Description
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is seeking information on the state of the art of individual ration heater technology. The agency is looking to update its product specifications to foster innovation and competition. The current specification, MIL-R-44398B, is included as an attachment to the RFI. Interested parties are requested to review the specification and annotate language that is out of date, and propose language that better reflects the current state of the art for individual ration heaters. The government is interested in technologies that can heat the MRE meal without the use of added water and how those technologies could be included in a performance specification for ration heaters.
Some key points of interest include:
• MREs have a long shelf life, and the government is interested in expressing the shelf life of proposed MRE heaters as a performance specification based on the state of the art.
• The government is interested in technologies that can heat the MRE meal without the use of added water.
• The government will collect the annotated documents and republish a performance-based specification based on current, innovative, and possible future technologies.