SPECIAL NOTICE
69 -- Request for Solutions: Multispectral Imaging & Tracking System (MITS)
- Notice Date
- 10/9/2018
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 333318
— Other Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - Orlando (W900KK), 12211 Science Drive, Orlando, Florida, 32826-3224, United States
- ZIP Code
- 32826-3224
- Solicitation Number
- TREX-19-MITS
- Archive Date
- 11/22/2018
- Point of Contact
- Cathy Jordan, Phone: (407) 384-3708, Brian D Serra, Phone: 407-208-3357
- E-Mail Address
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mary.c.jordan46.civ@mail.mil, brian.d.serra.civ@mail.mil
(mary.c.jordan46.civ@mail.mil, brian.d.serra.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1.0 Purpose The Multispectral Imaging & Tracking System (MITS) prototype project is seeking lower cost, remotely operated, interoperable optical tracking systems for Department of Defense Test Ranges that serve to enhance the mission effectiveness and performance throughput over existing systems. The Government will evaluate the solutions with the intent of negotiating an Other Transaction Agreement under the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX). 2.0 Summary and Background 2.1 The envisioned MITS solution consists of two different optical tracking systems: a Close-In optical tracking system, highly dynamic optical tracking system readily deployed on an integrated elevated platform and trailer; and a Fly-Out optical tracking system readily deployed on a mobile trailer to accommodate larger payloads for longer range imaging requirements. Both Close-in and Fly-out systems require a data reduction capability that will process and distill the collected data from each optical tracking systems into a final set of data products. The Close-In optical tracking systems will track demanding high slew rate launch and impact requirements as well as a host of ground-based test scenarios. The Fly-Out optical tracking systems will support traditional requirements such as aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) sorties, ballistic missile fly-outs, mid-course tracking, and intercept imaging. For some long range, high-dynamic targets, a combination of Close-in and Fly-out systems will be needed to support that test mission. Both systems will incorporate multi-waveband optics and sensors that allow simultaneous sensing in the visible and infrared bands. This advanced sensor suite will provide new imaging and data collection capabilities for all types of testing, including most laser Directed Energy (DE) programs. Computer automation and weatherization will provide the efficiency and robustness unavailable with the current architecture. The improved performance, flexibility, and network compatibility of the MITS will yield significantly better data products at reduced cost. The MITS project will provide a cost-effective and technologically superior replacement for the aging optical tracking instrumentation fleet. It will significantly reduce operations and maintenance costs, improve Time-Space-Position Information (TSPI) accuracy and optical data collection reliability, and provide support for test programs and scenarios that cannot be adequately addressed with existing systems. 2.2 In order to manage and mitigate program risk due to technical complexities, the full MITS requirement set will be developed in an incremental fashion. The first increment, which will be awarded via this prototype project, will focus on the core MITS requirements that are common across all DOD users. This first increment will develop a baseline system that will be fully characterized and demonstrated to assess system performance. Remaining MITS requirements will be prioritized and implemented based on prevailing test mission needs. 2.3 Testing across the DOD Ranges is a constantly evolving mission based on DOD priorities, challenging test requirements, and emergent technologies/systems that require test data to verify or improve performance. It is difficult to predict today exactly what test capabilities are required in the next 2-5 years and beyond. Applying a prototyping approach allows the Government to quickly produce a baseline capability and then add incremental features in an agile fashion based on prevailing test mission priorities. The baseline prototype will be based predominantly upon Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components and modified COTS components with a modular, open systems architecture, thus, facilitating ease of incorporating new components to enhance life-cycle supportability and enable responsiveness to evolving mission requirements. 2.4 The MITS prototype will provide the DOD Test Ranges with a common set of remotely-operated all-weather optical tracking systems that meet optical measurement requirements. MITS requires two models of optical tracking systems (Close-In and Fly-Out) for use in different configurations where the number of systems will depend on the test mission and system location at DOD Test Ranges, including White Sands Missile Range, Yuma Proving Ground, Eglin Air Force Base, and Pacific Missile Range Facility, among others. Although MITS will support classified tests, MITS hardware and software components will be unclassified. An optical tracking system is a single mount, including a gimbal, trailer, sensor payload and operator station, with associated support hardware and software. To produce the required accuracy and necessary data products, such as TSPI, multiple optical tracking systems are required to work together to produce these data products. The number of optical tracking systems used depends on the needs of the test mission. These systems, used in conjunction with a data reduction capability, will process and distill the collected data from each optical tracking system into a final set of data products. Vendors interested in responding to this Request for Solutions must be members of the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX). The Full RFS can be viewed on the TReX website, located at the following link: https://trainingaccelerator.org/2018/10/multispectral-imaging-tracking-system-mits-prototype-project
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