SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Partnership Opportunity - Technology Maturation for Commercialization
- Notice Date
- 8/26/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 928110
— National Security
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (DOE Contractor), Kansas City Plant, 2000 East 95th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, 64131-3095
- ZIP Code
- 64131-3095
- Solicitation Number
- KCP-0826-01
- Archive Date
- 8/31/2012
- Point of Contact
- John D. Mitchem, Jr., Phone: 816-997-3782, Kathy Toney, Phone: 816-997-5944
- E-Mail Address
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jmitchem@kcp.doe.gov, ktoney@kcp.doe.gov
(jmitchem@kcp.doe.gov, ktoney@kcp.doe.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Synopsis: INTRODUCTION: The Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE/NNSA) Kansas City Plant (KCP) seeks partnership arrangements with Federal Agencies, small businesses or other commercial businesses and universities. The KCP specializes in bridging "The Valley of Death" in terms of technology/innovation development, manufacturing readiness, and commercialization. Through our extensive manufacturing infrastructure and manufacturing execution system, we bring concepts to reality....from lab bench to field deployable, qualified systems. The KCP is a government owned, advanced manufacturing facility managed and operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell Corporation, for DOE/NNSA under Contract DE-NA-0000622. In no instance shall Honeywell FM&T be regarded as a commercial supplier. In terms of accepting funds, the KCP functions as a government entity. BACKGROUND FOR THIS NOTICE: The objective is to put in place one or more long term partnerships, through which the parties will collaborate on and support a broad range of projects related to intelligence collection and information sharing, emerging technologies, irregular and asymmetrical warfare as well as other critical programs of interest to the Department of Defense (DoD) and other Federal Agencies. The KCP proposes to provide prototyping, product realization, and manufacturing support for the selected partners. The specific purpose is to provide the warfighter and other national security organizations with demonstrations of rapidly evolving and leading-edge technologies that will enhance their ability to counter the many changing threats. Under the envisioned partnerships, collaboration will occur on a broad range of projects utilizing multiple disciplines in research, product development and training. SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST: The work to be performed should be in direct support of the National Security Mission (Department of Defense and other Federal departments and agencies) and should include cooperative efforts such as, but not limited to the following: •Maturation of emerging technologies related to Irregular and Asymmetric Warfare •Trade studies related to national security, national defense and counter-proliferation concepts • Support in the design, development, prototyping and demonstration of those concepts and technologies •Technology and/or Manufacturing Readiness assessments (MRL/TRL) to ensure effective execution of new projects and programs at partner facilities •Integrated, multi-discipline intelligence collection tools and methods •Tagging, Tracking, and Location (TTL) technologies •Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) integrated platforms and systems •Border and perimeter monitoring including tunnel and sub-surface anomaly detection •Global supply chain analysis including counterfeit parts analysis •Protection of high-value, mobile and stationary assets ABOUT THE KCP: The KCP is a multi-discipline, scientific and engineering organization that provides engineering solutions to complex problems at all levels of security classification. We collaborate with Federal Agencies, universities and U.S. industry to provide specialized manufacturing, systems integration, and technology insertion on systems needed to support national security missions. The KCP has an experienced staff of more than 500 scientists, engineers, and technicians with an average of 24 years. This breadth and depth of knowledge cannot typically be obtained from the private sector. The KCP complex has over three million square feet, with operations in Kansas City, MO, Albuquerque, NM and Ft. Smith, AR. The KCP is a secure manufacturing, applied engineering and testing facility for electrical, mechanical and engineered materials components, assemblies and integrated systems. The KCP manufactures 85% of the non-nuclear weapon components in support of the nation's nuclear stockpile program. This requires over 80 major technologies and manufacturing processes to support over 40 different product lines. The technologies, capabilities and expertise developed for the DOE's nuclear weapons program are available to be leveraged to assist the national security community in countering the threats facing our nation today. RELEVANT KCP CAPABILITIES: Our approach to all projects and programs begins with establishing clearly defined customer requirements and product specifications. Our goal is to provide an accurate description of the product from concept to production. Specific areas of expertise include miniaturization (design, fabrication and testing of micro-systems, micro-initiators, safing switches and wireless transmitters/receivers); ruggedization (extreme humidity, dust, temperatures, vibration and shock); and, rapid prototyping and product realization. While the following is not intended to be an exhaustive summary, highlighted below are several key areas KCP believes are critical in maturing and transitioning