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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 25, 2007 FBO #1917
SOURCES SOUGHT

A -- Sources Sought for Solid State Memory System

Notice Date
2/23/2007
 
Notice Type
Sources Sought
 
NAICS
541710 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
 
Contracting Office
RDECOM Acquisition Center - Adelphi, ATTN: AMSSB-ACA, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783-1197
 
ZIP Code
20783-1197
 
Solicitation Number
W911QX-07-SS-7000
 
Response Due
3/12/2007
 
Archive Date
5/11/2007
 
Small Business Set-Aside
N/A
 
Description
This notice is for informational purposes only. The U.S. Department of the Army, Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM), is seeking information on large scale solid state mass storage devices that meet the requirements outlined below . Specifically, the goal of this synopsis is to identify companies with mature systems or the ability to rapidly mature systems which support high speed collection, formatting, processing and non-volatile storage of data (GPS, INS, metadata, imagery, rada r, other) with capacities exceeding 10 Terabytes. The types of memory components currently under consideration are D-RAM, S-RAM and NAND Flash memory. The preference is toward true non-volatile technology such as NAND flash, however responses can include other technologies so long as it can be shown that they are of sufficient maturity, capability and availability to meet all requirements. Upon the conclusion of this announcement, the Government plans on reviewing the responses according to capability, effectiveness (performance), maturity, complexity, c ost and deploy ability (to include maintainability, reliability, and ability to be used on either or both fixed wing and/or rotary types of platforms). It is possible that multiple responses may contain similar approaches. We request that sources capable of meeting the Government's technical requirements provide detailed information about its products. In order to allow a more consistent review of the re sponses, the following response format is recommended: 1) Technology Description  What memory technology is used in the Solid State Memory System and the principles of operation ; 2) System Description  What comprises the system prototype/final system f rom a hardware standpoint (size, weight, location) and interface requirements (power, data) and what existing equipment is available; Limitations, technical risks and requirements that cannot be met should also be addressed. 3) Maturity Level  The ability of the system to meet the maturity requirement and how the ability was assessed; 4) Cost of Implementation  ROM costs and schedule for design and development of an initial prototype for production system in the 10 to 100 Terabyte range. Respondees should also address pricing for production of additional units in quantities of less than ten; and 5) Deployability  What technical or maintainability, or reliability limitations that would effect the deployment of this system on an airborne platform. Respondee s are encouraged to address the benefits of expected increases in storage component density and per byte cost decreases that typically come to the market place. Solid State Storage System Requirements a. System Storage capacity: " 10 Terabytes required, 90 Terabytes or more desired b. Data storage Interface: 1. The main input interface for high speed data will be multiple channel data streams at 2.4Gbs each or greater. The sustained data rate: per channel can reach 250 Mbytes/sec. Any industry standard interface applicable to imagery, metadata, INS, and GPS da ta can be used. 2. Up to 16 industry standard connections may be used to spread the data across storage modules. 3. Support storage at data rates of 3.5 GBytes / sec. minimum sustained for 45 minutes minimum (required). Desired continuous data storage needs are 4 to 8 hours of data which is approximately 75 Terabytes. c. Data Transfer Interface: 1. The system must be rapidly removable from an aircraft and easily transportable for use with ground systems and offload of stored data to long term archive systems, making of copies of the entire data set and making copies of subsets of the data will be required. 2. Must support a high speed data transfer mechanism to offload stored data to ground processing systems using industry standard high speed interfaces. d. Real-time Data Access: 1. System must support capability to perform on-aircraft data access read operations to retrieve limited amounts of stored data at a significantly lower data rate (20 megabits or higher) in parallel with all of the other operations as described above. 2. I/O to the on-board data read shall be supported via Ethernet (required) and additionally FiberChannel and/or PCI-E interfaces, or equivalent. e. Architecture: 1. A modular architecture of 5 to 10 Terabytes per physical unit is required to provide the capability to scale storage capacity to a variety of platform applications. 2. The architecture must allow for scalable storage capacity from 10 Terabytes to 100+ Terabytes with parallel interface channels for input. f. Environmental / Physical: 1. Physical Size: " 10 Terabytes storage unit less than 19.0 in W x 26.25in (Versa Module Eurocard 15U) H x 18.0in D 2. Shock: " Operating Shock 65G, 2 ms " Non-operating Shock 250G, 2 ms 3. Temperature " Operating 32? F to 131? F 0? C to 55? C " Non-operating -40? F to 149? F -40? C to 65? C 4. Humidity " Operating 5-95% RH non-condensing " Non-operating 5-95% RH non-condensing 5. Altitude " Operating -1,000 feet to 20,000 feet " Non-operating -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet g. Per Unit Cost Goal (after initial prototypes): less than $200k per 10 Terabytes h. Maturity: Proposed system components must be available in sufficient quantities to allow for production and deployment of three or more systems with capacities of 10 to 100 terabytes within the coming 12 month time frame. Responses should be submitted in electronic form (documents in MS Word via email) and not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length. Responses must be emailed to: rdecomac-adelphi@arl.army.mil. The submissions must be marked with : Response to Sources Sought Announcement for Solid State Memory System. It is desirable that data be received with unlimited rights to the Government. However, we recognize that proprietary data may be included with the information provided. If so, clearly mark such proprietary information. It is possible that the Government will request additional information during the review process. Such requests, along with any responses to such requests, will be transmitted through a warranted Contracting Officer. This sources sought synopsis is being published for the gathering of information only and shall not be construed as a request for competitive proposals or as an obligation on the part of the U.S. Government. Funding is presently not available and not guara nteed. Costs associated with the preparation and submission of information and/or any follow-up information requests are the responsibility of the Interested Party and these costs will not be reimbursed by the Government. In addition to the information submitted in accordance with the above, interested parties need to submit a written, detailed capabilities statement describing specific qualifications of personnel, and demonstrated experience of the personnel and company in performing work in the discipline being addressed in the technical portion of the response. All interested parties, regardless of size, are encouraged to respond to this request for information. Responses to this sources sought synopsis are due no later than 11:59 pm local time on 12 March 2007. Please be advised that .zip and .exe files cannot be accepted.
 
Place of Performance
Address: RDECOM Acquisition Center - Adelphi ATTN: AMSSB-ACA, 2800 Powder Mill Road Adelphi MD
Zip Code: 20783-1197
Country: US
 
Record
SN01238049-W 20070225/070223221453 (fbodaily.com)
 
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