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K -- COMMERCIAL/MILITARY TRANSPORT REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) QU ESTIONNAIRE POC Richard Swan, (513) 255-3264/Margaret Yarrington, (513) 255-6134. In support of the Air Force Modernization Process, the Mobility Technical Planning Integrated Product Team (TPIPT) is dedicated to the discussion, analysis, and solution of mobility issues. As part of that task, members of the Mobility TPIPT are studying the issues involved in modernizing the C-5 cockpit/avionics systems. Cockpit modernization is a top priority for planned C-5 upgrades. The C-5 cockpit design, including most avionics and display systems, is over 30 years old. The need to upgrade the C-5 cockpit is being driven by decreasing reliability and supportability, new capabilities required to meet future FAA/ICAO requirements, and AMC requirements for global connectivity. Recent technological innovations make it possible to significantly improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of the C-5 cockpit instruments and avionics systems. The Mobility TPIPT is soliciting industry's views and ideas on the state of civilian or military transport cockpit/avionics systems from the present until the year 2001. Cockpit/avionics systems and technologies, based on information gathered from industry, will be evaluated in terms of their technical (volume requirements, cooling requirements, power requirements, etc.), logistics (reliability, maintainability, supportability, etc.), performance (crew workload, sunlight readability, etc.), and risk (technical, schedule, and cost) merits. 1. Where are you today and where are you going in terms of cockpit/avionics architectures? Why? 2. Provide your recommendations for requirements, evaluation criteria, and measures of merit to help identify the most promising cockpit/avionics architecture alternatives for a large military transport. 3. What planned and future FAA/ICAO restrictions do you believe will require new cockpit/avionics equipment and how do you plan to handle them? 4. Provide detailed information about your current/near production architecture, salient features, design, logistics, and operational philosophies, etc... Provide any data required to develop our suggested and your recommended measures of merit for transport cockpit/avionics architecture you may identify. 5. Describe approaches that would reduce long-term life-cycle costs of a military transport cockpit/avionics upgrade. 6. Provide a list of the information you would require to prepare a comprehensive schedule and estimated cost for accomplishing a cockpit modernization in a single or multiple phases. 7. Describe your understanding of the technical, schedule, and cost risks, to include risk mitigation, most commonly associated with upgrading the cockpits/avionics on older aircraft. 8. Describe how you would estimate and then validate the quality, reliability and performance of large-scale military transport cockpit/avionics architecture upgrade. 9. Describe your ideas on the feasibility of adapting an existing or near production cockpit/avionics architecture from one aircraft to another existing aircraft. 10. Describe your understanding of the differences between commercial and military transport aircraft cockpit/avionics requirements. 11. Describe your understanding of the primary problems associated with integrating military transport specific hardware requirements with existing commercial cockpit/avionics architectures. Provide your opinion of any adverse effects you see in this approach. 12. What do you believe are the crew interface issues to consider during a cockpit/avionics upgrade? 13. Describe or provide literature (schematics, photographs, specifications, etc...) for transport cockpit/avionics architectures. Provide your assessment of their applicability to the mission of a large military transport. 14. There are a variety of display options available today that could be considered for military transport applications. Examples include AMLCDs, LEDs, CRTs, etc... Provide your opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of each display option. 15. Describe your recommendations for approaches that would support incremental implementation of a military transport cockpit/avionics upgrade. 16. Describe recommendations for ensuring the expandability (growth) and flexibility of military transport cockpit/avionics architectures to allow for changing requirements and future technologies. 17. Provide comments on any areas not covered in this RFI which you believe relevant to the development of future commercial/military transport cockpits/avionics. ASC/XR is using a RFI to involve industry in providing potential solution concepts. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this request. Participation is totally voluntary and will be uncompensated. All information and data submitted to the Government must be nonproprietary. Industry must submit responses to the above questionnaire to: Richard Swan, ASC/XRS, 2275 D St, Suite 10, Bldg 16, Room 120, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7227 no later than 25 Aug 95. (0215)

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