SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Request For Information - Unattended Ground Sensor
- Notice Date
- 11/18/2008
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Virginia Contracting Activity, Virginia Contracting Activity (ZD50), 200 MacDill Boulevard, Post Office Box 46563, Washington, District of Columbia, 20035-6563
- ZIP Code
- 20035-6563
- Solicitation Number
- 323881208
- Archive Date
- 12/18/2008
- Point of Contact
- Stephen E. Lee,, Phone: 7039072855
- E-Mail Address
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stephen.lee2@dia.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Request for Information (RFI) on Industry Standards for Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS) 1. INTRODUCTION It is the intent of the Virginia Contracting Activity (VACA) to obtain Industry technical information pertaining to STANDARDS in communications, protocols, command sets, payload formats, and hardware interfaces etc. for Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS). 2. PURPOSE To identify standards, technologies and sources that are considered best qualified to meet current and future requirements. The government will be evaluating UGS interfaces and standards for future efforts and seeks to identify interested parties and technologies. The goal is to understand current interfaces in sufficient detail and address systems interoperability. 3. BACKGROUND VACA recognizes the need for a common system architecture for DoD UGS due to lack of seamless interoperability of current UGS systems and components. Many UGS systems are encumbered with either proprietary design architecture or incompatibility of components. We are requesting information to assess current state of the industry common communications and architectures. Furthermore, this information will be utilized by the government to determine a path forward and define common standards for future UGS systems. To establish common standards will enable the services to employ UGS that are interoperable and provide increased operational effectiveness and utility. 4. Information Required This RFI is seeks information from UGS integrators/suppliers and sensor manufacturers pertaining to their current UGS systems. Provide information to include techncial descpritions of physical and logical interfaces: e.g. command sets, input/output protocols, payload formats, etc. Provide company capabilities on current interface standards as well as future plans to establish future systems standards. It is requested that interested sources respond with a capability synopsis broken into the following sections: (1) Describe the specific intent and/or use of their legacy, current production and future UGS. (2) Describe how their products interact and communicate with their various components. For example: How does a sensor send it’s signal to the main system component so it can trigger the camera? Specifically: (a)How is the data physically transmitted from one component to another? Is the data transferred by hard wired connections; e.g. analog radio frequency (RF), digital RF, IEEE 802.11/15, satellite communications, cell phone communications, etc. Be specific; include data transmission protocol, rates, range (line of site or over the horizon), encryption and frequencies. (b)When communicating from one component to another; what type of data signal is sent? (c)What format does the signal transmission follow when it is sent? (d)Does the data signal follow an industry standard format? If so, what standard does it follow? If not an industry standard format, could the data signal be modified to support an industry standard? Any proprietary hardware/software and/or data encoding should be identified. (e)What systems are your UGS currently compatible with? (f)What systems are your future UGS planned to be compatible with? (g)Are their any limiting factors on data transmission such as bandwidth, refresh rate, etc.? (h)What future standards would you propose for DoD UGS that would allow for interoperability similar to that of the goal of the community support for SIEWG standard? 6. SUBMITTAL INSTRUCTIONS a. All capability statements submitted in response to this RFI are to be received no later than 1400 Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 03 December 2008 in a word doc format. To aid the Government review, submissions should be no more than 50 pages. Company brochures, information sheets, and similar types of published information may be provided if cross referenced in the RFI response. Telephonic requests or responses will not be accepted. The RFI is for market research only. No additional information is available at this time. b. This notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. This is not a request for proposal. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on responses under this announcement nor otherwise pay for preparing any information sent for the Government use. Any proprietary information should be so marked. Responders must provide the following: 1) company name and address; 2) point of contact; 3) phone/fax/email; 4) NAICS Codes, 5) business size and status, type of small business if applicable (e.g. 8(a), women-owned, HUB Zone Small Business, etc.) and 6) capability information in response to the requirement. c. Provide electronic response to Contracts Specialist is Mr. Stephen Lee, 703-907-2855; Stephen.lee2@dia.mil. 8. QUESTIONS All general, contractual, and technical questions are to be submitted through the contracts specialist. The Government will endeavor to respond to all questions submitted.
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