SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Engineering and Technical Support Services for the Air Vehicle Department, AIR Code 4.3
- Notice Date
- 11/27/2002
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- 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, MD, 20670
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-N00421-03-R-2513
- Archive Date
- 1/3/2003
- Point of Contact
- Timothy Lower, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-757-2618, Fax 301-757-8959, - Alfred Hensler, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 757-8939, Fax (301) 757-8959,
- E-Mail Address
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lowerth@navair.navy.mil, hensleraw@navair.navy.mil
- Description
- The Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Code 2.5.1.3 at Patuxent River, MD has a requirement for ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES for the Air Vehicle Department, AIR 4.3. This is a sources sought as well as a mechanism for obtaining feedback from industry in regard to the general requirements as stated in this synopsis. THIS SYNOPSIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. It is a market research tool being used to determine potential sources prior to determining the method of acquisition and issuance of a Request for Proposal. The Government is not obligated to and will not pay for any information received from potential sources as a result of this synopsis. The Air Vehicle Department requires engineering services to support development of advanced air vehicle technology using system analysis techniques. Naval Air (NAVAIR) Competency 4.3 and the Manned Flight Simulator (MFS)/Air Combat Environment Test and Evaluation Facilities (ACETEF) personnel require unique engineering/technical services to support development and utilization of advanced flight test technology for evaluating air vehicle flying qualities/controllability, developing simulation software and building prototype. This contractual effort will provide for engineering and technical services, software development, hardware development, prototype development, documentation analysis, and technical data (results of data analysis) to accomplish the tasking outlined in requirements section to follow: REQUIREMENTS The contractor shall be responsible for establishment of an Engineering Field Office close enough to NAVAIR to afford easy technical monitoring of task progress/adequacy and for rapid response to technical questions with minimal travel time. The contractor shall provide engineering/ technical services and the material required to support the tasks specified herein: Support of Current Flight Test RDT&E Projects MFS and Digital Control System (DCS) Physics Based Modeling of Aircraft and UAVs Trainers Boat Simulations Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) Network-centric Warfare (NCW) Deployed Virtual Training Environment (DVTE) Technical Training Quality Assurance/Configuration Management/Process Improvement Program Management LABOR QUALIFICATIONS: The contractor is required to provide personnel having professional and technical experience, which will ensure accomplishment of the tasks specified in the statement of work. The specified experience included as part of the required qualifications shall have been obtained in the fields of endeavor indicated, and unless stated otherwise experience must have been obtained within the last ten years. The contractor should strive for technical excellence beyond these qualifications. Secret clearances may be obtained upon issuance of specific delivery orders. Experience is determined from the date of the BS degree. Experience must be relevant. Key Labor Categories: The tables below list the labor categories. The years experience required depends on the degree the proposed individual holds. Years of experience are measured from the BS degree. The tables also contain the minimum numbers of resumes (PDFs) required in each labor category. In their proposal, the contractor must certify how many hours that the persons who resumes (PDFs) are submitted shall be able to work on this program. If any persons cannot work full time (2000 hrs/yr) then additional resumes must be submitted until the hour requirements in the last row of each table is met. For example, the lead engineer position, if only four resumes (the minimum) are submitted, the contractor must certify that all four persons are available 2000 hrs/year each. If four or more lead engineer resumes are submitted the contractor shall certify the hours available of each person and that total shall meet or exceed 8000 hrs/yr. Some labor categories may require concurrent multiple personnel to meet our level of effort requirements. Program Manager: PhD. And 10 years total experience (measured from BS degree) or Master of Science (MS) degree with 12 years total experience (measured from BS degree) in Aeronautical / Aerospace Engineering or a BS degree and at least 14 years applicable experience. Experience is required in areas of systems identification, vehicle math modeling, control systems design and analysis, simulation design analysis and testing, and handling qualities analysis. Must have experience applying technical knowledge to a wide variety of systems identification, simulation and flight test problems and providing technical direction to lead program engineers for the detailed prosecution of various tasks. Demonstrate knowledge of national simulation and modeling events and standards that apply to Navy programs. Must have demonstrated experience in management of teams of teams developing high fidelity simulations for real time flight simulation facility such as the MFS. At least 10 years of experience must be managing the technical work discussed above and in the statement of work. Lead Engineer: Shall have a PhD and at least 8 years applicable experience (measured from BS degree), or a MS degree and at least 13 years applicable years experience (measured from BS degree), or a BS degree and at least 16 years applicable experience. At least 3/4/5 years of experience (for PhD/MS/BS degrees respectively) must be in managing or as the lead engineer for technical projects in the below discussed technical areas. The field of the degree and the experience must be in one or more technical disciplines as follows: Flight Mechanics: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical engineering. Experience is required in the areas of linear and non-linear system identification, air vehicle mathematical modeling, control system design analysis, simulation testing, and handling qualities analysis. Must have experience applying technical knowledge to a wide variety of system identification, simulation, and flight test problems; and providing technical direction to senior engineers and engineers for the detailed prosecution of the various task requirements needed to successfully complete the specific tasks outlined in the statement of work. Must have demonstrated experience in leading a team of engineers developing high fidelity simulations for a real time flight simulation facility such as the MFS. Must have experience with the major tools at the MFS: MATLAB, CASTLE, and IDEAS. Guidance and Control: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical engineering or electrical engineering. Experience is required in the areas of stochastic processes as applied to system identification, optimal and classical control theory, optimization theory, automatic design of control systems, guidance and control, control mechanization and allocation, system error analysis studies, simulation modeling, and redundant asynchronous flight control computer modeling is required. Must have experience in the application of optimal control theory of flight control, multiple processor flight control computer configurations, application of nonlinear system theory to automated control system design algorithms and equivalent system/time delay analysis. This experience is required to provide technical guidance to senior engineers and engineers, and to apply technical knowledge in solving unique problems associated with the various task requirements needed to successfully complete the specific tasks outlined in the statement of work. Must have demonstrated experience in leading a team of engineers developing high fidelity simulations for a real time flight simulation facility such as the MFS. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MATLAB and IDEAS. Propulsion Control and Modeling: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical or mechanical engineering or engineering mechanics or applied psychics. Experience in Applied Mechanics or Thermodynamics or Turbo-propulsion. Experience is required in the areas of modeling and simulation of propulsion systems. Extensive experience in the areas of propulsion system modeling development and propulsion control system analysis and design using modern control theory and digital system techniques is required to provide technical guidance to senior engineers and engineers; and to apply technical knowledge in solving unique problems associated with the various task requirements needed to successfully complete the specific tasks outlined in the statement of work. Must have demonstrated experience in leading a team of engineers developing high fidelity simulations for a real time flight simulation facility such as the MFS. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MATLAB and IDEAS. Simulation: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or engineering mechanics or computer science or mathematics. Work experience must encompass the design, development, testing and documentation of hardware or software into a real-time simulation architecture such as MFS or WST and APT type training devices. DCS Software Support Specialist: Degree in Engineering or Mathematics or Computer Science or Operations Research. Experience is required in three of more of the following disciplines related to the RDT&E of aircraft systems; 1) analysis, 2) system design, 3) system software development and/or life cycle support, and 4) test and evaluation. At least 7 years experience in planning and executing DCS software verification and validation (V&V) is required. Experience with systems designers, test personnel or operators on a real-time basis are also required. Senior Engineer: Shall have a PhD and at least 6 years applicable experience (measured from BS degree), or a MS degree and at least 9 years applicable experience (measured from BS degree), or a BS degree and at least 12 years applicable experience. At least 0/1/2 years of experience (for PhD/MS/BS degrees respectively) must be in managing or as the lead engineer for technical projects in the below discussed technical areas. The field of the degree and the experience must be in one or more technical disciplines as follows: Flight Mechanics: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical engineering. Work experience must encompass development and application of linear and nonlinear math models for aircraft simulation and dynamic systems, application of system identification techniques to create and validate vehicle dynamic models, analysis of the sensitivity of the identification parameters to errors in the instrumentation system, evaluation of sensor systems as to their state and parameter estimation capabilities, and application of simulation to cockpit interfacing technique for flight simulation. A thorough understanding of large data acquisition and processing systems, minicomputers and microprocessors is required from both the operations level to the modification and installation of new peripheral software drivers. Expertise and direct experience with high-level computer languages is required. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MATLAB, CASTLE, and IDEAS. Guidance and Control: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical or electrical engineering. Work experience must encompass development and application of optimal control theory, data filtering and prediction, frequency domain methods for analysis and synthesis of multivariable estimators and feed back controllers, dynamic systems modeling/analysis, multivariable feed back and system theory, optimal/digital control of dynamic systems, numerically stable algorithms for control/estimation, model validation, control of flexible structures and multivariable robust servomechanism controls. