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A -- DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR AN AUTOMATED HIGHWAY SYSTEM Sol BAA-AHS-B3-5/15/96 due 070196. Contact Point, Technical: Wendell Chun, (303)971-7945, Business: Dennis Casey, (303)977-8959. Broad Agency Announcement for Development of Critical Enabling Technologies for an Automated Highway System. The National Automated Highway System Consortium (NAHSC) is soliciting proposals for new innovative technologies that support an Automated Highway System. The NAHSC is a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Transportation in response to the mandate of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 to ``develop an automated highway and vehicle prototype from which future fully automated intelligent vehicle-highway systems can be developed.'' The NAHSC has begun work developing and evaluating concepts in preparation of building and testing a prototype automated highway system. As part of this effort, the consortium is specifying, developing, procuring, and testing critical enabling technologies that will be integrated into the prototype. ``Critical enabling technologies'' are components such as sensors, communication equipment, drive-by-wire actuators, algorithms, etc. that are essential to the success of the automated Highway System (AHS). These technologies may be useful to more than one of the AHS concepts and/or have a long lead time to development. As critical enabling technologies are shown to be feasible and developed to sufficient levels of maturity, they will be merged with the concept development and demonstration/test efforts of the AHS program. The NAHSC has identified technology areas that are candidates for development. During the early phases of this program, the consortium had identified several critical enabling technologies and did a preliminary assessment of the state of the art in each critical area. This assessment will be compared with the evolving system requirements specifications coming from the concept selection and concept design phases of the program to determine a list of critical enabling technologies to be developed. However, the initial assessment was preliminary and not all-inclusive. As a result, the NAHSC is soliciting proposals for new innovative technologies that would support an Automated Highway System. New innovative technologies can be anything from small components to large subsystems that would support the vehicle, infrastructure, system or AHS-specific Traffic Management Center functions. Prospective bidders may have partial or complete solutions to help the consortium meet its near-term and far-term goals. This initiative (BAA) will help the NAHSC to ensure that all reasonable technologies have been considered. A partial list of technologies that have been considered include: 1. Vehicle Sensors (longitudinal separation, lateral separation, lane boundary, motion, position, traction, vehicle status), 2. Roadway and Infrastructure Sensors (environment, traffic conditions, roadway impediments, system condition, driver condition), 3. Actuators for Cars, Trucks, and Buses (high-reliability steering actuator, high-reliability throttle actuator, high-reliability brake actuator), 4. Communications (vehicle-to-vehicle, infrastructure-to-vehicle-to-infrastructure), 5. Processors (high-speed, high-reliability, low-cost, high-bandwidth; vehicles or infrastructure for command and control), 6. Algorithms (vehicle lateral control, vehicle longitudinal control, vehicle position estimation, signal processing for range and video interpretation, vehicle check-in, vehicle checkout, sensor fusion, obstacle detection, obstacle avoidance, system health maintenance, emergency and exception handling). Two additional technologies that will be considered by the NAHSC are the human (driver) interface and safety algorithms. The proposed technology may encompass one of the above areas or be a totally new technology area. There is a risk that the proposed technology may be duplicative of current on-going work. This notice constitutes an AHS Broad Area Announcement for Development of technologies for an Automated Highway System as authorized by FAR 5.207. This announcement will be open and proposals accepted at any time from 31 May 1996 through 31 May 1998. Anticipated contract type is Cost Share (see FAR 16.303) with a minimum goal of 20% contribution by the Contractor. Acceptable cost share contribution may be in the form of donated labor, equipment usage, related research & development expenses, etc. Periodic status reports are required, including final report. Multiple contract awards are expected, each with varying periods of performance ranging from a year to multiple years. Unlimited data rights with regard to all procurement under this announcement, with the possible exception of negotiated position(s) for data rights to existing concepts further developed under this announcement, shall be required. Please do not include proprietary data. All offerors will be notified of evaluation results within 105 days of evaluation. Copies of each proposal must be distributed as follows: Original - National Automated Highway System Consortium, 3001 W. Big Beaver Road, Suite 500, Troy, MI 48084, Attn: Rob Meinert (810)816-3404 and 6 copies to Lockheed Martin Astronautics, PO Box 179, M/S DC4350, Denver, CO 80201, Attn: Dennis Casey (303)977-8959. Proposals shall address each technology to be developed separately. Proposals are limited to technology development only and not concepts nor public demonstrations. Proposals shall be concise, without extensive boilerplate, and shall include (1) Technical: technology description, hardware/software description, and details on availability; applicable analyses; expected technical performance. (2) Management: Approach to technology development; proposed effort including technical and financial status reporting, technical data package and manuals; plan of action, milestones; schedule; key personnel in developing similar technologies; resumes of key personnel; description of facilities. (3) Cost: detailed cost estimate for proposed effort including cost share, labor, hardware, and travel (if required). A suggested format is to limit technical descriptions to 10 pages and the total proposal length to 15 pages. Award decisions will be based on a competitive selection of proposals resulting from a peer review. Proposals will be evaluated on the following criteria (listed here in no particular order): (1) is the technology in a critical enabling technology area and what is its relative priority to the program. (2) Is the investigator qualified to conduct the research. (3) Does proposal show that the researcher understands other past/or on-going research in this area. (4) Is the level of maturity of the technology appropriate. (5) Is the proposed research directly relevant to AHS. (6) Will the technology benefit other NAHSC tasks. (7) Is research non-duplicative of other research. (8) Is the workplan realistic and achievable. (9) Degree to which the offeror is engaged in internal advanced vehicle control research and development focused on product development for automotive/heavy vehicle markets. This announcement solicits the participation of all offerors capable of meeting the NAHSC's needs. For proposal preparation instructions contact Dennis Casey, (303)977-8959, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, 80201. SPONSOR: National Automated Highway System Consortium, Troy, MI 48084. Attn: Rob Meinert. The NAHSC is not an agent of the US DOT. Resultant contracts will be commercial contracts with appropriate US DOT flow down clauses. (141)

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