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58 -- RADAR EQUIPMENT, EXCEPT AIRBORNE: WEATHER RADAR - WEATHER SYSTEM PROCESSOR DUE 091195 POC Contracting Officer, Nancy Shalloway, (202) 267-7541 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has an immediate need for the performance of full scale development activity leading to an add-on Weather Systems Processor (WSP) which is hosted on existing FAA airport surveillance radars. The FAA, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/Lincoln Laboratory has successfully tested a scientific prototype airport surveillance radar ''Weather Systems Processor'' (WSP) which demonstrates that high quality meteorological data products, comparable to those generated by three-dimensional, pencil-beam, weather radars may also be generated from two-dimensional, fan-beam, search radars including the Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR) models ASR-8 and ASR-9. Government Furnished Information (GFI) on the WSP prototype will be made available through technical interchange meetings as yet to be scheduled. The WSP must provide meteorological data products in similar format and with comparable accuracy as the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR), but at significantly lower cost than TDWR. The WSP must have the following salient characteristics and perform the following operations: 1) WSP operation must adapt to the host radar environment including WSP accommodation for constraints of space in the host radar shelter and host radar provided system power, power conditioning, cooling, status and control, timing, antenna polarization, etc. The WSP must passively accept the host radar returns and independently process the search returns for weather without impacting the primary radar search operation and collocated secondary radar Identify-Friend-or-Foe (IFF) operation. The WSP should require minimum change to the site adaptable parameters of the host radar, but should not require resiting of the host radar. 2) The WSP must provide both an alphanumeric and a geographical display of meteorological data products to describe the current and predicted terminal area weather situation as matched to the current terminal area surveillance situation used by Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) personnel under a similar operational concept (such as the TDWR). 3) The WSP must detect the position and intensity of windshear and microburst conditions occurring at the ground surface up to 1500 feet above ground level (AGL) and out to 8 nautical miles (nm) from the host radar with a probability of detection of at least 80% and a maximum probability of false alarm rate of 10%. The WSP must provide specific warning of hazardous windshear/microburst conditions over runways and out to 3 nm along runway approach and departure corridors, with updates at least every 30 seconds. 4) The WSP must detect the current location and intensity of all gust fronts out to 15 nm from the radar and predict the gust fronts future positions up to 20 minutes in the future. 5) The WSP must determine the current position and intensity of storm cells out to the instrumented range of the host airport surveillance radar and predict storm cell future positions up to 20 minutes in the future. 6) The WSP must provide National Weather Service (NWS) 6-level precipitation intensity maps out to the instrumented range of the host airport surveillance radar and correct for errors caused during atmospheric conditions of anomalous propagation (AP). 7) The WSP must operate with a system operational availability of at least 0.999 subject to host radar availability, with a mean-time-to-repair of one hour and with scheduled maintenance action no more often than four times per year. 8) The WSP must have built-in-test and remote maintenance/monitoring capability. 9) The WSP modules and subsystems should be completely built from Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components with the choice of each Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) based, to the maximum practicable extent, on planned commonality to related FAA or commercial systems with established supply/support. The purpose of this synopsis is to survey the market place and understand the status of ''in production'' and/or ''in process'' NDI ''WSP-like systems'' that meet or partially meet the FAA requirements outlined in the preceding narrative. If your company has an NDI or a partially completed NDI WSP, please submit a capability statement describing the capabilities of your product and how they match the FAA requirements stated above. If you have a fully developed system please indicate the earliest date you could deliver the first system and the rate at which you could deliver subsequent systems. If you have a partially developed system, please clearly identify the current technical status and maturity of your system and the projected date when the system will complete first article testing. The FAA is interested in a low cost system comprised of 100% COTS hardware. Therefore, for fully developed systems, please provide the quantity and unit price of the last three sales of your NDI (including all documentation and training necessary to operate the system) and the extent that your product utilizes COTS hardware.In addition to the information requested in the previous paragraph, your capability statement should demonstrate: 1) expertise/capability in production, field engineering, radar testing, successful FAA National Airspace System (NAS) system integration, NAS Integrated Logistic Support (NAILS) activity and full scale development of the following: a)radar hardware, b)software and c)surveillance system interfaces, 2) experience in the design, engineering, production, testing, installation, implementation and support of systems like or similar to the WSP. 3) your firm has the qualified personnel with the in-depth knowledge and experience required to produce an NDI that meets FAA requirements. Amplify your qualifications through identification of specific contractor experience by providing specific contract information (Customers name and address, contract number, description of the work effort and the name and phone number of the Contracting Officer or Contract Administrator).This is not a Request for Proposal. Statements of Capability prepared in accordance with the above criteria must be received within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice. Responses should be submitted in duplicate to the Contracting Officer, Nancy Shalloway, ASU-320, 800 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20591. Direct all requests for further information to the Contracting Officer at (202) 267-7541. (0221)

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