SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- BAA W15P7T-09-R-S152 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
- Notice Date
- 2/24/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- CECOM Contracting Center (CECOM-CC), ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008
- ZIP Code
- 07703-5008
- Solicitation Number
- W15P7T09RS152
- Response Due
- 3/24/2011
- Archive Date
- 5/23/2011
- Point of Contact
- Marjorie Roberts, 443-861-4612
- E-Mail Address
-
CECOM Contracting Center (CECOM-CC)
(marjorie.roberts@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Topic Title: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Technologies ISR Sub-Topic #1: Radar Technologies and Techniques Technical POC: Frank Gillan, RDER-IWR-RS Email: frank.gillan@us.army.mil Requirements: (Abbreviated; see TRADOC Pamphlet 525-66, revised 7 March 2008) TRADOC FOC-05-01: LOS/BLOS Lethality. Fires are categorized as LOS, BLOS, or NLOS. Engagement range is not directly tied to the definitions of LOS, BLOS, and NLOS fires. Thus, the method used, rather than the range, determines the type of engagement. However, as a general guideline, LOS engagements occur at a maximum range of 5 km, BLOS engagements occur up to 16 km. Some future Modular Force combat systems may have the ability for more than one method (such as LOS and BLOS). Fire control and distribution requires responsiveness with fires on demand to engage complex and simultaneous target sets executed as preplanned or opportunity engagements. Future Modular Force combat systems must be capable of automated precision engagements, with automated fire control, and distribution and clearance procedures with a manual backup. Future Modular Force combat systems must be capable of precision, cooperative, and autonomous/designate LOS and BLOS; and be able to defeat helicopters and UAS. TRADOC FOC-05-02: NLOS Lethality. Extended range NLOS lethality overmatch is a key component required for all potentially hostile operations, and provides the means to achieve decisive operations, freedom of maneuver, and FP in highly volatile, distributed environments. Capabilities for NLOS fires and effects must extend seamlessly, from tactical to operational levels, with no gaps in coverage, or loss of timeliness. Advanced, automated fire control and distribution means must sort out HPTs and the most dangerous targets rapidly in depth, amongst the vast array of threat intelligence. TRADOC FOC-07-02: Protect Physical Assets. The continuous and cyclical nature of protecting critical assets is described by the interaction of the force operations activities related to sensing, understanding, deciding, and executing the tasks necessary to ensure attacks on critical assets are avoided. The future Modular Force must be able to monitor, detect, track and engage adversary actions against critical facilities and infrastructure in sufficient time and distance to enable protection activities execution (adequately protecting these facilities and infrastructure and allowing time to assess the effectiveness of protection measures, and provide for sufficient mitigation and negation of these attacks through active and passive measures). Sensing physical attacks, such as air and missile attacks, cyber attacks, and sub-surface attacks against critical facilities will require pulling together multiple sensing capabilities and information input sources. TRADOC FOC-08-02: Enable Theater Access. Enabling theater access provides proactive means to ensure forces can deploy, and freely enter the theater of operations, by enhancing entry capabilities and infrastructure, mitigating adverse effects of the environment (terrain, weather, enemy action, infrastructure, industrial hazards, and local population), and protecting/facilitating multiple ports of debarkation, LOC, and theater entry points. Once the foothold is established, the focus of enable theater access changes to continuing the flow into, and out of, the theater, as well as enabling 'intratheater access' in support of operational maneuver. Objectives: The Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) seeks innovation in the areas of radar technology development, radar system development, and radar modeling and analysis. The objective of this sub-topic is to provide I2WD with capabilities focused in the following areas: 1. Research, development, test and evaluation of technologies and techniques which can affordably be inserted into existing and/or developmental ground based radar programs to improve performance and functionality. Possible areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to: -semiconductor devices, circuit designs, and/or transmit/receive module packaging concepts for providing higher power, improved efficiency and improved reliability over current designs. -beamforming techniques for improved performance: digital beamforming, adaptive beamforming. -multi-static sensor surveillance, both active and passive. -wide-band/multi-band antennas for multi-mission or adaptive-mission capabilities. -improved clutter handling algorithms, improved clutter modeling, adaptive clutter cancellation. 2. Research, development, test, evaluation and/or technical analyses of existing, developmental and/or future radar systems to determine methods of or achieving full objective performance against identified capability gaps in the areas of indirect fire weapons location, air surveillance and air defense. This may include design, development and demonstration of prototype radar systems or sub-systems, modeling and simulation, test and/or demonstration of capabilities using developed or existing radar systems. Focus areas may include, but are not limited to: -achieving full hemispherical surveillance coverage, target tracking and location of a variety of conventional and non-conventional threats (indirect fire weapons, direct fire weapons, top attack, air breathing targets, etc) to support missions such as sense and warn and counterfire target acquisition. -high accuracy tracking to support accurate launch-point-location and/or impact point prediction of indirect fire weapons and cueing to support hand-off to weapons engagement systems. -methods of achieving improved situational awareness through integration, networking and/or cooperative control/cueing of multiple radar systems, or through integration of additional intelligence sources to assist in base and area defense. -multiple-mission capabilities to simultaneously support air surveillance, air defense and aviation requirements. -performance capabilities of existing systems while under varying levels of electronic attack, and countermeasures which can be inserted into existing systems to improve performance while under those levels of attack.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: CECOM Contracting Center (CECOM-CC) ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208 Fort Monmouth NJ
- Zip Code: 07703-5008
- Zip Code: 07703-5008
- Record
- SN02386878-W 20110226/110224234505-54875d17b13b985c2bb87f998d45e036 (fbodaily.com)
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