RFI for Advanced Technology Test and Development Program Service

The government authority located in Alabama is seeking advanced technology test and development program services. The agency needs to design and fabricate projectiles, targets, and test articles for light gas gun systems and launchers, including warhead fragments, sub-scale re-entry vehicles, threat missiles, hit-to-kill vehicles, and tactical armor penetrators. The project also requires instrumenting these sub-scale vehicles and targets to obtain critical data on performance, vulnerability, lethality criteria, and damage assessment. The scope of work covers collecting data parameters such as target damage, timing, pressure, acceleration, temperature, debris distribution, and impact radiate spectral emission signatures. The agency requires the utilization and development of sensors including shadowgraphs, flash X-rays, high-speed cameras, spectrographs, Doppler radars, and ballistic pendulums. Additionally, the selected provider must modify test chambers, conduct data archiving, perform software accreditation, and provide comprehensive engineering management and operations support. The agency is also seeking to establish figure, roughness, and coating measurement standards for metrology and high-power coatings. This involves creating laboratory configurations to measure reflectivity, transmissivity, damage threshold, and phase shift. Finally, the program requires the development of sensors and models to predict high-energy laser weapon system performance under varying meteorological conditions for atmospheric propagation. Eligibility is strictly limited to onshore organizations based in the United States. The performance of all requested work must take place offsite. The agency has not disclosed a specific budget and is currently looking for proposals to determine the cost. No key dates or specific evaluation criteria are provided in the source.