List_of_RIF_BAA_Amendment_Changes_003.xlsx

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FY18 RIF BAA

Changes made to BAA for Amendment #3

Title: Enhancing the separation technology to recover rare earths (REs) from chemical concentrates or industrial waste feedstock.

Military System or Acquisition Customer: DLA Strategic Materials Description: DLA R&D is looking for a domestic capability that demonstrates a new novel RE extraction and separation process from chemical concentrates or industrial waste feedstock. Various REs are used in defense weapon systems and there exist limited domestic processing capabilities of these materials and therefore a risk of foreign reliance. Developing an economically viable, environmentally friendly process for enhancing the recovery of REs from the existing industrial waste feedstock, such as fluorescent lamps, electronic devices, could facilitate the establishment of a viable, competitive domestic supply chain. DLA R&D seeks to prove the recovery demonstration for marketable REs from varied feedstock and facilitate commercialization of that process. R&D tasks include identifying feedstock sources in the existing domestic supply chain and developing process for extracting and processing the REs that demonstrates a significant cost advantage versus standard processing.

TPOC: Dr Vaibhav Jain, vaibhav.jain@dla.mil, 571-767-8839, Dr Vaibhav Jain, vaibhav.jain@dla.mil, 571-767-8839; Denise Price, denise.price@dla.mil, 571-767-2502

Kateri.W.Garcia@nga.mil 571-558-6484

Changes for Amendment #3, Second batch 3-16-2018

Section 13.4 Points of Contact for the AF RIF Program Management Office: Prior to April 26, 2018: Mr. Richard Lile, AFLCMC/OZT, richard.lile@us.af.mil. After April 26, 2018: Ms. Lori Miller, AFLCMC/OZT, lori.miller.5@us.af.mil.

Change POC information for Requirement # USAF-18-AFSC-3.B Technical POC: Emmett McGuffin, emmett.mcguffin@us.af.mil (478) 222-4104 Alternate POC: Logan Flynn, logan.flynn@us.af.mil (478) 222-4112

Replace text under Requirement # USAF-18-AFRL-18.A to: Military System or Acquisition Customer: DoD fighter/trainer community Description: The DoD fighter/trainer community is interested in a better human physiological sensing system for their pilots. The current helmet-mounted blood oxygen monitoring systems located on the pilot's helmet are not reliable on 50% of the flights. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) researchers have demonstrated that a custom molded in-ear pulse ox system can be built and collects excellent data. This location would be stable under high-g loading and could collect reliable data for high-performance aircraft. This system could also collect six-degree of freedom acceleration levels, heart rate, and core body temperature. This system could be set up to operate within the same space as the current AF Attenuating Custom Communications Earpiece System (ACCES) earplug system. This system should collect and store all of these human physiological measures (human black box) along with a date/time stamp to correlate with the aircraft performance data. Proposed systems should be optimized to provide the best performing solution at the lightest weight possible and lowest cost of operation. The system would need to be tested by AFRL under high-g loading to substantiate the performance to determine if the physiological system meets Air Force requirements.

Technical POC: Dr. Lloyd Tripp, lloyd.tripp@us.af.mil (937) 768-8106

DELETE "B. Livingston" from Requirement# USAF-18-AFRL-18.A (in previous item)

A pressing need remains for a comprehensive architectural framework that treats the soldier as a “platform”. Such a framework must:

- Provide well-defined component interfaces and protocols that facilitate full integration and situational awareness

- Be sufficiently flexible and extensible to support the warfighter’s diverse set of networks, sensors, and displays, both as they exist today and as they continue to evolve over time.

- Define vendor-agnostic component interfaces that provide a “low barrier of entry” for basic integration with the framework, with optional, more advanced capabilities supported.

- Define vendor-agnostic component interfaces that provide a “low barrier of entry” for basic integration with the framework, with optional, more advanced capabilities supported.

- Support multiple interface mechanisms and protocols to facilitate and simplify integration of existing components.

