Department of the Army Energetics Basic Research Center (EBRC) BAA

Category: Opportunity

DoD Communities of Interest: R&D Research and Development

Subject: Energetics BAA

Due Date: See description, but 13 Nov is the virtual proposers' day

Government Organization: Department of the Army Energetics Basic Research Center (EBRC)

Description: 

OVERVIEW OF THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

1. Agency Name

Combat Capabilities Development Command/Army Research Laboratory/U.S. Army Research

Office (ARO)

Issuing Acquisition Office

U.S. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground, Research Triangle Park (ACCAPG-RTP) Division

2. Research Opportunity Title

Department of Army Energetics Basic Research Center Fiscal Year 2022

Army research must encompass new ways to expedite the discovery, design, and scale-up of new materials and concepts which when integrated into newly designed weapons components (e.g. additively manufactured high strength steels with pre-formed fragmentation patterns and structural reactive materials) developed at ARL and across the Army and DoD communities, will deliver decisive weapons overmatch. To achieve the desired future technological overmatch, advances must be made in new synthetic methodologies targeting novel energetic materials to increase performance for both explosive and propulsion applications. Physics-based synthesis (e.g., processes that use pressure, mechanical action, electromagnetic fields, and/or high-energy plasmas) can potentially access materials outside those available via classical chemical synthesis, allowing exploitation of novel, nontraditional materials capable of explosive energy release (e.g., dense metastable extended solids such as doped poly-nitrogen, structural-bond-energy release materials, composite reactive materials). See BAA at site below for additional info and explanation.

3. Announcement Type

Initial Announcement

4. Research Opportunity Number

W911NF-21-S-0001

5. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number and Title

12.431 – Basic Scientific Research

6. Response Dates

a. Proposers’ Day: 13 November 2020 1100-1400 EDT. Virtual venue. Registration required &

limited. Information available at below link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ebrc‐proposers‐day‐2020‐tickets‐124630596469

b. Whitepapers – 3 January 2021 no later than 4:00 PM Eastern Time

c. Selection of whitepapers for full proposal on 1 February 2021

d. Proposals Due – 2 May 2021 no later than 4:00 PM Eastern Time

e. Selection of Proposal – 1 July 2021

7. POINTS OF CONTACT

a. Contracting Officer: Kevin Bassler, kevin.j.bassler.civ@mail.mil

b. Program Manager: Ralph A. Anthenien Jr. ralph.a.anthenien2.civ@mail.mil, 919-549-4317

c. Technical Points of Contact (TPOCs)

i. Robert Mantz robert.a.mantz.civ@mail.mil 919-549-4309

ii. Stephen Lee stephen.j.lee28.civ@mail.mil 919-549-4365

iii. Edward Byrd edward.f.byrd2.civ@mail.mil 410-306-0729

Website: https://beta.sam.gov/opp/d3bcfd5b0aa8433ebcae94dbee2fac27/view