SOURCES SOUGHT
59 -- Sources Sought Announcement (SSA) for Secure Hands-Free Wrist-mounted Military GPS Receiver.
- Notice Date
- 2/27/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U. S. Army Materiel Command, US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07, US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07, ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008
- ZIP Code
- 07703-5008
- Solicitation Number
- W15P7T-09-RFI-NAVSIF02
- Response Due
- 4/3/2009
- Archive Date
- 6/2/2009
- Point of Contact
- Kevin F Lee, 732-532-8428<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Request for Information (RFI) is for planning purposes only and shall not be considered as an Invitation for Bid, Request for Quotation or request for proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. Your response to this Request for Information 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 announcement or the Government use of such information. This request does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. No funds have been authorized, appropriated, or received for this effort. The information provided may be used by the Army in developing its acquisition strategy and Statement of Work/Statement of Objectives and Performance Specifications. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this request for information. Description. The US Army is surveying the GPS vendor community to identify and assess the availability of technologies to meet a potential requirement for a secure hands-free wrist-mounted lightweight military Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver that every Soldier can wear. A military GPS receiver is defined as one capable of receiving and processing the Precise Positioning Service (PPS) signal by use of crypto-variable keys for operation in a secure keyed mode. Current military GPS receivers, Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR) are too big and cumbersome and have many features that the ground user does not need and or use. Likewise, not every Soldier has the ability to know their location and direction at all times. In addition, a Soldier/Leader using a military GPS receiver has to take their hands off of the weapon system and eyes off the enemy or battlefield in order to view grid coordinates and or direction to the enemy as indicated on a display screen. Military units and individual Soldiers procure commercial (non-secure) receivers to obtain basic functions such as position, direction, waypoint tracking, waypoint marking, and route planning. Soldiers typically strap these receivers to their wrist with tape or by some other field expedient means. The wrist mounted device is intended to supplement the use of existing military GPS receivers (PLGR and DAGR) as well as provide military GPS capabilities to those dismounted users not already equipped with existing military GPS receivers. This requirement is targeted to ground and air-mobile users with minimal positioning and navigation functional requirements. The Army mission calls for the use of small, lightweight secure military GPS receivers. Currently it is not feasible for every Soldier to carry a DAGR or a PLGR due to size, weight and power requirements. However, it is an urgent requirement and of safety concern that every Soldier have a military GPS capability to quickly obtain and report their current position and direction to the enemy without taking their hands off their primary weapon. In addition, Soldiers on patrol need the ability to accurately report and mark waypoints for caches and any suspected IED. This capability will make our Soldiers more confident with regard to their Situational Awareness and will contribute significantly to the units overall lethality. Improved positioning determining capability at the Soldier level will also expedite coordination of MEDEVAC requests and reduce fratricide and soldier/team location uncertainty. The United States Army CECOM Contracting Center is issuing this RFI to identify potential sources of technologies that can meet the government's projected performance and delivery requirements for a hands-free wrist-mounted secure military GPS receiver. This RFI will also determine available alternatives and assess industry readiness and production capacity that may lead to the delivery of affordable military GPS systems as stated above. System Characteristics. Please Contact the Technical Point of Contact listed below for a document which outlines potential definitions of the Systems Characteristics, Environmental conditions and Support Requirements for the military GPS receiver as stated above. Interested parties with technologies which they believe may address the potential requirement are requested to submit a response to this RFI on or before 4pm on (date - 30 days from posting date). Responses will be evaluated with regard to the ability of proposed technologies and or products to meet the requirement and the cost/schedule/performance benefit tradeoffs involved in bringing the technology to production. Responses will also aid the government's feasibility assessment and determination of a likely acquisition strategy to meet the potential requirement. Respond to: Carolyn Weickert, (732) 532-6135, carolyn.weickert@us.army.mil Contracting Office Address: US Army CECOM Acquisition Center - DAAB07 ATTN AMSEL-AC, Building 1208, Fort Monmouth NJ 07703-5008 Place of Performance: US Army CECOM Acquisition Center - DAAB07 ATTN AMSEL-AC, Building 1208, Fort Monmouth NJ 07703-5008 Technical Point of Contact: Kevin Lee, (732) 532-8428, Army PM GPS Bldg 283, Fort Monmouth NJ 07703, kevin.f.lee@us.army.mil
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- Address: US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07 ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208 Fort Monmouth NJ<br />
- Zip Code: 07703-5008<br />
- Zip Code: 07703-5008<br />
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