A3.05 RFI Draft SOW.pdf

N00014-21-D-xxxx IDIQ SOW

MANUFACTURING TECHOLOGY

(MANTECH)

NAVY METALWORKING CENTER (NMC)

OF EXCELLENCE

IDIQ STATEMENT OF WORK

27 OCT 2020

ManTech Navy Metalworking Center (NMC) of Excellence

STATEMENT OF WORK

1.0 Overview

1.1 Background of Navy Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program

The Secretary of Defense established a Manufacturing Technology Program to further the national security objectives of Section 2501(a) of U. S. Code Title 10 – Armed Forces, through the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes that will reduce the acquisition and supportability costs of defense weapon systems and reduce manufacturing and repair cycle times across the life cycles of such systems. The purpose of the program is to improve the manufacturing quality, productivity, technology, and practices of business and workers providing goods and services to the Department of Defense (DoD). DoD Directive 4200.15 implements the

Manufacturing Technology Program, and it dictates that DoD is to rely on private sector investment and the “free enterprise” system to provide the manufacturing technology necessary to produce DoD material. The Directive mandates ManTech investments are to be directed at improving the quality, productivity, technology, and practices of business and workers providing goods and services to the DoD.

The Navy Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program, operated out of the Office of

Naval Research (ONR), is focused on affordability improvements for specific key acquisition platforms as defined in the Navy ManTech Investment Strategy. Key platforms currently targeted include: the CVN 78 Class carrier; the DDG 51 Class destroyer; the

VIRGINIA Class Submarine / OHIO Replacement Program; the Littoral Combat Ship

(LCS); and the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). ONR ManTech helps these Navy programs achieve their respective affordability goals by transitioning developed manufacturing technology which, when implemented, results in needed cost reduction or cost avoidance.

Navy ManTech executes through Centers of Excellence using this key acquisition platform approach to develop cost reduction/avoidance platform portfolios and specific projects.

There are presently seven Navy ManTech Centers of Excellence (COEs), and they serve as focal points for the development and technology transfer of new and advanced manufacturing processes and technology in a cooperative environment with industry, academia, and the Naval Research Enterprise. The COEs serve as corporate repositories of expertise in particular technological areas and collaborate with acquisition Program

Executive Offices (PEOs) / Program Offices (POs) and relevant industry to identify and resolve manufacturing issues impacting the key Navy acquisition platforms. The COEs develop and demonstrate manufacturing technology solutions for identified Navy manufacturing requirements, provide consulting services to naval industrial activities and industry, and facilitate the implementation of developed manufacturing technologies.

1.2 Overview of NMC

Inasmuch as the assigned missions of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Manufacturing

Technology (ManTech) Navy Metalworking Center (NMC) of Excellence is dynamic, this

Statement of Work (SOW) is not intended to be all-inclusive or restrictive, but is intended to provide a broad framework and general scope of the work to be performed at the NMC.

This SOW does not represent commitment to, or imply funding for, specific projects or programs. The ONR ManTech work requirements are developed through strategic planning and program plans.

The Contractor shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Contract, provide the resources, intellectual leadership, and management expertise necessary and appropriate to managing and operating the NMC to accomplish its primary mission. The primary mission of the NMC is to develop metalworking or related manufacturing technologies and deploy them in U.S. shipyards and other relevant industry, with the goal of facilitating industry improvements and ultimately reducing the cost and time required to build and repair naval ships and other key naval platforms, as defined in the ONR ManTech Investment Strategy.

In addition, the NMC shall perform all supporting functions for a Navy ManTech Center of Excellence, such as serving as a corporate repository of expertise in its particular technological area; performing special projects and industry surveys related to the mission as required; planning and conducting outreach activities to increase awareness of the NMC and disseminate manufacturing technology throughout the nation’s shipyards and industrial base to achieve additional implementations beyond the primary implementation site; and any other functions as assigned by the ONR ManTech Division.

1.3 NMC Core Mission and Scope of Work

The core mission and function of the NMC is to identify, develop, and facilitate the deployment of potential solution sets to U.S. shipyards and other industrial facilities i.e.

metalworking or related manufacturing technologies to reduce the cost and time to build and repair key naval platforms.

The primary focus of the NMC is expected to be on shipbuilding and shipyard improvements as reflected in the current Navy ManTech Investment Strategy which is focused largely on submarine, carrier, and surface combatant platforms. However, since the current ManTech Investment Strategy also includes the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, projects intended to help aircraft assembly and fabrication may be developed and executed through the NMC as well. Based on the current Navy ManTech Investment Strategy, it is anticipated that ~75-80% of projects and funding would be directed towards shipbuilding-related efforts, with the balance directed towards aircraft assembly and related efforts.

However, as the Navy ManTech Investment Strategy is updated annually, the percentage of work assigned to various platforms is expected to vary over time.

In accomplishing its mission, the NMC will work closely with the Navy’s acquisition community as well as Navy shipyards and other relevant industrial facilities to identify metalworking technologies and related processes that negatively impact shipyard or facility output or products, with respect to both cycle-time and cost. Then solicit, select, award, and manage projects to address improvements in the following (but not limited to) subject areas of expertise.

*metals and advance metallic materials

*metal-based composites

*ceramics

*metallic materials-based systems

*metal/non-metals interfaces issues

*primary metal materials manufacturing processes e.g. additive manufacturing

*joining techniques

*surface and heat treatments

*metalworking systems engineering activities

*material characterizations and testing

*process design control

*product design and structural performance

*environmental issues and recycling

*information and data handling and transfer

*manufacturing technology/industrial base infrastructure

*inspection technologies

The Contractor will operate and manage the NMC in its mission to develop naval platform-related manufacturing technologies and transition the technology for implementation in

U.S. shipyards and other industrial facilities. In addition to accomplishing the NMC core mission, the Contractor shall manage, operate, sustain, and enhance the NMC ability to function as an ONR ManTech Center of Excellence.

The Contractor shall, with the highest degree of vision, quality, integrity, and technical excellence, maintain a strong scientific and engineering resource base responsive to manufacturing technology issues of national importance. The scope of work of this

Contract includes:

1. Operating and managing the COE in an efficient, cost effective, and innovative manner to accomplish its core mission of developing and facilitating the implementation of metalworking and related manufacturing technologies to U.S.

shipyards and other industrial facilities to reduce the cost and time to build and repair key naval platforms.

2. Organizing, facilitating and executing a naval platform and shipyard/industrial base driven project selection process, supporting the key naval platform programs identified by the ONR ManTech Investment Strategy and the ONR Program

Officer, in order to recommend technical work. Projects selected should be important to both the Navy and the naval industrial base that builds and/or repairs naval platforms.

3. Initiating and managing ManTech projects approved by the ONR Program Officer.

Management of projects should include the use of an earned-value or similar methodology that tracks and relates technical progress, schedule, and funding.

4. Providing support of special projects or non-ManTech funded projects that relate to the COE mission, as directed by the ONR Program Officer.

5. Providing all required reporting, including COE-level and project-level deliverables, for the evaluation of the technical and financial progress of the Center and of each technical project.

6. Planning, coordinating, and conducting outreach activities and projects to increase awareness of the NMC and to facilitate technology transition and implementation of ManTech-developed manufacturing technology at additional shipyards and industrial facilities beyond the initial implementation site of any particular technical project.

7. Traveling in support of the NMC. Travel shall be planned and conducted in such a fashion to provide maximum flexibility and use of time in support of the COE. All travel shall be in accordance with the FAR and applicable federal travel regulations.

It is currently envisioned that the NMC contract will be structured with multiple delivery/task orders. Each individual task order will have its own Statement of Work.