Pyrophoric Device Demonstration
Open Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- N00164269W051
- Agency
-
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 soliciting sources for expendable pyrophoric countermeasures, with responses due by October 21, 2026. The Department of War Joint Services—US Navy, US Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, Special Operations Command, and Air Force Special Operations Command—require development of a new supplier for pyrophoric countermeasures to protect aircraft from surface-to-air and air-to-air missile threats. Existing pyrophoric countermeasure variants in active use include M211, MJU-49/B, MJU-64/B, MJU-66/B, XM219, MJU-50A/B, MJU-51A/B, and MJU-52A/B; these devices function as expendable decoys deployed after missile detection to confuse targeting systems and divert threats away from protected aircraft. The countermeasures operate independently or in conjunction with onboard and offboard systems as part of a multi-layer defense approach. The Platform Protection & Countermeasures Technologies Division (WXR) leads the effort to identify an alternative supplier capable of producing these IR threat protection assets to counter both legacy and advanced infrared missile threats. NAICS 325998 (All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing) applies; no set-aside category is used.
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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