SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- Pod mounted, high performance surface search radar
- Notice Date
- 3/22/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- 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-HBSS0001
- Response Due
- 4/20/2005
- Archive Date
- 5/5/2005
- Description
- NAVAIR is seeking information on producing a pod mounted, high performance surface search radar that is flight cleared for mounting onto the port outboard wing station of the C130 E/H/J/T aircraft. NAVAIR needs a pod mounted high performance search radar, with SAR, ISAR, and MTI, that can be rapidly installed or uninstalled with minimal aircraft modification. The only airframe modifications desired are NAVAIR installed cabling runs to the wing station. The operator stations would be on a NAVAIR pallet mounted in the cargo bay. NAVAIR requires a system that can meet or exceed the parameters listed below. Ideally the preferred solution would be an integrated pod/radar system; however, NAVAIR understand that some radar manufactures may not be able to accomplish this. NAVAIR will give serious consideration to radar only submissions ? radar performance is the key factor for this RFI. A white paper with bullets listing the features and tabulated performance data is the preferred format. 1. Pod A) Radar can operate indefinitely in a non-pressurized pod environment to an altitude of 40,000Ft. B) Radar may be side looking, forward looking, or mounted on the bottom of the pod with 360 degree field of view. Masking of the radar will be required for Crew Safety. C) Pod radar system will meet or exceed NAVAIR flight clearance requirements for land based aircraft. NAVAIR flight clearances for the C130 E/H/J/T models will be required. A complete flight clearance data package is required for each model. D) Complete level 3 design and clearance data package for the pod will be provided to NAVAIR as a CDRL. E) Pod will be designed to occupy the outboard port wing station, number 330.1. F) All cooling and heating requirements for the radar must be completely contained within the pod. G) Power for the pod will be supplied via NAVAIR installed wing wiring. H) INS and GPS data will be provided to the pod via an independent GPS/INS (LN 100G) feeding a 1553 data bus that is independent from the aircraft?s data bus. No aircraft data bus interface will be required. I) A plot of radar field of view will be generated for the outer port wing station number 330.1. 2. Radar The radar will have the following general performance parameters: A) ISAR mode Target resolution in the maritime or terrestrial ISAR mode shall be at least one (1) foot (Threshold). B) Synthetic Aperture Radar Mode The radar shall have a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mode. Resolution shall be no greater then one (1) foot. Range shall be no less than 50NM operating at altitudes of 40,000Ft. C) MTI The radar will have ground MTI and maritime MTI capability. For ground MTI minimum detectable radial velocities of 5 Kts are desired (Threshold). Maritime MTI mode should be able to detect medium surface craft traveling at speeds of 5 kts or greater in sea states up to 3 at ranges up to 50 NM. D) Surface Search Modes The radar shall have a wide area search mode and a periscope detection mode. E) Radar will be able to detect medium surface targets with 8m2 RCS at 5000 feet altitude, sea state 3, PD=.9 at a range of 50nm. Assume no precipitation and no multi-path. F) Air to Air detection and tracking against Cessna sized aircraft at ranges of 50NM and velocities of 75-500 Kts is highly desirable. (Objective). G) Radar will also have to meet the following performance criteria: Contact Characteristics Detect1 Slant Classify1 Slant Range Note 1 Range Note 1 (nm/feet) (nm/feet) Vessels greater than 150 200/27,000 100/27,000 feet in length 3 Vessels greater than 50 but less than 150 feet in length 3 75/10,000 50/10,000 Vessels greater than 15 but 50/5,000 25/5,000 less than 50 feet in length 3 Life Raft (with 1 person) 2 25/2,000 N/A 4 Notes: 1. Sea state 3, 90% probability of detection required. Detection and classification altitudes are thresholds. 2. Six to eight person life raft with 1 person in raft 3. Vessel category representatives: B. 15-50' category - a 30ft ?Wellcraft Scarab? (fiberglass hull w/center console) with twin 200+ HP outboards C. 50-150' category - a 100' steel hull western rig fishing trawler D. >150' category - a 200' steel hull, aft superstructure coastal freighter 4. Objective requirement of 5/2,000 (nm/feet) for this category H) Radar Target Designation The radar shall provide the means in the surface search mode for the operator to designate a target for tracking. I) Radar Track-While-Scan The radar shall have a track-while-scan capability of up to 30 targets. J) Search and Rescue Radar Transponder Detection The radar shall be capable of detecting and displaying the relative bearing to Search and Rescue Radar Transponder (SART) signals within 10 nm slant range. K) Radar Composite Accuracy The composite positional accuracy of the target displayed on the radar shall be within 100 meters at 5 nautical miles slant range. L) Radar formats Radar will output digital data in standard DOD or Commercial formats. Radar will output the MTI dots in near real time NMTI/GMTI format. Radar will have the ability to capture snapshots of the screen in populated NITF 2.1 format. M) Radar cuing The radar will be able to cue other sensors via 1553 and Ethernet. N) Radar I/O Radar will utilize Ethernet as primary data bus. Control will be via 1553 or Ethernet. O) Appropriate control software will be provided. WinXP based software is preferred. Technical Point of Contact: David Allocca, 301 863 0607, david.allocca@navy.mil
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