NextGen SRS Industry Day Attachment - Desired System Characteristics.docx
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This is a desired system characteristics document for the NextGen Submarine Rescue System (SRS) Industry Day Announcement, issued by the U.S. Department of the Navy's Undersea Special Mission Systems Program Office (PMS390). The Navy is conducting market research to replace its current submarine rescue capability within five years of design development contract award. The industry day, scheduled for September 2-3, 2026, in Washington, DC, will facilitate discussions on innovative ideas, technical offerings, and emerging technologies. Attendance is limited to three representatives per company, requires valid government-issued photo identification, and is restricted to in-person participation only, though foreign nationals are eligible with a completed Foreign Visitor Request form.
The desired system characteristics emphasize a small, modular, and highly transportable solution achieving a global 72-hour Time to First Rescue using modern and innovative technologies. Key design requirements include maximizing commercially available products to reduce cost and schedule, rapid air transportability via commercial and military aircraft such as C-17s, low maintenance with high reliability and redundancy to increase operational availability, capability to rescue personnel from elevated DISSUB internal atmospheric conditions up to 5 atmospheres absolute (or 3ata as an alternative), and integrated decompression capabilities using either air or regulated oxygen aboard the rescue vehicle. The design must support integration of future capabilities with portable and configurable modules compatible for saturation diving, removable transfer skirt design with lock-in/out capabilities, and an open system approach supporting potential expansion to 300 meters saltwater depth. The solution should minimize overall system footprint to maximize compatibility with vessels of opportunity while including portable hyperbaric chambers for critical medical cases. The final solution must be commercially certified by an International Association of Classification Societies member.
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NextGen Submarine Rescue System (SRS) Industry Day Announcement
Desired System Characteristics:
· The system will be a small, modular, and highly transportable and achieve a global Time to First Rescue of 72-hour using modern and innovative technologies for submersible systems.
· The design must maximize utilization of existing commercially available products, services, or parts to reduce cost and schedule.
· The solution should support rapid and reliable air transportability by fitting in a reasonable number of widely available commercial aircraft, as well as C-17 or similar military cargo aircraft. This supports the ability to rapidly transport the system by any combination of widely available commercial and military aircraft.
· To increase operational availability (Ao), the design must prioritize low maintenance, high reliability, and redundancy.
· The system will be able to rescue personnel from elevated DISSUB internal atmospheric conditions of up to 5 Atmospheres Absolute (ata). Alternatively, 3ata will be considered if it results in significant size and weight reduction.
· The system will be able to perform decompression with either air or regulated oxygen (capable of both) inside the rescue vehicle on board the vessel of opportunity (VOO), as well as pier side.
· It is highly encouraged for the system to be designed in such a way that will maximize the VOO population available to support Submarine Rescue operations through minimizing the overall system footprint and the possible use of shipboard cranes.
· Include additional emergency portable hyperbaric chambers for critical medical cases to be quickly transported to a hospital facility.
· The system design must support integration of future capabilities and ensure that individual modules are portable, configurable, and compatible for saturation diving purposes
· The transfer skirt design will be removable, and the rescue vehicle can be configurable to allow actual lock-in/out capabilities.
· The design is encouraged to use an open system approach and to provide options for expansion or upgrading with minimal impact on the system weight, schedule, and budget to support a design of internal depths of 300msw.
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