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MATLAB and IDEAS. Propulsion Control and Modeling: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical or mechanical engineering or applied physics. Work experience must encompass development and application of propulsion system modeling and simulation, modern control theory, and digital system techniques to analyze and design propulsion control systems. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MATLAB, CASTLE, and IDEAS. Simulation: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or engineering mechanics or computer science or mathematics. Work experience must encompass the design, development, testing and documentation of hardware or software into a real-time simulation architecture such as MFS or WST and APT type training devices. DCS Software Support Specialist: Degree in Engineering or Mathematics or Computer Science or Operations Research. Experience is required in three of more of the following disciplines related to the RDT&E of aircraft systems; 1) analysis, 2) system design, 3) system software development and/or life cycle support, and 4) test and evaluation. At least 5 years experience in planning and executing DCS software verification and validation (V&V) is required. Journeyman Engineer: Shall have a PhD and at least 4 years applicable experience (measured from BS degree), or a MS degree and at least 6 years applicable experience (measured from BS degree), or a BS degree and at least 8 years applicable experience. The field of the degree and the experience must be in one or more technical disciplines as follows: Flight Mechanics: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical engineering. Work experience is required in development and application of linear and nonlinear math models for aircraft simulation and dynamic systems, application of system identification techniques to validate vehicle dynamic models, analysis of the sensitivity of the identification parameters to errors in the instrumentation system, evaluation of sensor systems as to their state and parameter estimation capabilities, and application of simulation to cockpit interfacing technique for flight simulation. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MALAB and CASTLE. Guidance and Control: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical or electrical engineering. Work experience is required in development and application of optimal control theory, data filtering and prediction, frequency domain methods for analysis and synthesis of multivariable estimators and feed back controllers, dynamic systems modeling/analysis, multivariable feed back and system theory, optimal/digital control of dynamic systems, numerically stable algorithms for control/estimation, model validation, control of flexible structures and multivariable robust servomechanism controls. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MATLAB. Propulsion Control and Modeling: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical or mechanical engineering or applied physics. Work experience is required in development and application of propulsion system modeling and simulation, modern control theory, and digital system techniques to analyze and design propulsion control systems. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MATLAB and CASTLE. Simulation: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or engineering mechanics or computer science or mathematics. Work experience must encompass the design, development, testing and documentation of hardware or software into a real-time simulation architecture such as MFS or WST and APT type training devices. DCS Software Support Specialist: Degree in Engineering or Mathematics or Computer Science or Operations Research. Combined work experience in two of more of the following disciplines related to the RDT&E of aircraft systems; 1) analysis, 2) system design, 3) system software development and/or life cycle support, and 4) test and evaluation. At least one (1) year experience in planning and executing DCS software verification and validation (V&V) is required. Engineer: Shall have a MS degree and at least 2 years applicable experience (measured from BS degree), or a BS degree and at least 4 years applicable experience. The field of the degree and the experience must be in one or more technical disciplines as follows: Flight Mechanics: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical engineering. Work experience is required in development and application of linear and nonlinear math models for aircraft simulation and dynamic systems. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MALAB and CASTLE. Guidance and Control: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical or electrical engineering. Work experience is required in classical and optimal control and data filtering theory. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MATLAB. Propulsion Control and Modeling: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical or mechanical engineering or applied physics. Work experience is required in development and application of propulsion system modeling and simulation. Must have experience with the following major tools at the MFS: MATLAB and CASTLE. Simulation: Degree in aerospace/aeronautical, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or engineering mechanics or computer science or mathematics. Work experience is required in the development of software or hardware for aircraft or boat simulations. DCS Software Support Specialist: Degree in Engineering or Mathematics or Computer Science or Operations Research. Work experience in one of more of the following disciplines related to the RDT&E of aircraft systems; 1) analysis, 2) system design, 3) system software development and/or life