SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Industry Week advance notice and RFI for UNI
- Notice Date
- 1/7/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, ASC - Aeronautical Systems Center, 2275 D Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433-7218
- ZIP Code
- 45433-7218
- Solicitation Number
- UNI_UniversalNetworkInterface
- Archive Date
- 1/1/2010
- Point of Contact
- Brian Hicks,, Phone: 937-255-9491 or 937-255-2771, Lee Huntington,, Phone: 937-255-5755
- E-Mail Address
-
Brian.Hicks@wpafb.af.mil, Lee.Huntington@wpafb.af.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Industry Day Advance Notice and Request for Information For The Joint Universal Network Interface 1. This is a special notice open to U.S. industry requesting information on technologies and business approaches to enable rapid change of networking functionality of airborne weapon systems for the Air Force and Navy. The government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this request or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subpart 31.205-18, Independent Research and Development and Bid and Proposal Costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Any responses received will not be used as a proposal. 2. The diverse operations of the joint battlespace require sharing of information between disparate aircraft using disparate networks and data links. Development of platform and network changes takes many years. Synchronization of these changes is extremely difficult. Networking technologies, sensor technologies and weapon technologies are exponentially more capable than just a decade ago, enabling weapon systems to perform new missions, exchange information, and host applications not originally intended. Thus rapid change is required to integrate the all airborne platforms in the battlespace regardless of their service, nationality or security perspective. Information must be exchanged in the anti-access, contested, and permissive environments. 3. The concept is to establish an enterprise approach to develop and employ an airborne networking enclave with a standard universal common operating environment which will decouple network changes from the normal Operational Flight Program development cycle. This universal environment is intended to be installed on all types of airborne systems; bombers; fighters; wide bodies; command and control; special operations; and unmanned air vehicles. This environment must support simultaneous multiple levels of security and provide an open well defined interfaces to permit a common software application be installed in all cross domain airborne systems. This environment will not be processing flight nor safety critical systems or functions. 4. This special notice seeks to identify the technical components necessary to implement the framework of the universal network interface common operational environment with the attributes of the concepts previously described. Also this notice seeks industry recommendations on viable business strategies to realize the concepts. Submissions will be considered up to and including Secret Collateral. 5. To further facilitate communication of DoD's interests and how these potential solutions may address them, an Universal Network Interface industry week will be conducted the week of 2 February 2009 in Dayton Ohio. The Government will articulate the concept of operations and the concepts of needs to industry at large. Industry is encouraged to present their ideas to a government and government contractors in a 1 hour private session. Further information on the Industry week will be published in FEDBIZOPS. Any proprietary information received in response to this request will be properly protected from any unauthorized disclosure. If respondents wish government support contractors to sign a non-disclosure agreement, please include the form in the response. The government will not use any proprietary information submitted to establish the capability, requirements, approach, or solution so as to not inadvertently restrict competition. 6. This notice is part of the Government's market research, a continuous process for obtaining the latest information on the "art of the possible" from industry with respect to their current and projected abilities. Only U.S. companies doing business in or based in the U.S. will be permitted to submit any information. 7. Point of contact is Mr. Brian Hicks, 2530 Loop Rd West, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7101, telephone 937-255-9491 or 937-255-2771, email brian.hicks@wpafb.af.mil.
- Web Link
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FedBizOpps Complete View
(https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=70f19fc8eaf0b78015975abe58ce99dc&tab=core&_cview=1)
- Record
- SN01728600-W 20090109/090107220615-70f19fc8eaf0b78015975abe58ce99dc (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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