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A -- BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS REQUIRED BY NAIC SOL F33657-96-R-0021 POC Thomas Beaver/Contracting Officer, Patricia Blakely, (513) 255-3273. The National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC), Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio is contemplating a five year contract to provide NAIC with complete sounding rocket flight test and data collection/analysis support. Specifically, this effort will support NAIC in conducting all or any part of flight test programs which will include: the design, manufacture and testing of the launch vehicle, ground support equipment, and maneuvering payload module bus, the design, manufacture and testing of instrumented payloads/decoys and their deployment mechanisms: mission planning, including a data collection plan to optimize the payload deployment and sensor orientation for collection from multiple platforms, fabrication or modification of data collection sensors, and analysis of the collected data to provide vehicle and payload performance reports, discrimination of targets, and fusion of multi-sensor data. This requirement was advertised in the 19 June 1995 edition of the CBD as a sources sought synopsis. This is the presolicitation notice. The formal RFP will be released approximately 15 days after publication of this announcement. Offerors will then have 30 days in which to respond to the RFP. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offeros 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 proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Col Corcoran at (513) 255-0600. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have been previously brought to the attention of the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. (0124)

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