SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- DISMOUNT COOPERATIVE BEAMFORMING TECHNOLOGIES - RFI - DISMOUNT COOPERATIVE BEAMFORMING TECHNOLOGIES
- Notice Date
- 6/8/2018
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541715
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - APG (W56KGU) Division A, 6565 Surveillance Loop, Building 6001, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 21005-1846, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-18-R-DCB
- Archive Date
- 7/15/2018
- Point of Contact
- Andrew.M.Pilone, Phone: (443)861-4639, Johanna Hersch, Phone: (443)567-2237
- E-Mail Address
-
andrew.m.pilone.civ@mail.mil, johanna.t.hersch.civ@mail.mil
(andrew.m.pilone.civ@mail.mil, johanna.t.hersch.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- RFI - DISMOUNT COOPERATIVE BEAMFORMING TECHNOLOGIES - PDF The US Army Communications Electronics Research & Development Engineering Center (CERDEC) Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) is interested in receiving information from companies that have experience in the design, development, and/or implementation of dismount cooperative beamforming (DCB) systems for distributed coherent wireless communications systems and/or technologies, techniques, and components to support the development of such a system. CERDEC S&TCD plans to use this information to support the Non-Traditional Waveforms (NTW) program, which was initiated in fiscal year 2018 (FY 18). The purpose of NTW is to research and develop non-traditional waveforms and technologies for resilient communications in anti-access and area denial (A2AD) environments by providing anti-jam (AJ) and low probability of intercept/low probability of detection (LPI/LPD) capabilities. NTW is a multiple product program with one product dedicated to DCB technology. The intended application area for DCB is for dismounted squad level communications to adjacent units and the next one or two higher level echelons. To enable this the DCB will support longer distance and reach-back radio communications (1km to 5km) between groups of dismounted soldiers and/or an on-the-move (OTM) base station while providing AJ, LPI/LPD, and interference suppression capabilities in contested (presence of intentional RF interference) and congested (limited available frequency spectrum) environments and maintaining data rates greater than or equal to 1 Mbps. We are, however, interested to receive information on systems that can support 300 kbps and up. Additional applications may be considered as well such as air/ground manned/unmanned teaming (MUM-T), which will require nodes to move at higher velocities. To support DCB, a short range (<300 m) intra-squad soldier local area network (SLAN) will likely be required to coordinate and distribute beamforming weights for the longer distance and reach back links. Desired attributes for the DCB system include: 1. Provides anti-jam communications in austere electronic warfare (EW) environments and suppresses interference 2. Provides LPI/LPD and adaptive power control 3. Contains software and hardware for both the DCB and the SLAN. 4. Supports cooperative beamforming in both the uplink direction (dismounted soldiers to base station) and the downlink direction (base station to dismounted soldiers). 5. Uses spectrum resources efficiently. Support for single frequency operation strongly preferred with at least half duplex, but ideally full duplex. 6. Uses open architecture I/O to support use with smartphones running either the Android or iOS operating systems (for the dismounted device) 7. Has form-factor that is small, lightweight, and that easily fits into a shirt or pants pocket (for the dismounted device) 8. Features low power consumption with battery life greater than 24 hours (threshold), 72 hours (objective) 9. Interfaces wirelessly with the smartphone (preferably) or can be physically attached using a "sleeve" adapter or similar design. 10. Provides data communications that at a minimum can support DCB weights, position location information (PLI) and other situational awareness (SA) data, real-time audio (i.e. digital voice), and still images. Higher throughput applications are also of interest. 11. Supports push-to-talk voice communications CERDEC S&TCD is also seeking information related to other directional networking approaches for similar applications to include state of the art architectures, waveforms, algorithms, models, technologies and components (to include beamforming and/or directional antennas, hardware, and software). Additionally, information is sought on spread spectrum, MIMO, interference mitigation, and single frequency full duplex operation technologies and components that can support the development of DCB.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Maryland, United States
- Record
- SN04949306-W 20180610/180608230442-621ad7b37b37a9e2c8426342244891ae (fbodaily.com)
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