National Defense Stockpile Supply Chain Basic Research

Added: Feb 28, 2013 11:53 am This notice constitutes a solicitation for a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to acquire Research expertise in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 35.016 Broad agency announcement, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. NO FORMAL SOLICITATION WILL BE ISSUED.  Only the information provided in this notice is available. Requests for solicitations shall be disregarded. 

DLA Strategic Materials plans, coordinates and executes basic research of the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) through the authority of the Stock Piling Act ((50 U.S.C. 98 et seq g (a) Materials development and Research).  The focus of DLA Strategic Materials is on research of emerging and rapidly expanding requirements to restore and stabilize strategic and critical materials supply chains that have been compromised by decreased or abandoned domestic mining and refining activities or lack of domestic reserves within the United States. Most of these requirements are in the form of research of materials and alloys and development of solutions including stockpiling, substitution and/or conservation. Other emergent requirements come from Military Services, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Congressional requests for information on the availability of specific materials. These requirements can address virtually any critical or strategic materials topic and each year generally presents a mixture of new projects and different materials.  These requirements are generally in the following categories: Mining, Refining and Processing and Recycling, Conservation and Substitution Options.  Further detials are summarized in the BAA.  See the FULL Announcement in the attached PDF File titled "NDS Reserach BAA DLASM 201301".