technology to fieldable products. Electronics Manufacturing Electronics expertise ranges from packaging and product development to integration. Our capabilities include MEMS applications, surface mount and through-hole PWBs, round, flat and flexible cabling, and, final assembly of mixed technology products. We have worked with numerous DoD R&D organizations including DARPA and DTRA to provide multi-discipline technical teams to produce a variety of defense and national security products. Programs have included applications in robotics, initiation/firing systems, telemetry systems, setback generators, safe and arm devices, conformal antennas, WMD sensor systems, pulsed power/laser systems, test equipment and imaging systems. The KCP's in-house capabilities also include a broad range of environmental testing capabilities that usually cannot be found at a single location. Microelectronics Manufacturing Center The KCP has a 13,000 sq ft Microelectronics Center including Class 100 and Class 10 clean rooms for low-volume packaging of hybrid microelectronics multi-chip modules, MEMS packaging, and packaging of systems based on integrated microelectronic technology. We possess capabilities for fabrication of RF and logic hybrid microcircuits and multichip modules and we use a wide variety of substrates, semiconductor dies, flip chips, appliqué components and intra-connection methods with substrates consisting of Thin Film Networks (TFNs), Thick Film Networks (TKNs) and Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC). The KCP has experience with chip-on-board and chip-on-flex using 5-mil polyimide PWBs. We develop products with wire-bondable PWB finishes and utilize epoxy attachment of components, gold/aluminum wire bonding, glob-top, and dam/fill encapsulation. Our Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) capabilities can provide single-layer and multi-layer thin films with uniformity limits pushed to better than 2% across substrates. We can provide rapid prototyping/process development of materials with thicknesses ranging from less than 20nm to 10μm. Integrated Circuit Development The KCP manages a Federal program for advanced integrated circuit development called the Trusted Foundry Access (TFA) program. As an agent of the Department of Defense Trusted Access Program Office (TAPO), we provide semiconductor fabrication technologies (7HP SiGe, 8SF RF, 8SF EDRAM, 9SF LP/RF) to partners working on DoD-funded programs, all within a secure environment. This multi-project wafer program allows users to buy sections of a wafer for R&D and prototype efforts instead of full wafer procurements. Once the design is complete and tested, we can make arrangements for full production runs of integrated circuits (ICs) to meet the long-term product requirements. Component Assembly For over 30 years, the KCP has been assembling and testing a wide variety of components for national security applications. These components are hand-assembled using specialized joining methods, innovative techniques and custom-designed fixtures. Special testing is done on the units to ensure that they are highly reliable. Because these assemblies are often used in powerful applications, some requiring explosive charges, it is critical that our component assemblies function exactly as planned under any conditions, at any given time. The KCP also offers a broad set of assembly and test processes and works with a wide variety of metals, plastics and potting materials. We work with components/assemblies ranging from millimeters to feet in diameter. Training and Documentation The KCP has the capability to develop and deliver various levels of product, operator and system training. We will leverage prior work developed for multiple Federal Agencies in the area of full-spectrum CBRNE/WMD awareness training and associated unique training hardware. The KCP possesses the technical knowledge base, diversity of experience, depth of training materials and state-of-the-art facilities that can be tailored to satisfy unique customer requirements. Our facilities and staff/associates have security clearances up to the TS/SCI level. CONTRACT/AGREEMENT TYPE: The KCP anticipates that partnerships to commercialize technology will take the form of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) accompanied by patent license agreements/options, Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requisitions (MIPR's), or other procurement agreements. The parties to these partnerships will make the final decision on the appropriate contract vehicle. Typically, research and technical activities result in the need for additional services/supplies, which are not possible to anticipate or project. Contract/Agreement modifications may be executed to satisfy these requirements; thereby providing for flexibility. In the event that this is required, it shall be considered to be within the scope of this Special Notice and the resulting agreements. Therefore, the agreement will have met the requirements of the FAR/DFARS and the Competition in Contracting Act. Potential partners are notified that the DOE Work for Others requirements and practices have been established to ensure compliance with Federal laws and regulations. DOE Guide G 481.1-1 requires that the cost of doing business in the support of the missions of other Federal Agencies and non-Federal sponsors be fully recoverable. For further information, contact John Mitchem by e-mail, jmitchem@kcp.doe.gov, or phone at 816-997-3782.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 2000 E. 95th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, 64131-3095, United States
- Zip Code: 64131-3095
- Zip Code: 64131-3095
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