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NOTICE INFORMATION Title: Small Business Event - Air Force Sustainment Center -Small Business Industry Day (SBID) - Track 2 AF Business Opportunities Announcement Posted Date: 10 May 2018 This updates the supplemental announcement (posted 21 Dec 2017 that was modified 19 Jan 2018) to the original 13 September 2017 AFSC announcement of a Small Business Industry Days (SBID) event, identifies the specific Track 2 AF Business Opportunities for small businesses (SBs) that will be presented at the event - these are in addition to the small business product/capability/technology opportunities listed on 13 September, which required white paper submission. ALL SBs are welcome to register at the website below. Registration is required of ALL in order to attend the SBID event at Davis Conference Center in Layton, UT on 31 July-2 August 2018 . Conference programming includes three tracks: Track 1 Small Business Products/Capabilities/Technologies, Track 2 AF Business Opportunities, and Track 3 SBIR/STTR Technology Needs. Track 2 AF Business Opportunities are briefed by the Air Force and are designed to provide further information on the requirements listed below. Through a market research process, some SBs will be specifically invited (in advance and not guaranteed for all attendees) to participate in one-on-one meetings for a question and answer exchange regarding Track 2 AF Business Opportunities. Time and space permitting, there may be a few open slots during the event for onsite signup . Unfortunately, the opportunity to participate in one-on-one meetings is limited and cannot be afforded to all attendees. Invitations for those meetings will be sent directly to individual small businesses after registration opens; however, an invitation is NOT required for registration and/or attendance. Questions received may be answered via amendment(s) to this announcement, if deemed relevant to all parties, unless a specific request for privacy is included. Registration : https://AFconference.brtrc.com/AFSBID The mission of the Air Force Sustainment Center is to Sustain Weapon System Readiness to generate Airpower for America. The center provides war-winning expeditionary capabilities to the warfighter through world-class depot maintenance, supply chain management and installation support. The AFSC provides critical sustainment for the Air Force's most sophisticated weapons systems, as well as a wide range of aircraft engines and component parts. Track 2 - AF Business Opportunities: P2 Equipment: New Sludge Dryer and Tanks for Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant (IWTP) The Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant is interested in reducing the weight and volume of the heavy metal sludge it produces as part of the treatment process. The best way to accomplish this is to add a sludge drier to reduce moisture content of the sludge. Once the moisture content is reduced, the sludge will be advantageous for recycling as a filler material in cement production. If this process is successful Hill AFB will no longer have to pay to have the sludge removed and disposed of as a hazardous waste. Advantages are reduction of hazardous materials into hazardous waste landfills as well as significant disposal costs for transporting this waste to the landfill. The Hill IWTP also has no means of removing oily waste generated throughout the complex. Installation of a hydrcyclone type of system is recommended. Advantages of installing an oil removal system are increased efficiency of plant operations and significant reduction in possible violations of the discharge permit for oil/greases. A significant oil release into the IWTP will cause certain mission failure as all flow into the IWTP will cease until the spill is mitigated. Evaluate Zinc-Nickel (ZnNi) as a Replacement for Cadmium The current Cadmium (Cad) plating process provides excellent corrosion protection and electrical conductivity properties for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) weapon system Nuclear Hardness Critical Items. REACH has requested that the use of Cad be reduced. In the past three years, there have been several successful cadmium plating replacement projects for landing gears. Demonstration/validation of Zinc-Nickel (Zn-Ni) plating as a replacement for the current Cad plating is urgently needed. Corrosion performance on any replacement coating is critical for the electrical properties on the ICBM assets. Weapon systems impacted: ICBM Transportation and Handling Equipment (which are steel rather than aluminum aircraft parts). If Cadmium plating is not replaced with a suitable substitute, the highly toxic chemical will continue to be used at Hill AFB and other installations. Benefits to the warfighter: demonstrate, validate, identify, qualify, and document approval for a single coating system that prevents corrosion while minimizing downtime due to coating maintenance. REMOVED Replacement of Flow Waterjet REMOVED on 19 Jan 2018 - The opportunity will no longer be briefed at the event. REMOVED Replacement of Manual Abrasive Blast Booth REMOVED on 10 May 2018 - The opportunity will no longer be briefed at the event. Landing Gear Fatigue Inspection There is a need for landing gear inspections that go beyond the current standard of crack identification and focus more on fatigue damage. Landing gear systems are designed utilizing the safe-life methodology, meaning that the system was designed to 4 life-times and at a minimum fatigue tested to 2 life-times with a safe operation limit of one lifetime. However, there are multiple platforms which are reaching and exceeding their designed to life limit. Needed is a technology to inspect landing gear components for fatigue damage during the repair and overhaul process. The technology is expected to show fatigue damage prior to cracking. Radome Modernization We have numerous radomes that are well beyond their design life. Maintenance costs are increasing and they are no longer cost effective to maintain. With advanced low maintenance radomes, there will be fewer maintenance issues than with the legacy Radomes. Many of our radomes are in harsh remote arctic climates and many times the maintainers have gone out to do the maintenance and have had to return without doing any work due to the extreme weather conditions. If there are fewer trips the cost for maintenance will decrease. The material must also have greater damage tolerance, resistant to ultraviolet degradation, will not delaminate, and will have greater thermal properties. Additionally, the hazardous waste generated by current processes will be eliminated from the waste stream. Due to the age and degraded condition of some of the existing radomes, maintainers are not able to climb on the radomes thereby preventive maintenance is also not being performed. We are looking for a new composite material Radome with hydrophobic coating, maintenance free, and will not de-lamination for up to 25 years. Change in Title From: New Hydrazine Resistant Containment Pit Lining Material (Added on 10 May 2018) To: Hydrazine Containment Pits System Analysis Title updated on 11 July 2018 Determine the existence of a flexible lining material for our concrete containment pits that are resistant to H-70 hydrazine (70% hydrazine, 30% water) and monomethyl hydrazine (100% concentration). In addition, the neutralization chemicals contain 5% chlorine in solution which must also be compatible with the lining material. Acceptable lining materials must be able to contain the hydrazine and neutralization chemicals for up to 14 days. Flexibility is also required for long term integrity due to thermal expansion and periodic expansive soil conditions.