Tactical Expandable Maritime Platform (TEMP)

Post Date

June 16th 2010

Application Due Date

October 13th 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

DARPA-BAA-10-57

CFDA Number(s)

12.910

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement
Other

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant Description

The Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform (TEMP) program will investigate and develop modular technologies and macroscopic modular systems that leverage ubiquitous International Organization for Standardization (ISO) containers and the intermodal transport system to deliver flexible operational capability from unmodified commercial containerships. The program has three primary objectives. The first objective, corresponding to Technical Area One, is to broadly explore the concept of forming macroscopic integrated systems out of twenty-foot containers, identifying innovative architectures, mission applications, approaches, and enabling technologies. The second objective, corresponding to Technical Area Two, is to conduct focused architecture development and preliminary design work on a TEMP humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) package. This package design will encompass modular technologies with the range of capabilities necessary to complete the HA/DR mission, such as situational awareness, command and control, and distributed micro-logistics over broad coastal areas without dependence on local infrastructure. The third TEMP objective, corresponding to Technical Area Three, is to demonstrate the viability of ocean deployed modular technologies and systems operating independently from a host containership. The program will design, build, demonstrate, and transition an exemplary system, the Modular Sea Depot - a multi-unit maritime logistics node. The Modular Sea Depot provides near term operational capability, while serving as proof of principle and risk reduction for a larger scale Modular Seabase concept. For the complete details of the DARPA-BAA-10-57, refer to FBO website at: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=84b2ca1784dda86b61f606897097e3cc&_cview=0

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Defense

• Office:

  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

• Agency Contact:

  Robert McHenry
  Technical POC

• Agency Mailing Address:

  robert.mchenry@darpa.mil

• Agency Email Address:

  robert.mchenry@darpa.mil

• Location:

  DARPA - Tactical Technology Office

• More Information:

  DARPA-BAA-10-57