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Seaport Enhanced Contract Site

 

 

Contract N00178-05-R-4000

Hughes Associates, Inc. (HAI) is a small business fire science and engineering firm headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Our primary activities are in the fields of fire protection engineering, research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) as well as extinguishing agent and hardware engineering. Additional fire protection engineering experience includes hazard and risk analysis, fire modeling, structural fire resistance analysis and design, smoke control analysis, training program development, system engineering, and design and specification of fire protection systems. HAI has capabilities in the environmental sciences which have application to the solution of problems associated with fire suppression agents, fire training facilities, and compliant conduct of fire tests.

HAI has demonstrated experience and technical expertise in providing the services envisioned by statement of work (SOW). Having past experience in similar contracts and the demonstrated management expertise to deliver quality service, HAI is well qualified to be awarded a Seaport-e contract.

 

 

QA Program

For 25 years, Hughes Associates, Inc. has been responding to the Navy’s needs for the same type and variety of tasks described in the SOW. We propose to continue utilizing the same matrix-type management approach that has served so well in the past.

The matrix approach was developed specifically for research, engineering, and service projects where project teams with relatively short life spans and part-time staffing are common. Each employee is responsible laterally to a Program Manager as well as to an “upward” supervisor in his or her technical field. The Program Manager is responsible for insuring the quality of performance on the task. The supervisor is responsible for administrative supervision of the employee.

To further guarantee quality performance, HAl has a Technical Director (or his designated representative), a Corporate Safety Officer, and an Operations Officer, The Technical Director is responsible for final review and approval of all reports, documents, test plans and reports. The Safety Officer is responsible for final review and approval of safety aspects of all test plans. The Operations Officer is responsible for insuring that projects are completed on time and on budget and serves as overall coordinator for the entire contract.

At the initiation of a project, an HAI Program/Project Manager is assigned, and objectives are discussed and finalized with the assigned mission area technical personnel and the sponsor. A plan is developed to detail the approach, scope, and timing of the project. Statistical designs of experiments or pre-test modeling, when appropriate, are used in the task planning.

By providing a designated Program/Project Manager, the client has a single HAI point of contact to resolve any issues or problems that may arise. Since this Project Manager handles budget, schedule, and technical aspects of the task, a single point of contact for problem resolution is available. The client always has the option to have the HAI Operations Officer mediate any disputes or disagreements. This approach has worked well on our multi-faceted government contracts.

 

General Technical Capabilities

HAI has an international reputation for excellence in fire protection R&D as well as application of advanced engineering methods to the solution of fire problems. HAI staff regularly publishes in the technical fire literature and participates in leadership roles in a wide range of professional organizations. HAI has a mix and depth of talent available in the identified functional areas to support a wide range of concurrent tasks. HAI has 130 employees, 90 of whom provide direct technical support on projects as envisioned in the SOW.

HAI has a 12,000 square foot laboratory facility at its corporate headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. The facility includes bench hoods, a cone calorimeter, and two test enclosures. Instrumentation includes several continuous gas analyzers, an FTIR, a particle size analyzer (laser diffraction type), and a wide range of other fire instruments (smoke, flow, temperature, etc.). These facilities are also used to support the development of instrumentation packages for use in field testing. The Baltimore fire laboratory has multiple fire compartment test facilities that are used for a range of test and evaluation projects, including gaseous, dry powder and water fire suppression systems, various fire detection systems, and material testing. HAI maintains the capabilities to perform field testing with hundreds of data channels at field sites without reliance on on-site power. These capabilities have been used in four recent weapons effects tests on retired Naval ships.

