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Special Notice N00014-18-R-SN07 Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Catapult Challenge

I. INTRODUCTION.

ONR is making $2 million available under the ONR Catapult Challenge.

This notice describes new funding to be awarded under the authority of the ONR FY18 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology, N00014-18-S-B001 which is found at http://www.onr.navy.mil/Contracts- Grants/Funding-Opportunities/Broad-Agency-Announcements.aspx.

The purpose of this notice is to focus attention on (1) the technical areas of interest for the Catapult Challenge (2) the opportunity to schedule one-on-ones with ONR Program Officers for dialogue amongst those interested in this challenge, and (3) the planned timetable for the submission of ideas and proposals.

To learn more about the ONR Catapult Challenge and the Technical Areas of Interest, check out the new demo site: https://onrcatapult.wixsite.com/reasearchops.

II. TECHNICAL AREAS OF INTEREST.

Topic 1: Advanced Manufacturing Technical Point of Contact: Jennifer Wolk, Jennifer.wolk@navy.mil

Repair Technologies:

Operational readiness is a priority across DoD platforms. A key logistics driver for readiness is low volume parts availability and obsolescence. Repair of existing structural parts through new structural and functional repair technologies will support readiness for critical components that are no longer available or are hard to source. New repair technologies utilizing digital manufacturing approaches are of high interest. This may include solid state repairs due to the critical dimensions of as fabricated parts/components, repairs to restore function or composition from dealloying, coupled repair technologies identify a repair and generate a repair path/plan, etc. Key repair considerations include minimizing residual stress and part distortion, repair portability for in situ or depot level repairs, and applicability across a large range of materials.

http://www.onr.navy.mil/Contracts-Grants/Funding-Opportunities/Broad-Agency-Announcements.aspx http://www.onr.navy.mil/Contracts-Grants/Funding-Opportunities/Broad-Agency-Announcements.aspx https://onrcatapult.wixsite.com/reasearchops mailto:Jennifer.wolk@navy.mil

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Dissimilar Large Scale Additive Manufacturing:

Additive manufacturing (AM), also referred to as 3D printing, uses a three dimensional digital model for layer-by-layer deposition to fabricate a desired 3D shape. In contrast, traditional manufacturing tools, such as the lathe and mill, are “subtractive” processes that remove material to produce a final part. The ability to fabricate layer by layer enables designs that could not be fabricated through conventional manufacturing for tailored structures. This includes the ability to fabricate structures from dissimilar materials for structural and functional performance.

Dissimilar additive manufacturing can enable functionally graded materials and has strong potential impact for large scale fabrication. Areas of interest include new additive technologies and materials for dissimilar large scale additive fabrication (greater than 18”) for complex geometries.

Cyberphysical security for digital manufacturing:

Manufacturing is now connected to a broader “digital thread” that connects data from fabrication through an asset’s lifecycle. With new manufacturing technologies from computed tomography to additive manufacturing, this digital data flows across traditional domains. In order to capitalize on the ability of a distributed manufacturing network, cyberphysical security for digital manufacturing must be considered. This is of particular concern in controlling technical data packages for fabrication and inspection of parts that could re-create counterfeit parts.

Cyberphysical security concepts for digital manufacturing may include new methods for authentication of digitally manufactured parts, new tools for digital manufacturing signatures to ensure appropriate processing/fabrication, and considerations for appropriate access to digital fabrication information across the digital thread.

Topic 2: Flight Dynamics Control Technical Point of Contact: Dr. Brian Holm-Hansen, Brian.holm-hansen@navy.mil

The Navy and Marine Corps fixed and rotary-wing aircraft have unique flight dynamics and control issues due to their distinct mission requirements necessitating ship-based flight operations in all conditions, including at night, in bad weather and at high sea states. Shipboard landings require precise relative navigation and control in highly unsteady ship airwakes to land on pitching and rolling decks in high sea states. Ship defense requires systems to monitor the maritime environment, interceptors to counter threats and algorithms to guide successful engagements. This program is soliciting white papers and proposals to conduct basic and applied research addressing Navy-driven and Navy-unique challenges in the following areas:

1. Advanced control architectures to achieve robust and precise shipboard landings and formation flight in highly unsteady conditions

2. Scaled flight experiments to validate the predicted effectivity of novel control mechanisms as well as the basic physics governing interactions with free-body dynamics, particularly at flight envelope boundaries and flight mode transitions.

