteria will include how the technology addresses the theme (value to the Navy), uniqueness of the technology (not likely to be duplicated elsewhere), confidence the technology will be available for the exercise, ability to execute at NBTF or GOM OPAREA and potential for collaboration with other participants (both government and non-government). Proposals received will be marked and handled for government use and distribution only. All proposal information will be protected as commercial proprietary information. ANTX 2019 may invite government military and/or government civilian representatives from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Portugal and/or North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) as observers during ANTX 2019's culminating showcase event during a dedicated Distribution A/ Media portion of the event. Potential participants are requested to address if and how the attendance of observers from these partner nations would affect their participation content. All proposals are due by 30 NOVEMBER 2018. Division Newport intends to announce selections by 14 December 2018. Potential participants shall submit UNCLASSIFIED proposals electronically to: ANTX@Navy.Mil For planning purposes, all costs for Division Newport range, pier, and boat services for selected participants will be covered by Division Newport, to include general base transportation costs and general labor costs to assist with equipment handling. Division Newport will assist with approvals for required land, water, or air space use and will assist with logistics during the event. Division Newport will not provide any funding for any other costs, including proposal preparation and submittal. Selected participants are responsible for the remainder of expenses, including support for the planning phase (such as providing additional data on their technology for safety/environmental evaluations and the like), mobilizing (shipping to Newport), setup of their equipment, operation of their equipment for demonstration, and demobilization. Selected participants are required to enter into a Special Purpose (SP) Navy Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Division Newport. The SP-CRADA enables ANTX participation. If the required NBTF onsite support exceeds what is designated for ANTX execution as defined in the SP-CRADA, Division Newport will negotiate in good faith the appropriate agreement that will enable participants to provide funding to Division Newport to obtain resources forthose additional in-water activities. You must document the resources you believe will be required at the NBTF to conduct your proposed operations in the "ANTX 2019 Proposal Quad Chart". For planning purposes, the ANTX 2019 Planning Schedule is as follows: 1 November 2018: Announcement to Government, Industry, and Academia 30 November 2018: Participant proposals due 14 December 2018: Participants selected and announced 30 January 2019: Initial planning meeting at NUWC Division Newport (all participants) *10 April 2019: Mid planning meeting at NUWC Division Newport *19-20 June 2019: Test Readiness Reviews at NUWC Division Newport 24 July 2019: Execution meeting at NUWC Division Newport (all participants) 26-30 August 2019: ANTX 2019 (Includes ANTX preparation, in-water exercise days, and showcase event. Further details to be provided at Initial planning meeting). *NOTE: As in water exercises will be conducted throughout the fiscal year, as participants identify themselves as being ready, planning meetings and Test Readiness Reviews will be conducted prior to execution on an agreed upon date that may be prior to the dates identified above. The appropriate partnership agreement must be in place prior to any in-water events. As further information on the event becomes available this announcement will be updated accordingly.
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