cycle support, and 4) test and evaluation. Senior Programmer/Analyst: Shall have a PhD and at least 2 years applicable experience (Measured from BS degree), or a MS degree and at least 4 years applicable experience (measured from BS degree), or a BS degree and at least 6 years applicable experience. BS degree in engineering, computer science or mathematics. Work experience must encompass the design, development, testing and documentation of software into a real-time simulation architecture such as MFS or WST and APT type training devices. Experience in FORTRAN and C/C++ languages; UNIX and DEC VMS operation systems. Subject Matter Expert: Shall have a high school education with a total of at least 8 years of experience in the development of advanced technologies and tools used for aircraft and boat RDT&E and O&M type support, such as designing and developing prototype devices. At least 4 years of the above total experience shall have been as a team leader or supervisor performing the above management functions. NON-KEY LABOR CATEGORIES Technical Writer: Associates degree in English or engineering total of at least 3 years experience technical writing or editing or high school diploma with a minimum of 6 years experience with direct involvement technical writing and editing. At least 3 years experience with Microsoft Word and Excel is required. Junior Engineer: BS Degree in aerospace/aeronautical, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or engineering mechanics or computer science or mathematics, with at least 2 years experience in engineering applications. Entry Level Engineer: BS Degree in aerospace/aeronautical, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or engineering mechanics or computer science or mathematics. No experience is required. Programmer/Analyst: Shall have a BS degree in engineering, computer science or mathematics with class work in FORTRAN and/or C/C++. No experience is required. Senior Simulation Technician High School Diploma with at least 5-years total experience fabricating, integrating maintaining, testing and repairing hardware associated with at least one of the following areas: Flight or Boat Simulations, training devices, or UAVs. Simulation Technician High School Diploma with at least 2-years total experience fabricating, integrating maintaining, testing and repairing hardware associated with at least one of the following areas: Flight or Boat Simulations, training devices, or UAVs. Technical Assistant, Computer Programming High School Diploma with a minimum of 6 months total experience in the operation of computer, data entry and output compilation. Technical Assistant, Software Support High School Diploma with two years experience in the application of software used in specifically designed complex business or technical applications for PC or large computer processing systems. Technical Assistant, Project Management High School Diploma with a total of at least 2 years experience in budgetary and financial systems, analysis and written presentation of financial and technical data and information relating to the area of budgets and finance. Administrative High School diploma with at least 3 years total experience in word processing and typing, clerical work and utilization of financial database systems. The applicable SIC Code for this requirement is 8711. The applicable NAICS Code for this requirement is 541330. The estimated total level of effort is approximately 546,065 man-hours for a period of five years. The period of performance consists of one base year plus four option years with performance commencing approximately 20 December 2003. This action is a follow on to contract N00421-99-D-1433, the incumbent contractor is SAIC Science Applications International Corporation 10260 Campus Point Drive, San Diego, CA 92121. It is the Governments intent to award a single Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract to the offeror who provides the best overall value to the government, cost and non-cost factors considered. This is a sources sought and feedback from industry is also sought on our requirements as stated in this synopsis. THIS SYNOPSIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP). Interested sources are highly encouraged to submit a capability package as well as any questions, comments or suggestions to Mr. Troy Lower at: Naval Air Systems Command; Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division; Building 441; 21983 Bundy Road, Unit 7; Patuxent River, MD, 20670 and/or via email at LowerTH@navair.navy.mil. All responses must include the following information: Company name; Company address; Company Business Size; and Point-of-Contact (POC) name, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address. In addition please include a short summary of your companies skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge to support the above requirements. The total response to this synopsis should not be more than 5-10 pages. NAVAIR is particularly interested in seeking eligible small business concerns capable of providing the aforementioned services. Small business concerns should demonstrate their capabilities to perform the work as either the prime contractor or as a subcontractor capable of performing specific areas addressed in this synopsis. The Government anticipates releasing a draft Statement of Work (SOW) and Draft solicitation as well as hosting an Industry Day/Pre-Proposal conference prior to release of the official solicitation. The solicitation and all related documents (including the draft SOW/RFP) will be made available on the NAVAIR Home Page at http://www.navair.navy.mil/bus. Offerors who request a copy of the solicitation will be notified via email when it is released. All responsible sources may submit a proposal, which shall be considered by the agency.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, MD
- Zip Code: 20670
- Zip Code: 20670
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- SN00212372-W 20021129/021127213510 (fbodaily.com)
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