3. Efficient, linear and non-linear control law synthesis for achieving guaranteed performance and stability across a wide range of flight conditions mailto:Brian.holm-hansen@navy.mil

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4. Mathematical framework for proving the probability of success for a system of vehicles operating with a common objective

5. Advanced sensors and algorithms for precise relative navigation in GPS-denied environments.

6. Sensors and algorithms to safely manage autonomous deck operations

7. Advanced supervisory control that includes mission, flight control, propulsion control, and thermal management.

8. Advanced aerodynamic control and energy management to enable long endurance, low cost, VTOL air vehicles

In addition to specific contributions to any of these research areas, we are requesting solutions to the following challenge problem: design a scalable air vehicle capable of unassisted, sea-based launch & recovery in windy conditions, maintaining an average of 80 knot cruise speed over 48 hours, max takeoff weight of 55 pounds including 22 pounds of payload consuming 100 Watts of power. If these goals seem impossible, tell us how close to the impossible your design can come.

Topic 3: Augmented Reality Technologies Technical Point of Contact: Peter Squire, Peter.squire@navy.mil

The Navy and Marine Corps seeks to use mixed reality, with a focus on augmented reality (AR) technologies, to improve training and operations for infantry (e.g. ground or dismounted forces) combat personnel at the small unit level. This includes augmented training environments to simulate environments, assets and effects, friendly/opposing forces, and adaptive training to improve learning; and operational tools that can improve situational awareness and decision making by supporting heads-up rather than heads down activities. This program is soliciting white papers and proposals to conduct applied research and advanced technology development addressing Naval (Navy and Marine Corps)-driven and Naval-unique challenges for dismounted small unit leaders in the following areas:

1. Automated methods for generating content and/or behaviors for use in mixed reality technologies.

2. Interface schemes to support easy, rapid, and effective interaction with mixed reality technologies to improve situational awareness and decision making.

3. Adaptive training that provides scaffolding with micro or macro adaptation using Augmented Reality to help Warfighters understand the complexities of geometry and utilization of assets associated with Combined Arms activities – e.g. Call for Fire, Close Air Support.

4. Occlusion reasoning technologies to tracking dynamic objects for real-time stereo occlusion.

5. Advanced optical or video-see through head mounted displays that are low-cost and ruggedized for infantry use.

mailto:Peter.squire@navy.mil

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Topic 4: Aero-structural Tailoring for Advanced Air Vehicles Technical Points of Contact: Brian Holm-Hansen, Brian.holm-hansen@navy.mil and William Nickerson, William.Nickerson@navy.mil

One of the core missions of the US Navy is Power Projection through the operations and capabilities of the Carrier Air Group. As part of the Sea-based Aviation portfolio, ONR seeks to fund novel research into the design and optimization of aerodynamic/aero-elastic response via airframe structural concepts. Airframe design has significant impacts for the trade-off optimization of structural performance, handling, maneuverability, weight, range, and payload.

The integration of advanced aeronautical concepts with structural mechanics modeling and modern manufacturing capability offers the possibility of dramatic improvements in air vehicle performance. We now have the multi-disciplinary design resources to explore research concepts in combined computational structural/fluid dynamics, non-traditional configurations for tuned aero-elastic flutter response, passive and active flow control, and vibrational dampening.

