SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Network Centric Warfare - Digital Battlefield Instrumentation (NCW-DBI)
- Notice Date
- 4/4/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- 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
- Reference-Number-N61339-06-R-0063
- Response Due
- 4/19/2006
- Archive Date
- 5/4/2006
- Description
- Network Centric Warfare-Digital Battlefield Instrumentation (NCW-DBI) Solutions Request for Information (RFI) Closing Date: 17 April 2006 The Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI); Project Manager for Instrumentation, Targets and Threat Simulators (PM ITTS); Instrumentation Management Office (IMO) in support of providing major instrumentation for the US Army Operational and Developmental Testing Communities to test and evaluate Future Force communications networks and Warfighting technologies, is seeking information from interested parties that have existing instrumentation that can be upgraded to support the multiple mission needs of testing at the system level and in a Force-on-Force Network Centric Warfare (NCW) environment. It is the desire of PM ITTS to expand on the existing capabilities of the Army?s existing Improved Field Data Collector (IFDC) V4 system as the foundation for this initiative. Responders must have experience with the IFDC V4 and have the means to grow and expand its current capabilities to support the future mission objectives addressed herein. If alternate considerations are submitted, the instrumentation and capability would, at some level, have supported US Army testing missions, have been designed and tested to insure required performance in the tactical and training operational environment, be able to interface directly with multiple tactical radios and LANs to provide ground truth of the tactical communications networks, interface to the Weapon systems? data bus to monitor and record messages as well as provide some level of message injection, provide Real Time Casualty Assessment (RTCA) by interfacing to existing RTCA systems and performing stand-alone internal Force-on-Force adjudication for both direct and indirect fire events, and provide a direct injection jamming capability to simulate threat emitters. The desired system would provide correlated data based on each instrumented component and be able to support secure communications and provide tamper proof housings at each instrumentation node. Capabilities: Specific capabilities for each of the four integrated Network Centric Warfare ? Digital Battlefield Instrumentation (NCW-DBI) capabilities sought include: 1. Tactical Communications Analysis is needed at each node in the battlefield (weapon systems and dismounted soldiers) to provide ground truth of both tactical network, LAN communication and individual point to point communications. Specific element capabilities desired include, but are not limited to: Data collection platforms such as JTRS Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW), Man pack, small form fit variants (soldiers, UAV/UGV), IFDCv4 enhancement/upgrades (secure, tamper-proof), smaller, more powerful, higher speed data collection (Gig-E LAN, USB 2.0), emerging physical interfaces and data formats (USB, Firewire, IPv6, XML, sensor data, and JVMF), and Current Force Systems (JNN, Win-T, VoIP), including the Wideband Network Waveform (WNW) and JTRS Cluster 1. 2. Weapon Systems Data Bus interface and message filtering capability is desired to capture and process digital message traffic on various weapon system data busses. The interface should be capable of selecting specific messages of interest, and be reprogrammable to support various data bus implementations and message content. The interface should be able to provide critical data elements to other portions of the NCW-DBI system to support aggregated and correlated performance assessments. The capability should exist to have access to system information based on crew actions and performance right off the system. 3. The threat jamming simulation component of NCW-DBI is desired to have both a direct injection jamming simulation capability and a software simulated jamming capability. The direct injection component must be threat accredited to replicate expected RF wave forms directly into the tactical communications systems to preclude the need for over the air jamming. It is highly desired that the direct injection jamming component of NCW-DBI provide multiple simultaneous threat waveforms, be able to monitor and control jamming assets thru Starship, and have interfaces to support smaller, more mobile Electronic Warfare (EW) instrumentation. 4. Real Time Casualty Assessment (RTCA) capability is required to provide direct and indirect Force-on-Force engagement simulation. The RTCA architecture must be expandable in terms of both software modeling and hardware interfacing to support future growth. The RTCA component of NCW-DBI should be capable of interfacing to existing MILES and MAIS Family of Devices and be expandable to interface to new laser based paring devices and geo-paring devices and software models. RFI Purpose and Limitations: The Government?s intention is to better understand the current state-of-the-art and to determine the best acquisition approach. Industry feedback is vitally important and the Government will be receptive to any and all ideas received from industry. This RFI is an expression of the Government?s interest only and does not obligate the Government to pay for the requested information nor respond to any submissions. Proprietary information is not being solicited; however, if it is submitted, it should be appropriately marked. Please limit your formal white paper submission to no more than 10 pages to include cover letter and white paper. In addition, you may include up to five attachments that consist of pre-printed commercial brochures or sales literature. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. All items must be in Microsoft? Office 2000 or Adobe PDF format and should be free of all computer viruses. Please submit responses to NAVAIR Orlando TSD, Code 25353 (D. Graham), 12350 Research Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826-3276 or e-mail Dana.Graham@peostri.army.mil and Jackie Reyenga at Jackie.Reyenga@peostri.army.mil. Information must be received no later than 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on 19 April 2006. Points of Contact: Technical: Bob Arora, PM ITTS IMO Project Director, Bob.Arora@peostri.army.mil, 407-384-3976 and Rick Lund, PM ITTS IMO Project Director, Rick.Lund@peostri.army.mil, 407-208-5391. Contractual: Dana Graham, Contract Specialist, Dana.Graham@peostri.army.mil, 407-380-8022 and Jackie Reyenga, Contract Specialist, Jackie.Reyenga@peostril.army.mil, 407-384-3555. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY This RFI is issued as Market Research, solely for information and planning purposes. It shall not be considered as an Invitation for Bid (IFB), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Request For Proposal (RFP), or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. Any response to this synopsis will be treated as information only. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses to this synopsis or the Government for use of such information. The information provided may be used by the Army in developing its acquisition strategy and in its Statement of Work/Statement of Objectives and Performance Specifications. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if issued. If a solicitation is issued, it will be synopsized on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website and the PEO STRI website at http://www.peostri.army.mil/. It is the responsibility of any potential offeror to monitor these sites for additional information pertaining to this requirement.
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