Broad Agency Announcement for U.S. Army Benet Laboratory

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Broad Agency Announcement for U.S. Army Benet Laboratory: This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), which sets forth research areas of interest to the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command-Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Center (RDECOM-ARDEC), Benet Laboratory (BL), is issued under the paragraph 6.102(d)(2) of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which provides for the competitive selection of proposals. Proposals submitted in response to this BAA and selected for award are considered to be the result of full and open competition and in full compliance with the provision of Public Law 98-369, "The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984" and subsequent amendments. It is preferred that proposals are submitted to cover a 3-year period and include a brief summary of work contemplated for each 12-month period. This facilitates the negotiation of awards for an entire 3-year program or for individual 1-year increments of the total program. Benet Laboratories is interested in proposals for advancing the state of the art in manufacturing and fabricating components for weapon systems. Benet has a long-standing mission in the development of cannon and gun barrel and other component technologies. These weapon systems and components are now is use in several active theaters. As such Benet is interested in technologies that will extend the life of the barrels and other components. These technologies may be associated with coatings e.g. cold spray, plasma spray, laser deposition, high velocity oxygen fuel, laser peening, etc; surface modification i.e. superfine finishing, or material substitutions such as ceramic materials.