SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- AIR FORCE DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND SYSTEM (DCGS) INDUSTRY DAY
- Notice Date
- 9/3/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- ESC/SRK, Intelligence, Surveillance, Integration Systems, 29 Randolph Rd., Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-3010
- ZIP Code
- 01731-3010
- Solicitation Number
- DCGS-IND-DAY-01
- Point of Contact
- Michael Budney (781) 377-5628
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is an industry day announcement for the Block 10 Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS) program. The purpose is to present the Block 10 migration strategy for the AF DCGS and the current ESC plan for the Block 10.2 Program. ESC/SRHG would like to invite interested industry representatives to participate in an AF DCGS industry day to be held 16 September,2002, at the ESC Conference Center, Hanscom AFB, MA. The industry day will be divided into two parts. Open session, 16 September 2002 (0800-1130), during this session the government will brief an AF DCGS overview, the overall AF DCGS architecture, the envisioned block migration capability increments, and the current AF DCGS Block 10.2 development/ fielding plan (acquisition/ approach, and notional schedule). All interested parties are invited to attend. Participation is limited to 6 attendees total from each contractor, which includes both prime and team member attendees. Individual face-to-face discussions 16 September(1300-1500). After 1500 to be held in Building 1102C, Rooms 118, 223, and SECRET in Room 148. Appointments are for 30-minute blocks and will be scheduled in advance. An appointment must be requested before industry day. Preference for the appointments will be based on distance traveled. During these sessions the government block 10 team will meet one-on-one with individual contractors. This will provide you with the opportunity to ask focused questions regarding AF DCGS Block 10.2 as well as identify/discuss any on-going or completed efforts, which you feel may be relevant to AF DCGS requirements. The AF DCGS is a "system of systems" capable of receiving processing, storing, exploiting, correlating, and disseminating national, theater, tactical, and commercial reconnaissance intelligence to support Air Force (AF) consumers. The AF DCGS migration effort will achieve the multi-INT and distributed capability described in the AF DCGS Operational Requirements Document (ORD. It will allow the analyst and decision-maker anywhere in the world to share the right Information in real time, AF DCGS Block 10 starts the migration to the overall goal of a mult-discipline tasking, processing, exploitation and dissemination environment. The AF DCGS Block 10.2 program effort will provide an integrated multi-intelligence Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TPED) capability including: multi-source And multi-platform integrated situational awareness picture, collaborative connectivity with Analysts, mission managers, and war fighters, transformed information dissemination using Web based technology, as well as, a next generation line of sight relay capability. This multi-discipline tasking, processing, exploitation and dissemination environment will be implemented on a common and adaptable infrastructure based on Commercial Off The Shelf(COTS) and Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) components with the following capabilities: The system will manage all sources of information in a tiered integrated information management structure that includes a repository layer, process layer, and viewer/application layer. The Repository Layer will contain all information storage; the Process Layer contains all information query, conversion ,fusion, and manipulation engines: the Viewer Layer contains all elements of user interface and presentation. Object oriented transport infrastructure will connect each layer. All system components will affix metdata tags to all data with time stamps, reference to information sources, information processing pedigree, geographic reference, and target reference. The system will provide an integrated information management process employing the metadata tags to associate all data within the system. The integrated information management process employing the metadata tags to associate all data within the system. The integrated information management process will employ a platform and application independent user interface. Collaboration will exist at the information object level, involving the dynamic access and manipulation of information at geographically separate areas. The AF DCGS Enterprise will exist over the DCGS PED (processing, Exploitation, Dissemination) Architecture (DPA)which includes a high speed Wide Area Network (WAN). The system will provide a mission management capability that can distribute planning, tasking, and management services over the DPA and C4I networks. Automated interfaces are required to national and tactical external tasking sources. A Distributed Sensor Planner that can simultaneously plan and monitor multiple ISR collectors is integrated with these efforts. This capability will include interface to AF DCGS AFFOR sites and the Air Operations Center. A system will operate in a multiple security level environment to ingest, process, store, and disseminate mult-INT, multi-source data. The levels involved include unclassified, collateral, SCI, and allied/coalition force releasable data. A key feature of the system will be the development of a High Speed Imagery Guard between the imagery processing and sensor control components at the Low Level, and the NITF storage system and Distributed Sensor Planner at the High Level. This High Speed Imagery Guard must be capable of handling three simultaneous feeds from CIP and other sources at real time mission data. The system must be accreditable in accordance with DCID 6/3 (Director of Central Intelligence Directive). DCID 6/3 provides uniform