SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technologies
- Notice Date
- 11/14/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division A, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 21005-1846, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- BAA-08-R-P415__
- Archive Date
- 11/30/2012
- Point of Contact
- David Greaves, Phone: 4438614648, Patricia D. Edwards, Phone: 443-395-5479
- E-Mail Address
-
david.greaves@us.army.mil, darlene.edwards@us.army.mil
(david.greaves@us.army.mil, darlene.edwards@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 1.0 Description 1.1 The CECOM-LCMC Contracting Center is seeking information to determine the existence of sources capable of providing technical services in support of U.S. Army CERDEC/S&TCD research on Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technologies. 1.2 THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This request for information does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, the Army is not at this time seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals. Responders are advised that the U.S. Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this RFI; all costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested party's expense. 2.0 Background As the Warfighter increasingly engages enemies in suburban and urban environments, the Warfighter, more than ever, needs a reliable and robust means of communication that overcome the inherent multipath effects and the environmental interference including unintentional, intentional, and self-interference. MIMO technologies have been attractive in wireless communications due to the ability to improve communication performance in rich-scattering environments, which are detrimental to traditional single-antenna systems. In contrast with traditional communication systems, which are equipped with a single transmit and receive antenna and thus called Single-Input Single-Output (SISO) systems, MIMO systems are equipped with multiple transmit and/or receive antennas. The use of multiple antennas and signal processing provides the means for simultaneous transmissions and receptions and spatial redundancy that help MIMO improving communication performance over SISO. In addition, the use of multiple antennas provides a means for interference mitigation, beamforming, and beamnulling and thus improves the radio anti-jamming capability and low probability of intercept (LPI) / low probability of detection (LPD) capability, which are very important in military operations. 3.0 Requested Information The S&TCD is interested in receiving white papers for the design, development, implementation, test and evaluation of advanced MIMO algorithms and techniques that can be used to enhance the performance of the current Army communication waveforms and systems. The objectives are to enable space, air, ground, dismounted and unattended platforms mission effective LOS/BLOS communications in complex terrains such as rural and urban operational environments for multi-mission tasks (i.e. communications and electronic warfare operating simultaneously on the same platform). It is envisioned that these MIMO technologies will improve communication link reliability and throughput and provide spectrum efficiency over the existing single-antenna Army waveforms. These technologies also provide anti-jamming capability in the receive mode and a low probability of intercept (LPI) / low probability of detection (LPD) in the transmit mode. Technologies of interest include, but are not limited to, spatial diversity, spatial multiplexing, beamforming, beamnulling, spatial filtering algorithms, and also cross-layer MIMO algorithms. Interested responders are encouraged to submit white papers providing descriptions of emerging MIMO technologies with relevant applications and insertion opportunities to assist S&TCD in identifying areas of "leap ahead" performance enhancements for C4ISR systems. 4.0 Responses 4.1 Interested parties are requested to respond to this RFI with a white paper. 4.2 White papers are due no later than 29 November 12 05:00pm EST. Proprietary information, if any, should be minimized and MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED. To aid the Government, please segregate proprietary information. Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned. For any clarifications or questions regarding reference documents or RFI, contact Technical POC. Technical Contact : Quoc Lai, hung.quoc.d.lai.civ@mail.mil, 443-395-7608 Mary Labib, mary.r.labib.civ@mail.mil, 443-395-7586
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC-APG Aberdeen Division A, 6001 Combat Drive, APG, Maryland, 21005, United States
- Zip Code: 21005
- Zip Code: 21005
- Record
- SN02930959-W 20121116/121114234817-1b64cea10c31e77096992a2ddfb068d3 (fbodaily.com)
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