U.S. Navy Awards Advanced Materials Contract

Material Sciences Corp., Horsham, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a $24,526,386 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. This is a phase III effort under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program with Material Sciences Corp. and is for the use of innovative technologies developed under the phase I and II contracts to design, analyze, and fabricate a wide array of structure and mechanical components intended for use by the Navy. The structural and mechanical components are fabricated from a wide selection of material systems from basic steel construction to advanced material systems that not only provide structural components, but also provide acoustic, thermal, radar cross-section and electrical solutions. Work will be performed in Horsham, Pennsylvania, and is expected to be completed by July 2020. Fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $361,903 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured as it is a follow-on SBIR effort. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Ship System Engineering Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N65540-15-D-0011).