SOURCES SOUGHT
59 -- Radio Propogation Software
- Notice Date
- 6/18/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard (USCG), Commandant (CG-912), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters (CG-912), 1900 Half Street, SW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20593-0001, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20593-0001
- Solicitation Number
- HSCG23-13-I-PMY013
- Archive Date
- 7/6/2013
- Point of Contact
- James Robinson, Phone: 2024753091
- E-Mail Address
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James.R.Robinson@uscg.mil
(James.R.Robinson@uscg.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION SOURCES SOUGHT HSCG23-13-I-PMY013 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR PROPAGATION ANALYSIS SOFTWARE The United States Coast Guard is currently performing market research to see what software packages are available on the commercial marketplace to fulfill its requirements. The USCG is seeking software capabilities statements and technical information packets from businesses that might be able to provide software that can fit the Coast Guard's technical requirements. This request for information is for the purposes of market research and for the aiding of determining potential sources only. This is not an official solicitation and the USCG is not accepting full proposals for this work. This RFI to obtain capabilities statements and technical information only and there is no guarantee of a forthcoming solicitation. The USCG will not reimburse Contractor costs for any responses to this notice. Responses to this notice should include: 1. Software technical information or capabilities statements for software that can fulfill the technical points below. 2. Company name, address, telephone number, point of contact; 3. The size status of your business (small business concerns should indicate their status and type); and, 4. A statement of any current contract vehicles your company may have that can deliver the software (such as a GSA schedule or strategic sourcing vehicle, etc). The closing date and time of this request for information is 06/21/2013 at 2pm ET. Please send all responses to James Robinson at James.R.Robinson@uscg.mil. Jazmine.T.Gordon@uscg.mil must also be copied on all responses. The following details are software technical specifications that the Coast Guard is requesting information on: - - - - - - Frequency Capacity The software must provide analysis tools for point-to multipoint links, radars, microwave links, satellite, maritime and terrestrial networks. The user must be able to conduct Line-Of-Site (LOS) analyses, point-to-point profile analyses, interference and inter-modulation calculations, coverage plots, and Tx/Rx field strength simulations Capability for Medium Frequency, High Frequency, Very High Frequency, Ultra High Frequency, Super High Frequency, and Extremely High Frequency. • Capability of simulating and analyzing aerial or land mobiles in motion. The software must track each mobile station along its assigned movement path, and generate real-time data outputs such as GPS information and message traffic information. Such data outputs should then supply the mission commander and controller with Battlefield Situational Awareness. Propagation Models The software must provide modeling propagation in the MF-HF bands, in particular the implementation of ITU-R P.533-10 for Skywave coverage. The software must include the following propagation models; which enable the USCG to perform the spectrum engineering tasks indicated below: • ITU-R P.526 • ITU-R P.525 • Fresnel-Kirchoff • Deygout 94 • Delta Bullington • Okamura-Hata • COST-231 • ITU-R P.617 • ITU-R P.1546-4 • ITU-R P.1812-2 • ITU-R P.676 • ITU-R P.840 • ITU-R P.1820 • ITU-R P.1225 • Longley Rice P2P Implementation • ITU-R P.533-10 • ITU-R P.368-9 • ITU-R P.452-10 • ITU-R P.530-11 • Rain Crane The required propagation models should have the capability to provide coverage in the Atlantic, Pacific Oceans,Bering Sea, Gulf of Mexico, around the Aleutian Islands, Alaska and all inland rivers and waterways. The software must consider the parameters specific to modeling not only maritime networks in the MF-HF bands but also in the VHF-UHF bands. The tools allow the user to consider common radio parameters such as power, noise threshold, bandwidth, physical antenna height and electrical antenna height, antenna radiation symmetry pattern, gain, loss, and more. The software must provide a software solution that also considers parameters specific to HF Skywave propagation. The software must provide a software solution which allows the user to consider Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) to establish Point-to-Point communication between mobile units (aircraft and ships) using 100 Watt HF radios. The software must provide additional reliability by allowing the user to consider frequency switching in the HF band. The RF modeling should be able to take into consideration the composite, or aggregate coverage provided by all the channels together optimized to address this particular requirement and to generate useful reliability statistics. Antenna The software should also allow the user to use antenna pattern information parameters as needed for the coverage study. The software must provide coverage mapping for fixed-to-mobile and mobile to fixed side according to the main propagation criteria (SSN, season, noise, time of day, etc.). The software must consider omni-directional antenna patterns for shipboard antennas. The software must also consider the necessary parameters that can impact airborne antennas operating in the HF band. The software solution must include features to import station data from the Government Master File database stewarded by the NTIA as well as from the FCC Universal Licensing System database. These import features are vital to performing the electromagnetic compatibility tasks essential to managing the spectrum available GIS The software must provide Digital Cartography and Geographic Information System (GIS) and have intelligent features for rendering digital cartography images and data sets. The user should be able to study the geographic area of interest by studying its image, latitude and longitude information, and clutter occupancy of ground features such as vegetation, water and building rooftops. The software should also stream Bing Maps imagery The software must allow a user to import GIS data from various public and private formats and convert it to GIS format. Various government and military cartographic formats must be capable of geo-conversion for analysis including but not limited to: DTED, ADRG, CADRG, VMAP, DFAD, SDTS, SRTM, etc. The software should reuse GIS map data already delivered to the USCG. The software must allow the user to visualize not only sector boundaries for the USCG around the world but also nautical mile boundaries from the coastline of US territory. The software must import from SHP or KML format. The software must simulate the essentials of Communication Electronic Warfare (CEW) such as: direction finding, jamming, radar coverage and signal interception. Traffic analysis, path loss and interference levels. Software Operating System: The software must be compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems.
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