Description
The U.S. Department of the Navy is seeking industry input to replace the current submarine rescue system. The next-generation system should have multiple, commercially classified, small, and highly transportable rescue vehicles with decompression capabilities. The system should have high operational availability, rapid transportability, and reduced overall life-cycle program costs. The Navy is hosting an industry day event to discuss technical objectives, system characteristics, and to gather information from potential vendors.
Some key features of the desired system include:
• Materiel solution: multiple, commercially classified, small, and highly transportable rescue vehicles
• Decompression capabilities: built directly into the design of the rescue vehicles
• Performance goals: high operational availability, rapid transportability, highly sustainable configuration, fast "time to first rescue," and reduced overall life-cycle program costs
• Certification: final solution must be commercially certified by an International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) member
• Flexibility: open to all contracting, ownership, operation, maintenance, and supportability strategies