SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- PLANNED CAPABILITIES IN THE JOINT EFFECTS MODEL (JEM) BLOCK II
- Notice Date
- 1/23/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- 4301 Pacific Highway Bldg OT4 Code 02, San Diego CA 92110-3127
- ZIP Code
- 92110-3127
- Solicitation Number
- SPAWAR_Headquarters_MKTSVY_1D282
- Response Due
- 2/16/2004
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact - Heidi L Radaford, Contract Specialist, 619-524-7386
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Contract Specialist
(heidi.radaford@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1.0 Description 1.1 The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) is seeking sources for available atmospheric transport and diffusion technologies for incorporation in the Joint Effect Model (JEM) Block II. 1.2 THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. THIS IS NOT A NOTICE OF SOLICITATION ISSUANCE. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes ? it does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This request for information does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website and the SPAWAR E-Commerce Central website at https://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil. It is the responsibility of the potential respondents to monitor these sites for additional information pertaining to this potential requirement. 1.3 Interested parties are requested to provide a written response to this RFI. Parties may include industry, government, and academic institutions. 2.0 Background. 2.1 The Joint Effects Model (JEM) is a program managed by the Joint Program Manager for Information Systems (JPM IS) within the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO CBD). The mission of JEM is to merge DOD Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) hazard prediction modeling technologies into one common use DOD system. JEM will be capable of modeling hazards in a variety of scenarios including: counterforce, passive defense, accidents and/or incidents, high altitude releases, urban/littoral/coastal CBRN environments, building interiors, water borne hazards, infectious and contagious diseases and human performance degradation. JEM will support defense against Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC), and Toxic Industrial Chemical (TIC)/Toxic Industrial Material (TIM) weapons, devices, and incidents. Operationally JEM will support planning to mitigate the effects of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), to include weapons with CBRN payloads and TIM releases. JEM will reside on and interface with command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I), systems. Warning systems on those C4I systems (e.g. the Joint Warning and Reporting Network, or JWARN) will use JEM to predict hazard areas and provide warning to U.S. forces within those areas. Analytically, JEM shall assist DoD components, as well as allied or coalition forces, to train jointly; develop doctrine and tactics; and assess warfighting, technology, materiel development proposals, and force structure. JEM will operate in a variety of configurations, which include: 1. Standalone 2. Networked ? but not in the Common Operational Environment (COE) 3. Integrated with JWARN and the COE A classified version of JEM will be developed to enable use of classified data. An unclassified version of JEM will support homeland defense use by Civil Authorities. JEM Block I is under development and will be released for operational use in FY05. 3.0 Requirements. 3.1 For respondents providing information regarding Planned Capabilities in the JEM Block II, we are soliciting information regarding responses to any of the following capabilities: 3.1.1 For the Urban Hazard Effects Prediction Modeling capability, we are soliciting new modeling components for inclusion in JEM. 1. Ability and accuracy to calculate three-dimensional wind patterns in urban areas based on weather observations and larger-scale weather model predictions. 2. Ability and accuracy to calculate contaminant transport and dispersion in urban areas outside of buildings, including how dispersion is affected by the presence of buildings. 3. Ability and accuracy to calculate three-dimensional dispersion patterns, and provide the ability to predict contaminant concentration and dosage (time-integrated concentration) at any location on the ground or at elevated locations including the sides and roofs of building exteriors. 4. Ability to base calculations on digital three-dimensional building representations inputted based on commonly used data formats. 5. Ability to provide automated connection between urban wind and dispersion models and larger-scale models, enabling the system to calculate consistent, unified results when contaminants move into or out of an urban area. 6. Ability to include a three-dimensional viewing capability to represent the wind vectors at any level within the computational domain, and contaminants at user-specified concentration levels. 7. Ability to modify the size of the computational domain to include cities of all sizes. 8. Ability to simulate releases at ground level, from elevated locations including high-altitude releases, from partially enclosed spaces such as courtyards, and from the roofs and sides of buildings. 9. Ability to simulate moving and time-varying releases. 10. Ability to model multiple simultaneous releases, creating a unified hazard prediction. 11. Ability to support near real-time and faster than real-time operations. 3.1.2 For the Improved Transport and Diffusion methodology, we are soliciting improvements to the existing components of JEM. 1. Ability to support near real-time and faster than real-time operations. 2. Reduction of the areas falsely warned and falsely not warned. 3. Ability to include a three-dimensional viewing capability to represent the wind vectors at any level within the computational domain, and contaminants at user-specified concentration levels. 4. Ability to dynamically modify the size of the computational domain. 