- Incorporate adequate cybersecurity to provide secure network access, as well as low probability of detect, and anti-jamming capabilities

- Technical Point of Contact: Mr. John Howell, 703-704-1146, john.p.howell12.civ@mail.mil Questions related to government drawings or specifications should be addressed to Mr. Jose Lopez-Merced, jose.lopezmerced.civ@mail.mil , (703) 704-1031

Replace existing topic ARMY-FY18-31-PEOSOLD03 with: Topic Identifier: ARMY-FY18-31-PEOSOLD03 Sponsor: Program Executive Office Soldier Title: Advanced Technologies to Miniaturize Army Binoculars for Lighter Weight, Better Performance and Friendliness to the Dismounted Soldier.

Military System or Acquisition Customer: Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier, Project Manager Soldier Weapons

Description: US Army has a need for advanced material, processing, and integration technology to achieve dramatic weight savings in its Handheld Day Binoculars w/ a minimum loss of performance vs its current day Binoculars. Advanced housings / designs ( including collapsible) with military tenacity, durability and lighter weight should be considered to achieve a pocket or palm sized optic with performance characteristics similar to the Army’s current M22 / M24 Binoculars of today. Both Monocular and Binocular Concepts will be considered. . Concepts that offer modular add-on capabilities such as a laser range finders, digital compass, and image stabilization will be more highly rated.

Technical Point of Contact: Fred Fitzsimmons, 973-724-8623, frederick.j.fitzsimmons.ctr@mail.mil

Replace existing topic ARMY-FY18-32-PEOSOLD04 with: Topic Identifier: ARMY-FY18-32-PEOSOLD04 Sponsor: Program Executive Office Soldier Title: Helmet Wireless Power Transfer System (HWPTS) Military System Acquisition Customer: U.S. Army PEO Soldier - Project Manager Soldier Warrior (PM SWAR), Project Director Soldier Systems & Integration Description: Project Manager Soldier Warrior (PM SWAR) is interested in evaluating wireless power transfer capabilities form the Soldier’s torso to the helmet. Currently, helmet sensors require unoptimized power sources with frequent battery exchanges. To reduce helmet weight and provide smart power, a highly efficient wireless power transfer of >85%, low-weight, Low Probability Intercept / Low Probability of Detection (LPI/LPD) wireless power transfer system is needed. A minimum of 10 Watts throughput is sought for the system, to be comprised of a small lightweight body power transmitter and accompanying on-helmet lightweight receiver (including power transfer electronics and energy storage solution of at least 10Watt-Hours). Size, distance and movement of helmet from body, helmet moment of inertial / center of gravity, etc. shall be considered along with overall operations from a 10 to 20 VDC power source. The HWPTS shall be compatible with existing PEO Soldier family of individual Soldier electronics and sensors. It shall be safe, and operate in MIL-STD-810 environments, have a low heat signature safe to the touch. This would directly support future Soldier helmet power requirements, assist with Soldier lethality, and modernization. The funding projected is limited to $1.5M for the base year. An option may be offered in a formal request for proposal for selected vendors for additional systems, integration, higher TRL, and/or testing. All communications and controls to the systems shall be open source – allowing for direct operations with third party systems interfaces to include systems updates. Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) contractors shall be used in evaluation of responses.

Technical Point of Contact (POC): Dave Schimmel (703) 489-0982, john.d.schimmel.ctr@mail.mil Questions related to government drawings or specifications should be addressed to Mr.

