ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) Phase 1

Added: Mar 26, 2010 3:46 pm This amendment replaces the following in page 7 of DARPA-BAA-10-43,
From:
"A key deliverable from each performer in Phase 1 will be a preliminary performance specification. The Government strongly desires to receive this performance specification a risk mitigation plan associated with transitioning intellectual property for future U.S. military applications."

To:
"A key deliverable from each performer in Phase 1 will be a preliminary performance specification. The Government strongly desires to receive with this performance specification a risk mitigation plan associated with transitioning intellectual property for future U.S. military applications. "

A conformed version of this Broad Agency Announcement has been attached <DARPA-BAA-10-43_revised 26-Mar-2010.pdf>.

Except as amended above, all other terms and conditions of DARPA-BAA-10-43 remain unchanged and in effect.

Added: Mar 23, 2010 3:01 pm This Amendment attaches ACTUV_Updated_Q&amp;A_23Mar2010.pdf, to include additional Questions and Answers to the posting of the initial Q&amp;A dated 5 March 2010.&nbsp;

Added: Mar 05, 2010 3:00 pm Amendment to DARPA-BAA-10-43 posted on 5 March 2010 attaches 2 files:
a) Slides From ACTUV Industry Day. The Industry Day was conducted on 16 February 2010 (ACTUV Industry Day Slides.pdf).
b) ACTUV Initial Questions & Answers dated 5 March 2010 (ACTUV Initial Q and A.pdf).

Added: Mar 01, 2010 3:05 pm The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency often selects its research efforts through the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) process. The following information is for those wishing to respond to the BAA.

The Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program seeks to develop and demonstrate an independently deploying unmanned surface vessel optimized to provide continuous overt trail of threat submarines. The program is architected to achieve three primary objectives. The first program objective is to design, build, and demonstrate an X-ship based on clean sheet design approaches founded on the assumption that no person steps aboard at any point in its operating cycle, enabling beyond state-of-the-art platform performance characteristics. The second program objective is to demonstrate the technical viability of an independently deploying unmanned naval vessel under sparse remote supervisory control to enable a new class of maritime system. The third program objective is to leverage the unique platform performance and unmanned system characteristics of ACTUV, combined with a novel suite of sensors capable of robustly tracking quiet modern diesel electric submarines, to demonstrate a game changing ASW operational capability and to facilitate rapid transition of that capability to the Navy in response to critical operational demands.

See attachment entitled, "DARPA-BAA-10-43.pdf" for details of the BAA.