SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Research for the Replenishment at Sea Planner (RASP)
- Notice Date
- 8/4/2014
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- N62271 Naval Postgraduate School 1 University Circle Monterey, CA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N6227114Q1257
- Response Due
- 8/4/2014
- Archive Date
- 8/21/2014
- Point of Contact
- Matthew White 831-656-2340
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Replenishment at Sea Planner (RASP) has been developed for Military Sealift Command and Office of Naval Research. RASP is installed and operated by Commander, Task Force (CTF) 53 (Bahrain, 5th Fleet) and Commander, Task Force (CTF) 73 (Singapore, 7th Fleet). It is used to schedule Combat Logistic Force supply shuttle ships that serve our combatants and coalition partners. Central to RASP is the repetitive computation of the shortest route from one wet point in the ocean to another, without running aground. These potential wet points cannot be enumerated because it is not possible to predict beforehand where ships might be when the need arises for resupply. Therefore, it is not possible to make shortest route calculations in the conventional manner. Furthermore, because the earth s shape is spherical, the routing problems are essentially spherical. RASP, however, assumes a planar environment, which may or may not be a good assumption because of the large distances involved in the 5th and 7th Fleet areas of operation. It is important to be able to make these computations quickly (one millisecond or less) because of the need to make thousands of such comparisons for any given planning scenario in quick, elapsed time, while the planner waits for screen-refreshed results, and the RASP planar assumptions incorporates codes and algorithms to accomplish the quick calculations. We need to verify, however, that the algorithms and code provide a reasonably accurate result. Hence, a thorough review, assessment, documentation, edit, and validation of the code are necessary. Assessment requires that certain theorems currently employed by the code need to be proven; editing requires changing the code as necessary. The Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School has an immediate requirement for contractual services to thoroughly review, assess, edit (as necessary), document, and validate the RASP code. Based on the research results, a more efficient model must be developed if the current one proves to be fundamentally in error.
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