SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- POWER CONTROL MANAGEMENT SUBSYSTEM (PCMS) - Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
- Notice Date
- 3/1/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 517410
— Satellite Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - RI (W52P1J), 3055 Rodman Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois, 61299-8000, United States
- ZIP Code
- 61299-8000
- Solicitation Number
- W52P1J-16-R-0112
- Point of Contact
- Amanda Struve, Phone: 3097821150, Tung Q. Duong, Phone: (703) 806-9483
- E-Mail Address
-
amanda.k.struve.civ@mail.mil, tung.q.duong.civ@mail.mil
(amanda.k.struve.civ@mail.mil, tung.q.duong.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The purpose of this CONOPS is to describe the operational implementation of a Power SOURCES SOUGHT FOR POWER CONTROL MANAGEMENT SUBSYSTEM (PCMS) THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. THIS NOTICE IS ISSUED SOLELY FOR INFORMATION AND PLANNING PURPOSES AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) OR A PROMISE TO ISSUE A RFP IN THE FUTURE. REQUESTS FOR A SOLICITATION WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS NOTICE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND IS NOT BINDING ON THE GOVERNMENT. --------------------------- 1. Purpose --------------------------- Project Manager, Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (PM DCATS), Product Lead, Wideband Enterprise Satellite Systems (PL WESS), Fort Belvoir, VA is seeking information from large and small businesses experienced in providing and supporting military satellite control in order to gage industry capacity and capability for providing the operational implementation of a Power Control Management Subsystem (PCMS) for Wideband Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) terminals. The purpose of sources sought is in support of market research being conducted by the U.S. Army to identify potential sources and technologies and to assist in determining if this effort can be competed amongst industry. Only experienced/qualified suppliers should respond. --------------------------- 2. Background --------------------------- PL WESS provides worldwide support for the Joint Warfighters by providing dedicated strategic satellite ground components and long haul terrestrial microwave communication systems, technical control facilities, command center upgrades, and deployed forces infrastructure. The Government is analyzing technical risk areas and producing technical specifications and an objective architecture for a PCMS. The PCMS will be a fully integrated subsystem of the Wideband Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Operations Management System (WSOMS). PCMS will be used over military wideband satellite systems (especially Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites), and potentially used over leased transponders of commercial wideband satellites in C, Ku, and Ka bands. The PCMS will enable more efficient use of communications resources, and aid in link anomaly detection and resolution. The major goals of the PCMS are to provide link power control and power and bandwidth monitoring for all communications links of enterprise and tactical terminal Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) communications networks. This will include out-of-beam spectrum collection and processing to support Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) detection, and providing a non-secure voice orderwire to tactical terminals (positive control). A draft Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for the PCMS has been prepared by the Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC/ARSTRAT) and is provided as part of this sources sought to provide additional information on PCMS architecture, requirements, and operations. --------------------------- 3. Required Capabilities --------------------------- The following general capabilities are required of the PCMS: a. PCMS will have the ability for Automatic Power Control (APC) at the terminal and the capability to detect and compensate for signal degradations such as rain fade. b. PCMS will allow the WSOC controller to conduct automatic or manual power control adjustments, as well as leave in place the capability of local power control adjustments. c. APC will analyze predicted values against measured channel and Automatic Level Control (ALC) values. d. PCMS will interface with the modem or modem controllers to attain performance metrics and the modem configuration. This includes receive measurements on the communications link that is received by the modem. e. PCMS must have the capability to perform downlink spectrum visual capture for all coverage areas and collect, process, and display terminal performance, downlink spectrum visual capture data, and unauthorized users on WGS through WSOMS. f. PCMS power control algorithms must support uplink power control as well as closed loop power control. Closed-loop operations must be performed with loop delays of 10 seconds or less, and fade rates of up to 30 dB per minute. g. PCMS equipment at the Wideband SATCOM Operations Center (WSOC) will require classification at the Mission Assurance Category II level and will execute in a Virtualized Environment (VE), communicate via the WSOMS LAN and WAN, and have a user interface on the shared Red WSOC workstations. h. PCMS will utilize existing WSOC Cross Domain Solution (CDS) equipment and available channels to affect the interfaces between the PCMS in the WSOC and the PCMS components of the earth terminals to which it will interface. i. PCMS will require appropriate data exchanges and interfaces with the following WSOMS subsystems in the WSOC: the Common Network Planning Software (CNPS), Wideband Remote Monitoring Sensor (WRMS), Remote Monitoring and Control Element (RMCE), Joint Management Operations Subsystem (JMOS), Global Satellite Critical Control Element (GSCCE), and Wideband SATCOM Trend Analysis and Anomaly Resolution System/WSOMS Mediated Interoperability Infrastructure (WSTARS/WMII) to support PCMS functions. j. Operations of PCMS in a VE, with extensive data interfaces to existing WSOMS subsystems, will require significant interaction with other vendors to ensure compliant integration. k. The implementation of the PCMS will include available SIPRNET and/or NIPRNET connectivity of Enterprise terminals, subject to supporting the overall communications and message delivery needs of the PCMS. l. PCMS requires a communications solution between the WSOC, Enterprise terminals, and tactical terminals which supports the numerous X- and Ka-band beams of WGS. The communications solution must provide the following: (1) Orderwire communications to support remote spectrum display transmissions, and positive control traffic (2) Spectrum monitoring and interference detection is required to occur in beams not directly visible to the WSOC (spectrum image