Jose Lopez-Merced, jose.lopezmerced.civ@mail.mil , (703) 704-1031

Replace existing topic ARMY-FY18-33-PEOSOLD05 with: Topic Identifier: ARMY-FY18-33-PEOSOLD05 Sponsor: Program Executive Office Soldier Title: Secure Soldier Wireless Communications (SSWC) Military System Acquisition Customer: U.S. Army PEO Soldier - Project Manager Soldier Warrior (PM SWAR), Project Director Soldier Systems & Integration Military System Acquisition Customer: U.S. Army PEO Soldier - Project Manager Soldier Warrior (PM SWAR), Project Director Soldier Systems & Integration

Description: Project Manager Soldier Warrior (PM SWAR) is interested in enhancing Intra Soldier Wireless (ISW) communications capabilities. Existing body area network technologies have size, weight, power constraints and Radio Frequency coexistence issues. This RIF topic is focused on improving size and weight reduction along with a significant emphasis on optimization of wireless components for operations in an EW environment within the PEO Soldier family of individual Soldier electronics/sensors. This RIF is seeking to demonstrate these improved capabilities and show tight coupling with Nett Warrior, ISW, power management and anti-jamming capability. The updates to existing ISW capability via USB shall be in a light-weight, integrated package, with a small form factor able to be carried in a small area on the Soldier platform. The design will principally provide and optimize Anti-Jam capabilities for operations in an EW environment leveraging ISW TDMA UWB. In addition, the design will provide functionality to control bandwidth allocation on USB host controllers such that USB endpoints can be assigned bandwidth statically. USB endpoints should be accessible to the IP layer where additionally QoS is implemented for external routing and communications using 802.11x. Both at the switching layer (USB) and routing layer (IP), will be controlled by software at the application layer, such that users can configure bandwidth requirements on the USB host controller and QoS at the IP layer. This will directly support ISW development, inform future requirements, and assist with Soldier lethality, networking and modernization priorities. All communications and controls to the systems shall be open source - allowing for direct operations with third party systems interfaces to include ISW system updates.

Technical Point of Contact (POC): David Veney (571) 437-6527, David.W.Veney.Ctr@Mail.Mil. Questions related to government drawings or specifications should be addressed to Mr. Jose Lopez-Merced, jose.lopezmerced.civ@mail.mil , (703) 704-1031.

Replace existing topic ARMY-FY18-49-EPG01 with: Topic Identifier: ARMY-FY18-49-EPG01 Sponsor: United States Army Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) Title: Scalable Test Range Adaptable Instrumentation Network (STRAIN) Military System or Acquisition Customer: Army T&E Description: STRAIN seeks to leverage the latest radio frequency communications technologies to provide a test instrumentation network infrastructure for real time situational awareness and control of test assets and instrumentation. The goal is embeddable, portable, secure telecommunications that can be deployed in both fixed and mobile platforms to dynamically provide an IP based communications infrastructure for our remote test instrumentation that allows for distributed points of control and the exchange of key metadata about status and health of our test assets.

The T&E community, especially the Army T&E community, is continually challenged to have a readily available, reliable, scalable communications network on test ranges to connect instrumentation. While 802.11, 3G/4G/5G and other common technologies have been applied sparingly to provide range networks, they’re costly, high maintenance, range limited and require significant battery power.

The primary use of this type of network is to provide command and control (C2) and situational awareness (SA) of the test instrumentation to centralized command and viewing locations. This solution should be capable of supporting up to 200 nodes on a single network covering an area of no less than 100 square kilometers. The network must be capable of bridging from one or more points in the radio network to hardwire DOD accredited Ethernet networks in accordance with army guidance/regulations to allow IP based clients on the hardwire network access to remote participants on the RF network.

Mesh networking solutions are highly desirable to allow dynamic and adaptive extension of the network topology in mobile operations. FIPS 140-2 compliance is required, and simple mechanisms for the management of encryption keys are desired. Reduced overhead and complexity in network management is key to maximizing use of available bandwidth and reducing setup time of the network. The ability to adjust the effective network “goodput” by adjusting the spectral bandwidth (i.e. increasing channel size for example) as well as frequency agility (the ability to operate in multiple parts of the spectrum) are key considerations as well. Size weight and power (SWAP) are also key factors, as these units are intended to be operated on batteries under field conditions.

Technical Points of Contact: Mr. John LeCompte, 520-538-2028, john.s.lecompte.civ@mail.mil or Mr. Edward Taylor, 520-538-2017, edward.w.taylor.civ@mail.mil