Precision Grenadier System

Title: Sources Sought - Precision Grenadier System (PGS) Response Date: 3 December 2020 Description: The U.S. Army, Army Contracting Command - New Jersey at Picatinny Arsenal is conducting a Request for Information (RFI) on behalf of Product Manager Individual Weapons to identify potential sources for a Precision Grenadier System (PGS) or any technologies towards this objective. This includes vendors with full or partial solutions to the desired attributes. The PGS is envisioned to be a man portable integrated weapon system that enables precision engagements to destroy personnel targets in defilade and in the open with increased lethality and precision compared to the legacy M203/M320 grenade launchers. The PGS provides overmatch to comparable threat grenade launchers in near peer formations in future operating environments (jungle, urban, woodland, subterranean, desert, day/night). The PGS is envisioned to consist of a weapon, a fire control, and a suite of ammunition which enables the user to engage targets in defilade/cover, hovering UAS targets, conduct door breaching, engage close combat targets, and light armored targets. This RFI is for planning purposes only and should not be construed as a Request for Proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any services or hardware. Your response to this RFI will be treated as information only. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses to this announcement or Government use of such information. No funds have been authorized, appropriated, or received for this effort. The information provided may be used by the Army in developing its Acquisition Strategy, Performance Work Statement and Performance Specification. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI or to otherwise pay for the information submitted in response to same. The information provided herein is subject to change and in no way binds the Government to pursue any course of action described herein. The U.S. Government is not obligated to notify respondents of the results of this survey. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement if a requirement materializes. Based on the responses to this market survey / sources sought notice, this requirement may be set-aside for small businesses (in full or in part) or procured through full and open competition. Multiple awards may be made. All small business set-aside categories will be considered. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding submissions. The following attributes of the PGS are desired (in order of importance), however the USG is interested in receiving information on systems or enabling technologies that can partially meet these desired requirements, or show path towards developing full system needs: System Survivability: The PGS and its ammunition capable of functioning in cold, ambient, and hot conditions at all humidity conditions and be survivable and operational after exposure to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRNE) exposure to include effects of electromagnetic pulse and cyber-attacks. System capable of operating in an electromagnetic environment and meet electromagnetic environmental effects (E3) outlined in Military Standards 461G and 464C. PGS capable of mitigating and recovering from adverse effects while operating in the presence of (E3), excluding electromagnetic pulse. System Effectiveness: Ability to achieve a high probability of incapacitation given a shot within 30 seconds (from the minimum engagement distance to 500 meters) against unprotected personnel targets in defilade/cover or stationary exposed target. Capable of providing incapacitating effects to a range of 1000m. Engagement Times: Time to engage target ? 5 seconds from decision to engage to trigger pull for a target out to 500 meters. After trigger pull, time of flight to target no greater than 3 seconds to 500 meters. Length: Maximum overall system length not to exceed 34 inches. System Weight: System weight not to exceed 14.5lbs. Target Acquisition: Ability to acquire targets with a high Probability of Recognition Given a Detection out to a range of 500 meters in clear air during day and nighttime conditions and a high Probability of Recognition Given a Detection out to a range of at least 300 meters in obscurants. Powerless/Degraded Operation: The system provides the ability to continue the fight and engage targets even when the fire control has no power or becomes damaged and inoperable. Family of Ammunition: Counter Defilade Round: Round to precisely and quickly defeat personnel targets in defilade positions. Training Round: Non-pyrotechnic round ballistically similar to the counter defilade round to train the PGS capability. Armor-Piercing Round: Round capable of a hitting a lightly armored vehicle out to a minimum engagement distance to 500 meters day or night with an armor penetration of between 1.0 to 2.0 inches at 90 degrees rolled homogenous armor. Airburst Less-than-Lethal Munition: An airburst less-than-lethal munition capable of delivering effects out to 100 meters covering a five-meter radius. Close Quarters Battle Round: Round capable of delivering lethal effects to exposed, personnel targets to 75 meters. Counter Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Round: Round capable of defeating small UAS systems out to 300 meters. Breaching Munition: Munition capable of breaching solid wood doors 1.5 inches thick, windows, and gates, at 50 meters. Variable Magnification: System capable of having magnifications to enable accurate engagements within the range of the systems capability. Ranging/Far Target Location: Capable of accurate range determination to an E type target with 10% reflectivity out to 800 meters and vehicle or troops in the open (squad sized targets) out to 1,000 meters in less than one second. Digital Overlay: System capable of providing alpha-numeric display and a dynamic reticle within the fire control field of view out to a range of 1000 meters. System is capable of calculating a dynamic reticle for refined targeting and will update based on variable required to accurately engage targets including (but is not limited to) range to target, atmospheric conditions, weapon orientation, and ballistics of the weapon/ammunition selected. The computation time for the dynamic reticle to be displayed is no more than 1 second. Firing Mode: The system capable of semi-automatic firing. Light Transmission/Spectrum: System capable of acquiring and engaging targets within the range of the systems capability in day, night, and thermal spectrum. Resolution: System provides sufficient angular resolution to distinguish between hostile and non-hostile targets during daytime, clear air conditions from 0-600 meters and accurately determine threat characteristics (e.g. a threat light armored vehicle or armed squad size element in the open) during daytime, clear air conditions out to 1,000 meters. Ambidextrous: System capable of ambidextrous configuration without degradation of performance or safety. Barrel Life: Barrel life meets or exceed 5000 rounds. Environmental: System ruggedized to withstand standard Army environmental conditions outlined in MIL-STD-810H (C1). Submission Information: The RFI submission should be in the format (Information Paper, Literatures, Video demonstrations, Presentation slides or combination thereof) chosen by the offeror to provide as much information and details as possible to convey the potential solutions to address the attributes described above. Vendor Questionnaire: The purpose of this questionnaire is to obtain information from industry to assist in market research. Firms/companies are invited to indicate their interest and capability to satisfy the above requirements by identifying the following items: 1. Company Name 2. Company Address 3. Company point of contact and phone number 4. Major partners or suppliers 5. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code. Is your business considered a Small Business based on your NAICS Code? 6. Description of capability to develop and/or manufacture a system(s) to meet the criteria listed above. 7. Estimated Time and Cost to achieve TRL 6 if a developmental item. 8. Provide projected per unit costs to include any major subcomponents. 9. Identify the technological areas that present the most developmental risk. 10. Commerciality: (a) Our product as described above, has been sold, leased or licensed to the general public. (b) Our product as described above has been sold in substantial quantities, on a competitive basis to multiple state and local government. The development of the product was done exclusively at private expense. (c) None of the above applies. Explain: 11. Location where primary work will be performed (if more than one location, please indicate the percentage for each location). 12. Identify manufacturing, managing and engineering experience of like items of equal or greater complexity. 13. Please provide any additional comments. This RFI does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. Solicitations are not available at this time. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. This notice does not constitute a commitment by the United States Government to contract for any item whatsoever. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary; the United States Government will not pay for information requested, nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the United States Government. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if any is issued. It is the responsibility of the potential Offerors to monitor this site for additional information pertaining to this requirement. Primary Point of Contact: Michael Grace Contracts Specialist Michael.f.grace4.civ@mail.mil Contracting Office Address: BUILDING 10 PHIPPS RD PICATINNY ARSENAL, New Jersey 07806-5000 United States