SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- BAA - RFI Ft Gordon Capabilities Development Integration Directorate will be hosting a Joint Tactical Wireless communications Capability (JTWCC) Technical Information Exchange, Ft Gordon GA 13-16 July 2010
- Notice Date
- 6/16/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Fort Gordon DOC, Directorate of Contracting, 419 B Street, Bldg 29718, 3rd Floor, Fort Gordon, GA 30905-5719
- ZIP Code
- 30905-5719
- Solicitation Number
- BAARFIBATTLELAB
- Archive Date
- 9/14/2010
- Point of Contact
- Kelly Haukaas, 706-791-1834
- E-Mail Address
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Fort Gordon DOC
(kelly.haukaas@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- General Information Notice Type: Request for Information Posted Date: Jun 16, 2010 Response Date: Jun 28, 2010 Archiving Policy: Manual Archive Archive Date: N/A Classification Code: B -- Special studies and analysis - not R&D NAICS Code: 541 -- Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services/541990 -- All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Service 1. The Fort Gordon Capabilities Development Integration Directorate(CDID) will be hosting a Joint Tactical Wireless Communications Capability (JTWCC) Technical Information Exchange at Fort Gordon, GA 13 16 Jul 2010. The purpose of the event is to bring representatives from the Armys Centers of Excellence (including cellular communities of interest) together with industry and academia, to collaborate on Army cellular/wireless capability requirements and discuss commercial technologies that could serve as candidate solutions to those requirements in the garrison and tactical environments. 2. The technical exchange will be conducted over a four day period with the following agenda. a.Day One: Army communities of interest will provide briefings on tactical and garrison cellular requirements and discuss accomplishments in developing a cellular capability to address those requirements. Note: Military, Academia and Industry are invited to participate. b. Day Two and Three: Selected vendors will be invited to provide briefings on their products and capabilities to a Government authorized audience. Defense contractors authorized to attend vendor briefings will be required to sign a non disclosure agreement. Vendors will be selected to participate based on white paper submissions (See para five for vendor selection process). Vendor presentations will be closed to other vendors. Although vendors are welcome to bring whatever they need to discuss their solutions, the intent is to provide information, not to physically demonstrate their capability. Recommend vendors do not bring items that cannot fit inside a small suitcase (i.e. handheld devices, small transmitter, etc.) Participation will be at no cost to the Government c. Day Four: An abbreviated MAPEX (Map Exercise) will be conducted using an operational scenario, to determine the utility of deploying a JTWCC, coverage areas, application of CONOPS, NetOps, and potential BOIP. Note: This is a Government-only event. 3. Technologies / Capabilities of Interest to the JTWCC Technical Information Exchange include: a. Deployable cellular and WiFi technologies applied to Army tactical operations. b. Means to exploit indigenous cell network capabilities in deployed Areas of Operation in a secure manner. c. Cellular network security d. Mobile device security and SIM Chips to support biometrics, SIM-crypto, and Suite B requirements e. Modular cellular nodes: manpack, vehicular mounted, UAS payload, 20-30 subscriber node, 30-50 subscriber node, 50-200 subscriber node. f. Frequency agility. g. CDMA, LTE, GSM, 3G, 4G, and beyond. h. Multiband network (UHF Bands and commercial) and multi-mode (Bluetooth, Wi-Max, GSM) handheld capability. i. Utilization of mesh network back-haul communications (e.g., VSAT, Netted Iridium, BGAN, etc) to augment Army transport j. Army as a cellular core provider. 4. White Paper Submissions: The following organizations may submit white papers: colleges and universities, non-profit research institutions, commercial firms, small business, small disadvantaged business concerns, historically black colleges and universities, and minority business enterprises and institutions. 5. White Paper Requirements: White papers will be evaluated against the criteria spelled out in section 5c below. White papers will be the sole criteria used to determine those vendors that will be invited to brief their capabilities during day 2 and 3 of the Technology Exchange. Selected vendors will be notified telephonically by 8 Jul 2010 and given follow-on instructions via email. Not all submitters will be invited to brief their capabilities to the Government. a. Vendors may respond to one or more of the topics listed in section three (3). One white paper per topic is requested. b. FORMAT: The white paper should be a maximum of 5 pages in length, including figures, charts, and tables. It should be single-sided, single line spaced, utilize one (1) inch margins and utilize Times New Roman 12 pitch font. The cover page shall be excluded from the page count and shall be marked with the BAA number, any required security markings, and the submitters Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Number. Submitters should mark their white paper with a protective legend IAW FAR 52.215-1(e). All White papers must be unclassified. The white paper shall be prepared in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF electronic file format. The document must be print-capable and not password protected. White papers submitted via email must not exceed 5MB. White papers longer than 5 pages will be rejected. c. The following topics (as appropriate) should be addressed in the white paper: (1)A high level description of the capability to be discussed including: i. Hardware description. 1. Quantity 2. Physical interfaces 3.Expected performance parameters 4.Documentation/manuals/specifications/etc 5. Information Assurance and/or Certifications 6. Size, weight, and power (SWaP) 7. Antenna mounts 8. Frequency Bands ii. Software description. 1.Operating system 2. Platform 3.Software interfaces 4.Base Station Controller 5.Information Assurance and/or Certifications 6. Compatibility with existing commercial protocols (SMS, MMS) 7. Interoperability with commercial protocols 8. APIs 9.Portability of Software solutions 10.Documentation/manuals/specifications/etc 11. How will the discrete technology delivered under this topic be sufficiently innovative and flexible to be able to be integrated with other technologies or into other C2 systems? 12.Portability of solutions to other ABCS platforms (i.e. BCCS, etc) 13.Potential transition strategies (i.e. BCCS, etc) iii. Functionality provided by the capability. iv. Operational Architecture View (OV-1) depiction. v. Means to provide for Secure Operations. (2) Provided capabilities to facilitate briefings: i. Two overhead projectors. ii. Sound system. iii.computer workstations for briefings. 6.Submission Dates: White papers must be electronically submitted no later than 5:00PM EST 28 Jun 2010. 7.Organizations that plan to attend on Day One of the JTWCC Technology Information Exchange should respond to the POC by 28 Jun 2010 with a number of attendees, their names, an organization POC w/ telephone/email contact info, and any special requirements. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the preparation or information provided in the white papers. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any legal purpose deemed necessary. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed; the information provided will be used to assess the respondents ability to address the capabilities called for in this BAA. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. This is not an announcement of an acquisition solicitation. 8.POINTS OF CONTACT: Questions on the objectives or preparation of the white paper and/or submissions should be addressed to Mr. Tony Sampedro, 1233 Washington Street Suite 1000, Columbia SC 29201, (803)929-6069, sampedra@ctc.commailto:. Questions Contractual in nature should be directed to Ms. Kelly Haukaas, 419-B Street Building 29718, Fort Gordon GA 30905-5713, kelly.haukaas@us.army.mil (706)791-1833.
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