NRL-Wide Broad Agency Announcement - BAA-N00173-03

This announcement amends BAA-N00173-03 posted on July 5, 2013 by adding topic 68-13-05 ANALOG AND MIXED SIGNAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION. The complete BAA are available at http://heron.nrl.navy.mil/contracts/baa/baa_2013/index03.html.

The purpose of this amendment is to revise BAA-N00173-03 posted on July 8, 2013 to: 

(1) add the following topics:

55-13-07, "Federated, Distributed Computing/Network Infrastructure"
68-13-04, "Wide Bandgap Materials Research";

(2) revise topic 64-13-01, "High Performance Computing on Massively Parallel Architectures";

(3) change the Primary Point of Contact to Lisa Fleming;

(4) add the following Security Classification to the Award Considerations Section of the Announcement:

Security Classification, "DoD Contract Security Classification Specification", will not be provided at this time, since the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is soliciting ideas only. If access to classified material/information will be required at any point during performance, the Offeror must clearly identify such need in the Technical Proposal. After reviewing the incoming proposals, if a determination is made that the award instrument may result in access to classified information, a Department of Defense (DD) Form 254 will be attached and FAR 52.204-2 - Security Requirement will be incorporated into the contract award.

 The Naval Research Laboratory is interested in receiving innovative proposals that offer potential for advancement and improvement in the technical topic areas listed. This notice constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) as contemplated in FAR 6.302(d) that provides for the competitive selection of research proposals. The Government reserves the right to select for award all, some, or none of the proposals received. Awards under this BAA are expected to take the form of contracts. Grants, cooperative agreements, other transactions may also be awarded if appropriate. NRL encourages Educational Institutions, Small Businesses (SBs), Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns (SDBs) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Institutions (MIs) to submit proposals under this BAA. In order to conserve valuable offeror and Government resources, prospective offerors shall first submit a White Paper (WP), to include in a separate volume, a rough cost estimate to nrlproposals@nrl.navy.mil . Prospective offerors are encouraged to submit White Papers as early in the fiscal year as possible to maximize the potential for award. The selection of proposals for award will be based on a scientific review of proposals submitted in response to each BAA topic. The major purpose of the evaluation will be to determine the relative merit of the technical approach of each proposal. Business and contractual aspects, including proposed cost and cost realism, will also be considered as part of the evaluation. Selection of proposals for award will be based on the potential benefits to the Government weighed against the cost of the proposals, in view of the availability of funds. The complete BAA including proposal preparation instructions, award considerations, and evaluation criteria is available at http://heron.nrl.navy.mil/contracts/baa/index03.html .
Specific research topics of interest include:
53-13-01 HIGH FREQUENCY RADAR
53-13-01C HIGH FREQUENCY RADAR (CLASSIFIED)
53-13-02 LOW COST WIDEBAND ANTENNA ARRAY TECHNOLOGY
53-13-03 ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS
55-13-01 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND DECISION ARCHITECTURES*REVISED*
55-13-02 MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HIGH ASSURANCE COMPUTING
55-13-03 HIGH ASSURANCE ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING
55-13-04 ADVANCED NAVAL NETWORK SOLUTIONS
55-13-05 ADVERSARIAL MODELING AND DECISION SUPPORT
55-13-06 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR HIGH ASSURANCE COMPUTER SYSTEMS
56-13-01 VIS-IR GLASS WINDOWS AND HEAVY METAL OXIDE GLASSES
56-13-02 LOW LOSS, NEAR AND MID-IR TRANSMITTING FIBERS
56-13-03 LASER THREAT COUNTERMEASURE TECHNOLOGY
56-13-04 IMAGING SEEKER ADVANCED COUNTERMEASURES
56-13-05 OPTICAL SCIENCES R&D
56-13-06 INFRARED FIBER OPTIC CABLES AND COMPONENTS
56-13-07 ACTIVE DEVICES
57-13-01 INNOVATIVE ANTI-SHIP MISSILE - ELECTRONIC WARFARE SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY
57-13-02 ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
57-13-03 OFFBOARD COUNTERMEASURES
57-13-04 AIRBORNE ELECTRONIC WARFARE
61-13-01 POWER/ENERGY SOURCE MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS *REVISED*
61-13-02 CORROSION PROCESSES, CONTROL, MITIGATION, AND TECHNOLOGY
61-13-03 DEVELOPMENT OF MICROSENSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS FOR PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND BIOCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS
61-13-04 APPLICATIONS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY AND ADVANCED LASER TECHNIQUES
63-13-01 MATERIALS PERFORMANCE, PROCESSING AND MODELING
64-13-01 HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ON MASSIVELY PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES
67-13-01 BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH IN HIGH TEMPERATURE PLASMAS
68-13-01 RF VACUUM ELECTRONICS
68-13-02 RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH
68-13-03 PHOTOVOLTAICS FOR PORTABLE POWER
69-13-01 RESEARCH IN BIO-MOLECULAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
71-13-01 ACOUSTIC SIMULATION, MEASUREMENTS AND TACTICS
72-13-01 LOW FREQUENCY RADIO INTERFEROMETRY
72-13-02 OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING OF THE COASTAL REGIME*REVISED*
72-13-03 REMOTE SENSORS AND IMAGING SYSTEMS
73-13-01 OCEAN DYNAMICS AND PREDICTION OCEANOGRAPHY
75-13-01 ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS, ANALYSIS, AND PREDICTION
74-13-01 AIRBORNE AND SHIPBOARD DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS
74-13-02 SEAFLOOR SCIENCES
74-13-03 GEOSPATIAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
76-13-01 RESEARCH INTO SPACE - ITS IMAGING AND MODELING *REVISED*
82-13-01 SPACE AND SPACE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY