Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, P.O. Box 5152, Warminster, PA 18974-0591

A -- FAULT INJECTION VALIDATION OF DEPENDABLE SYSTEM SOL N62269-95-BAA-002 DUE 093095 POC Point of Contact : GEORGE KLIMA, Code 845235, 215-441-1241/ Contracting Officer, TODD DOUCETT This BAA is to solicit technical/cost proposals in the area of Fault Tolerance. Responses are required to be submitted in accordance with the guidelines set forth herein. The selection of one or more sources for contract award will be based on a scientific and engineering evaluation of your response (technical and cost as it relates to technical effort) to determine the merit of the technical approach used to respond to this announcement. New, innovative and creative approaches to the technical problems presented herein by the Navy are of primary interest. The specific areas of interest in basic research include the following: l) new, unique and innovative fault tolerant validation metrics, acceptance tests, fault injection techniques and fault tolerance analysis techniques, from initial concept exploration to the brassboard Dem/Val system including both hardware and software, for use in the fault coverage validation of complex, computer based, weapon systems; 2) new, unique and innovative fault tolerance techniques for use in a Navy lab feasibility demonstration that will demonstrate reconfiguration and recovery from faults in an mission avionics breadboard; 3) new, unique and innovative operating system fault tolerance techniques, specifically, what services must an operating system provide to adequately manage faults and what resilience must be incorporated within an operating system for it to be fault tolerant; and 4) analog fault tolerance techniques. This announcement will be open for the period through 30 September 1995. Proposals will be accepted any time during this period. Proposals submitted may be evaluated periodically by in-house scientists, a Government evaluation team or by a group of scientific peers. Award decisions will be based on an evaluation using the following criteria: 1) Overall scientific and technical merits of the proposal; 2) Potential contributions of the effort to the Department of Defense (DOD)efforts to increase mission computer reliability and lower life cycle costs; 3) The offerer's capabilities, related experience, facilities, techniques or unique combinations of these which are integral factors for achieving the proposed objectives; 4) Realism of the proposed cost. Offerers may respond to one or more of the research areas described above. Proposals submitted must consist of a clear statement of objectives, a technical section, which should include but is not necessarily limited to, background experience, concepts and ideas, methodology, expected contribution of the research to the DOD mission, a statement of work and milestones, a biographical section describing key researchers and a cost section. Details of any cost sharing to be undertaken by the Offerer should be included in the proposal. Technical proposals should be limited to approximately 25 pages. The cost of preparation for the response to this BAA is not considered an allowable direct charge to the resulting contract or any other contract. The NAVAIRDEVCEN's Mission and Avionics Technology Department have cognizance and responsibility for the areas of interest identified above. The point of contact for technical issues described above is Mr. Julian Olyansky, (215) 441 7002. Offerers are cautioned that only Contracting Officers are legally authorized to commit the Government. For planning purposes, the period of performance is estimated to be one to three years, at a level of effort of approximately 0.5-3 man-years per year. Contract type is anticipated to be CPFF Completion. Several awards may be made. Exterior markings on responses shall be as follows: N62269-95-BAA-002, NAWC Aircraft Division, P.O. Box 5152, Warminster, Pa. 18974-0591, ATTN: Code 845235. NO FORMAL RFP WILL BE ISSUED; THIS BAA IS THE SOLICITATION. (0053)

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