DoD PoN Project Call – January 2023

Class IV –Civil engineering teams need to build structures and infrastructure for personnel and operations at the FOB. Ideally, locally available materials would be used to build structures and infrastructure.

Class VII –Demonstrate the ability to manufacture and assemble a limited-capability UGV with control/navigation, power, motor, and at least one sensor.

a.  Class VIIIa–In combat situations, the 60 minutes after a traumatic injury is called the Golden Hour. Demonstrate local manufacturing of care items to support traumatic injury care.
b.  Class VIIIa–If a FOB has no access to normal logistics support, standard medical care must continue. Demonstrate local manufacturing of items to support standard medical care.
c.  Class I –Provide the means for local production of nutrition for warfighters
d.  Class II –Wearables for physiological monitoring of warfighters
e.  Class II –Field manufactured clothing for extreme environments: hot humid or cold

a.  Class III -Locally produce Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants (POL) to power and sustain equipment
b.  Locally produce means for clean energy to power equipment

a.  Need for securely sharing files with allies or partners operating at or near FOB
b.  Digital backbone for FOB PoN manufacturing

a.  Class IX –Demonstrate the ability to manufacture in the field a set of repair items provided by the DoD
b.  Class II – Demonstrate the ability to manufacture in the field equipment such as small arms, individual equipment, tentage, aerial delivery equipment, organizational tool sets and kits, hand tools, unclassified maps, administrative and housekeeping supplies and equipment.
c.  Class V – Demonstrate the ability to manufacture munitions in the field

Proposers could identify a challenge that would correspond to the scenario of an austere forward operating base (FOB) in a remote location and no access to normal logistics support in a cold weather or hot/humid environment.