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A -- RADAR SIGNATURE PREDICTION ALGORITHM ACCELERATOR CARD SOL F33615-95-R-1630 POC Darrell Barker, WL/ELED, (513) 255-8639. Notice of Contract Action for Radar Signature Prediction Algorithm Accelerator Card. The Wright Laboratory, Solid State Electronics Directorate, Microelectronics Division is contemplating the award of a 36 month program for the engineering and prototyping of integrated circuits and an electronic circuit card that will accelerate the processing of radar signature predictions (RSP) executing on desktop computers. The program's objective is to develop and demonstrate a low cost alternative to performing these predictions on supercomputers and high cost parallel computer platforms. A second objective is to demonstrate advanced design automation tools and methods. The performance goal for the initial model is a sustained execution rate equivalent to four billion floating point operations per second (4 GFLOPS). The program plan calls for the development of an initial model and two model year upgrades based upon improved commercial integrated circuit technology and improved AF RSP algorithms. The prospective contractor shall possess prior experience and have demonstrated capabilities in the following technical areas: (1) top-down hardware/software co-design and partitioning, (2) performance level, behavioral/functional level, register-transfer level, and structural level modeling, simulation, test-bench generation, and virtual prototyping using the IEEE 1076/VHSIC Hardware Description Language (3) integrated circuit and printed wiring board design (4) desktop computer peripheral interface design, (5) design to manufacturing hand-off standards and procedures, (6) production or acquisition of integrated circuits and printed wiring boards, (7) prototype and small-lot circuit card assembly, (8) integrated circuit and circuit card testing and verification, and (9) commercial computer peripheral product marketing and customer support. The contractor will be expected to interface with prospective accelerator card customers to determine which commercial desktop computer(s) the card should be interfaced to. Firms responding should indicate whether they are, or are not, a small business, a socially and economically disadvantaged business, a woman owned business, a historically black college or university, or minority institution. For this item the general definition to be used to determine whether your firm is small is as follows: ''A small business concern is a concern that is independently owned and operated, is not dominant in the field of operation in which it is bidding on government contracts and with its affiliates, the number of employees does not exceed 500 persons.'' SIC Code 8731 applies. ''Concern means any business entity organization for profit with a place of business in the United States, its possessions, Puerto Rico, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, including but not limited to an individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, association or corporation.'' The Air Force reserves the right to consider a small business set-aside based upon responses hereto. Small business respondents should provide a statement of capabilities to assist the Air Force in making the set-aside decision. Large businesses are only required to submit a statement of interest to receive a copy of the Request for Proposal (RFP). All respondents shall include in any request their assigned Commercial and Government Entity Code. The Government will not be obligated to pay for information generated as a result of this request. Respondents are further requested to indicate their status as a Foreign-owned/Foreign-controlled firm and any contemplated use of foreign national employees on this effort. Responses should be sent to Attn: Stephanie Shelley, WL/AAKE Building 7, 2530 C Street, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7607. Non-technical assistance may be secured by calling the above individual at 513-255-2976. An Ombudsman has been established for this acquisition. The only purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious concerns from potential offerors when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate his concern during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. Potential offerors should use established channels to request information, pose questions, and voice concerns before resorting to use of the Ombudsman. Potential offerors are invited to contact ASC's Ombudsman, ASC/CY, at 513-255-1427 with serious concerns only. Closing date for submission of responses is thirty (30) calendar days from the publication of this notice. Firms should reference F33615-95-R-1630 in their responses. RFP release for this program is projected in March 1995. This program will not be republicized prior to solicitation. (0047)

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