DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal S&T Large Area Clearance Experiment (LACEx)

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This announcement is a BAA Call against the ONR FY22 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (N00014-22-S-B001). The submission of white papers, proposals, their evaluation(s) and the subsequent awards will be carried out as described in the aforementioned Long Range BAA. The Large Area Clearance Experiment (LACEx) is an ONR applied research and advanced technology development effort for the DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal S&T program. The proposed topic will support research efforts to improve the effectiveness and speed of EOD clearance operations for surface and subsurface ordnance. EOD technicians are asked to: 1) Clear airfields of unexploded ordnance, including submunitions and penetrators, consistent with required operational timelines and in remote and austere environments; 2) Enable convoy maneuver along key ground lines of communication threatened by area denial munitions, improvised explosives, or other hazards and 3) Clear expeditionary advanced bases, ports, and beach landing zones to support the establishment of infrastructure and basing. LACEx is planned as a 3 year build & experimentation program. The focus of this BAA Call is on high risk, high payoff research and development proposals that advance state of the art capabilities (from TRL1-4 to TRL6/7) in the described topic areas.

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