collection, processing, formatting, and transmission) (3) Utilize Spread Spectrum Multiple Access (SSMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), or related interference-tolerant modulation schemes to protect PCMS communications, and (4) Support single-carrier capable tactical terminals without generating harmful levels of multi-carrier Intermodulation Distortion (IMD) products. m. Orderwire communications will be based on various use-cases/scenarios, determination of required bandwidth and data rate, and dynamic and static data routing. n. Installations will be required in tactical terminals with Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) constraints. Vendors will be required to profile mobile terminals against PCMS capabilities, and conduct feasibility analysis of retrofitting current mobile SATCOM terminals with remote PCMS capabilities. o. Ease of integration into various families of tactical terminals is required; physical, network, and application level interfaces with existing terminal Control, Monitor, and Alarm (CMA) elements will be required. p. The PCMS system will modify existing security domains in the WSOC and Enterprise/tactical terminals; re-certification of these domains will be required by the PCMS program. It is envisioned that PCMS will be required to use new channels inserted into the existing WSOC CDS equipment (Radiant Mercury) to support data flows between classified and unclassified domains. q. PCMS operations will be required to support 20 Enterprise terminals (with up to 48 links per terminal) and 200 single-carrier tactical terminals per WGS satellite. r. Enterprise terminals (such as the AN/GSC-52B(V), Modernization of Enterprise Terminals (MET), and tactical terminals (such as the AN/TSC-156, Navy WSC-X family of terminals, and Air Force ground tactical terminals) are candidate terminals for monitoring by PCMS. s. PCMS is not intended to monitor or control WIN-T terminals, although a management interface to the WIN-T network control function is desired. --------------------------- 4. Requested Information. --------------------------- Interested parties must submit a white paper, maximum of 20 pages, containing the following information: a. Name, address, and Contractor and Government Entity (CAGE) code of your company. b. Point of Contact (Name address, phone number, and e-mail). c. Identify current products your company offers which most closely match the capabilities specified above. Provide specification sheets, photographs, illustration and technical descriptions that describe those products and services. This material will not be counted against the maximum page count for the white paper, but shall not exceed 20 pages. d. Provide certifications or test results from independent test organizations. e. Identify your plans for handling upgrades and obsolescence. f. State your willingness to modify existing items to meet requirements. g. Identify the length of time the product(s) has been produced. h. Provide your warranty terms and practices, and annual returns under warranty. i. What are your practices and capabilities for calibration, repair and overhaul? j. Identify your company's past and current customers to which your company provided similar products and services, including a customer/company name and point of contact, phone number, and address/e-mail where they can be contacted. k. Experience in providing all system and software engineering services and products required for the delivery of systems such as the PCMS. l. Experience with cyber security and associated security requirements necessary to obtain and maintain an Authority to Operate (ATO) for deployed PCMS systems. m. Experience in conducting analysis and supporting technical studies necessary to integrate a PCMS with other WSOMS subsystems in the WSOMS System of Systems (SoS) environment, and with Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. n. Experience in providing Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) (e.g. spares, technical manuals, Instructor and Key Personnel (IKP) as well as New Equipment Training (NET), operations and maintenance for fielded and evolving PCMS systems, both field and depot level support. Provide specific systems and magnitude of effort. o. Experience developing and delivering Technical Data Packages, including drawings and software documentation, necessary to enable a manufacturer to produce physically and functionally equivalent PCMS equipment. p. Experience developing a modular system so that components can be installed in WSOCs to support controller operations for power control and monitoring, and developing an embedded spectrum monitoring, link power control, and voice orderwire solution which can be installed in Enterprise and selected tactical SATCOM terminals. --------------------------- 5. Submission Instructions --------------------------- Responses to this source sought are requested no later than 0800AM CST on 15 March 2016. Submit your responses via email to the Program Contracting Officer (PCO) Amanda Struve [Amanda.k.struve.civ@mail.mil]. Interested parties submitting responses are advised that all costs associated with responding to this sources sought will be solely at the interested party's expense. To aid the Government, please mark and segregate proprietary information. Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned. Questions shall be submitted in written form only via email as directed below. General administrative questions should be directed to Tung Q. Duong [tung.q.duong.civ@mail.mil] at PM DCATS, Fort Belvoir, VA. All other questions should be directed Amanda Struve [Amanda.k.struve.civ@mail.mil] with Army Contracting Command - Rock Island. DISCLAIMER: The Government will not reimburse the respondents for any costs associated with their responses. This sources sought does not constitute a Request for Proposals (RFP), or an Invitation for Bids (IFB), nor does its issuance restrict the Government as to its ultimate acquisition approach. The Government will neither award a contract solely on the basis of this notice, nor pay for any information that is submitted by respondents to the sources sought request. The Government reserves the right to contact the submitting parties, on an as required basis, for further clarification on material provided. The Government will evaluate the information provided, use it to document the market research and develop the RFP. In addition, the Government will use its evaluation of the information and other research to determine the sources that appear qualified to perform the work required by the Government. The submission of this information is for PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. The information received WILL NOT obligate the Government in any manner, nor will the Government reimburse companies for any costs associated with submittal of responses to this sources sought.
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