Autonomous flight safety system (afss) for hypersonic weapon systems (S2MARTS)

Special Notice N0016421SNB06

Agency: Department of the Navy

Office: Naval Sea Systems Command

Location: NSWC Crane Division

Classification Code: AC63 – Defense Electronics and Communications Equipment - Advanced Development)

NAICS Code: 334511 Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical

System and Instrument Manufacturing

Response Due Date: 23 November 2020

Request for Solutions:

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT SAFETY SYSTEM (AFSS) FOR HYPERSONIC WEAPON SYSTEMS (S2MARTS)

PURPOSE

This Request for Solutions (RFS) is issued to seek innovative solutions for a prototype Autonomous Flight Safety System (AFSS) that reduces range safety costs by eliminating much of the range safety tracking sources and decision logic onboard the flight vehicles.  The Government will evaluate the solutions with the intent of awarding an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) in accordance with 10 U.S. Code § 2371b. 
 

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY

S2MARTS  

Vendors interested in responding to this RFS must be members of the Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS) consortium. Interested parties may visit S2MARTS.org for membership information. This project will be managed by a Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division Project Manager.
 

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Existing range safety systems rely on tracking radars and other systems which are expensive to operate and maintain.  The goal is to provide an on-board Autonomous Flight Termination Unit (AFTU) that independently assesses flight and vehicle performance against mission parameters and provides termination capabilities without the costly support infrastructure.  The DoD is seeking prototype technologies to reduce the cost of flight testing by reducing the number of terrestrial safety assets that need to be deployed.  The Autonomous Flight Safety System (AFSS) is a system-of-systems that integrates both airborne and ground-based components to provide an enhanced alternative to the traditional flight safety approaches still used by nearly all launch complexes and government ranges today.  The performer shall design with a small footprint of the AFTU that offers a distributed configuration to permit the vehicle provider maximum flexibility in locating each AFTU.  The performer shall also review and assess alternate technology that can be applied to the flight safety solution and qualify those alternate technologies.

Please visit the S2MARTS website at https://s2marts.org/ to review the full RFS.

Contracting Office Address:

300 Hwy 361
Crane, IN 47522
United States

Primary Point of Contact.:

Elizabeth Gillenwater

elizabeth.gillenwate@navy.mil

Phone: 812-854-3513

Secondary Point of Contact:

Matthew Summers

matthew.s.summers@navy.mil

Phone: 812-854-5698