The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy Resilience and Optimization (ODASD(ER&O)), Operational Energy – Innovation (OE-I) is now soliciting Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 proposals for the Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF) and Operational Energy Prototyping Fund (OEPF). OE-I is requesting proposals in the following areas:
- OEPF and OECIF Nuclear: Submit by 1700 EST on 6 August 2024, solicitation opens 15 July 2024
- Invitations to present to the PEB sent 10 September 2024
- Rankings announced by COB 21 November 2024
- OECIF Non-Nuclear: Submit by 1700 EST on 2 December 2024, solicitation opens 28 October 2024 (consideration for extension by request only; send requests via email to support@pavconllc.com and reason for request.)
- Invitations to present to the PEB sent 7 January 2025
OECIF and OEPF project solicitations have different types of proposals and different funding. The OECIF and OEPF Call for Proposal link below provides the specific details for each call:
- Appendix 1: List of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Symbols
- Appendix 2: Roles and Responsibilities
- Appendix 3: Transition Acquisition Maturation Framework (TMAF)
- Appendix 4: FY25 Quad Artifact Template and Example
- Appendix 5: FY25 Presentation Artifact Template and Example
- Appendix 6: Enterprise-Wide Energy Visibility & Decision-Making One-Pager and Example
- Appendix 7: FY25 OECIF Proposal Transition Assessment
- Appendix 8: FY25 OEPF Proposal Transition Assessment
- Appendix 9: Letter of Intent to POM and Transition Example
- Appendix 10: Proposal Team Bio Examples
- Appendix 11: Nuclear Power OECIF Call for Proposals
- Appendix 12: Operational Energy Demand Reduction (OEDR) OECIF Call for Proposals
- Appendix 13: Operational Energy Resilience (OER) OECIF Call for Proposals
- Appendix 14: Proposal Submission Questions
- Appendix 15: FY25 OE-I Proposal Scoring Criteria
- Appendix 16: Revision 1, GP (Government Proposer) Checklist
Call for Proposals Training
Transition Acquisition Maturation Framework Overview Presentation Slides
OE-I will hold optional training sessions covering Enterprise Wide Energy Visibility & Decision Making (EWEV&DM) and Transition Acquisition Maturation Framework (TMAF) during the following times:
FY25 OECIF Nuclear Rankings Announcement
The Director of Operational Energy - Innovation is pleased to announce this year's ranking for the FY25 OECIF Nuclear Call for Proposals. OECIF and OEPF seek to fund as many proposals as possible given Congressional appropriation. Project teams will be contacted in rank order below.
- (PerSeiSense) Long-lived Sensors Powered by Radioisotope Power Source (RIPS), PerSeiSense, Aaron Atchley, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
- Classified
- Training and Education, Whitman Dailey, Andrew Wilhelm, Jeth Fogg, Air Force Institute of Technology, United States Military Academy at West Point, N&NC
- Legal and Regulatory Taxonomy for Maritime Nuclear Defense Applications + DoD Maritime Nuclear Asset Transportation Capability Study, TMNDA + MNATC, Gerardo Figueroa, David Dewey, Office Chief of Engineers
- Small Low-Power Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, REMORA, Fred Schauer, Air Force Institute of Technology
- Classified
- Triply-periodic lattices for compact reactors, 3D LATTICE, David Dewey, Idaho National Laboratory
- Solid-state Nuclear Autonomous Power Conversion, SNAP-C, Casey Schorzman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Handling Existing Sr-90 Transferred for Innovation Applications, HESTIA, James Winter, Zeno Power Systems Inc.
- Cost Reduction for Unobligated U Enrichment, ROTOR WINDING, David Dewey, Centrus Energy - American Centrifuge Operating
- Domestic UraNium Enrichment (DUNE), DUNE, Mary Hossier, Navy OE
- Department of Defense (DoD) Advanced Reactor Criteria and Baseline Understanding of Enterprise Scalability (Project DARC BLUES), DARC BLUES, Corey Chance, SAF/IEE
- Bus Analysis for Large-scale Advanced Nuclear Control & Energy Distribution, BALANCED, Lindsay Kaldon, AFRL
- Pump for Enabling Advanced Power Systems, PEAPS, Lindsay Kaldon, AFRL
Award amounts may not match funding requests and are contingent on agreement of scope and deliverables between the PM and the project.
FY25 OEPF Rankings Announcement
The Director of Operational Energy - Innovation is pleased to announce this year's ranking for the FY25 OECIF Nuclear Call for Proposals. OECIF and OEPF seek to fund as many proposals as possible given Congressional appropriation. Project teams will be contacted in rank order below.
- Storage Long-term of Energy storage Enabling Prepositioning in Naval-transported Ground vehicles via 6Ts at Zero volts, SLEEPING 6TZ's, David Skalny, US Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)
- Autonomous Maritime Patrol Aircraft Extended Demonstration Program, AMPA EDP, Todd Moe, USSOUTHCOM
- Next Generation Advanced Munitions Loader (MHU-83), NGAML, Michael Black, Raglan LLC
- Operational Energy Support Management and Execution, OE SME, David Pogue, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)
- Power TRansmitted Over Laser to UAS, PTROL – UAS, Douglas Brown, PowerLight Technologies
- Scalable High Efficiency Photovoltaics, SCALE, Casey Schorzman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Balance of Systems Edge Computer Ph. 2, BoSEC 2, Marissa Brand, NIWC PAC
- Army Aviation Common Li-ion Battery Integration, DODAACLIB 2, Patrick Taylor, US Army DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center
- Universal Power Gateway – Requirement Advancement and De-risking Effort, UPGRADE, Frank Bohn, US Army C5ISR Center
- Connected, Autonomous, Multi-use, hybrid-Electric, Littoral vehicle for Autonomous Perimeter Security, CAMEL, Marissa Brand, NIWC PAC
- Airborne Expeditionary Renewable Energy System (AERES) Demonstration, AERES Demo, Peggy Davidson, US Naval Research Laboratory
- USN Boat & Combatant Craft Electric Propulsion Technology Prototyping, USNElectricBoat, Christian Rozicer, Program Office Executive USC (PMS300G) USN Boats & Craft Program
- Fire Limiting & Arresting Materials Enhancing Lithium ion Energy Storage Safety United States secure supply chain Advancement, FLAMELESS USA, James Mainero, Ground Vehicle System Center
- Sensorless Controls for EMALS OEPF, Sensorless, David Grullon, NAVAIR/NAWCAD
Award amounts may not match funding requests and are contingent on agreement of scope and deliverables between the PM and the project.
Operational Energy Management System (OEMS)
Interim Authority to Test and Train (IATT)
As of May 2021, OEMS is operational in Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud, managed by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) Acquisition & Sustainment (A&S)/Energy Resilience and Optimization (ER&O)/Operational Energy-Innovation (OE-I). OEMS is operating under an Interim Authority to Test and Train (IATT) following Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements as it progresses through a full Authority to Operate (ATO) process determination.
The IATT, as well as the ATO, achieve DoD Impact Level 4 (IL4). The IL4 allows hosting of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) information up to moderate confidentiality and moderate integrity, including export-controlled (ITAR/EAR) and privacy (PII) information. Through the IATT, OE-I is allowing OEMS to process and store unclassified information to include CUI for all Distribution levels except Distro B and E. If you have any questions, please contact the OE-I representative, Ms. Lauren Grant, at lauren.grant5.ctr@mail.mil.
For more information, please refer to Section 3.7 of the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide.