Closed · N00014-22-S-C002 · CFDA 12.300 · Discretionary

DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal S&T Large Area Clearance Experiment (LACEx)

Federal grant opportunity posted by Office of Naval Research, cataloged on Grants.gov.

Varies
Award range
Closed
Status
March 4, 2022
Close date
8
Expected awards

The verdict

DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal S&T Large Area Clearance Experiment (LACEx) is a closed discretionary listing from Office of Naval Research that offered Varies by applicant across 8 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 285 other opportunities from Office of Naval Research.

Varies
award range
Closed
application status
8
expected awards
12.300
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal S&T Large Are… is closed (last close March 4, 2022). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Office of Naval Research still indexes 285 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed March 4, 2022

Posted Dec 1 Closes Mar 4

Expected Awards

8

Instrument

Procurement Contract

Description

This announcement is a BAA Call against the ONR FY22 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (N00014-22-S-B001). The submission of white papers, proposals, their evaluation(s) and the subsequent awards will be carried out as described in the aforementioned Long Range BAA.The Large Area Clearance Experiment (LACEx) is an ONR applied research and advanced technology development effort for the DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal S&T program. The proposed topic will support research efforts to improve the effectiveness and speed of EOD clearance operations for surface and subsurface ordnance. EOD technicians are asked to: 1) Clear airfields of unexploded ordnance, including submunitions and penetrators, consistent with required operational timelines and in remote and austere environments; 2) Enable convoy maneuver along key ground lines of communication threatened by area denial munitions, improvised explosives, or other hazards and 3) Clear expeditionary advanced bases, ports, and beach landing zones to support the establishment of infrastructure and basing.LACEx is planned as a 3 year build & experimentation program. The focus of this BAA Call is on high risk, high payoff research and development proposals that advance state of the art capabilities (from TRL1-4 to TRL6/7) in the described topic areas.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · N00014-22-S-C002

Grants.gov marks DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal S&T Large Are… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Procurement Contract. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the Office of Naval Research book (127 peers, 44% of 286).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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