SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- Wide Area Airborne Surveillance
- Notice Date
- 8/4/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- 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, 2640 Loop Road West, Room 213Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- FA8620-09-R-WAAS
- Response Due
- 10/2/2009
- Archive Date
- 10/5/2009
- Point of Contact
- Kristie Furuya, 937-255-3189<br />
- E-Mail Address
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Kristie.Furuya@wpafb.af.mil;
(Kristie.Furuya@wpafb.af.mil;)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- WAAS - WIDE AREA AIRBORNE SURVEILLANCE Synopsis: The Aeronautical Systems Center, 659th Aeronautical Systems Squadron (AESS) will offer an Industry Day on 25 August 2009, 0900-1200 at the AT&T Center, 2940 Presidential Drive, Fairborn, OH 45324. The purpose of this Industry day is to communicate with industry current plans for fielding of WAAS capabilities, and provide clarification as to the information being sought on future system capabilities in support of a WAAS Trade Study. The WAAS team is looking for contractor feedback in the form of white papers on the current state of technology as well as near and far term concepts. White Papers are requested NLT 2 Oct 09. The WAAS system will support an end-to-end (collector to Service Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) and/or tactical user) motion imagery based system for contiguous airborne wide area coverage of urban and selected environments with sufficient resolution and revisit rate to find, fix and track vehicles and individual dismounts within its field of view, day and/or night. The capability will enable concurrent near real-time situational awareness, forensic analysis, and cross-cueing for other ISR sensors. WAAS data will support tactical users, commanders, and be globally disseminated to other nodes, inside and outside theater, including injection into Service PED architectures to support further phases of exploitation. The details of an end-to-end WAAS solution are being developed based upon requirements, Trade Study analysis, and a collaborated team effort by the Services, National Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Agency (NGA) and Combatant Commands (COCOM).! While a brief list of technology areas are presented below, this is not meant to be all inclusive. System focus is on meeting size, weight and power (SWaP) requirements of current Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) (i.e., MQ-1C, MQ-9, RQ-7 pod designs). We are also interested in new concepts or approaches to performing WAAS. Areas of interest include: a) Airborne Sensors:.Motion imagery sensors supporting 24/7, day/night (Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) operations.Wide-Field of View (WFOV) coverage (up to 30 km by 30 km area - with multiple aircraft).Resolution sufficient to detect/track dismounts b) Data Communications/Storage:.Airborne near real-time high-data rate communications; data distribution to real time users.Airborne and ground large storage capacity with accessible databases c) Airborne and Ground Processing:.Integration into existing Tasking Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TPED) architectures to support forensic analysis and theater information requirements.Software tools to manage multiple tasks, vehicles, ground stations, etc..Automated tools to define and discern pattern of life, unusual activity and tracking of subjectsd) Operations Support:.Networking and multiple aircraft control of both manned and unmanned systems for collection operations Those contractors interested in participating should plan to attend a high level WAAS briefing to industry on 25 August 2009, 0900-1200 at the AT&T Center, 2940 Presidential Drive, Fairborn, OH 45324. This Industry Day is restricted to United States citizens and will be at the classified (SECRET) level. Attendance at Industry day is restricted to a maximum of 3 persons per company. Representatives wishing to attend this Industry Day should submit the attached registration/visit request by close of business 21 August 2009 to: Capt David Jones2640 Loop Road West, Room 213 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433-7106 Email: 659aess.itsmailbox@wpafb.af.mil FAX: 937-656-4445 All attendees must also present a government issued photo identification on the day of the event. Directions to the meeting site and a copy of the agenda are attached. Briefing charts from the meeting will be made available on FedBizOpps after the conference. We invite industry to submit white papers (unclassified or classified up to TS/SCI) on their concept or technology at any time before 2 October 2009. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Lincoln Labs (MITLL) is facilitating this effort and will help to develop the final Trade Study report. Guidance on the White Paper format is attached. Please ensure all appropriate security procedures and policies are followed when responding to this RFI. White Paper responses to this request shall be a MAXIMUM OF 25 pages in length and submitted electronically or via mail (regular mail for UNCLASSIFIED; Registered mail for SECRET only) to the point of contact. Point of contact for white paper submissions is: Capt David W. Jones, 659 AESS/SYCB Bldg 557, 2640 Loop Road West, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7106 Email addresses: UNCLASSIFIED email: 659aess.itsmailbox@wpafb.af.mil SECRET email via SIPRNet: Daniel.Meyer@afmc.af.smil.mil Top Secret submissions should be coordinated with Jessica Valenzuela at 937-904-5848. This is not a Request for Proposal. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this announcement. Submitting capabilities and concepts in response to this announcement is voluntary, and participants shall not be compensated. This is to be considered an initial step in establishing industry understanding of the WAAS program and to allow the government team to determine market understanding and capability to integrate and plan for a future WAAS program. How to contact this program: Contracting Officer: Ms Kristie M. Furuya, 659 AESS/SYK, Phone: 937-255-3189; email: Kristie.Furuya@wpafb.af.mil; Mail: 2640 Loop Road, Suite 213, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7106. Program Lead: Mr. Chris Mazur, 659 AESS/SYCA, Phone: 937-255-4632; email: Christopher.Mazur2@wpafb.af.mil, Mail: 2640 Loop Road, Suite 213, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7106. For more information on "Wide Area Airborne Surveillance", please refer to:https://pixs.wpafb.af.mil/pixs_solicitation.asp?id=6215
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