Medium Assault Bridge (MAB)

This document is a Market Questionnaire for use by the Army, related to the Medium Assault Bridge (MAB). Written in the paragraph(s) below is additional information regarding the Market Questionnaire. We thank you in advance, for your time and participation in this Market Questionnaire. 1. Objectives: The objective of the Market Questionnaire is to better understand the availability and capabilities of commercial bridging technology and the potential of the associated material and component manufacturers to meet the Army's MAB needs. The information gathered by the Army through this Market Questionnaire, along with other market investigation data, is solely intended for use by the U.S. Army and will not be shared amongst competing companies. For instructions and more information regarding proprietary information, please refer to Section V of this document. Participation in the Market Questionnaire by the various contractors is considered low risk to the companies responding, given the Army will treat information from the Questionnaire responses per Section VI as proprietary. Participation in this Market Questionnaire provides an important opportunity to influence the Army's approach to procuring MAB. The U.S. Army will not provide compensation for any resources spent on this Market Questionnaire and participation is at the discretion of the equipment manufacturer respondent(s). 2. Instructions: Read the capability summary for MAB in Section III and the Description/Requirements in Section IV of this Market Questionnaire. a. Answer all questions in the embedded Microsoft Excel file in Section VI of this Market Questionnaire. If certain U.S. Army capabilities identified are deemed not available, or not achievable according to the respondent's company knowledge, please include an alternate proposal(s) which would be intended to provide the intent of the capability described therein. It is the U.S. Army's desire to avoid - not applicable (N/A) type answers. Please provide yes/no and numerical responses in the column labeled - Measured Performance. Please provide supporting rationale, comments and recommendations in the column labeled - Capability Description/Alternative Proposal Description. b. Please provide the projected development resources such as cost and timing to support MAB objectives. This information is essential in understanding the scope of the project. It is understood by the U.S. Army that this information is strictly a rough estimate. The respondent's company is not contractually obligated to this information. Please avoid N/A not applicable or blank information. The U.S. Army recognizes these are rough estimates and will use the information strictly as a means for gaining general knowledge. Please include development resource cost and timing estimates for all alternate proposals as well as the mainstream proposal. c. Provide product brochures or other forms of information relevant to this Market Questionnaire as is deemed appropriate. Additionally, it is encouraged to provide any additional information that enables the U.S. army to gain insight into the company, product performance, reliability and warranty performance. Brochures should be provided to substantiate responses in the questionnaire and should not be considered as a substitute. d. Responses Due: Survey responses shall be furnished by 04 DEC 2023. Please submit electronic responses to this survey, as well as questions for clarification to: Jason.r.farkas2.civ@army.mil Lakeisha.s.hadley.civ@army.mil Jesse.a.knapp2.civ@army.mil Ashley.l.genna.civ@army.mil 3. Capability Summary for MAB: The MAB is an assault launcher vehicle and bridge that will support the Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) and the Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) formations in their support of Airborne and Joint Service strategic Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO). The MAB will provide the capability of forces to launch and retrieve its bridge from either side of the gap to allow forces to rapidly cross gap obstacles while minimizing crew exposure to direct and indirect fire. The MAB is planned to be optionally manned thorough semi-autonomous, and /or autonomous means. The MAB is planned to have a hybrid powertrain solution to support its mission objectives of silent watch and silent movement. Additionally, the MAB will be able to keep pace with the formations it supports as well as provide the load carrying capacity to support the crossing of existing and future wheeled and tracked Combat Vehicles. 4. Description/Requirements: The desired MAB capability shall demonstrate the performance characteristics detailed below. Shall have crew survivability. Shall have system survivability. Shall be Net-Ready and cyber survivability. Shall be optionally manned or tele-operated from semi to fully autonomous. Shall have a launch and retrieve of the bridge in 5 minutes or less on various bank conditions without the crew exiting the vehicle. Shall have bridge crossing capabilities of Military Load Classification (MLC) 90 for single lane traffic of wheeled and tracked vehicles. Shall span gaps of 14 meters or less with a trackway width of no less than 3.35 meters. Shall have a Bridge Health Monitoring (BHM) system to monitor and assess the structural integrity of the bridge and communicate that over secure army networks. Shall be transportable by Air, Rail, Sea, and Highway similar to Stryker Family of Vehicles. Shall be trainable and not require any additional Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). 5. Proprietary: GENERAL INFORMATION: The U.S. Government appreciates the time and effort taken to respond to this Questionnaire. The U.S. Government acknowledges its obligations under 18 U.S.C. - 1905 to protect information qualifying as - confidential under this statute. (To avoid possible confusion with the meaning of the term - confidential in the context of Classified Information, we will use the term - PROPRIETARY.) Pursuant to this statute, the Government is willing to accept any PROPRIETARY (e.g. trade secret) restrictions placed on qualifying data forwarded in response to the Questionnaire questions and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure subject to the following: a. Clearly and conspicuously mark qualifying data with the restrictive legend (all caps) - PROPRIETARY with an explanatory text so the U.S. Government is clearly notified of the data needing to be appropriately protected. b. In marking such data, please take care to mark only those portions of the data or materials truly proprietary (over breadth in marking inappropriate data as - PROPRIETARY may diminish or eliminate the usefulness of your response - see item 6 below). Use circling, underscoring, highlighting or other appropriate means to indicate the portion of a single page to be protected. c. The U.S. Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Additionally, marked data which is already in the public domain or in possession of the U.S. Government or 3rd parties, or is afterward placed into public domain by the owner or another party through no fault of the U.S. Government will not be protected once it is in the public domain. Data which is already in the possession of the U.S. Government will be protected in accordance with the government's rights in the data. d. Proprietary data transmitted electronically, whether by physical media or not, whether by the respondent or by the U.S. Government, shall contain the - PROPRIETARY legend, with any explanatory text on both the cover of the transmittal email and at the beginning of the file itself. Where appropriate for only portions of an electronic file, use the restrictive legends - PROPRIETARY PORTION BEGINS: and - PROPRIETARY PORTION ENDS. e. In any reproductions of technical data or any portions thereof subject to asserted restrictions, the U.S. Government shall also reproduce the asserted restriction legend and any explanatory text. f. The U.S. Government sometimes uses support contractors in evaluating responses. Consequently, responses which contain proprietary information may receive only limited or no consideration since the respondent's marking of the data as - PROPRIETARY will preclude disclosure of same outside the U.S. Government and therefore will preclude disclosure to these support contractors assisting the evaluation effort. The U.S. Government will use its best efforts to evaluate those responses that contain proprietary information without using support contractors consistent with the resources available.