PRESOL | D | The U S Army INSCOM intends to award a sole source contract to Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, Georgia for the Research and Analysis of Radars, Sensors, Fire-Control Systems and Air Defense Systems.

FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 01, 2003 FBO #0454
SOLICITATION NOTICE

D -- The U S Army INSCOM intends to award a sole source contract to Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, Georgia for the Research and Analysis of Radars, Sensors, Fire-Control Systems and Air Defense Systems.

Notice Date: 2/27/2003
Notice Type: Solicitation Notice
Contracting Office: HQ USAINSCOM, Directorate of Contracting, ATTN: IAPC-DOC, 8825 Beulah Street, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5246
ZIP Code: 22060-5246
Solicitation Number: DASC01-03-R-0009
Archive Date: 5/13/2003
Point of Contact: Matt Klink, 703-706-2771
E-Mail Address: Email your questions to HQ USAINSCOM, Directorate of Contracting
(mrklink@inscom.army.mil)
Small Business Set-Aside: N/A
Description: NA The U S Army INSCOM intends to award a sole source contract to Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, Georgia for the Research and Analysis of Radars, Sensors, Fire-Control Systems and Air Defense Systems. This synopsis serves a dual purpose 1) to ser ve as notification as the Army?s intent to award a sole source contract and 2) to serve as a market survey to access capability of any other potential source that may have the capability to perform this effort. Any potential bidder who feels they may be ab le to compete for this requirement should send a capabilities statement to the INSCOM Contracting Office to the following email address mrklink@inscom.army.mil for review and assessment no later than 3/14/2003. SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENT: The contractor shall be capable of formulating detailed assessments on foreign weapons systems that highlight the various components and technology. Emphasis will be placed on developing estimates of threat performance against vari ous types of targets to include rotary- wing, fixed-wing, missiles, and projectiles. Performance measures shall include maximum detection ranges, generation of coverage diagrams (range-height-angle charts), signal-to-interference ratio charts, probability of detection charts, range, angle and Doppler resolution, range, angle and Doppler accuracy for monopulse or conical scan radars. The assessments shall quantify tracking performance by both radar and electro-optics sensor systems with applicable fire-con trol algorithms such as linear predictor, second-order predictor, and Kalman filtering. The contractor shall be required to conduct basic technology research that identifies state-of-the-art in various countries or geographical regions, identifies key rese archers in the fields of radar and electro-optics sensors, and manufacturers capabilities. The contractor must be experienced in the architecture and application of NGICs specialized radar analysis software package ?MBERT? (see below for an overview of MBERT). The contractor must be able to formulate assessments and be available to assist in pro duct improvement projects relating to MBERT. The contractor shall produce technical assessments of short-range air-defense search/acquisition radars, fire-control radars, fire-control systems, electro-optics, direct-view optics, image intensifier systems, thermal-imaging sensors, closed-circuit telev ision tracking systems, passive radar, counter-stealth radars and technology, artillery-locating radars, active-protection systems, ground surveillance radars, radar signals analyses, radar transmitters, receivers, signal processing systems, phased-array a nd reflector antenna designs. The contractor shall assemble a team of experts in the following areas: antenna theory, electromagnetic-wave propagation, multipath and clutter effects on radar performance, receiver system design, radar detection theory, conical scan and monopulse radar t racking /fire-control processes and techniques, coherent radar performance, pulse compression, FMCW radar, radar signal processing techniques, and electro-optics systems. All analysis tools shall be developed in the MatLab/Simulink environment. The analytical tools developed shall incorporate the effects of all commonly encountered degradation factors associated with radar in realistic scenarios. The tool shall make provisions for utilizing standard antenna radiation patterns for typical refle ctor and phased-array antennas or incorporating measured antenna patterns from foreign materiel exploitation. The tool shall provide patterns for a variety of different antenna illumination functions and incorporate the effects of feed blockage. The analytical tool shall incorporate a state-of-the-art target and environment methodology that provides the most realistic target environment available for short-range low-altitude air-defense situations. The environment analysis shall incorporate the e ffects of multipath propagation; this sha ll include the interference region, the intermediate region, and the diffraction region. The contractor shall review the existing MBERT clutter model and recommend/adapt useful portions for integration into the analysis tool. The tool should also make pr ovision for various target flight paths and associated variations in the radar cross-section as well as the effects of dynamic radar cross-section associated with helicopter bodies. The toolset shall have the ability to easily import data from ASCII text files or Excel spread sheets. The tools shall incorporate the effects of the receiver and signal processing on the various aspects of radar performance and the effects of clutter correlation on the various measures of performance. The outputs of the toolset shall provide graphical or tabular results of various radar performance measures to include: nominal detection ranges, signal-to-interference ratio vs. range, radar coverage diagrams, range accuracy, angular accuracy, range & ang ular resolution, signal processing responses, sum/difference channel performance, antenna