Attachment 0010d.2 – E144 RWS Bkup Batteries-FMECA.xlsx

This document contains a Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for backup batteries on an Integrated Battle Command System shelter. The FMECA identifies 21 potential failure modes for the backup batteries, including shorted, loose coupling, inoperable, mechanical failure, open, mechanical damage, degraded output, and intermittent output. It analyzes the effects of each failure mode at the component, next higher assembly, and end item levels. The document also provides severity classifications for each failure mode and notes that Engineering Change Orders make the system redundant to mitigate the effects of Category III failures.

The related federal contract opportunity is a solicitation for the Integrated Battle Command System Hardware Low Rate Initial Production/Full Rate Production effort. The requirement includes producing hardware end items, maintaining approved software and firmware updates, and executing any engineering changes. Questions are due by December 10, 2020 and this solicitation is only for contractors who met entrance criteria approved by the Integrated Fires Mission Command Project Office. The contracting agency is the Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal.