Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Department of Army Energetics Basic Research Center (EBRC) FY2025
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- W911NF-25-S-0001
- Agency
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ACC Aberdeen Proving Ground
Army Contracting Command, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- PSC
- AJ11 General Science And Technology R&D Services; General Science And Technology; Basic Research
- Place of performance
- Durham, North Carolina 27709, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Department of Army Energetics Basic Research Center (EBRC) Fiscal Year 2025. The BAA seeks proposals for basic research in areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security, focused on increasing the Army's intellectual capital and ability to address future challenges in energetic materials. The two-step application process requires submitting 4-page whitepapers by January 6, 2025, with the most highly rated whitepapers invited to submit full proposals by April 7, 2025. Awards are anticipated to range from $60,000 to $250,000 per year, with up to $1 million in total annual funding available. Proposals must address one of the three technical thrust areas: novel materials and synthesis methods, microstructure and geometry influence on energetic release, or advanced diagnostics and modeling.
There is no set-aside designation for this opportunity. The BAA is open to universities, research institutions, companies, and individual scholars. The place of performance is Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. All proposals selected for award are expected to collaborate with the ongoing Energetics Basic Research Center effort at Purdue University, and the government will conduct a research risk assessment on selected proposals prior to award.
Notice text
The Energetics Basic Research Center (EBRC) is a basic research program initiated by the Combat Capabilities Development Command/Army Research Laboratory/Army Research Office. It focuses on areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security. It seeks to increase the Army's intellectual capital in energetic materials (EM) and improve its ability to address future challenges. The EBRC brings together universities, research institutions, companies, and individual scholars and supports multidisciplinary and cross-institutional projects addressing specific topic areas determined by the Department of the Army (DA). The EBRC aims to promote research in specific areas of EMs and to promote a candid and constructive relationship between DA and the energetics research community.
The future Army is projected to be unable to achieve dominance in range and lethality due to inadequate energetic formulations and form factor limitations associated with current weapon systems. Basic research generates new knowledge that may be exploited to develop and deliver new materials and technologies that contribute to enhanced lethal effects at the system level as well as increased range and a smaller payload. These, in turn, enable space for larger, mission-critical systems, and shorter time-to-target ensuring Army battlefield dominance in Multi-Domain Operations. Army research must encompass new ways to expedite the discovery, design, and scale-up of new materials and concepts which when integrated into newly designed weapons components (e.g. additively manufactured high strength steels with pre-formed fragmentation patterns, and structural reactive materials) developed at ARL and across the Army and DoD communities, will deliver decisive weapons overmatch.
Response Dates
a. Whitepapers Due – 6 January 2025 no later than 4:00 PM Eastern Time
b. Selection of whitepapers for full proposal by 14 February 2025
c. Proposals (by Invite Only) Due – 7 April 2025 no later than 4:00 PM Eastern Time
d. Selection of Proposal: ~1 June 2025
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| W911NF25S0001 - Energetics Seedling Renewal BAA.pdf |
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