The Missile Defense Agency has introduced its first Multiple Authority Announcement.
According to a notice posted on SAM.gov Thursday, MDA aims to utilize the MAA to offer a comprehensive acquisition strategy supporting a variety of technical efforts.
The MAA is a vehicle designed to enable the MDA and Department of Defense agencies to explore various forms of unconventional acquisition methods consolidated under a single announcement. This includes broad agency announcement, commercial solutions opening, cooperative research and development agreement, other transaction agreement and procurement for experimental purpose. This competitive approach is intended for the pursuit of disruptive technologies and rapid development and deployment of advanced capabilities from alternative sources.
Enhancing Missile Defense Against Advanced Threats
MDA is focused on the development and deployment of a multi-layered missile defense system to address emerging advanced missile threats, including unknown missiles and advanced warheads with unpredictable trajectories and other advanced features. The agency aims to develop technology more advanced than existing and future threats such as innovative sensors for early threat detection, kinetic, non-kinetic and directed energy systems for ballistic and non-ballistic missile interception, and efficient battle management and control and command systems for effective coordination.
Potential projects that can be solicited under the MAA include kinetic and hypersonic defense, command and control battle management, integrated non-kinetic and electronic warfare, disruptive technologies and systems, and international missile defense system cooperation. Other possible topic areas include space-based sensors, interceptors and effectors, digital revolution and radiation effects, and heavy ion, proton and pulsed neutron single event effects on electronic devices.