This effort is envisioned to explore the shape and platform design, analysis and optimization of airframe structures, either through traditional or novel manufacturing processes, to specifically tailor vehicle aerodynamic performance in one of the before mentioned areas. This could also enable the development of novel control laws. Ultimately, this work is envisioned to eventually expand the design space for air (rotary-wing and fixed-wing) by encouraging optimization of the vehicle’s structural state and its aerodynamic/hydrodynamic operational efficiency. This optimization could also enable structural life extension by creating more efficient flight behaviors that alleviate higher fatigue loading conditions. This topic would greatly expand the basic design tools for fluid-structures interactions. Insights developed under this research would find applications to both fixed-wind and rotary-wing aircraft, but also to internal flows (channels and engine nozzles and inlets) and hydrodynamic (ship and submarine) applications. Adaptive structural designs will enable greater efficiencies by optimizing vehicle empty weight fractions but also permit greater performance efficiencies for operations across the full flight envelopes.

Research Concentration Areas:

Structural and material optimization; aerodynamic control; computational structural and fluid dynamics; aerodynamic and structural interactions; and control law theory. Research into mechanisms for adaptive /tailored structures needs to take into consideration predictive techniques for fatigue resistance, ease of manufacturing, and power and thermal management requirements. In addition to advances in adaptive structural design considerations, advancing the understanding of fluid dynamics will be required to compute and predict in limited time-scales, the complex, dynamic flowfield behaviors to address the changing localized moving boundary conditions and dynamic environments.

III. ONE-ON-MEETINGS.

The Program Officers listed above will be available for one-on-one meetings at the Catapult event on June 5-6, 2018 at the Sandler Center, Virginia Beach, VA. To schedule a one-on-one meeting, contact adam.zimet@navy.mil and register for Catapult @ http://www.catapultus.com/.

You do not have to register for or attend the Catapult conference to submit an idea.

mailto:William.Nickerson@navy.mil

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IV. IDEA SUBMISSION

An idea submission is required for all organizations seeking funding. An Idea Submission can be in any of the following formats:

(1) Three (3) page White Paper, or

(2) 1-page Quad Chart, or

(3) 2 - 3 minute video

Include the following information in ALL idea submissions:

(1) Title of the proposed effort, principal investigator, organization, telephone number, and e-mail address;

(2) Relevance of the proposed effort to the research areas described in Section II of this Special Notice;

(3) Technical objective of the proposed effort;

(4) Technical approach that will be pursued to meet the objective;

(5) A summary of recent relevant technical breakthroughs;

(6) Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost estimate.

(7) Proposed Period of Performance

White Papers can be submitted in vendor format and shall not exceed three (3) pages of standard letter size paper (8.5 by 11 inches). Cover page and/or references are not included in the total page count.

Quad Chart submissions are to be a one-page (8.5 by 11 inches) Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat (PDF –portable document format) compatible format. ZIP files or other application formats are not acceptable. See Attachments 1 & 2 for Quad Chart Instructions and Template.

Videos submissions are to be 2 – 3 minutes in duration and should follow the instructions in Attachment 3 - ONR Catapult Challenge – Video Submission Instructions.

Ideas must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM on 10 June 2018.

Email your submissions to Justin.Zerbato@navy.mil.

The subject line of the email shall read: N00014-18-R-SN07 Catapult Challenge Submission

The Government will evaluate each idea to determine whether or not to invite the offeror to submit a full proposal. Ideas will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation criteria outlined in the FY18 ONR Long Range BAA, N00014-18-S-B001, Section II, E.

Initial Government evaluations and feedback will be issued via e-mail notification. Based on the initial evaluation of idea submissions, the Government will encourage detailed Full Proposal from Selected Offerors. However, any such encouragement does not assure a subsequent award.

mailto:Justin.Zerbato@navy.mil

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V. FULL PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AND AWARD INFORMATION

ONR plans to fund up to eight individual awards valued up to $250,000.00 each under this opportunity. No award will exceed $250,000.00, and LOWER priced proposals will be considered.

