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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 25, 2004 FBO #0972
SOLICITATION NOTICE

A -- UACO Part 2 - Cooperative Engagement Demonstration

Notice Date

7/23/2004
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

541710 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
 

Contracting Office

Aviation Applied Technology Directorate, ATTN: AMSRD-AMR-AA-C, Building 401, Lee Boulevard, Fort Eustis, VA 23604-5577
 

ZIP Code

23604-5577
 

Solicitation Number

W911W6-04-R-0015
 

Response Due

9/17/2004
 

Archive Date

11/16/2004
 

Point of Contact

Pat Hagginbothom, 757-878-4818
 

E-Mail Address

Email your questions to Aviation Applied Technology Directorate
(phagginbothom@aatd.eustis.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD), U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Center intends to solicit technical and cost proposals on a cooperative engagement demonstration effort that forms Part 2 of the Unmanned Autonomous Co llaborative Operations (UACO) program, an Army Science and Technology Objective (STO). Multiple contracts were awarded under Part 1 of this program earlier in FY04 (Solicitation number W911W6-04-R-0003). This is open to all US contractors and not limited t o successful Part 1 contractors. The goal of Part 2 of this program is to demonstrate air-ground cooperative engagements using small, highly autonomous UAVs to enhance combat effectiveness of mounted/dismounted infantry companies. The team of unmanned veh icles, including small highly autonomous UAVs should require minimal operator effort to accomplish the mission. The cooperative engagement demonstration envisioned is of a Future Combat System (FCS) equipped Infantry Company receiving a mission to conduct a movement to contact. The unit??????s designated unmanned system user/operator develops a high-level mission plan that will deploy a team of unmanned vehicles to execute this mission, at least one of these being representative of a Class II UAV. As part of the mission, the team of unmanned vehicles will conduct reconnaissance forward of the unit, detect target(s), track them, and collaborate on the execution or hand-off of an engagement for a chosen target. The team of unmanned vehicles will assist the u nit in executing the mission with minimum human intervention. Offerors will be required to propose test vignettes depicting autonomous, collaborative capabilities in the unmanned team. The operational scenarios may be based on military operations in urban terrain (MOUT) and/or open and rolling terrain. Test vignettes may include day and night operations. Test vignettes may include weapons engagement by ground-based manned systems. The Government will arrange for the demonstration test site. The Government will provide ground-based manned vehicles, targets, weapons, ammunition and associated support at this test-site as necessary. Government will not furnish any unmanned vehicles. Contractor tasks under this effort will include development of a Statement of Work that clearly reflects the technical approach and is representative of the schedule down to the WBS, scenario and system requirements definition, preliminary and detailed system design, autonomous and collaborative behavior algorithm development, syst em hardware and software integration, test and evaluation, test plan preparation and participation in the cooperative engagement demonstration with Contractor-furnished autonomous unmanned vehicles. Efforts associated with this demonstration are expected t o achieve Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 6. A single cost-plus fixed-fee contract is anticipated. The planned period of performance for this effort is 30 months with an anticipated award date of 17 December 2004. The RFP will be made available to potential offerors, not sooner than 15 days followin g publication in FedBizOps, on the AATD web site at the following URL: http://www.aatd.eustis.army.mil in the section marked ??????How we do Business??????, Open announcements and solicitations. This action is unrestricted and will not be open to partici pation by foreign firms. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code applicable to this procurement is 541710. The small business size standard for number of employees is 1,000 for aircraft parts and space vehicles. All responsible so urces may submit a proposal, which if received timely, shall be considered by the agency. This program is unclassified subject to export controls. To be successful offerors must include a certified DD Form 2345, Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreeme nt. To obtain certification, contact: Commander, Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS), ATTN: U.S. Cer tification Office, 74 Washington Avenue North, Battle Creek, MI 49017-3084 or call the DLIS at (800) 352-3572. The DLIS Certification Lookup service is available via the Internet at: http://www.dlis.dla.mil/ccal. Note 26 applies.
 

Place of Performance

Address: Aviation Applied Technology Directorate ATTN: AMSRD-AMR-AA-C, Building 401, Lee Boulevard Fort Eustis VA

Zip Code: 23604-5577

Country: US
 

Record

SN00629612-W 20040725/040723212436 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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