Affordable Flight Test Bed: Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB)

Special Notice N0016422SNB69 Agency: Department of the Navy Office: Naval Sea Systems Command Location: NSWC Crane Division Classification Code: AC13 - National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Experimental Development NAICS Code: 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences Response Due Date: 20 June 2022 Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS) Request for Solutions (RFS) in support of Affordable Flight Test Bed: Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) PURPOSE This Request for Solutions (RFS) is issued to locate vendors with the ability to develop an affordable flight, Multi-Service, Advanced Capabilities Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) prototype to rapidly improve hypersonic glide body technologies for Department of Defense (DoD) programs. The primary objective of the MACH-TB prototype project is to develop a more robust, agile, and modular test approach that can be applied to tests beyond sounding rocket campaigns. DoD stakeholder demand signals indicate a need to move toward a more rapid test cadence, including ground and flight testing, to rapidly increase hypersonic glide vehicle Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and demonstrate transition readiness of advanced capabilities to support the Warfighter. Achieving the objective will require industry to affordably prototype an Experimental Glide Body (EGB), design a modular Test Bed architecture, and leverage existing boosters and a Test Bed to replicate operational hypersonic trajectories. The Government will evaluate the solutions with the intent of awarding an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) in accordance with 10 U.S. Code - 4022. In accordance with 10 U.S.C. 4022(f), and upon a determination that the prototype project (or any subsequent iterative prototyping efforts) was successfully completed under the competitively awarded OTA(s), a follow-on production contract(s) or OTA(s) may be awarded without the use of competitive procedures. BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY S2MARTS Vendors interested in responding to this RFS must be members of the Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS) consortium. Interested parties may visit S2MARTS.org for membership information. This project will be managed by a Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division Project Manager. PROJECT OVERVIEW The Navy's goal for the MACH-TB Project is a proof of concept and prototype demonstration of modular Experimental Glide Body (EGB) testing hypersonic technologies/experimental payloads in operational trajectories using already available boosters. Please visit the S2MARTS website at https://s2marts.org/ to review the full RFS. Contracting Office Address: 300 Hwy 361 Crane, IN 47522 United States Primary Point of Contact.: Elizabeth Gillenwater elizabeth.a.gillenwater.civ@us.navy.mil Phone: 812-854-3513 Secondary Point of Contact: Matt Summers matthew.s.summers.civ@us.navy.mil Phone: 812-854-8756