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Due to excessive cracking, cratering, and deterioration of the Naval Facilities (NAVFAC) airfield’s pavement, the Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC) is conducting an airfield pavement... Due to excessive cracking, cratering, and deterioration of the Naval Facilities (NAVFAC) airfield’s pavement, the Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC) is conducting an airfield pavement research project in support of enhanced shore facilities readiness. This research should investigate alternative pavement surface(s), evaluation method(s), including devices and procedures to repair craters, as well as current method(s) that have been used in expeditionary environments. The investigation shall include, but will not be limited to: profiling devices, measurements, and data processing methods (i.e., filtering and sampling rate) for Repair Quality Criteria (RQC) on simulated repaired crater area(s). Selected profiling devices and corresponding procedures should be suggested based on results of the data analysis from the device implementations on the pavement surfaces; regardless of capping material(s), and/or backfill material(s) for crater repairs. Also, the suggested device(s) and/or procedures should have reproducibility and consistency. Details of the profile measurement procedures should describe how to meet the existing ¾ - inch threshold value for RQC for crater repair as defined in TSPWG M 3-270-01.3-270-071 (supersede UFC 3-270-07). A final report should be provided, with the test data in electronic file format by the end of the Period of Performance (POP).