The department is looking for information from private contractors who can provide "prefabricated, transportable, hardened shelter systems designed to protect personnel from blast and fragmentation threats," according to a new federal contract notice posted Monday. The March 23 notice has a deadline of Friday and asks for companies to submit possible delivery timelines for 3 days, 15 days, and 30 days and include information about the "highest threat level" that the bunkers could withstand, like blast force, fragmentation, or ballistic impact. The bunkers will be sent to the Aqaba Air Cargo Terminal at King Hussein International Airport in Aqaba, Jordan, according to the posting.
"It does seem like they're interested in the rapid deployment of these shelters," Roberts said. "It does not bind the government to procure any of the solutions submitted, but it does give them the sense of what the capacity in industry is to respond to and produce those types of supplies rapidly."
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