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Salt water is one of the most corrosive substances on earth. Most people don’t think of it that way because it doesn’t burn them when they touch it, but in terms of the number of substances it can dissolve, salt water has few chemical equals. Naval engineers certainly think of it that way, and they’ve been struggling with ways to protect and maintain naval equipment in that environment for several hundred years now. The recent era of metal ships has, of course, made these problems that much more acute.
Navies employ a wide range of methods to combat corrosion, but there’s always room for improvement. Hence the recent set of contracts issued in response to Naval Research Laboratory request for Proposal Number N000173-06-C-SK08…
Oct 4/07: BAE Systems Maritime Engineering in San Diego, CA received a $14.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for RDT&E in Corrosion Science, covering “a broad range of RDTE(Research, Development, Testing, & Evaluation) due to the multi-disciplinary interaction of marine engineered systems with… natural mechanisms, electrochemical systems.” The emphasis involves around the design and implementation of improved technology for legacy and next generation Naval platforms. This contract contains options which, if exercised, would bring the total cumulative value of the contract to $69.6 million.
Work will be performed in Norfolk, VA (35%); San Diego, CA (20%); Pacific North West (20%); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (10%); Jacksonville, FL (10%); Washington, DC (5%); and Groton, CT (5%), and is expected to be complete October 2008 (October 2012 with options). Contract funds in the amount of $50,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under Naval Research Laboratory request for Proposal Number N000173-06-C-SK08, with 5 offers received by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC (N000173-07-C-2070).
Science and Engineering Technologies, Inc. in Fairfax Station, VA received an $11.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for RDT&E in Corrosion Science, covering “a broad range of RDT&E due to the multi-disciplinary interaction of marine engineered systems with… natural mechanisms, electrochemical systems.” The emphasis involves around the design and implementation of improved technology for legacy and next generation Naval platforms. This contract contains options which, if exercised, would bring the total cumulative value of the contract to $62 million.
Work will be performed in Key West, FL (75%) and Washington, DC (25%), and work is expected to be completed in October 2008 (October 2012 with options). Contract funds in the amount of $420,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under Naval Research Laboratory request for Proposal Number N000173-06-C-SK08, with 5 offers received by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC (N000173-07-C-2069)
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) in San Diego, CA received a $6.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for RDT&E in Corrosion Science, covering “a broad range of RDT&E due to the multi-disciplinary interaction of marine engineered systems with… natural mechanisms, electrochemical systems.” The emphasis involves around the design and implementation of improved technology for legacy and next generation Naval platforms. This contract contains options which, if exercised, would bring the total cumulative value of the contract to $29.8 million.
Work will be performed in Washington, DC (58%); Key West, FL (24%); and Patuxent River, MD (16%), and work is expected to be completed October 2008 (October 2012 with options). Contract funds in the amount of $483,000 will expire at the end of current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under Naval Research Laboratory request for Proposal Number N000173-06-C-SK08, with 5 offers received by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC (N000173-07-2068)