Request for Solutions: Novel and Cross Domain Uncrewed Systems

Special Notice: N0016424SNB63

 Agency: Department of the Navy

Office: Naval Sea Systems Command

Location: Naval Surface Warfare Centers - Crane Division

Classification Code: AC33 – National Defense Research and Development (R&D ) Services: Defense-Related Activities: Experimental Development

NAICS Code: 541330 – Engineering Services

Responses Due Date: May 10 2024

 Request for Solutions:

Novel and Cross Domain Uncrewed Systems

1. PURPOSE

This Request for Solutions (RFS) is issued to address the need Naval Surface Warfare Centers (NSWC) Crane has in seeking for novel air and maritime Uncrewed Systems (UXS) to perform in an UXS test and demonstration event in September 2024 in the Pacific Northwest. All respondents will need to possess a Security Clearance of Secret to participate. The Government will evaluate the solutions with the intent of awarding multiple Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) in accordance with 10 U.S. Code § 4022.

1. BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY 
2. 1. EMC2

Vendors interested in responding to this RFS must be members of the Expeditionary Missions Consortium - Crane (EMC2) consortium. Interested parties may visit emccrane.org for membership information. This project will be managed by a Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division Project Manager.

1. 1. PROJECT OVERVIEW

NSWC - Crane is seeking novel air and maritime UXS to perform in a test and demonstration event in September 2024 in the Pacific Northwest. UXS are now a constant factor in warfare, and lessons learned from current events have shown that current UXS have a critical place in warfighting in all domains with constant expanding roles and missions. Near-peer adversary nations are rapidly incorporating robust UXS capabilities into their military formations, and non-state actors are using multi-domain UXS to increase their asymmetric advantage. Soon cross-domain UXS will gain popularity and create effects in more than one domain with a single platform. These threats are advanced, coordinated, lethal, and low-cost-and they can be employed in formations of scalable size that communicate and coordinate in real-time while posing low risk to the employing force. They can also be autonomous, which enhances the threat’s inherent resilience to jamming due to lack of or minimal external communications, making them even more effective both in the battlespace and outside it.

Please visit the EMC2 website at https://www.emccrane.org/ to review the full RFS.

Contracting Office Address:

300 Hwy 361

Crane, IN 47522

United States

Primary Point of Contact:

Amber Lyons-Wright

0235 Agreements Specialist

amber.r.lyons-wright.civ@us.navy.mil

Phone: 812-381-7205

Secondary Point of Contact:

Danielle Julian-Klier

0235 Agreements Officer

danielle.m.julian-klier.civ@us.navy.mil

Phone: 812-381-1173