Instructions for full proposal submission are located at https://www.onr.navy.mil/Contracts- Grants/Funding-Opportunities/Broad-Agency-Announcements under the FY18 Long Range BAA, N00014-18-S-B001 in Appendix III – Requirements Applicable to Contracts and Other Transaction Agreements.

The following documents must be completed and submitted for consideration:

• Proposal checklist

• Technical proposal template

• Statement of work template

• Cost Proposal (Vendor Format acceptable)

• ONR-contract specific representations and certifications

The Cost Proposal Format provided on the ONR website is NOT mandatory. Offerors are encouraged to use their own cost formats such that the necessary cost detail is provided.

The Cost Proposal Format section of the proposal must include a breakout of the total cost proposed by each respective cost element (labor, fringe benefit, overhead, G&A etc…).

Supporting data and justification for labor, equipment/material, team member/subcontractor, consultants, travel, other direct costs, and indirect costs used in developing the cost breakdown must also be included. Please be advised that the Offeror must provide sufficient details to allow a full understanding of and justification for the proposed costs.

Full Proposals must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM on 24 June 2018.

Email your complete submission (technical and cost) to Justin.Zerbato@navy.mil. Files exceeding 10MB in size should not be emailed, but instead transmitted via a file transfer service, for example AMRDEC Safesite, https://safe.amrdec.army.mil.

VI. SIGNIFICANT DATES AND TIMES

Event Date Time Catapult Conference (Virginia Beach, VA) June 5 – 6, 2018 8:00 – 4:00 PM Eastern Time Idea Submission DUE Sunday, 10 June 2018 11:59 PM Eastern Time Full Proposal DUE Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:59 PM Eastern Time Target Date for Awards Friday, 20 July 2018 5:00 PM Eastern Time

Check the status of your submission anytime using the online tracker available at https://onrcatapult.wixsite.com/reasearchops.

https://www.onr.navy.mil/-/media/Files/Contracts-Grants/Forms/proposal-checklist-21SEP2016.ashx?la=en https://www.onr.navy.mil/-/media/Files/Contracts-Grants/Forms/technical-proposal-template-FY15.ashx?la=en https://www.onr.navy.mil/-/media/Files/Contracts-Grants/Forms/statement-work-template-FY15.ashx?la=en https://www.onr.navy.mil/-/media/Files/Contracts-Grants/Forms/cost-proposal-template-091417.ashx?la=en https://www.onr.navy.mil/-/media/Files/Contracts-Grants/Forms/onr-contract-specific-representations-certifications.ashx?la=en mailto:Justin.Zerbato@navy.mil https://safe.amrdec.army.mil/ https://onrcatapult.wixsite.com/reasearchops

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VII. POINTS OF CONTACT

Technical Points of Contact:

Topic 1: Advanced Manufacturing: Jennifer Wolk, Jennifer.wolk@navy.mil Topic 2: Flight Dynamics Control: Dr. Brian Holm-Hansen, Brian.holm-hansen@navy.mil Topic 3: Augmented Reality Technologies, Peter Squire, Peter.squire@navy.mil Topic 4: Aero-structural Tailoring for Advanced Air Vehicles: Brian.holm-hansen@navy.mil and William Nickerson, William.Nickerson@navy.mil

Business Point of Contact:

Justin Zerbato, ONR Contracting Officer, Justin.Zerbato@navy.mil mailto:Peter.squire@navy.mil mailto:Brian.holm-hansen@navy.mil mailto:William.Nickerson@navy.mil mailto:Justin.Zerbato@navy.mil

Quad Chart Instructions

A Quad Chart conveys the essence of the proposed solution for a single requirement. When preparing a submission, the offeror shall ensure that the specific criteria of the requirement are addressed, the solution is clear, and can be accomplished with the proposed science and/or technology, cost, and schedule. The Quad Chart includes a document header and four quadrants.

Header Information.

Header information shall include the BAA Announcement number, and the Proposal Title. The date and company name should be included along with the appropriate document markings.

Top Left Quadrant, Graphical Depiction.