policy guidance and requirements for ensuring adequate protection of certain categories of intelligence information (hereinafter intelligence information) that is stored or processed on an information system (IS). An information system is defined as any telecommunications and/or computer related equipment or interconnected system or sub-systems of equipment that is used in the acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of voice and/or data (digital or analog); it includes software, firmware, and hardware. The AF DCGS Situational Awareness and Multi-INT environment will be a collection of services that will provide all users with common access to data, processing, and fusion services. These data and services will provide the basis for situational awareness, multi-INT products. The situational awareness function will combine various near real time reporting sources into a single integrated picture. This function will be used to support mission management as well as the multi-INT reporting and fusion elements. Layered GIS products will be generated by a number of data repositories, some containing historical data and some containing real time information. The AF DCGS Next generation Line of Sight (LOS) Data Relay capability will include: Updating the two existing AF DCGS LOS data relay systems, known as MOBST (Mobile Stretch), to include the Common Imagery Processor (CIP) and Data Dissemination Group (DDG) as well as the existing Data Link, SATCOM, and radio components. Building, testing and fielding a third LOS Data Relay Updating the Extended Tether Program (ETP) to the new Link Relay standard outlined above Link Relay Standard. To support differing mission requirements, no single hardware configuration will support all users, but wherever possible, workstations will conform to a standard "core" configuration. To the greatest extent possible, "thin client" configurations will be used. This will be implemented in two ways. First, web-based applications will be used to the maximum extent possible. For non-web based applications, the software will reside on an application server, with clients on the workstations, or applications being downloaded onto the work-stations. Whenever possible, dissemination will be done via the AF DCGS Web portal, a secure web based interface that provides a single point of nitration for access to information, applications, and services for all customers of AF DCGS. It provides the integration point for applications and information within the AF DCGS enterprise. Users will be able to select what appears in their view within certain role-defined constraints. This includes subscription and notification capabilities that control how information is delivered to users. In addition, the portal will provide directory and indexing capabilities to automatically manage the information stored within the AF DCGS enterprise. Users will also have search capabilities to locate information. Publishing tools will automate the process by which information is made available to users. From a security perspective, the Web Portal will exist behind a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) to provide user access, while still meeting the security Requirements of DCID 6/3. The system must be able to operate in a standard office conditioned environment housed in either racks, operating transit cases, non-operating transport cases, or just on table tops. The exact configurations will depend on specific user requirements. The system will be capable of deployment by air, rail, ship or road. The system must be able to operate from standard commercial or military generators. The system will be operated by USAF personnel, and shall be maintained by combination of USAF personnel with assistance contractor field service representatives when necessary. Submitting a response to this notice. Participation in the AF DCGS Industry Day is voluntary. The conduct of the AF DCGS Industry Day and/or the information presented herein will not obligate the Government in any manner. The Government will not reimburse the Industry Attendees for any costs associated with participation and is under no obligation to award any related contract associated with is event. This invitation to participate in the AF DCGS Industry Day does not constitute an invitation for bid or request for proposal. Any procurement action for DCGS will be the subject of a separate, future announcement. Additional AF DCGS information may be accessed by visiting ESC's Business Opportunities (HERBB) Web Page: www.herbb.hanscom.AF.mil. Please direct any questions you may have regarding the purpose of this Industry Day to Mr. Mike Budney, (781) 377-5628; michael.budney@hanscom.AF.mil or Mr Dan Gorman, Contracting Officer, (781) 377-3998; dan.gorman@hanscom.AF.mil. The Block 10.2 Industry Day will be held at the ESC Conference Center, Building 1106, 29 Randolph Road, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, on 16 September, 2002. Registration will take place from (7:30-800 AM) on 16 September 2002. E-mail the following to Mike Budney no later than 12 September, 2002 4:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time): the name of company, e-mail address, phone number, and company Affiliation for the attendee(s) company security person, an individual appointment time request. Entry onto Hanscom AFB will only be permitted through the Vandenberg Gate, located off the airport access that intersects with Route 2A (Exit 30 off Rte 128/95). All visitors should be prepared to show a valid picture ID to proceed beyond the gate. Participating companies must be wholly-owned United States (US) subsidiaries and attendee(s) must be US citizen(s).
- Web Link
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ESC Business Opportunities Web Page
(http://www.herbb.hanscom.AF.mil)
- Place of Performance
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- Record
- SN00156509-W 20020905/020903213333 (fbodaily.com)
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