SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Ruggedized Military RFID Tags Phase II
- Notice Date
- 7/18/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Microelectronics Activity, Contracting Division 4234 54th Street, Building 620, McCellan, CA, 95652-1521
- ZIP Code
- 95652-1521
- Solicitation Number
- 6MC6C101
- Response Due
- 9/1/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/16/2006
- Description
- The purpose of this task is a follow on to RFID Tags, Phase I was awarded to Alien Technology Corp to develop an approach for ruggedization and improved performance of RFID tags and readers so that they can be used broadly in military environments. During Phase I, research and development activities were undertaken that explored pathways towards novel designs for RFID integrated circuits, roll-compatible assembly processes for ruggedized and high performance RFID tags, and advanced subsystems for high performance RFID readers. In Phase II, the contractor shall perform administrative, technical, and financial management function during the course of this effort and shall maintain a status of their effort towards achieving the objectives, including all technical activities and efforts, problems/deficiencies, impacts, and recommended solutions. A monthly report is required that describes the work accomplished versus the plan. The report shall include a financial status of the program against the plan. The Contractor shall hold periodic status reviews with the Government. As a minimum, one design review shall be conducted at the Contractor?s facility, and a kickoff meeting at DMEA. The contractor shall include meeting minutes in the following monthly report. The Contractor shall identify and receive written Government approval from the PCO, prior to committing to the use of, any privately developed items, intellectual property, processes, computer software and/or technical data. The contractor shall maintain a schedule for completion of all assigned tasks and deliverables. The completed work shall be tracked against the schedule and reported monthly. The contractor shall develop devices and test structures applicable to ruggedized, extended range RFID tags that are compliant with DoD policy regarding passive Class 1 RFID. The contractor shall investigate integrated circuit designs comprising ultra thin silicon on sapphire and/or bulk silicon integrated circuits to take advantage of the best properties of each substrate material. The contractor shall document the approach as an appendix to the final report. The contractor shall fabricate the Giant Magnetoresistive MRAM memory design developed in Phase I. The contractor shall test and characterize these devices. The contractor shall look at additional approaches for memory technology in low power ruggedized RFID applications. The contractor shall document the test results in an appendix to the final report. The contractor shall test and evaluate the devices developed in Phase I that provides a means for evaluation of UtSi chips? characteristics. The contractor shall also develop test circuits and approaches leading toward transponder devices on UtSi and/or 0.13 micron bulk Si. The contractor shall document the results as an appendix to the final report. The contractor shall investigate roll-to-roll compatible processes for the fabrication of low-cost, ruggedized RFID tags. The contractor shall pay particular attention to the durability of electrical interconnects in the tag assembly, and to novel low-cost antenna materials, designs, and fabrication methods, providing compatibility with high performance and ruggedized RFID ICs and memory structures. The contractor shall document the results as an appendix to the final report. The contractor shall investigate the ruggedness and long-term reliability of interconnection and bonding of tag components, with a goal of developing a more reliable device. Areas of investigation can include tag metal interconnects, bonding of the strap to the antenna, laminates useful after the fluidic self assembly process. Research will include materials testing of new conducting inks for reliable and low-cost printed interconnects and wires. The contractor shall investigate novel approaches towards low cost, roll-compatible antenna materials, and on the design, fabrication and characterization of such antennas. Using the design selected in Phase I, the contractor shall prototype RFID transceiver architectures that are resilient to high levels of interference while simultaneously providing a large signal dynamic range to accommodate longer distance EPC Class I Generation 2 decoding. The contractor shall document the results as an appendix to the final report. Contractor shall test the viability of FPGA logic elements developed in Phase I to provide both high dynamic range and high channel selectivity, as well as bit-recovery algorithms that can detect and decode tags in high noise environments. The contractor shall investigate reader operating systems appropriate for device management and reader-to-reader communications link for the purposes of collaborative device management and self-orchestration in high density and ad-hoc mobile environments characteristic of military deployments. Contractor shall develop a reader-to-reader communications link to allow RFID Tag information and reader system fault information to be shared among readers. The contractor shall investigate algorithms for collaborative fault-management among readers. The Contractor shall summarize all work accomplished under this SOW, including significant technical accomplishments, problems encountered, solutions implemented, and recommendations for improvement. At the conclusion of the contract, the Contractor shall prepare a presentation that presents the results of these studies. See Note 22.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Defense Microelectronics Activity, Contracting Office, 4234 54th Street, McClellan, CA 95652-2100
- Zip Code: 95652
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 95652
- Record
- SN01092039-W 20060720/060718221447 (fbodaily.com)
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