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OSD CTO Announcement
The Office of the Secretary of Defense Comparative Testing Office (CTO) is interested in receiving research and development proposals for the Defense Acquisition Challenge (DAC) Program. The intent is to competitively fund transition of innovative technologies that meets the focus areas set forth in the BAA. There are multiple focus areas related to small arms development. The link contains a full listing of these opportunities.
The BAA can be found on the BAA Information Delivery (BIDS)Home Page, accessible through the CTO's Acquisition Center website located at https://cto.acqcenter.com/ on or around February 17, 2012. All applicable information necessary to submit a proposal is on the BIDS website. Proposals are sought from US domestic educational institutions, non-profit and not-for-profit organizations and private industry. Proposals may be considered from US-based organizations and industry that are foreign owned or controlled as long as (1) access to proscribed information is not necessary to perform the resultant contract, and (2) foreign ownership or control does not present an unacceptable security threat. Awards shall take the form of contracts only.
Link to the BAA: https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/WHS/REF/DAC-FY12-BAA0001/listing.html
Information about the US Army Defense Acquisition Challenge can be found at: http://www.acq.osd.mil/cto
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO
Happy New Year to NSAC members
Hope everyone had a restful New year and ready to go for 2012. Below are some notes/reminders from our December members meeting.
DA/DOI Meeting: As of 9 Jan, Dept of Army is in receipt of documentation supplied by DOI explaining their assertion they have Section 845 OTA authority for Prototypes. DA is currently reviewing and a resolution is expected in the short-term. Additionally, the Research Program Director and the NBC procurement staff are investigating multiple Plan B options to ensure our FY12 program will be executed in a timely manner.
IR&D Brief: Members wishing to brief their IR&D efforts to key staff within ARDEC should work through the NSAC Research Program Director (Frank Puzycki). He will be able to provide appropriate POCs to work with.
Dec meeting briefs: Briefings have been uploaded to the web-site. Select briefings are not available through the web-site, but a POC is indentified to contact for further discussions.
Additionally:
Personnel from the JSSAP office and Government NSAC cell will be attending the SHOT Show, SOCOM/JSOP and various events in and around Las Vegas during the period of 12 through 21 January. If any members or interested parties would like to meet and discuss subjects pertaining to the Small Arms Center, Technology Consortium or JSSAP, please email us. We will have our BBs but it can be difficult to get reception so earliest is best (now or before 17 Jan) or in evenings during show. Schedule is filling up. Other Services' and DoD agency reps are attending as well and may be able to be coordinated.
JSSAP Office and Government NSAC who will be in attendance:
Dr. Bart Halpern : barton.halpern@us.army.mil (JSSAP) Craig LaMudge: craig.r.lamudge@us.army.mil (JSSAP, NSAC) Wai Luk: wai.luk@us.army.mil (JSSAP) Terence Rice: terence.f.rice@us.army.mil (NSAC)
Read More >>CMA and OTA available directly
The CMA and OTA are now available directly from the public documents area of the website.
Consortium Membership Agreement
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