SMC/TMC, Airborne Laser Program, 3300 Target Road, Bldg 760, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-6612

A -- AIRBORNE LASER (ABL) ADVISORY & ASSISTANCE SERVICES (A&AS) SOL F04701-98-R-0100 DUE 032598 POC Mr Mel Pearson, Contracting Officer (505)853-3270 WEB: Airborne Laser Homepage, http://www.plk.af.mil/abl/. E-MAIL: Contact the Contracting Officer via e-mail, pearsonm@plk.af.mil. The Space & Missile Center (SMC/TM) located at the Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force base, NM anticipates release of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Airborne Laser (ABL) Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) on 23 Feb 98. The Airborne Laser (ABL) is a high energy laser system integrated on a Boeing 747 aircraft that is being designed, fabricated, and tested for destroying theater ballistic missiles in the boost phase. It is a high priority Acquisition Category 1D Air Force program. The ABL System Program Office (SPO) requires approximately 14 man-year equivalent heads of Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) support. The A&AS contractor will support, provide expertise, and participate in the Beam Control/Fire Control (BC/FC), Aircraft, Laser, Ground Support (GS), Battle Management Command, Control, and Communication Computers and Intelligence (BMC4I), Test, Hardware (HW) and Air Vehicle Integration and Check-Out (AVICO) Integrated Product Teams (IPTs). The A&AS contractor will support the development of the ABL Weapon System through engineering analyses, segment modeling and simulation, and review and evaluation of segment concepts, architectures, and designs. The A&AS contractor will also provide specific segment modeling and simulation support to include wave optics and scaling laws, BMC4I predictive avoidance analysis, and Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) design analysis. The A&AS contractor will provide specific segment design engineering analysis for atmospheric characterization (turbulence statistics and cloud analysis), laser beam quality, adaptive optics, large optic designs, vibration, aero-optics, the pressure recovery subsystem, and acquisition, tracking and pointing. The A&AS contractor will provide specific system modeling and simulation. The A&AS contractor must have extensive, in-depth and current experience with HEL weapon system technologies, systems, and applications, as well as hands-on experience in analysis/experiments and testing with the HEL technologies. Expertise is required in laser physics, physics, gas dynamics, optical engineering, electro-optics, and structural engineering (thermal/mechanical). Extensive experience is required in COIL for the ABL weapon and solid state lasers for the ABL illuminator, including integrated laser/optical resonator analysis, pressure recovery systems, laser chemistry, and optical non-linear phenomena. Experience is also required in high energy laser weapon system beam control, vibration isolation/control, integrated laser controls, laser tracking and pointing, and laser beam aimpoint maintenance, as well as atmospheric turbulence analysis, wave optics codes, high energy laser propagation, atmospheric compensation, and adaptive optics. Additionally, experience in missile tracking/signatures, high energy laser effects, passive/active missile tracking algorithms, and damage assessment for HEL effects is required, as well as systems-level modeling and simulation, to include airborne HEL weapon systems and subsystems, aircraft platforms, atmospheric propagation, ballistic missile threats, and mission and campaign-level engagement performance analysis. In addition, the successful A&AS contractor must have, or be able to obtain, access to proprietary computer models owned by the Schafer Corporation, RDA Logicon, and SAIC. A synopsis of the effort was released in the Commerce Business Daily on 22 Dec and 30 Dec 97 followed by release of a draft RFP on the World Wide Web, 30 Jan 98. The DRFP was issued as F29601-98-R-0009. The final RFP number will be F04701-98-R-0100. The DRFP is currently available and the final RFP will be available to download from the World Wide Web at www.plk.af.mil/abl/ and on the SMC/PK Homepage in the Business Opportunities Section. All responsible proposals submitted in reply to the solicitation will be evaluated. An Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Cost Plus Award Fee contract is anticipated for the effort. The period of performance of the contract is 28 Apr 98 through 28 Apr 03. Classified material up to and including TOP SECRET/Special Compartmentalized Information (TS-SCI) may be involved in the performance of this contract. The contractor shall be required to maintain an appropriate facility clearance as necessary. Applicable procedures for protecting classified information shall be followed. Operations security, physical security, and communications security requirements and applicable documents shall be considered IAW the DD 254, Contract Security Classification Specification. The ABL Program Protection Guide and System Protection Guide also apply. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious concerns from potential offerors when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to address concerns during the proposal development phase of the acquisition. Potential offerors should use established channels to request information, pose questions, and voice concerns before contacting the Ombudsman, Mr Leslie L. Bordelon at (310) 363-3818, SMC/AX, 160 Skynet Street Suite 2315, El Segundo, CA 90245-4683. For contracting issues contact Mr Mel Pearson, Contracting Officer at (505)853-3270. For technical issues contact Mr. Tim Nikolai, Technical Representative at (505)846-7657. (0034)

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