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

A -- BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY SOL N62269-95-BAA-003 DUE 011596 POC Point of Contact : JOSEPH M. MADDEN, Code 84512, 215-441-1727/ Contracting Officer, J. Madden This BAA is to solicit technical/cost proposals in the area of Non-Cooperative Identification (NCID) for Reconnaissance/Surveillance sensors and technologies for the detection, acquisition, tracking and identification of targets for both surface and airborne applications. Targets to be considered include missiles, aircraft, ships, small surface craft, torpedos, submarines, mines, chemical and biological gases and aerosols, and land based targets such as missile sites, mobilemissile launchers, armored vehicles and trucks. 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 the technical effort) to determine the merit of the technical approach used to respond to this announcement. New, innovative and creative approaches to the technical problem presented herein by the Navy are of primary interest. Specific areas of interest include the following: 1) Advanced NCID concepts and/or sensors, 2) new, unique and innovative concepts for MULTI-SENSOR INTEGRATION that combine the capabilities of various sensors to offer the ability to detect, acquire, cue/track and identify targets as well as to provide location and hand-off information; 3) Concepts and techniques for TARGET RECOGNITION that utilize unexploited target signatures or feature recognition available from imagery systems and the attendant signal/image processing techniques for extracting this information; 4) analog or digital STABILIZATION TECHNIQUES that reduce line-of-sight motion to less than 10 microradians; 5) new and innovative concepts for IMAGE DATA-LINK that provide near real-time transmission of high resolution images obtained from both analog and digital imaging sensors; 6) New and innovative IMAGING AND NON-IMAGING SENSOR concepts that provide wide field of view target detection, acquisition and tracking with increased sensitivity and resolution, 7) Innovative or cost effective concepts and techniques for INTEGRATION OF ADVANCED SENSORS with existing platforms; 8) SOLID STATE STORAGE technology that is capable of recording and storing high resolution, real time reconnaissance imagery and provides the capacity for typical reconnaissance mission scenario. This BAA will be open from the date of this announcement until 1/15/96. Proposals will be accepted any time during this period. Proposals submitted may be evaluated periodically by in-house scientists/engineers, 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 merit of the proposal; 2) Potential contribution of the effort to Department of Defense (DOD) missions in Reconnaissance and Surveillance; 3) The Offeror's capabilities, related experience, facilities, techniques or unique combination for achieving the proposed objective; 4) The proposed cost as adjusted for cost realism. Offerors may respond to one or more of the research areas described above. Offerors are encouraged, when applicable, to provide exploratory devices or systems which demonstrate/validate the concepts or technologies proposed. 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 offeror should be included in the proposal. Technical proposals should be limited to approximately 50 pages and 3 copies of each proposal shall be provided. 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. Both the NAWC-AD, Warminster, Avionics Group and the Electro-Optical Competency have cognizance and responsibility for the areas of interest identified above. The point of contact for technical issues relating to the design and/or development of new, unique and innovative technologies or concepts is Mr. Chyau N. Shen, (215) 441-2448. Offerors may, at any time, contact Mr. Shen for clarification of technical issues. Offerors are cautioned that only Contracting Officers are legally authorized to commit the government. Quarterly progress reports from the contractor shall be required. A review of technical accomplishments will be undertaken by the Government to determine if progress warrants continuation of the contract. There may be from 3 to 6 awards. The period of performance is estimated to be 1 to 4 years. Contract type is anticipated to be CPFF completion. Exterior markings on responses shall be as follows: N62269-95-BAA-003, Naval Air Warfare Center-Aircraft Division, Warminster, PA 18974-5000, Attn: J. Williamson (Code 212000R89) No formal RFP will be issued; this BAA is the solicitation. For additional information, offerors may call one of the points of contact referenced above. (0061)

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