NSWCDD Hosts Virtual Industry Day with Naval Surface Technology & Innovation Consortium (Click to go to web page)

Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) leadership gathered virtually on Dec. 6 with representatives from private industry and academia to discuss areas of potential collaboration within NSWCDD’s work on technologically superior warfare systems for the 21st century. The 2021 Naval Surface Technology & Innovation Consortium (NSTIC) Industry Day event included NSTIC members, and briefings from NSWCDD provided by Contracting Department Head Mike Busansky, Technical Director Dale Sisson, SES and Chief Technology Officer Jennifer Clift.

Sisson discussed the five strategic goals and their component technical thrusts that anchor Dahlgren’s strategic plan for the years 2021-2025. Clift noted the importance of strong working relationships between the Navy, private industry and academia to achieve these goals. Such partnerships and collaborative agreements “enable sharing of resources and ideas, solve problems faster” and “benefit the local and U.S. economy,” her presentation noted.

Dahlgren’s position at the forefront of federal research and development provides a considerable economic incentive for organizations to do business with the government and help support the nation’s defense. NSWCDD’s total annual budget amounts to $1.8 billion, according to the presentation, with the largest single category of expenditures ($954 million per year) supporting a wide variety of contracts with private industry. Contract personnel also make up approximately 40% of the workforce at NSWCDD. The total workforce at NSWCDD numbers more than 8,600 and accounts for $750 million per year in payroll and labor expenditures.

NSWCDD technical area managers also provided briefings on subjects such as manufacturing, cybersecurity, sensor systems, directed energy lasers, drones, lethality, digital engineering, launcher systems and projectiles. The speakers also provided broad examples of the types of challenges and high tech solutions that are likely to appear in future Navy contract opportunities.

The 2021 NSTIC Industry Day audience was composed of members of the NSTIC. The consortium represents more than 1,000 industry and academic organizations with specializations in advanced technology and naval warfare. In addition to the Dec. 6 virtual briefing, consortium members met face to face with NSWCDD leadership on Dec. 7 and 8.

The next virtual industry day is tentatively scheduled for June 1, 2022.

• Research and Technology Development Support Services: The Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office (JIFCO) Quantico, VA, currently has a requirement to obtain contractor services to provide research and development support services. The scope of the potential contract will include accomplishing research and technology development; technical, scientific, and program analyses; systems integration and systems engineering tasks. It will provide for deliverables encompassing experimental research (including bioeffects research); test and evaluation; prototype development and demonstration; and computational modeling and simulation.

• Air Force reaches out to industry for high-power microwaves, sensors, testing for electromagnetic warfare: U.S. Air Force electromagnetic warfare experts are asking industry to perform vulnerability testing on several electronic systems to help determine the effectiveness of potential high-power electromagnetic (HPEM) weapons.

• AFRL Launches 5-year BAA for High Power Electromagnetic Research: The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate has issued a five-year closed broad agency announcement for project proposals on high-power electromagnetics modeling (HPEM) and effects.
• Non-Lethal Instructional Services:  Marine Corps Installations National Capital Region- Regional Contracting Office (MCINCR-RCO) has a requirement to provide support Non-Lethal instructional services at Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) venues, such as, the Army War College, the Navy Warfare College and many other JPME venues.
• Research and Technology Development Support Services:  This RFI constitutes market research to help JIFCO formulate an acquisition plan / strategy to obtain contractor services to provide research and development support services. 

No current Advanced Planning Briefs to Industry. The briefs available here are for informational/historical purposes and will be updated before the next Industry Day, Schedule TBD.

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•  9-Bang Flash Bang Grenade  Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane anticipates issuing a request for proposals (RFP) for a 5-year, Firm-Fixed Priced (FFP), Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for 9-Bang Flash Bang Grenades. The 9-Bang Flash Bang Grenade will consist of a grenade with a fuze, delay, and energetic compositions to produce nine (9) flashes and bangs from a top and/or bottom venting device. This is a diversionary hand grenade meant to distract personnel. This acquisition is under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 332993. The Government requires a minimum quantity of 1,000 grenades with an estimated contract maximum dollar value of $16,000,000.


• Counter Unmanned Aircraft System Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) is conducting a market outreach to identify potential sources for the capability of manufacturing and delivering a Counter Drone or Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) or similar product.  Counter-drone technology also known as C-UAS, or Counter-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (C-UAV) technology refers to systems used to detect and/or intercept unmanned aircraft. Responses to this RFI allow MARCORSYSCOM to identify potential industry capabilities as well as technology capabilities.


• Counter Electronic High Power Microwave Extended Range Air Base Defense (CHIMERA) The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) aims to finish the Counter Electronic High-power Microwave Extended Range Air Base Air Defense (CHIMERA) program, taking an assembled prototype system through tests and demonstrations to verify and validate that it performs as expected before performing a warfighter integration exercise in preparation to transition the prototype system into a program of record. This effort focuses on the test and demonstration of CHIMERA as well as all activities required to support them.


• Less Lethal Launcher
  Solicitation by USAF to purchase 4 FN303 Less Lethal Launchers.


• M1116, 12-Gauge Extended Range Non-Lethal Marking Cartridge
  Sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify potential sources having an interest and industry technologies available to support/provide the manufacture, inspection, testing, and delivery of the M1116, 12-Gauge Extended Range Non-Lethal Marking Cartridge (ERNL).
•  Ultra-Short-Pulse Fiber Laser Technology : The U.S. Air Force laser weapons experts are reaching out to industry for enabling technologies that could lead to ultra-short-pulse fiber lasers for future directed-energy weapons.