58-JOINT THREAT WARNING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT The purpose of this potential sources synopsis is to share with industry the current system concept among the system planners and developers of the Joint Threat Warning System (JTWS) and elicit industry white papers that will strengthen this concept or provide a better, more efficient architecture technological approach to the future JTWS. We are hopeful that industry white papers will recommend or bring to our attention specific technologies, architectures, or commercial products that will assist us in accomplishing our goal. Interested industry developers and vendors who wish to receive a copy of the DRAFT JTWS Joint Operations Requirement Document (JORD) and who have current Department of Defense SECRET or TOP SECRET clearances should e-mail their names, company, and contact information to Mr. R. Scott Bowles, USSOCOM Industrial Liaison Representative, at bowlesr@socom.mil. General System Requirements: The JTWS is the United States Special Operations Command's (USSOCOM) future system to provide threat warning, situational awareness, and target activity reporting to Special Operations Forces (SOF) tactical commanders deployed worldwide. The threat warning, situational awareness, and target activity data provided by JTWS may originate from local/on-board signals intelligence (SIGINT); non-organic Intelligence Broadcast System (IBS); non-organic imagery; unattended ground sensors (UGS); unattended aerial vehicle (UAV) sensors; information from other team members; or from a source not yet identified. The over-riding purpose of JTWS is to provide threat signal identification/exploitation and tailorable processed threat warning data that the user requires to successfully prosecute the mission. The classification and type of data for processing will be constrained based on unique mission requirements. Baseline Concepts: JTWS will be comprised of variants for SOF aircraft, maritime platforms, and be carried by SOF team members. JTWS will be modular and scaleable using current and cutting-edge commercial technologies. Hardware components will be "plug and play" to the extent that allows components to be easily added or removed from the system and be moved from one variant to another. JTWS core applications software will be common to all platform configurations, easily upgradable, and tailorable to the mission and target. The "plug and play" hardware and common core application software concepts will enable each variant to be easily tailored to the mission and the target. Platform Configurations: The aircraft version of JTWS is scheduled for the C-130 and the CV-22. The maritime version of JTWS will be installed on board the Patrol Coastal (PC) and the Mark V Special Operations Craft (SOC). There will be three ground forces versions. One version will be body-worn in a harness or vest and will have a minimal radio frequency (RF) detection and emitter direction finding (DF) capability. A second version will be a fully capable; battery powered manpack system and will be a functional follow-on to the current AN/PRD-13 (V) The third version will be a team transportable system that can be carried by four or five team members or one HMMWV and will be operated from a secure sanctuary site. The team transportable version will use both local antennas and remoted front-end sensors consisting of the production JTWS manpack variant. Follow-on Briefings: Upon receipt of white papers, selected vendors will be invited to a classified conference at SPAWARSYS Charleston to receive a variety of briefings on the JTWS proposed architecture, software requirements, acquisition strategy, program schedule, and concept of operations. This forum will provide those selected vendors an opportunity to brief the JTWS program office on their capabilities to achieve JTWS operational requirements. This announcement is NOT a Request for Purchase. This is a search for potential sources and does not commit the Government to award a contract under the above listed terms, nor is the Government responsible to pay for samples or information received. A cutoff date of 10 September 2000 is established for the submission of responses. Responses should be sent to the United States Special Operations Command, ATTN: PEO-IIS (Mr. Brad Mohr), 7701 Tampa Point Blvd, MacDill AFB, FL 33621-5323 or e-mail to mohrb@socom.mil E-MAIL: click above to contact the Special Operations Technology, mohrb@socom.mil. Posted 08/11/00 (W-SN484921).

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