SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE AND SURVEILLANCE FOR DETECTION, LOCALIZATION, AND CLASSIFICATION OF BURIED MINES IN AMPHIBIOUS
- Notice Date
- 7/11/2002
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Coastal Systems Station, Code XPS1, 6703 W. Hwy. 98, Panama City, FL
- ZIP Code
- 32407-7001
- Solicitation Number
- N6133102QMR01
- Response Due
- 8/12/2002
- Point of Contact
- Contract Specialist Mark Ross at 850-235-5624 or Contracting Officer Carol Dreger at 850-234-4863
- E-Mail Address
-
Contract Specialist Mark Ross
(RossMP@ncsc.navy.mil)
- Description
- SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE AND SURVEILLANCE FOR DETECTION, LOCALIZATION, AND CLASSIFICATION OF BURIED MINES IN AMPHIBIOUS LANDING BEACHES The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Coastal Systems Station, Panama City, Florida, is seeking sources to conduct research and development to solve the problem of detecting, localizing, and classifying, from an airborne platform, buried anti-personnel and anti-vehicular mines and minefields deployed in the littoral battlespace, specifically from the surf zone through the beach exit zone. If an amphibious force can conduct unmanned aerial standoff threat detection and collection of imagery, data, or other information on buried mines, it will possess a capability that does not exist in the current MCM inventory. This capability will be of critical imp ortance for traversing a defended amphibious landing zone. The technology would lend itself to the automatic detection of minefields. This effort will encompass the conduct of all analysis, modeling, algorithm investigations, research, design, fabrication, testing, development, environmental assessment, phenomenology investigations, reporting and documentation required to bring to fruition and/or reduce to engineering practice technologies permitting enhanced detection, localization, and classification of buried mines and/or minefields. The goals of the research effort are to demonstrate: · Technology for sensors, sensor systems, or sensor packages which, when mounted in a lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will remotely detect in some way the presence of mines buried in the surf zone, the beach zone, or the inland environment, · Technology for image and/or othe r data processing which will act upon the raw data, however obtained, in such a manner as to display the presence of buried mines and/or minefields, · Technology for packaging sensors and processing in a lightweight UAV, · Supporting activity in modeling, environmental assessment, phenomenology, and database formation, · Advanced algorithm developments to facilitate buried mine detection, and · Sensor fusion technologies to facilitate buried mine detection. Successful technology developments may be investigated for future transitions as P3I to existing systems or separate transitions to engineering development as appropriate. Interested sources on this program will be required to demonstrate: · Recent and relevant experience in development of sensor technologies relatable to buried mine/minefield detection, or data and/or image processing technologies relatable to buried mine detection, or techniques, algorithms and procedures for automatic detection of buried mines/minefields. Interested firms shall respond within 30 days of this Sources Sought Announcement with complete and detailed documentation showing the company's product and capability as detailed above. Only potential prime contractors should respond. A list of responding potential prime contractors will be furnished to potential subcontractors upon request. Direct expression of interest in participating in this program and supporting documentation should be addressed in writing to Mr. Mark P. Ross, Code XPS1, NAVSEA Coastal Systems Station, 6703 West Highway 98, Panama City, FL 32407-7001, PH (850) 235-5624, FAX (850) 234-4251, E-mail RossMP@ncsc.navy.mil. This is not a solicitation. In the event that a solicitation is developed, it will be assigned a formal Req uest for Proposal (RFP) number and the announcement will be published in the same manner as this announcement.
- Web Link
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Coastal Systems Station Table of Sources Sought
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/USN/NAVSEA/N61331/N6133102QMR01/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00115039-F 20020713/020711220001 (fbodaily.com)
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