HQ Electronic Systems Center, Contracted Support Management Division, (ESC/ENK), 5 Eglin St., Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2116

A -- ESC CENTRALLY-MANAGED AIRBORNE SURVEILLANCE AND WEAPONS CONTROL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT POC Ann E. Corkum, Program Manager, 617-377-8287; Stephen L. Smith, Contracting Officer, 617-377-6789; Ted Ressel, Contract Specialist, 617-377-8996. SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS. The Electronic Systems Center is planning the acquisition of Airborne Surveillance and Weapons Control Research and Development support for locations at Hanscom AFB, CONUS and OCONUS. A small business set aside contract with a Standard Industry Classification Code of 8731 (1500 people) is contemplated. The objective of this contract effort is to provide technical research, advanced development, and test personnel to promote the advanced development of USAF Airborne Surveillance and Weapons Control Systems, to include but not limited to the Joint STARS, E-8 and AWACS, E-3 aircraft. The contractor shall possess a thorough knowledge of aircraft and aircraft flight testing. The contractor shall assist the Government in demonstrating selected developmental technologies and capabilities to meet user requirements and establish new installation techniques/procedures. Prototyping shall also be used for accomplishing software performance evaluations. The contractor shall be required to perform technical studies, investigations, and/or analyses to develop future systems concepts, track technology developments, formulate applications and define technology/systems shortfalls. This contract will require deployment world-wide. Contractor personnel potentially shall be deployed to war zone areas and remote locations. Special Access Requirements will exist on this contract. A major program the contractor shall support is the Joint STARS system. This system consists of four major elements: the radar subsystem, the operations and control subsystem, the communications subsystem and the aircraft subsystem. The various elements of these subsystems are interconnected by a network of high speed large bandwidth digital data buses. The major subsystems utilize microprocessors, signal processors, and large data processors to provide functions and products necessary for this Command and Control platform. More than 500 processor elements are contained in the Joint STARS system executing over one (1) million lines of application software instructions. The radar system is an X-band multimode, multiresolution radar which operates in Moving Target Indicator (MTI) or Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)/Fixed Target Indicator (FTI) modes from commands issued by on-board aircrew members and/or off-board operators at the U.S. Army's Ground Station Module (GSM). The radar subsystem produces precise target location information, which can be displayed on-board or on the ground in the GSM. This radar system is unique in its ability to produce real-time target information over very large areas while being interleaved with requests for small area, high resolution MTI or SAR/FTI imagery. The specific skill requirements of the contractor personnel vary by position but are most critical in the flight test, software, and computer scientists positions. Most of the skills required in these areas are ''state-of-the-art'' and are described as follows: Senior Flight Test Specialists with prior experience with coherent airborne radar processes associated with interleaved MTI and SAR/FTI operating modes with Phased Array Antennas. These specialists shall be trained and physically qualified in accordance with the AFMC supplement to AFI-11-401. Senior Radar Data Analysts with prior experience in the evaluation of system level performance data for airborne multimode radar systems. These analysts are responsible for the development of radar data analysis algorithms required for radar data reduction and the development of analysis computer software programs. Electronic Counter Counter Measures (ECCM) Flight Test Specialists with prior experience in Electronic Countermeasure (ECM) threats and the techniques and technologies to defeat these threats. Specific skills required include: experience with advanced signal processing techniques used in Radio Frequency (RF) signals analysis, in-depth understanding of Electronic Support Measures (ESM), experience with a broad range of RF signal jamming techniques, working knowledge of currently fielded jamming system capabilities, experience in methods of evaluation used to determine ECCM effectiveness. Additional specific information is not included for security classification reasons. Datalink and Voice Communications Flight Test Specialists with experience in evaluating system integration effectiveness for existing military communications equipment in an airborne platform, specific operational experience with UHF HAVE QUICK and Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) jam resistant voice and datalink communications systems, cosite interference mitigation techniques including frequency agile filtering, noise cancellation and suppression, and frequency management algorithms, and experience with military communications security (COMSEC) equipment for encryption of classified voice and data communications. Computer Scientists with training and experience in the latest DEC VAX and Alpha based computer system architectures, VMS software versions, and networking topologies. This includes the ability and experience to 1) design large computer system architectures for processing high volumes of classified aircraft flight test data, 2) design large computer system architectures to support diverse unclassified processing, and 3) design, configure and maintain Mixed Interconnect/Mixed Architecture/Mixed VMS Version VAX Clusters. Senior Software Specialists with experience in designing, developing, and validating data reduction software for evaluation of test data from major airborne weapon system testing. This experience includes, but is not limited to: coding and testing of data reduction/data analysis programs, validation of data products using sample test data, integration of programs into existing data reduction and analysis systems, configuration control and maintenance of validated data products. The Government intends to award one contract for a performance period of five (5) years. The Government will provide Base Support to include space with desks, chairs, telephones, computers, and computer peripherals necessary to perform the tasks assigned. Contractor personnel shall be 100% collocated at various Government offices. The contract will be an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, fixed price labor hour contract with cost reimbursable CLINs for software deliverables, hardware deliverables (prototypes developed), travel, training, and ''other direct costs'' (ODCs). Task orders will be issued to provide the services to the various program offices. The guaranteed minimum number of labor hours to be ordered is 59,400. Prospective contractors shall provide within 30 days after the date of this notice a written capability package which shows the contractor's ability in the areas of corporate experience and corporate past performance. This capability package shall also include two correlation matrices: 1) list employee name versus education and security clearance, and 2) list employee name versus experience in the areas called out above. Screening criteria also requires: 1) actual projects and efforts completed or on-going for the USAF or DOD, 2) a significant portion of contractor personnel should possess an active top secret clearance, and 3) all contractor personnel shall have at least a secret clearance from the date of contract award. Contractor shall be able to sustain a minimum of 60 man-years per year throughout this contract. Colonel Claude E. Messamore, Jr. USAF at (617) 377-5106 has been appointed as an Ombudsman to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors 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 the proposals or in the source selection process. 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, or issues that require contractor confidentiality. Please submit your responses to Mr. Stephen L. Smith at ESC/ENK, 5 Eglin Street, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2116. No telephone solicitations will be accepted or considered. See Numbered Note(s): 1, 25. (0018)

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