Pyrophoric Device Demonstration
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- N00164269W051
- Agency
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Naval Sea Systems Command
Department of the Navy, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 325998 All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing
- Place of performance
- Crane, Indiana, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command issued a special notice seeking a new supplier of pyrophoric countermeasures for the Department of War Joint Services (US Navy, US Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, SOCOM, and AFSOC), with responses due October 28, 2026. This is a competitive opportunity with no set-aside restriction. The Department of War requires an expendable pyrophoric countermeasure for independent use or in conjunction with onboard and offboard countermeasures to protect U.S. aircraft from surface-to-air and air-to-air missile threats. The Platform Protection & Countermeasures Technologies Division (WXR) develops countermeasures that deploy as decoys to confuse missile seekers and divert threats away from aircraft; pyrophoric countermeasures remain an active component of infrared threat protection systems effective against legacy and advanced infrared missile threats. Specific countermeasure variants in current use include M211, MJU-49/B, MJU-64/B, MJU-66/B, XM219, MJU-50A/B, MJU-51A/B, and MJU-52A/B. The effort responds to the need for an alternative supplier to maintain supply chain resilience for this critical capability. Work falls under NAICS 325998 (All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing) and PSC AC13 (National Defense R&D Services—Experimental Development).
Notice text
The Department of War (DoW) Joint Services (US Navy, US Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)) require an expendable pyrophoric countermeasure to use independently or in conjunction with both onboard and offboard countermeasures. The DoW has a need to develop a new source for this crucial countermeasure capability.
One of the primary missions of the Platform Protection & Countermeasures Technologies Division (WXR) is to develop countermeasures to protect U.S. aircraft from threat missile systems. Expendable Countermeasures have been utilized to protect U.S. aircraft against surface-to-air and air-to-air threats since as early as the 1960s. Once the presence of a missile is indicated, a pilot releases an expendable countermeasure in an attempt to decoy the missile. The countermeasure and countermeasure techniques are designed to confuse the missile seeker and its counter-countermeasure logic, ultimately causing it to decoy away from aircraft. Expendable countermeasures are part of a multi-layer approach to protect aircraft from enemy threat missiles. In their simplest form, the concept of expendable countermeasures is to provide a decoy that is “more attractive” than the aircraft
being protected, thereby pulling the threat missile’s targeting system away from the aircraft and towards the decoy. In total, any
mechanism by which the expendable interferes with the missile’s targeting system sufficiently to make it miss the aircraft is a
success. This effort is in response to finding a new supplier of pyrophoric countermeasures. Pyrophoric countermeasures (M211,
MJU-49/B, MJU-64/B, MJU-66/B, XM219, MJU-50A/B, MJU-51A/B, & MJU-52A/B) remain an active part of IR threat protection
systems offering the best solution for the Joint Services to counter legacy and advanced IR missile threats.
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