Attachment_1_-Infrastructure_Vulnerabilities.pdf

Infrastructure Vulnerability

STATEMENT OF WORK

22 September 2017

1. Background

The Chemistry Division of Naval Research Laboratory provides analysis of infrastructure vulnerabilities, due to environmental degradation, ecological damage, and hostile action. As new facilities are built, aging equipment is replaced, and understanding advances, the known risks to infrastructure change.

Weaknesses may be due to chemical attack (e.g., corrosion), mechanical failure (e.g., metal fatigue), ecological calamity (e.g., oil spills), hostile attack, or any other means; these weaknesses must be continually assessed and new mitigation strategies made ready. NRL is tasked to (1) analyze how major facilities are vulnerable, and (2) develop possible actions in response to such weaknesses, including investigation of new capabilities.

2. Objectives and Scope

This contract provides support for this work. Vulnerabilities for the following industries are included:

1. transportation and logistics;

2. electric power;

3. coal, oil, gas, and bulk chemicals; and

4. telecommunication systems.

The contract is primarily for research, purchase of commercial tests and services, and the purchase of materials in support of the research. Commercial tests and services are expected to be short term, subcontracted laboratory tests and incidental commercial services, such as material strength testing, chemical analysis, or software analysis and support. Material purchases include any component related to infrastructure, from capital assets, to inexpensive tooling and instrumentation, to commonly used supplies. Transportation expenses may be included for any purchase.

The contract contains an added research task, on materials and chemistry of other military systems. It is comprised of the following topics:

1. blast, shrapnel, and bullet protection composites;

2. corrosion;

3. nanometer scale metal clusters;

4. high energy laser materials; and

5. self-decontaminating or antifouling systems.

This task is separate from the research infrastructure vulnerability task.

2. Tasks

Task 1. Research and Development of Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

This task includes research in the subtasks listed below. Travel may be required.

1.1. Transportation and logistics. Investigations of the weaknesses transportation system: air, road, rail, all forms of traffic control, all vehicles thereof, transfer centers, switching yards, airports, and all related maintenance and construction.

1.2 Electric power. Includes investigations of vulnerabilities of generating facilities, fuel storage and delivery systems, transmission, controls, weaknesses inherent in maintenance and construction.

1.3 Coal, oil, gas, and bulk chemicals. Research of vulnerabilities of all mining and drilling operations, storage, control facilities, pipelines, refineries, overland transport, port facilities, other supporting supplies and facilities, and issues vulnerabilities during maintenance and construction.

1.4 Telecommunication systems. Includes research of weaknesses of all wired and wireless transmis-sion networks, software, signal conditioning hardware, power supplies, switching centers, servers, supporting supplies and facilities, and vulnerabilities in maintenance and construction.

Task 2. Materials and Miscellaneous Tests and Services

This task provides for purchases of materials and miscellaneous tests and services, in support of NRL in-vestigations of infrastructure vulnerability. Tests and services may include any commercially priced task.

Task 3. Development and Characterization of Advanced Materials

This includes materials and supplies, services, and labor, in support of separately funded NRL studies.

This effort is comprised of the subtasks listed below. Travel may be required.

3.1 Blast, shrapnel, and bullet protection composites. Investigations of blast, shrapnel, and bullet protection composites that use elastomers with advanced fillers and/or ceramic layers; fabricate such composites, and carry out modeling and experiments of these materials. The testing and modeling may include representations of the human body or of the supporting structures, to un-derstand the effectiveness of the protection.

3.2 Corrosion. Investigations of corrosion in aqueous environments of composite panels that may em-ploy a polymer and/or elastomer matrix or coating on steel, carbon fiber, or other load-bearing materials, with characterization of corrosion kinetics, to assess the service lifetime of such materi-als; conduct field research, which may be at shipyards or elsewhere, to investigate, support, or verify corrosion kinetics in military devices or systems; conduct research to develop new means to characterize corrosion kinetics, of engineering materials damaged by corrosion in aqueous envi-ronments; investigate radiography, ultrasound, conductivity, or any other method to measure cor-rosion kinetics, with emphasis on imaging methods.

3.3 Nanometer scale metal clusters. Research into nanometer scale metal clusters and films for appli-cation in computers, surveillance, and sensors. The synthesis of metal nanoclusters and films with well-defined sizes and size distribution, to assemble and precisely connect them in regular arrays, and hydrolyze such constructions with e-beam microlithography; and model, develop, and test such materials.

3.4 High energy laser materials. Research into high energy laser, and other directed energy sources, survivability testing of fiber reinforced organic resin composites; fabricate coatings, composites and composite structures, making improvements of previous structures based on data and/or samples supplied from other sources; design and implement data collection methods to character-ize material damage by such radiation.

3.5 Self-decontaminating or antifouling systems. Testing and development of self-decontaminating or antifouling coating systems for military applications; synthesis, purification, and characteriza-tion of organic and organometallic reactive species for incorporation into coating systems and/or fibers and fabric; development of methods to evaluate the performance of the coatings.