The top left quadrant is a graphical depiction, photograph, or artist’s concept of the proposed solution or prototype. Include labels or brief descriptive text as needed for clarification. Ideally, this will convey the prototype concept, use, capability, and any relevant size or weight relationships based on the published requirement.

Top Right Quadrant, Operational and Performance Capabilities.

The top right quadrant contains the operational and performance capabilities summary.

Describe any basic, new, or enhanced capabilities the system will provide to meet the published requirement. In bullet form, list key aspects of performance, capability, operational use, relevant software or hardware specifications, and planned interface and/or compatibility.

Bottom Left Quadrant, Technical Approach.

The bottom left quadrant contains the proposed technical approach. Specifically, describe the science and/or technology involved, how it will be used to solve the problem, actions done to date, and any related ongoing efforts. Briefly describe the tasks to be performed for each phase. A bullet list is acceptable and preferred.

Bottom Right Quadrant, Cost and Schedule.

The bottom right quadrant contains the Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) and Schedule, Products and Deliverables, and Corporate Contact Information. ROM and Schedule shall be proposed and include the cost, period of performance (POP), and exit criteria for each phase if using a phased approach. A total cost and POP that combines all phases shall also be included. Products and Deliverables shall include, by phase, a list of all prototype hardware and software along with the required data. Corporate Contact Information shall include the submitter’s company name, POC, phone number, website, if applicable, and email address. Include any significant teaming partner (contact information) relevant to the evaluation.

Quad Chart Instructions

A Quad Chart conveys the essence of the proposed solution for a single requirement. When preparing a submission, the offeror shall ensure that the specific criteria of the requirement are addressed, the solution is clear, and can be accomplished with ...

Header Information.

Top Left Quadrant, Graphical Depiction.

Top Right Quadrant, Operational and Performance Capabilities.

Bottom Left Quadrant, Technical Approach.

Bottom Right Quadrant, Cost and Schedule.

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Technical Approach Use state of the market data mining tools developed and in use by ABC Corp with robust search engines to retrieve, analyze, compile and categorize open source data. Develop and demonstrate categorization tool and access controlled secure portal.

Phase 1 Tasks

• Use company data mining tools to gather data from open sources.

• Develop relevance matrix and categorization algorithms and associated specifications.

• Initiate data search for comparative sample and demonstration with a minimum of 1,000,000 records with full categorization and tagging.

• Develop proof of concept database and demonstrate use.

Phase 2 Tasks

• Develop and refine the mathematical computer modeling and algorithm generation tool for document analysis. (relevance and category)

• Develop user friendly data sharing system with manual and training to run on Windows 2003 in a secure portal environment.

• Demonstrate and validate the database and user interface against the system requirements specification.

Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) and Schedule

Phase 1 - ROM $20,000, Period of Performance (POP) 4 months Exit criteria: Demonstrated category tool/data retrieval (1,000,000 records) Phase 2 - ROM $100,000, POP 8 months Exit criteria: Government validation and verification to System Requirements Specification (SRS).

Total POP: 12 months; Total Cost: $120,000 Products and Deliverables

Phase 1: SRS; Monthly Status Reports (MSRs), Test Strategy/Plan, and Technical Report (Categorization schema and data mining tool).

Proof of concept database/demonstration.

Phase 2: MSRs; Test Report; SRS updates; Final Technical Report; User Manuals; and Training package.

Prototype database, associated hardware and software licensing for initial setup.

Corporate Contact Information ABC Corp, Jane Doe, 111 Main Street, Mytown, VA 22102 Phone: (703) 222-8888, Fax: (703) 222-8889 Website: www.ABCcorp.com Email: jane.a.doe@abcinc.com Partner with Microsoft Inc., Bill Gates, Seattle, WA.

SAMPLE ONLY – This is a representative sample not an actual submission.

