SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Request for Information for a new Data Link capable Radio
- Notice Date
- 2/4/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Pax River, Building 441, 21983 Bundy Road Unit 7, Patuxent River, Maryland, 20670, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- N00019-10-P7-PMA04
- Archive Date
- 3/23/2010
- Point of Contact
- Robert Wolfe, Phone: (301)757-5916, Stacy Wills, Phone: (301)757-7076
- E-Mail Address
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robert.wolfe@navy.mil, stacy.wills@navy.mil
(robert.wolfe@navy.mil, stacy.wills@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Synopsis: In order to promote early exchange of information with industry in accordance with FAR Part 15.2, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) issues this Request For Information (RFI). NAVAIR is requesting information from industry to identify potential candidates to fill a possible need for a multifunction data link radio. Threshold Requirements: 1.Perform Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) UHF (225 to 400 MHz) data link receive and transmit functions. This data link, still being developed, will be broad band, up to 1.2 MHz, GMSK modulation, and transmitting up to 800 K symbols per sec, with (pending) BT=0.3. Transmit capability will be about 15 watts with up to 5% duty cycle for this waveform. 2.Receive the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)/Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) VHF Data Broadcast (VDB) as described in the RTCA DO-246. Meet the specification for airborne equipment in the RTCA DO-253 and ED-23B, Minimum Operational Performance Specification (MOPS) for airborne VHF Receiver, and the RTCA/DO-245: Minimum Aviation System Performance Standards (MASPS) for the LAAS. 3.Receive the Land-Based JPALS 25KHz UHF data link, which is described in the draft specification, System Requirements Document For Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) Increment 2. This draft is provided at the JPALS Industry Web Site at https://home.navair.navy.mil/pma213/JPALS_DLR/login.asp. 4.Meet the environmental requirements for a 2500 hour mean flight hours between removal in the F/A-18 right leading edge extension avionics bay with or without a shock mount and the ARC-210 mounting location in the MH-60R/S as shown in the environmental specifications provided at the JPALS Industry Web Site at https://home.navair.navy.mil/pma213/JPALS_DLR/login.asp. 5.Include embedded, programmable cryptography in accordance with the National Security Agency Cryptographic Modernization Program, NSA/CSS Policy Number 3-9. 6.Include legacy cryptographic and frequency hopping algorithms as specified in the ARC-210 Gen V specification cited on the provided at the JPALS Industry Web Site at https://home.navair.navy.mil/pma213/JPALS_DLR/login.asp. 7.Provide Input/Output and control via the aircraft 1553 data bus and/or Ethernet or other common avionics buses. Provide comments on the supporting rationale for buses other than 1553. 8.Comply with MIL-STD-704A through 704F. 9.Receive the Link-4/4A data link. 10.Meet or exceed EMI, Environmental, and TEMPEST requirements as specified in the ARC-210 Gen V specification provided at the JPALS Industry Web Site at https://home.navair.navy.mil/pma213/JPALS_DLR/login.asp. Objective Requirements: 1.Fit within the volume currently occupied by the F/A-18 RT-1379 or AN/ARC-210 including connector locations, plug types and mounting lugs. 2.Have the capability to transmit the Land-Based JPALS 25KHz UHF data link as described in Threshold Requirement #3 at a 100% duty cycle. 3.Conform to Software Communications Architecture (SCA) standards. 4.Be capable of (or capable of growth to) handling the Variable Message Format (VMF) waveform (MIL-STD-188-220D Change 1 and MIL-STD-2045-47001D Change 1). 5.Contain processing capability to handle the JPALS, GBAS, and Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) algorithms, data link, and other required processing with at least 50% reserve for each processor and I/O bandwidth, or have a modular component design, to allow future upgrades based on advances in technology. Provide comments on the processing capability that would be available. 6.Contain memory to store required processing algorithms, the navigation databases used for LAAS and the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) standard products for required geospatial information and services, and the geodetic survey data in the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS-84) reference system or its replacement, with at least a 50% reserve memory capacity, or have a modular component design, to allow future upgrades based on advances in technology. 7.Have capability to handle voice communications. in the military UHF (225-400 MHz) and FAA VHF (108-137 MHz) bands per ARC-210 Gen V specification provided at the JPALS Industry Web Site at https://home.navair.navy.mil/pma213/JPALS_DLR/login.asp 8.Have the capability to handle the JPALS waveform and simultaneous voice. 9.Have capability for full duplex operations to enable handling simultaneous incoming and outgoing data. The JPALS program office would like to gain insight from industry (primes and vendors) on several key areas to assist in JPALS aircraft integration planning: A) Provide a notional development and integration schedule assuming a contract award in Second Quarter FY2011 and an Initial Operational Capability (IOC) in FY2015, including any time expected to be required for National Security Agency certification of the embedded cryptography. B) Provide estimates of when Engineering Development Models (EDMs) would be available to support aircraft integration. C) Provide development and production cost estimates with ground rules and assumptions to support the notional schedule. Where possible, include Source Lines of Code (SLOC) estimates. D) Provide potential production schedules, including maximum production capacity and minimum economical production rates. E) Describe challenges to development, integration, and support of your concept design. F) For the technical/architecture solution you used to generate your response to this RFI, provide insight into Critical Technology Elements (CTEs) and your ability to meet, or mature those CTEs to a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 using the OSD Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) process as described in Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) Deskbook July 2009 provided at the JPALS Industry Web Site at https://home.navair.navy.mil/pma213/JPALS_DLR/login.asp. Provide cost and schedule estimates for this process. G) Describe areas in the design that could be modularized to take advantage of advances in technology. Companies interested in participating in this radio development should have the following experience and capabilities: (1) airborne communication system design, development, and testing; (2) development and testing of GPS ground augmentation systems and requirements; (3) have achieved software CMMI level 3 within the company unit proposed for this development; (4) airborne communication system availability and performance modeling, simulation, and testing; (5) open architecture design; (6) an understanding of the TRA process, including experience in identifying CTE's and assessing their maturity (their TRL); (7) Operations Security and Anti-Tamper techniques and requirements; and (8) facilities and personnel cleared to a minimum of SECRET. Respondents to this RFI should provide technical information and cost data for systems and/or products that will meet the requirements stated above and information regarding the availability and cost of data rights. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. It is not a Request for Proposal, a Request for Quotation, an Invitation for Bids, a solicitation, or an indication that the JPALS Program Office or NAVAIR will contract for the items contained in the RFI. NAVAIR will not pay respondents for information provided in response to this RFI. Submit your response in a Microsoft® Word or compatible format document in no more than ten single-sided, single-spaced pages, 12-point, Times New Roman font, using a minimum of one-inch margins. Responses to this RFI are requested by 4PM on 08 March 2010. Specific questions should be directed to Robert Wolfe, Procuring Contracting Officer, Phone 301-757-5916 or Email robert.wolfe@navy.mil. Contracting Office Address: Building 2272 47123 Buse Road Unit IPT Patuxent River, Maryland 20670 United States Primary Points of Contact: Robert Wolfe Procuring Contracting Officer robert.wolfe@navy.mil Phone: 301-757-5916 Fax: 301-757-7054 Dana Veitch Procuring Contracting Officer Dana.Veitch-schropp@navy.mil Phone: 301-757-5936 Fax: 301-757-7054 Secondary Point of Contact: Stacy Wills Contract Specialist stacy.wills@navy.mil Phone: 301-757-7076 Fax: 301-757-7054
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