SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Joint National Training Capability Broad Agency Announcement
- Notice Date
- 5/10/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, 12350 Research Parkway Code 253, Orlando, FL, 32826-3224
- ZIP Code
- 32826-3224
- Solicitation Number
- N61339-04-R-0031
- Archive Date
- 6/8/2004
- Point of Contact
- Rebeca Gonzalez, Contract Specialist, Phone 407-380-4524, Fax 407-380-4164, - Steven Harnig, Contracting Officer, Phone 407-380-4422, Fax 407-380-4164,
- E-Mail Address
-
Rebeca.Gonzalez@navy.mil, Steven.Harnig@navy.mil
- Description
- SUBJECT: _?JNTC BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT RELATED TO RAPID DISTRIBUTED DATABASE DEVELOPMENT (RD3) TO SUPPORT LIVE, VIRTUAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE (L-V-C) COMPONENTS OF A JOINT NATIONAL TRAINING CAPABILITY (JNTC) BAA#: N61339-04-R-0031 United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC) is collecting information for the research and development (R&D) of Advanced Training Technologies (ATT) that will enable Rapid Distributed Database Development (RD3) in support of establishing a robust Joint National Training Capability (JNTC). USJFCOM is leading a DoD-wide effort to establish interoperability of various types of models and simulations among themselves and with Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) systems and data, order of battle data, force data, target data, geospatial data, visualization data, and other data required to support the development of common services and associated standard interfaces that will enable interoperability in training. The RD3 initiative is seeking technical solutions to the definition, design, development, and support of an integrated system for collecting, manipulating, storing, and retrieving data in a usable form to support anticipated future requirements for Joint planning, training, mission rehearsal, and experimentation. The RD3 architecture shall support the reduction of development time for virtual and constructive databases to 3 - 4 days, to support Joint mission planning and rehearsal. In order to achieve this performance objective, the architecture must allow distributed end-user participation in Live, Virtual, and Constructive (L-V-C) simulation and C4I federation database production processes relevant to the Joint Event Life Cycle. The resulting system design must allow operational and technical users associated with a particular event to define and enter database production cases, rapidly assess the availability of authoritative representations of the operational environment (terrain, atmosphere, ocean, space and associated models of natural and artificial objects), weapons and warfighting platforms, friendly and enemy force structure, integrated target databases, and human and organizational performance. The system must also allow the users to access data from archives of previously created scenario databases, perform data correlation and normalization across data types to a common baseline, support configuration management and control of the baseline, allow editing and validation of the baseline across an event community, and output the data in commonly used simulation and C4I formats (i.e. SEDRIS Transmittal Format, XML, etc) used for simulation federation engine initializations. Additionally, common services include knowledge integration technologies and tools for data interchange, Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A), and life cycle support of RD3 system components. USJFCOM is seeking information from Industry and Academia on all related Live, Virtual, and Constructive (L-V-C) enabling technology development efforts that could enhance RD3 in the areas of applications and tools (data generation, collection, transformation, and configuration management), data standards (import, export, distribution, archiving, and metadata), processes that promote interoperability, data storage, integration, real-time data updates, interfaces, and dataset production functional and life cycle processes, including dataset fusion, normalization, baseline control, and VV&A. In support of USJFCOM?s R&D efforts, Naval Air Systems Command, Orlando Training System Division is announcing that a JNTC Broad Agency Announcement (BAA - N61339-04-R-0031) is released with a topic area focused on RD3 research and development. This Broad Agency Announcement is intended to cover, in general, all R&D areas of interest for the JNTC Program and its customers. Specific scientific points of contact for each research area will be identified on page 1 of the BAA, as well as a detailed process that allows for an early determination of the potential for interest based on technical merit, applicability to the JNTC Program, and projected funding. This process is designed to limit offeror and Government expenditure of effort to prepare and review formal proposals for research that may have little chance of being supported and consists of a technical dialog (telephone call to scientific point of contact and informal white paper submission), followed by formal proposal submission and contract award. Those interested in performing research in the covered areas should download the BAA, and to assess organizational interest in the RD3 effort, interested firms are invited to receive a program briefing at the RD3 Industry/Academia Day forum and participate in a question and answer session. All briefings will be unclassified. Due to seating limitations, each interested firm is limited to no more than two representatives at the group meeting. JFCOM plans to host the RD3 Industry/Academia Day meeting on or about June 8, 2004 in the Orlando, Florida Area. Firms interested in attending the industry day must contact Benn Aaronson, NAVAIR-Orlando , at (407) 380-8250 (benn.aaronson@navy.mil) or Bill Wolfinger, NAVAIR Orlando, at (407) 380-4265 (bill.wolfinger@navy.mil) no later than May 21, 2004. To download a copy of the BAA, visit NAWCTSD?s Open Acquisitions webpage at http://www.ntsc.navy.mil/Ebusiness/BusOps/Acquisitions/Index.cfm (click on Open Acquisitions) on or about May 6, 2004. Be advised that periodic access to the website is essential for obtaining updated documentation and the latest information regarding this announcement. Questions regarding the BAA process itself should be addressed to the point of contact listed below or in this announcement. Government organizations, commercial companies, universities, and other non-profit organizations capable of conducting appropriate research and development, in whole or part, are invited to submit an affirmative response to this announcement. Following the briefing, interested parties will be requested to submit research and development recommendations/ideas under the JNTC BAA, in a white paper format (not to exceed ten pages in length, single-spaced, 12 point font minimum); as well as capability statements, catalogs, or their published literature that describes their research and development activities, products and product capability. The white papers shall address at a minimum; RD3 related research, development, and demonstration ideas/capability; technical challenge that can be addressed; maturity of the M&S technology; previous experience with similar efforts; a point of contact; and a rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost estimate to implement the research effort.
- Place of Performance
- Address: NAVAIR Orlando Training Systems Division, 12350 Research Parkway, Orlando, FL
- Zip Code: 32826
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 32826
- Record
- SN00583291-W 20040512/040510212407 (fbodaily.com)
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