Operational and Performance Capability – Summary

Single point for open source data related to combating terrorism (Includes newspapers, organizational publications, magazines, websites) Data Categorization tool for easy analysis and retrieval Quick Search for relevance to user Secure Windows 2003 network solution; Access controlled User friendly with configurable analysis tools and reporting Input and update by user community to central repository

Company Proprietary

BAA Number: 05-Z-1234 Document ID:

Proposal Title: Consolidated Information Sharing Technical Report Network (CISTRN)

SAMPLE ONLY – This is a representative sample not an actual submission. Company Proprietary 6/05/2018 ABC Corporation

Analyze, compile and categorize open source data.

Database

Develop contolled access ports for data sharing.

Consolidated Information Sharing Technical Report Network

BAA Number: BAA Announcement Number Document Identifier:

Proposal Title: Short title to describe proposed effort/solution

Quad Chart Content and FormatLogo (Optional)

Document Marking

Submitter Company Name Date

Title or label as appropriate

Graphic image, photograph, or artist’s concept of the proposed solution or prototype.

Use labels or descriptive text as needed for clarification.

Ideally, this will convey the prototype concept, use, capability, and any relevant size or weight relationships.

Operational and Performance Capabilities Describe any basic, new, or enhanced operational or performance capabilities the system will provide to meet the requirement.

In bullet form, list key aspects of:

• Performance

• Capability

• Operational use

• Relevant software or hardware specifications

• Interface and/or compatibility

Technical Approach:

Specifically, describe the science and technology involved, how it will be used to solve the problem, actions done to date, and any related on-going efforts.

Briefly describe the tasks to be performed for each phase if applicable. Bullet list acceptable.

Document Marking

ROM and Schedule: List by phase or task; include costs and POP for each.

Total cost and POP.

Proposed exit criteria for each phase.

Deliverables: List, by phase, all prototype hardware and software along with the required data; include cost data for the minimum report requirements and additional data deliverables. Additional reporting that is required in performance of the effort could include test plans, test and technical reports, technical data, specifications, requirements documents, computer programs or software, user manuals, drawings, or other data appropriate for the work to be performed.

Corporate Information:

Provide the submitter’s company name, website if applicable, point of contact, address, phone number, and email information.

Include significant teaming partners (company or agency name and location) if needed to successfully complete program.

Instructions for Video Submissions

Videos files shall be submitted using the Army Aviation and Missile Research Development

Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Safe Access File Exchange (SAFE) application. The AMRDEC

SAFE application can be accessed via https://safe.amrdec.army.mil/safe.

There are two options for using AMRDEC: one for Users with a Department of Defense

Common Access Cards (CAC) and one for Non-CAC Users (Guests).

Those new to AMRDEC SAFE should visit the Getting Started Guide for information on user types, and instructions for accessing AMRDEC SAFE, creating packages and sending files.

Instructions to Upload Form(s)

Those familiar with AMRDEC SAFE can go directly to the upload forms using these links:

o CAC Users: https://safe.amrdec.army.mil/safe/CAC/CACUser.aspx o Non-CAC Users: https://safe.amrdec.army.mil/safe/Default.aspx

Fill out the personal information, file information, and recipient information, and email settings.

There are many security settings available for transmitting the package to the recipients.

File Information

Submitted video files must be natively compatible with the Windows Media Player. Please do not submit Flash Video (.flv) or DVD video files (.vob).

The video files shall use the following naming convention: ONR_CATAPULT_companyname

If you want to submit more than one video, give them a unique name such as

ONR_CATAPULT_companyname_submit_1; ONR_CATAPULT_companyname_submit_2.

Recipient Information

Add Justin Zerbato (justin.zerbato@navy.mil) to the Recipients List.

Accepted File Types Video File Formatting Requirements

.wmv (Windows Media)

.mov (Apple Quick time)

.mp4 (MPEG-4 Motion Picture Experts Group)

.avi (Audio Video Interleave)

Minimum Resolution: 480P (720x480)

Maximum Resolution: 1080P (1920 x 1080)

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