patterns, and power densities received at the target. The toolset shall allow the operator save output data into an ASCII text file or an Excel spread sheet format and shall also allow the operator to be able to easily alter the radar, environment, and target parameters in a GUI-driven interface. In addition, the on-line documentation shall have detailed explanations of the models used and an explanation of the para meters and their limits. Additional research tasks may be required to include: scientific and technical literature research to establish the status of foreign capabilities in advanced areas of communications and non-communications research from scientific and technical published l iterature. The contractor shall provide two data products for each subject area: A bibliography of significant source material including the listing of all known institutional affiliations of the authors and an analysis of the organization of research effo rts; and a summary report for each subject area containing a synopsis of the of the research efforts. The report shall identify the level of maturity of research in terms of the following descriptive levels: 1. Basic Research - the most basic level of rese arch, generally before applications are obvious. 2.Exploratory Development - continued basic research oriented toward examining promising capabilities of a new technology. 3.Advanced Development - the maximization of a new technology?s attributes to make i t feasible for application to specific use. 4.Engineering Development - the inclusion of a new technology into end-use hardware. 5.Production - evidence of production of end-use hardware including the technology. 6.The rationale for each technical maturity assessment. A brief Overview of MBERT MBERT is a specialized analysis tool that provides concise performance assessments of short-range air defense artillery and integrated missile systems. It incorporates the current state-of-the-art in desktop computer analytical tools that has provisions f or radar and integrated radar/electro-optic fire-control systems. The tool covers all technical areas applicable to modern radars/fire-control systems to include antenna theory, electromagnetic-wave propagation, multipath and clutter effects on radar perf ormance, receiver system design, radar detection theory, conical scan and monopulse radar tracking/fire-control processes and techniques, coherent radar performance, pulse compression, FMCW radar, radar signal processing techniques, integration of elect ro-optic sights to include IRCCD, image intensifiers, direct view sights, etc. The analysis tools are developed in the MatLab/Simulink environment.The MBERT model is developed on a Windows/PC platform using current versions of the Matlab (version 6.5) and Simulink (version 5.0) environment. The models exist with significant detail i n the Simulink environmen t with additional functionality achieved by calling Matlab m-files. The Matlab compiler is used to generate C++ files from the Matlab m-files when necessary for computational efficiency. The Matlab Signal Processing Toolbox and the Simulink DSP Block set a re used for improved productivity in developing the tools. The Real-Time Workshop is used to generate executable files from the Simulink models. The Simulink environment promotes the development of modular object-oriented modules that increase the flexibil ity and maintainability of the program. User-friendly interfaces will be developed to increase the usability of the model. The analytical methods in MBERT incorporate the effects of all commonly encountered degradation factors associated with radar in real istic scenarios. Such effects include the effects transmitter phase noise, timing jitter, and other instabilities. The tool will make provisions for utilizing standard antenna radiation patterns for typical reflector and phased-array antennas or incorpora ting measured antenna patterns from foreign materiel exploitation. The tool will provide patterns for a variety of different antenna illumination functions and incorporate the effects of feed blockage. It also has provisions for incorporating measured ant enna patterns from ASCII or Excel files The analytical tool incorporates a state-of-the-art target and environment methodology that provides the most realistic target environment available for short-range low-altitude air-defense situations. The environme nt analysis will incorporate the effects of multipath propagation, including effects on clutter returns arising from the interference region, the intermediate region, and the diffraction region. The tool will also make provision for various target flight paths and associated variations in the radar cross-section as well as the effects of dynamic radar cross-section associated with helicopter bodies. The toolset will have the ability to easily import data (such as target RCS versus angle cuts) from flat AS CII files or Excel spreadsheets. The tools incorporate the effects of the receiver and signal processing on the various aspects of radar performance. The tool will also include the effects of clutter correlation on the various measures of performance. Th e outputs of the toolset will provide graphical or tabular results of various radar performance measures to include: nominal detection ranges, signal-to-interference ratio vs. range, radar coverage diagrams, range accuracy, angular accuracy, range & angula r resolution, signal processing responses, sum/difference channel performance, antenna patterns, and power densities received at the target. The toolset will allow the operator to easily save any output data into a flat ASCII file or an Excel spread sheet format.
Place of Performance: Address: HQ USAINSCOM, Directorate of Contracting ATTN: IAPC-DOC, 8825 Beulah Street Fort Belvoir VA; Zip Code: 22060-5246; Country: US
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D -- The U S Army INSCOM intends to award a sole source contract to Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, Georgia for the Research and Analysis of Radars, Sensors, Fire-Control Systems and Air Defense Systems.