High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
AI Overview
The Navy seeks advanced manufacturing processes to rapidly produce ruggedized optical components for maritime laser systems, addressing current supply chain delays and high defect rates that impact fleet readiness. Focus areas include automated fabrication of precision mirrors and transmissive optics ranging from 10-100cm diameter using additive manufacturing and innovative materials.
This summary is AI-generated from the official solicitation.
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Official Description
Highly precise, small to large diameter (10 to 50 to 100cm) high energy laser optics and mirrors have very long lead times often exceeding individual fiscal year funding, and experience a high rejection rate due to complex, multi-step processing between multiple dislocated facilities. Resulting optics have high defect rates and low ruggedness requiring depot supplies of spares and replacements, creating logistical shortages and non-availabilities which impact readiness and capacity.
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Change History
High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
Added 1 new Q&A clarifying Phase I cost proposal submission requirements: online Cost Volume is mandatory (no document submission option available).
High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
Status changed from Pre-Release to Open
High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
Added answer to Q1 clarifying that proposals must address BOTH maritime-rugged coated optical components AND substrate fabrication using additive/subtractive manufacturing. Finished optics required, not individual processing steps. Scalability across sizes emphasized as important evaluation factor.
High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
# Summary This Q&A clarifies scope eligibility for a maritime optical components funding opportunity, asking whether proposals can focus solely on coating optical components or must include substrate fabrication/additive manufacturing capability, and whether the Navy prefers depth (single high-value component) or breadth (multi-component manufacturing process).
High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
Close Date changed from 2026-04-22 to 2026-06-03
High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
Open Date changed from 2026-03-25 to 2026-05-06
High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
Status changed from Removed to Pre-Release
High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
Opportunity DON26TZ01-NV017 no longer available
High Energy Laser Optically Rugged Maritime Beam Director Components & Subassemblies
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