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A -- ANALYSIS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC PROBLEMS SOL F19628-95-R-0048 POC Gino F. Cascieri, Contracting Specialist, ESC/PKRB, (617) 377-2623, Robert W. Tyrrell, Contracting Officer, ESC/PKRB, (617) 377-2920. Notice of Contract Action for the purpose of issuing a Full and Open Competitive Solicitation in support of Rome Laboratory, Antenna and Components Division (RL/ERA), to develop and apply state-of-the-art analysis, computational, and coding techniques to solve a variety of theoretical and experimental problems in electromagnetics. In this program, elements of advanced electromagnetic theory, physics, and computational, numerical, and statistical techniques, will be applied to problems such as target detection in heavy clutter environments and the development of neural networks for the control of phased arrays. Contractor will analyze data for communications and surveillance propagation experiments, reduce and reformat data tapes for analysis on computer work stations, and examine HF propagation phenomena for HF communications and surveillance. Investigate the stability and operations of coupled Josephson Junction arrays with respect to variations in junction and biasing parameters. Contractor will maintain and service the Rome Laboratory Electromagnetic Directorate software and hardware components of a heterogenous computer network of personal computers, UNIX workstations, and antenna experiments. This includes administering file systems, adding and removing users, hardware, and software, executing backups, maintaining system security, troubleshooting system and user problems. Technical problems need to be addressed in such diverse areas as scattering of EM radiation, propagation of HF and VHF radio waves, antenna technology, detection and recognition of targets and radar system performance evaluation. The research effort is part of a thirty-six (36) months program requiring collocation of contractor personnel at Hanscom AFB, MA for close day to day interface with Rome Laboratory research staff. This was previously synopsized as a Sources Sought on 09 May 1995, as a 100% total set-aside for small business, referencing PR FY76209507043. Organizations that responded to the 09 May 1995, Source Sought need not respond to this Notice of Contract Action. The forecasted Request For Proposal (RFP) release date is scheduled on or about 15 July 1995. Organizations with experience in this field who are interested in receiving a RFP should respond within fifteen (15) days of this publication to ESC/PKRB, Attn: Gino F. Cascieri, 104 Barksdale Street, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-1806, Reference F19628-95-R-0048. Mr. Cascieri can be reached at (617) 377-2623. Security Clearances up to the level of Secret will be required of the successful bidder or offeror. Offerors should also indicate their status if qualified as socially or economically disadvantaged. Each offeror responding to this synopsis is requested to submit with its reply a name and telephone number for a point of contact. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offeror during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Colonel Thomas Mackey, ESC/CS at (617) 377-5107. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes, does not constitute an IFB or RFP, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the government. See Numbered Note(s): 25. (0180)

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