SOURCES SOUGHT
16 -- Spiral Development for AFSAT
- Notice Date
- 11/22/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 336411
— Aircraft Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AAC - Air Armament Center, AAC/PK 205 West D Avenue, Suite 433, Eglin AFB, FL, 32542-6864
- ZIP Code
- 32542-6864
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-F08635-02-C-SPIRAL
- Response Due
- 12/22/2005
- Archive Date
- 1/6/2006
- Description
- Spiral Developments for the Air Force Subscale Aerial Target (AFSAT) - The Air Armament Center, Air-to-Air Missile Wing, Aerial Targets Squadron, Contracts Office, Eglin AFB FL. AFSATs are being procured under a competitively awarded contract with Composite Engineering, Inc., using full and open competition procedures. AAC/SASG/RT plans to contract for development efforts to enhance the performance of the AFSAT to meet operational performance objectives not attainable in the baseline target configuration. The first spiral anticipated by the Government includes the design, integration, and test of radar cross section (RCS) augmentation devices into the target system to make it more threat representative. The Air Force contracted for a radar augmentation study to assess the augmentation options and the study verified that the RCS requirements might be met in a cost effective manner using a passive system. An unclassified version of this study is available upon request. This task would require access to and generation of information up to the security classification of SECRET. Also included in this spiral is a developmental effort to internalize the DLQ-9 Electronic Attack Pod electronic components within the AFSAT. For this effort the contractor, with program office arranged support from the EA component designers at NAVAIR Airborne Threat Simulation Organization (ATSO), Point Mugu, California, is required to integrate, the external pod mounted DLQ-9 EA electronic components internal to the AFSAT airframe and to test this internal mounted design to verify successful carriage and operation. Also included in this spiral is the incorporation of several aerodynamic improvement efforts. These improvements include: a) changing the sweep angle of the stabilator training edge, b) modifying the type and placement of bearing used on the stabilator torque tube, c) redesigning the process and material used to cap the tips of the stabilator, d) modifying or eliminating the engine thrust ejector, e) redesigning and implementing a change to decrease the gap between the rudder and vertical stabilizer, f) developing and providing aileron actuator arm enclosures, g) providing inset pockets to recess the radar altimeter antennas, h) providing and testing alternative flush mounted TM antennas, i) redesigning the bottom empennage such that the heat shield is recessed or flush with the outer mold line. Product improvements under this spiral development are required to be developed and verified in time to be incorporated into AFSAT Production Lot 4, which is scheduled for delivery beginning in February 2008. The second spiral development effort planned by the Government includes AFSAT hardware and software design, integration, and test activities required to provide the capability to simultaneously operate ALE-47 Chaff and DLQ-9 Electronic Attack (EA) Pods during AFSAT flight operations. It is anticipated that this effort may require configuration changes to both the AFSAT unique Target Test Set, as well as the AFSAT, hardware and software. In addition under this spiral development the contractor will also be required to design, develop, integrate and test a new dual function pod that will provide the functionality of both the current APC-4 Infrared Radiation Pod and the RCS augmentation devices developed under the RCS augmentation effort included in the first AFSAT spiral development. Product improvements under Spiral 2 are required for Production Lot 5, which is scheduled for delivery beginning in February 2009. The third spiral currently planned by the Government includes design, integration, and test of engine, airframe, and avionics software enhancements that would be required for the AFSAT to achieve low supersonic flight. Product improvements under Spiral 3 are required for Production Lot 8, which is scheduled for delivery beginning in February 2012. A Government-owned technical data package of the baseline AFSAT design does not exist to provide interested parties for use in these development efforts. The appropriate North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this proposed acquisition is 336411 with a size standard of 1,500 employees. Interested parties may submit statements of capability (SOC) demonstrating their ability to meet the requirements of these three development efforts within the required schedule. Responses are required NLT 22 Dec 05. This synopsis neither constitutes a Request for Proposal or Invitation for Bid, nor does it restrict the Government to an ultimate acquisition approach. This Sources Sought Synopsis should not be construed as a commitment by the Government for any purpose. As directed by the Foreign Disclosure Office, Eglin AFB, no foreign participation shall be allowed for this effort. See Numbered Notes 25 and 26.
- Record
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