Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) NAWCAD WOLF ASI Division

Background
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst, NJ in support of Webster Outlying Field (WOLF) Airborne Systems Integration (ASI) Division is soliciting white papers/proposals for research and development support in technologies applicable to air platforms, manned and unmanned payloads, advanced computing and processing, air platform support systems, advanced air system security and protection, and improved naval air capabilities. The NAWCAD WOLF ASI Division develops advanced air platforms, sensors, and systems to support various aviation missions including Air Undersea Warfare (USW), airborne strike, air warfare, counter-air, close air support and interdiction, defense suppression, communications relays, digital interoperability, electronic attack, naval warfare and amphibious strike, Counter Unmanned Systems (C-UxS), and anti-surface warfare.

The BAA includes sensors, sensor data processing, mathematical modeling of the sensors and air platforms, communication techniques between the sensors and/or platforms, interfaces, software development, fusion and exploitation of multi-sensor data, studies on artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, advanced algorithms.

Work Details
The work details include evaluating proposals responsive to any or all areas of interest discussed in the solicitation. The primary evaluation criteria focus on the scientific and technical merits of the proposed research as well as potential contributions to DoD, Navy, NAVAIR, NAWCAD WOLF ASI Division. Additional evaluation criteria include the Offeror’s capabilities, related experience, past performance on similar efforts, research personnel, facilities; realism and reasonableness of cost; accounting standards compliance; use of arms, ammunition and explosives safety; security compliance.

The solicitation also provides detailed instructions for application submission format including full proposals content and form requirements such as cover page details with BAA number and proposal title; table of contents; executive summary; technical proposal sections covering technical concept and approach; future naval relevance; project schedule and milestones; Technology Readiness Level (TRL) progression roadmap; stand-alone non-proprietary Statement of Work (SOW); staffing and key personnel qualifications; facilities equipment information; security requirements. Additionally there are separate cost proposal requirements with justification documentation for each element of cost proposed.