Development of Wind Turbine/Radar Modeling Tool for Assessing the Effect of Wind Turbines on Radar | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This funding opportunity, titled "Development of Wind Turbine/Radar Modeling Tool for Assessing the Effect of Wind Turbines on Radar," was issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the Office of Procurement Operations, Grants Division, under Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) number BAA 10 03. The focus is research and development in science and technology aimed at creating or advancing a modeling tool that can evaluate how wind turbines may affect radar systems. In practical terms, the government is looking for technical work that helps predict, simulate, or otherwise assess radar performance impacts in the presence of wind turbine installations, which is a known concern for certain surveillance and tracking radars due to reflections, clutter, and signal interference effects that large rotating structures can introduce.

The opportunity is categorized as discretionary and lists multiple possible funding instrument types, including cooperative agreements, grants, other procurement contracts, or related mechanisms, indicating DHS was open to structuring awards in different ways depending on the proposer, the work scope, and the government role in the project. The activity category is explicitly tied to science and technology and other research and development, aligning it with applied modeling, testing, evaluation, and demonstration work rather than routine operations. The CFDA number associated with the posting is 97.108, labeled "Homeland Security, Research, Testing, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Technologies," which is the federal assistance listing used to track and report this kind of homeland security R&D funding.

The posting shows no cost sharing or matching requirement, meaning applicants were not required to contribute their own funds as a condition of consideration, unless the full BAA text imposed some narrower rule for a particular project type. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, essentially open to any qualified entity (such as universities, private companies, nonprofits, or government-affiliated research organizations), subject to any clarifications included in the BAA document itself. While the summary metadata lists "ExpectedAwards: 0" and "EstimatedTotalFunding: 0," those fields often appear as placeholders in archived listings and do not necessarily mean funding was unavailable; the definitive details would be in the full BAA solicitation.

Key dates in the announcement indicate it was posted and created on January 8, 2010, with an original and current closing date of February 4, 2010, and it was later archived on March 6, 2010. The submission instructions specify that full proposal packages were due by February 4, 2010, and were to be submitted by email to ST.SpecialPrograms@dhs.gov. Physical deliveries, if any were necessary, had to be pre-coordinated with Susan Eicher, who is identified as the DHS Contract Officer and point of contact for issues accessing the announcement or handling inquiries. The announcement instructs applicants to obtain the full BAA either from baa.st.dhs.gov or by searching under the Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Procurement Officer on the then-used federal opportunities portal (referenced as fbo.gov), selecting BAA 10 03 to find the complete solicitation and detailed requirements.

Overall, the opportunity is a DHS homeland security R&D solicitation seeking proposals to build or refine a wind turbine/radar modeling capability. The essential purpose is to give decision-makers and technical operators a credible analytical tool for assessing radar impacts associated with wind energy development, presumably supporting planning, mitigation strategies, and risk-informed siting or operational adjustments where wind farms and critical radar coverage areas may overlap. For definitive scope, technical objectives, evaluation criteria, deliverables, and any special eligibility or security conditions, the full BAA document referenced in the notice would be the controlling source.

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