Missile Defense Agency Science and Technology Advanced Research (MSTAR) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

   Missile Defense Agency -3 February 2016 Contract Announcement
Texas Engineering Experiment Station, in College Station, Texas is being awarded a competitive, cost reimbursement contract.  The total value of this contract is $600,000. Under this new contract, the contractor will explore the behavior of solid propellants at the time scales of an acoustic instability event. The work will be performed in College Station, Texas with an estimated completion date of February 2, 2019.  This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities website under the MDA's Broad Agency Announcement for Missile Defense Agency Science and Technology Advanced Research (MSTAR); HQ0147-15-MSTAR-BAA. Fiscal year 2016 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funds in the amount of $200,000 are being obligated on this award. In accordance with FAR 35.006 (c), the use of a cost reimbursement contract for this research and development effort is appropriate. This is not a Foreign Military Sales acquisition. The Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama is the contracting activity. (Contract Number:  HQ0147-16-C-6003)

Contracting Office Point of Contact:  Willis Brice (256) 450-4790

  Missile Defense Agency -3 February 2016 Contract Announcement
Texas Engineering Experiment Station, in College Station, Texas is being awarded a competitive, cost reimbursement contract.  The total value of this contract is $579,726. Under this new contract, the contractor will engineer the hysteresis of the first-order phase transformation in Vanadiaum dioxide (VO2) to enable adaptive materials and devices. The work will be performed in College Station, Texas with an estimated completion date of February 2, 2019.  This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities website under the MDA's Broad Agency Announcement for Missile Defense Agency Science and Technology Advanced Research (MSTAR); HQ0147-15-MSTAR-BAA. Fiscal year 2016 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funds in the amount of $188,704 are being obligated on this award. In accordance with FAR 35.006 (c), the use of a cost reimbursement contract for this research and development effort is appropriate. This is not a Foreign Military Sales acquisition. The Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama is the contracting activity. (Contract Number:  HQ0147-16-C-6002)
Contracting Office Point of Contact:  Willis Brice (256) 450-4790

  Missile Defense Agency - 22 December 2015 Contract Announcement

Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland is being awarded a competitive, cost reimbursement contract.  The total value of this contract is $584,950. Under this new contract, the contractor will employ alternative electrolyte, cathode, and pyrotechnic materials to improve thermal battery technology. The work will be performed in Baltimore, Maryland with an estimated completion date of December 21, 2018.  This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities website under the MDA's Broad Agency Announcement for Missile Defense Agency Science and Technology Advanced Research (MSTAR); HQ0147-15-MSTAR-BAA. Fiscal year 2016 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funds in the amount of $195,658 are being obligated on this award. In accordance with FAR 35.006 (c), the use of a cost reimbursement contract for this research and development effort is appropriate. This is not a Foreign Military Sales acquisition. The Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama is the contracting activity. (Contract Number:  HQ0147-16-C-6000)
Contracting Office Point of Contact:  Willis Brice (256) 450-4790

  Missile Defense Agency - 1 December 2015 Contract Announcement

Purdue University, in West Lafayette Indiana is being awarded a competitive, cost reimbursement contract.  The total value of this contract is $596,052. Under this new contract, the contractor will more thoroughly understand the root causes of combustion dynamics in small thrusters and to guide a design allowing to set limits on thruster pressure oscillation. The work will be performed in West Lafayette Indiana with an estimated completion date of November 30, 2018.  This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities website under the MDA's Broad Agency Announcement for Missile Defense Agency Science and Technology Advanced Research (MSTAR); HQ0147-15-MSTAR-BAA. Fiscal year 2016 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funds in the amount of $217,881 are being obligated on this award. In accordance with FAR 35.006 (c), the use of a cost reimbursement contract for this research and development effort is appropriate. This is not a Foreign Military Sales acquisition. The Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama is the contracting activity. (Contract Number:  HQ0147-16-C-6001)

Contracting Office Point of Contact:  Willis Brice (256) 450-4790

  Missile Defense Agency - 25 March 2015 Contract Announcement

Purdue University, in West Lafayette Indiana is being awarded a competitive, cost reimbursement contract.  The total value of this contract is $651,343.00. Under this new contract, the contractor will address methods for developing and improving the BMDS through utilization of more "green" propellants and characterizing the injection dynamics of combustion instability.  The work will be performed in West Lafayette Indiana with an estimated completion date of March 18, 2018.  This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities website under the MDA's Broad Agency Announcement for Missile Defense Agency Science and Technology Advanced Research (MSTAR); HQ0147-15-MSTAR-BAA. Fiscal year 2015 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funds in the amount of $234,000 are being obligated on this award. In accordance with FAR 35.006 (c), the use of a cost reimbursement contract for this research and development effort is appropriate. This is not a Foreign Military Sales acquisition. The Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama is the contracting activity. (Contract Number:  HQ0147-15-C-6003

Contracting Office Point of Contact:  Willis Brice (256) 450-4790

INTRODUCTION:

The Missile Defense Agency, an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), oversees development of a system to defend the United States, its allies, its deployed military forces, and its friends against ballistic missile attacks.  The Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) includes operational elements for sensing, monitoring, and intercepting ballistic missiles during all three phases of flight; boost, mid-course, and terminal.  BMDS elements include a network of space, ground, and sea based sensors for detecting and tracking threat missiles; interceptor missiles launched from silos, trucks and ships; and tools for command and control.  MDA focuses efforts toward making the BMDS more robust against the widening threats, and increasing capabilities to counter a broad range of missiles, warheads and trajectories.  The BMDS must have the ability to detect, track, identify and kill ballistic missiles.

To achieve its mission, MDA funds researchers in industry and academia to develop technology for sustaining and improving the BMDS elements.  Every year, MDA invests over $100 million in our Nation's university and small business communities.  The Missile Defense Agency Science and Technology Advanced Research (MSTAR) program funds relevant Advanced Technology research and demonstration work at qualified accredited domestic colleges, universities or institutions of higher learning and to support training of future scientists and engineers in the field of missile defense.  Proposals must be for Advanced Research.  This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is a recurring, competitive solicitation and contract vehicle enabling MDA to identify and acquire emerging technologies, innovative concepts, and advanced algorithms for improving BMDS capability and filling technology gaps.

MDA issues this BAA under the provisions of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d) (2), which provides for the competitive selection of research proposals.  Contract(s) based on responses to this BAA meet requirements for full and open competition and in full compliance with the provisions of PL 98-369, "The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984."

Any activity conducted on or resulting from funding on contracts awarded from this BAA must comply with United States Laws and regulations on "Export Control", including the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulation (EAR).  All technical documents produced on the contract shall be marked in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5230.24, unless the document is specifically approved by MDA for public release.  The Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) will provide the appropriate 5230.24 distribution statement.  Non-U.S. citizen(s) may perform work on an MSTAR BAA contract, excluding classified work, if MDA's Foreign Persons approval is in place and the H-27 clause in the contract cites the limitations of any such approval. 

See Attachment HQ0147-15-MSTAR-BAA.