The U.S. Army ARDEC is contemplating an award to develop advanced warheads and defeat mechanisms for current and future weapon systems to provide overmatching lethality for U.S. Armed Forces and to develop advanced defeat mechanisms for force protection. The offeror shall provide technical experience and capabilities with regard to the following: Extensive practical experiences with 1) System Engineering and Modeling; 2) Single and Multiple Explosively Formed Penetrator; and 3) Novel Warhead designs using Hydrodynamic codes such as CTH and LSDYNA; target interaction code predictions using Eulerian or others. The offerors shall indicate in detail whether or not they currently have the necessary equipment and extensive experiences to fabricate advanced SEFP, MEFP, and novel warhead liners and associated components, fabricate associated system components and complete assemblies; this includes equipment and facility to conduct melt pour as well as press loading of current and future explosive formulations. The offerors shall indicate in detail whether or not they currently have the necessary test instrumentation and facilities to conduct live fire static and dynamic warhead and complete system testing; this includes to conduct static warhead test firing against RHA and reactive targets, static warhead versus dynamically launched threat weapons, and dynamically launched warhead or defeat mechanism system versus dynamically launched threat weapons. In connection with providing test instrumentation, the offeror shall indicate in detail whether or not they already possess and have used multiple orthogonal high intensity x-rays, Cordin or other suitable high speed still and video cameras, and other pertinent equipment for diagnostic purposes. The U.S. Army ARDEC intends to satisfy by awarding a Cost plus Fixed Fee price type contract, through full and open competition. The period of performance is for (3) years and shall be incrementally funded. The Request for Proposal (RFP) shall be available on or about 15 days from the date of this announcement and shall be electronically available electronically through the following Internet address: http://procnet.pica.army.mil. The points of contact for this requirement are Margaret Rhinesmith, Contract specialist), [email protected]. The offerors shall submit their proposals in word format only. The proposals shall be submitted not later than May 2, 2008 at 4:00 pm EST. See Numbered Note25.

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