HAI routinely applies advanced analytical methods towards design and analysis problems. HAI has capabilities to perform detailed simulations of fire dynamics, sprinkler dynamics, fire/smoke vent actuation, smoke spread, and conjugate heat transfer. Examples of our analytical tools include HEATING, a 3D heat conduction code which originates from Oak Ridge National Laboratory; the three-dimensional large eddy simulation computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code known as the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) which originates from the National Tnstitute of Standards and Technology (NTST) Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL); Fire and Smoke Simulator (FSSIM), an HAI-developed network fire model; and other fire models such as CONTAM and CFAST. Staff members have significant expertise both in the use and development of advanced computations tools.

HAI has substantial computer resources upon which to perform these numerical studies. Larger simulations can be performed on an 8 node cluster of Linux computers comprising of Pentium IV processors, each with 2 GB of memory and 700 GB of storage; a Linux workstation with two Pentium IV Xeon processors with 4 GB of memory and 120 GB of storage; and an SGT (formerly Silicon Graphics Inc.) Octane2 graphics workstation with V6(r) graphics, two R12,000A processors, 2 GB of RAM memory, and in excess of 136 GB of storage. Runs can also be done on several Pentium TV PCs with up to 2 GB of memory and in excess of 70 GB of storage disk space. HAI has several applications for two- and three-dimensional, quantitative analysis and animation of data.

 

 

 

HAI Contacts


Program Officer, QA, Client Satisfaction

Joseph Scheffey
Director, RDT&E

3610 Commerce Dr STE 817
Baltimore, MD 21227
Phone: 410-737-8677
Fax: 410-737-8677
jscheffey@haifire.com

Technical Issues

Derek White

3610 Commerce Dr STE 817
Baltimore, MD 21227
Phone: 410-737-8677
Fax: 410-737-8677
dwhite@haifire.com

Contract Issues

R. Britt Noone

3610 Commerce Dr STE 817
Baltimore, MD 21227
Phone: 410-737-8677
Fax: 410-737-8677
bnoone@haifire.com

 

 

Zones of Performance and Offices

HAI has demonstrated experience and supports the Navy in the following zones.

a. Zone 1 Northeast

Local Offices

  1. Hughes Associates, Inc.,
    2374 Post Road, STE 102
    Warwick, RI 02886
    Wayne Moore, P.E., Director of New England Operations
  2. Hughes Associates, Inc.
    2 Mount Royal Ave, STE 420
    Marlborough, MA 01752-1960
    Eric Cote, P.E., Engineering Manager
  3. Hughes Associates, Inc.
    288 Black Ash Rd
    Oakdale, CT 06370-1668
    Larry Wenzel, Project Manager

b. Zone 2 National Capital

Local Office

Hughes Associates, Inc.
3610 Commerce Drive
Suite 817
Baltimore, MD 21227

Philip J. DiNenno, President
Joseph L. Scheffey, Director RDT&E

c. Zone 4 Gulf Coast

Local Office

Hughes Associates, Inc.
c/o ex-USS Shadwell, Building S-108
South Broad Street
Mobile, AL
Hung Pham, Senior Engineer

d. Zone 5 Midwest

Local Offices

  1. Hughes Associates, Inc.
    15170 North Point Drive
    Minneapolis, MN 55374-8666
    Chris Hanauska, Engineering Manager
  2. Hughes Associates, Inc.
    689 Park Ave
    Cincinnati, OH 45246-2115
    Jeffery Moore, P.E., Engineering Manager
  3. Hughes Associates, Inc.
    8700 W. Bryn Mawr Ave, STE 800 South
    Chicago, IL 60631-3465
    Nestor Iwankiw, PhD

e. Zone 6 Southwest

Local Offices

  1. Hughes Associates, Inc.
    2551 San Ramon Valley Blvd, STE 209
    San Ramon, CA 94583-1662
    Tom Forsythe, Engineering Manager
  2. Hughes Associates, Inc.
    444 Castro St., STE 816
    Mountain View, CA 94041-2052
    Tom Forsythe, Engineering Manager
  3. Hughes Associates, Inc.
    2102 Business Center Dr, STE 130
    Irvine, CA 92612
    Mike Madden, Engineering Manager