SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- RFI AIRBORNE TACTICAL IMAGING SENSORS STANDARDIZATION
- Notice Date
- 8/22/2008
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Pax River, Building 441, 21983 Bundy Road Unit 7, Patuxent River, Maryland, 20670, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- RFIEOIR08
- Response Due
- 9/8/2008
- Archive Date
- 9/23/2008
- Point of Contact
- Stephen Lucianetti, Phone: 3017579707
- E-Mail Address
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stephen.lucianetti@navy.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AIRBORNE TACTICAL IMAGING SENSORS STANDARDIZATION The Naval Air Systems Command Patuxent River, MD is seeking industry participation in an effort to standardize interfaces between electo-optic systems and their host platforms (i.e. system level interfaces only). The goal of this effort is to improve the affordability and interoperability of electro-optic sensors on Naval Aviation platforms by establishing a common, standard interface for their acquisition, development, integration, test, and operation. This initiative is expected to reduce acquisition and O&S costs and further promote and enable open architecture objectives. The genesis of this need is the high cost of acquiring and integrating these sensor systems onto Navy aircraft and making the sensors interoperable with the net-centric fleet. Standardized interfaces offer an opportunity to dramatically reduce the life cycle costs related to design, development, production, testing, integration, maintenance, and operation of electo-optic system. Furthermore, standardization might be a means to simplify the process of Electro-Optical and Infrared Sensor upgrades or spirals. Recognizing that industry is a critical source of information to identify those interfaces that hold the greatest promise of providing advantages to both industry and the Navy, the Naval Air Systems Command intends to hold an Industry Day to initiate the exploration of this subject with the intended goal of producing a standard(s) to address the most promising interfaces. We are seeking participation and responses from sensor vendors as well as platform integrators in the exploration and development of standard interfaces for Electro Optical and Infrared System Interfaces. To this end we would like to solicit Industry’s participation in this endeavor, initially via responses to the following questions and in the near future via participation in an industry day to be held at the Patuxent River NAS. This request is for INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. This announcement is neither a Request for Quote nor a Request for Proposal. The Government does not intend to pay for any information submitted in response to this synopsis. Sensor information and related data are to be shipped to the Naval Air Systems Command contracts office no later than 15 days after the post date of this synopsis. Interested sources should send data to NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION (NAWCAD) Code 2.5.1.4., Bldg 441, 29183 Bundy Road, Patuxent River, MD 20670-1463. Written responses should be received no later than 15 days after the date of this synopsis and reference this synopsis number on both the mailing envelope as well as on all enclosed documents. Interested sources shall state company size. Please address all technical questions to Vicente Mahoney, Vicente.Mahoney@navy.mil. Proprietary data MUST be marked on a page-by-page basis, and will be kept confidential and protected where so designated. This synopsis does not commit the Government to awarding a contract. This synopsis is for market research only and any procurement resulting from this announcement will be published separately on the Federal Business Opportunities website. Responders to this RFI will form the basis for invitation to the follow on Industry Day. Companies represented at the Industry Day will form the basis for invitations to participate in follow on Sensor Interface Working Group(s) The Naval Air Systems Command would appreciate responses to the following questions: What broad areas of interfaces (mechanical, electrical power, electrical signal, thermal, optical, command and control, Data (including metadata),… ) does industry see as most promising for standardization? Provide Rationale To what extent, and in what capacity, have you engaged in Electro Optical and Infrared system standardization and open architecture process in the past? Can you identify other technology areas where the development of interface standards were beneficial and show the similarities for sensor systems? What pitfalls does industry see to standardizing EO and IR sensor interfaces? What future technology insertions may benefit from having an interface standard? What areas for dialog would industry most like to see taking place with the government on the issue of sensor interface standards? Please describe your business base in airborne active and/or passive electro-optic sensor systems. How much software and hardware reuse do you have across your product lines? Is any of this reuse derived from external or internal standardized interfaces? Do you have a technology roadmap for your product lines? Would you share this with the government? Do your systems produce data to NGA standards? If so, which ones? Do you see areas where Electro-optic sensor interface standards exist but are not applied uniformly or consistently across the services? Where and how do you see a win-win situation between the Navy’s need for affordable sensor systems (facilitated by interface standard(s)) and industry’s need for profitability? Do you believe that effective and significant sensor interface standards can be developed by Government/Industry Working Group(s) in a non-proprietary environment? Besides the technical issues, what do you see as the logistical, programmatic, and financial issues that will need to be overcome to achieve electro-optic sensor interface standards that can significantly reduce the cost to the Government of acquiring, integrating, and maintaining electro-optic sensor systems on airborne platforms? What issues need to be addressed to insure adequate participation of industry in the process of developing electro-optic sensor interface standards?
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