5. Ability and accuracy to calculate three-dimensional dispersion patterns, and provide the ability to predict contaminant concentration and dosage at any location 6. Improved ability and accuracy to calculate contaminant transport and dispersion over current transport and dispersion models. 3.1.3 For the Intercepted Missile Hazard Effects Prediction capability, we are soliciting new modeling components for inclusion in JEM. 1. Ability to calculate dispersion resulting from sources at elevations up to 200 km. 2. Ability to incorporate environmental degradation effects on hazardous materials at all levels. 3. Ability to incorporate both climatological and real-time meteorological and geophysical data supplied by external sources and models. 4. Ability and accuracy to calculate three-dimensional dispersion patterns, and provide the ability to predict contaminant concentration and dosage at any location and elevation within the computational domain. 5. Ability to include a three-dimensional viewing capability to represent the wind vectors at any level within the computational domain, and contaminants at user-specified concentration levels 6. Ability to represent up to 5000 missile interceptions simultaneously. 7. Ability to support near real-time and faster than real-time operations. 3.1.4 For the coastal and littoral areas capability, we are soliciting improvements to the existing components of JEM. 1. Ability to incorporate weather observations and weather model data at sufficient spatial resolution to represent complex atmospheric patterns. 2. Ability to incorporate updated weather data at sufficient frequency to represent rapidly changing atmospheric patterns. 3.1.5 For the improved population impact capability, we are soliciting new modeling components to be incorporated in JEM, and/or improvements to the existing components of JEM. 1. Ability to make long-term predictions (up to 180 days) of fatalities and incapacitation in specified metropolitan, regional, or countrywide areas, based on climatological or historical weather data. 2. Ability to incorporate population data showing expected population figures at various times of the day, week, or year. 3. Ability to make predictions incorporating movements and actions of people such as area evacuations and sheltering in place. 3.1.6 For the source term location estimation capability, we are soliciting new modeling components to be incorporated in JEM. 1. Ability to estimate the location of a release given information about the source characteristics, the meteorological conditions, and hazard sensor data. 2. Ability to improve estimates of the location and characteristics of a release by combining dispersion calculations, updated meteorological data, and hazard sensor data. 3. Ability to estimate the uncertainty in the source location and source characteristic calculation. 3.1.7 For the strike file capability, we are soliciting improvements to the existing components of JEM. 1. Ability to perform batch runs of strike files. 2. Ability to estimate human effects resulting from a worldwide strike involving up to 5000 weapons, using historical weather or climatological data, in less than 90 minutes. 3. Ability to process strike files across the complete globe, including the International Dateline, the Equator, and high latitudes (87 degrees and above). 3.2 The JPM IS is interested in determining what products meeting the above criteria exist in the marketplace. This market-knowledge information will be used to help determine a strategy for possible future acquisitions. Upon review of submissions, JPM IS expects to request additional descriptive information in the form of a questionnaire regarding those systems with potential applicability to JEM Block II. Upon review of submissions, briefings and demonstrations may also be requested. However, respondents to this announcement are NOT obligated to provide any additional information, briefings, or demonstrations. Invited briefings or demonstrations may be scheduled as early as two to three weeks after white paper due date in locations designated by the program office in Washington, DC or San Diego, CA. Demonstrations will be expected, at a minimum, to provide government evaluators with an opportunity to examine the proposed system and observe its application to planned capabilities in the JEM Block II. 4.0 White Paper Submissions 4.1 Interested parties are requested to respond to this RFI with a White paper no later than 16 February 2004, 3:00 p.m. PST. 4.2 White papers submissions shall be Microsoft Office 2000 compatible or Adobe PDF format. The package shall include the following: (1) Name and address of applicant (Corporate/Principal Office) (2) Name, telephone and email address of point of contact (3) Type of business (i.e.: small business, small disadvantaged 8(a) certified, Woman-owned small business, small disadvantaged business (not 8(a) certified) if applicable (4) the names of developers (5) the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) (6) brief description of the proposed candidate technology (7) Contractor?s/organization?s capabilities. 4.3 Responses shall include identification of any proprietary components, intellectual property issues, and releasability issues; a statement explaining which JEM Block II capability is addressed; and a summary of any verification and validation study results. Responses shall include information describing system requirements, system architecture design, and runtime performance. The JEM architecture has been provided to support responses. There is no limit on the number of candidate systems a party may propose; however each proposal is limited to 5 pages. Each response must reference the RFI title. 4.4 The Government will not pay for any materials, or presentations provided in response to this synopsis and submittals will not be returned to the sender. 4.5 All interested parties shall submit their inputs to Heidi Radaford, Code 02-22P, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Contract Office (4301 Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA 92110-3127), via e-mail only, at heidi.radaford@navy.mil.
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