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70 -- POTENTIAL SOURCES SOUGHT DUE 102195 POC Contact Thomas Korte,AFC4A/TNAB,618-256-6358, Nancy Jurke,618-256- 1900 ext 301,Contract Specialist,Barbara Steinmann,Contracting Officer, 618-256-1900 ext 261,Collect calls will not be accepted. The Air Force Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Agency (AFC4A/TNAB) is seeking sources of information on: 1) structured modeling methodologies and 2) integrated diagramming and database software tools for building physical models. A physical model is a structured representation of tangible resources and their connectivity employed to carry out business operations. For AFC4A/TNAB purposes resources of interest include actual and abstract depiction's of communications and computer equipment, systems, networks, facilities, buildings, aircraft, vehicles, people, and their physical (actual) and generalized (abstract) connectivity/business relationships from a global level to an component level. Physical models provide a computer-based graphical and textual information source to support management, understanding, and analysis of physical resources. Information sought on: 1) structured methodologies useful for modeling tangible physical resources and their connectivity. Modeling methodologies in the Integration DEFinition (IDEF) family are widely used in the DoD, i.e. IDEF0 for modeling business activities and IDEFIA for modeling data entities, attributes, and their relationships. A physical modeling methodology could be considered a counter part to the IDEF0 and IDEFIX methods for modeling a businesses' physical resources and their connectivity that the IDEF methods do not provide. 2) Associating information about physical resources to information found in other models including the functions they support and the data they store, process, and transmit in order to build a more complete, correlated description of business operations that no individual business methodology currently offers. A standard physical modeling methodology is required to bring structure to the current Air Force and DoD physical modeling efforts to enable broad area characterization of C4 resources, information sharing, and modeling aggregation into a consolidated model for wide area analysis. Replies concerning accommodating methods should indicate methodologyconventions, syntax, and semantics,for building physical models. SOFTWARE TOOLS: Information sought in PC or Unix-based software tools that facilitate physical modeling efforts. Information sought on integrated diagramming and database software packages that exhibit robust modeling and analysis capabilities. Replies should include software capabilities, cost, required hardware and software support, and other pertinent documentation. Desired capabilities include user customizable data structures and graphics, user friendly graphics-based data input, textual and graphical queries, graphical highlighting and filtering, visual and textual reporting, and data/object import, export, and merge capabilities. No contract will result from this request for information (RFI), nor will the government compensate any contractor for expenses incurred in preparing a response to this RFI. Replies to this notice for potential sources must be submitted no later than 30 days after publication in the CBD. Limit responses to no more than 20 pages in length. Demonstration software is also acceptable. SUBMIT REPLIES TO HQ AFC4A/TNAB, Attn Mr. Thomas Korte, Building 1700 - Room 2000, 203 West Losey Street, Scott AFB IL 62225-5238. DO NOT SEND RESPONSES TO THE CONTRACTING OFFICE. (0262)

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