HSC/PKRC, DCS Contracting, 8005 9TH Street, Brooks AFB, TX 78235- 5353.

A -- HELMET MOUNTED SIGH PLUS (HMS+) AIRCREW HELMET DISPLAY SYSTEM SSS-PKR-9605 POC POC Ms Roxanne Jaramillo, Contracting Officer, 210-536-6330. Qualified sources are being sought for the Helmet-Mounted Sight Plus (HMS+) advanced development program sponsored by Armstrong Laboratory, Crew Systems Directorate, Helmet-Mounted Sensory Technology (HMST) Advanced Development Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. HMS+ will employ the engineering and hardware fabrication talent necessary to design and build a lightweight, monocular helmet-mounted system suitable for investigating and demonstrating the use of a subtractive color liquid crystal display (SCLCD) for day/night air-to-air and air-to-ground weapon delivery. HMS+ will provide a SCLCD image source helmet-mounted display that will address the fundamental performance helmet cueing issues associated with high off-boresight to reduce helmet-mounted tracker and display (HMT/D) complexity, weight, bulk, and cost, while providing a two or four-color display that allows different symbology types to be distinguished through color coding. HMS+ will incorporate a state-of-the-art, metal-tolerant magnetic helmet mounted tracker (HMT). The HMS+ program will seek to implement the best alternative of existing magnetic tracker technologies that utilize advanced position and orientation tracking algorithms. HMS+ will focus on the demonstration of a medium risk, high luminance, SCLCD image source and special lighweight optics whose chromatic aberration characteristics are optimized for the light emission characteristics of the image source. Matching HMD optics will be designed to transmit the image to the eye with minimal axial or lateral color aberrations. This effort will obtain the image source, optics, helmet system, image source electronics and helmet tracker electronics. The hardware will be suitably ruggedized to insure that necessary safety-of-flight considerations are addressed for rapid ground egress, operation in an oxygen rich environment, and in-flight g-seat ejection. HMS+ will begin with a contracted development effort followed by Government testing to demonstrate improved mission effectiveness through simulation and flight demonstrations. A COST-REIMBURSABLE type contract is contemplated for this effort. The period of performance is contemplated to be 35 months. A SECRET Security Clearance will be required in performance of this work. This ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A RFP and ONLY RESPONSES that PROVIDE the REQUESTED INFORMATION APPLICABLE TO YOUR FIRM WILL BE CONSIDERED. SIC Code 8731 has been assigned. Firms should indicated whether they are a woman-owned business. Additionally, information is required as to whether your firm is considered a small business. The general definition to be used to determine whether your firm is small is as follows: ''A small business concern is a concern that is independently owned and operated, is not dominant in the field of operation in which it is bidding on Government contract, and with its affiliates the number of employees does not exceed 500 persons.'' '''Concerns' means any business entity organized for profit with a place of business located in the United States, including but not limited to an individual, partnership, corporation, joint ventures, association, or cooperation.'' The Air Force reserves the right to consider a small business set-aside based on responses hereto. All respondees to this synopsis shall include their assigned Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code (i.e.,Federal Supply Code for Mfrs, a five-digit code assigned by Comdr, Def Logistics Service Center, Attn: DECS-CGD, Federal Center, Battle Creek, MI., Ref DOD 5000.129M). SMALL BUSINESSES interested in this effort must respond with a complete capability/qualification package describing the company's technical expertise and experience, personnel and facilities and motivation for participating in this program. LARGE BUSINESSES need only reply with a letter of interest. SEE READER'S GUIDE NOTE(S) item NUMBER 25 for FURTHER DETAILS. Each reponse shall reference SSS-PKR-9605. Responses submitted should be sent to: HSC/PKRC, 8005 9th Street, Attn: Ms Roxanne Jaramillo, Brooks AFB TX 78235-5353. Any non-technical and/or contractual questions should be referred to Ms Jaramillo, (210) 536-6330. Technical questions may be directed to Mr Randy Brown (513) 255-8895. This program may use streamlined soliciation procedures. If there are questions or other problems which cannot be resolved by HSC/PKR, contractors may be referred to the HSC Ombudsman. Closing date for submission of responses is thirty days from publication of this notice. (0039)

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