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14 -- THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE CRITICAL MEASUREMENTS PROGRAM (TCMP) CAMPAIGN 2 POC Amy Lynn Frost/Contract Specialist/(909) 382-8350, Scott Ingersoll/Contracting Officer/(909) 832-8350. Research, Development, Test and Evaluation sources sought for the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Rocket Systems Launch Program for payload launch vehicle (booster) development, integration and launch services for the first two of four flights of the US Army Space and Strategic Defense Command (USASSDC) Theater Missile Defense Critical Measurements Program (TCMP) campaign 2. The four launches will be separated by one week each. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only, does not constitute an IFB or RFP, and is not a commitment by the government. This procurement will continue the development of the TCMP2 sounding rocket with the use of Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) and contractor provided components, integration of the booster with the GFE payload, resolution of range safety issues, provide for launch services, and perform post-launch analysis. Contractor will develop, procure, and build four sets of hardware, and integrate and launch two vehicles from Wake Island to Roi Namur Island in the Kwajalein Missile Range (KMR) third quarter Fiscal Year 1996. The contract period of performance will be for eighteen months. The government will provide the following GFE: boosters, Guidance Control Avionics (GCA) components, Flight Termination System (FTS), payload, and selected ground handling, launch and support equipment, facilities, launch vehicle transportation to the contractor's integration facility, and to the launch site. Responses submitted should contain information demonstrating ability to meet the following minimum essential requirements: (1) Ability to design launch vehicle using GFE booster and electronics, meeting all technical, mission and safety requirements. This includes (a) experience designing launch vehicles based on a Castor IV class motor; (b) experience incorporating KMR ground and flight safety requirements into design of launch vehicle systems; (c) capability to incorporate existing GFE hardware (Computer Encoder and Power (CEP), Guidance and Control Computer, LR-81 Inertial Navigation System, Analog Interface, and Attitude Control System components) into a guidance system capable of directing the missile from Wake Island to an impact point near Roi Namur Island with a one-sigma dispersion of 13 km downrange and 15 km crossrange without entering the lagoon; (d) experience interfacing with an independent payload contractor, program office and range safety office; (e) experience integrating a payload designed and provided by an independent contractor with the launch vehicle to provide a complete sounding rocket booster system; (f) capability to design, develop, and test necessary modifications to the Castor IVB booster motor, to include guidance and control hardware and software, and attitude control system capable of performing post-boost maneuvers to include coning, target deployment, tumbling, etc. (2) Ability to perform mission planning, targeting, and data analysis. This includes (a) project manager or lead personnel must have demonstrated experience with sounding rocket launches from remote locations; (b) experience targeting this class missile and payload using a closed-loop guidance system; (c) ability to coordinate mission parameters with outside sensor agencies providing trajectory data and vehicle characterization; (d) experience performing mission planning for previous TCMP missions or similar flight tests; (e) experience performing ''quick-look,'' 24-hour, 72-hour and three-month post-mission analysis of booster telemetry and sensor data. (3) Ability to fabricate and test necessary components, and perform required modification to the GFE booster. This includes (a) experience manufacturing and testing attitude control hardware capable of performing required post-boost maneuvers; (b) experience fabricating, modifying, integrating and testing closed-loop sounding rocket guidance and control systems; (c) facilities, tooling, support and test equipment for both hardware and software, which the contractor will maintain and utilize for testing, manufacturing, integration and analysis; (d) Ability to test hardware for random and sinusoidal vibration, shock, humidity and temperature for both individual components and integrated systems (e) facilities to safely test individual components and integrated systems containing pyrotechnics. (4) Ability to safely transport hardware. This includes (a) experience packaging, shipping, receiving and inspecting delicate missile guidance components without damage, to include shock and vibration isolation with monitoring equipment; (b) Federal DoT and other permits or DoD Certificate of Equivalency required to safely transport pyrotechnics, to include but not limited to linear and conical shaped charges, squibs, initiators, explosive bolts, etc. (5) Properly cleared facility and personnel. This includes (a) a manufacturing and testing facility with facility clearance at the SECRET NOFORN level; (b) facilities and procedures for hosting SECRET NOFORN meetings and interchanges; (c) technical and engineering personnel holding SECRET NOFORN clearances as of date of contract award. (6) Ability to plan and perform flight test operations from Wake Island. This includes (a) experience planning launches from Wake Island in accordance with relevant ground and flight safety requirements and mission requirements; (b) experience integrating and servicing booster and payload using limited storage, missile assembly and integration, and operations facilities available on Wake Island; (c) experience carrying out sounding rocket launches from using rail launch facilities at remote locations; (d) ability to carry out (a) through (c) without interfering with concurrent preparations for the second two launches of the TCMP-2 campaign, to be performed by Orbital Sciences Corporation under current contract with USASSDC. (7) Ability to meet program schedule requirements -- (a) begin work in the third quarter of fiscal year 1995; and (b) ready for launch third quarter fiscal year 1996. Spatial allowances for contractors' use of facitities at Wake Island preclude use of facilities by more than one contractor at a time. The incumbent contractor is Orbital Sciences Corporation, 3380 South Price Road, Chandler, AZ 85248. All responses will be considered, and must be received within fifteen days of the publication of this notice. Responses must be provided to SMC/CUBK mail or by fax at (909) 382-8049. (0032)

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