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70 -- AWACS MODELING AND SIMULATION (AMS) TRAINING SYSTEMS COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT SOL F41691-97-R0008 DUE 021797 POC DEE BRAME, tel:(210) 652-5117, KATHY J. WILLIAMS, Contracting Officer, tel:(210) 652-5117 12 CONS/LGCX, RANDOLPH AFB TX 78150-4525, intends to acquire on a sole-source basis through Advanced Simulation Technology inc. (ASTi), 441A Carlisle Dr., Herdon VA 22070, a simulated communications system for the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Modeling and Simulation (AMS) Training System. The AMS systems will provide initital training to AWACS Weapons Directors and will be installed at the 325th Training Support Squadron located at Tyndall Air Force Base. The system will consist of 36 Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) Indigo II XL workstations which are interoperable with themselves, four F-15 Full Mission Trainers (also at Tyndall AFB), as well as other simulation systems at various AFBs using Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol. AMS will also have theability to interact with aircraft via UHF radio. The simulated communications hardware and software being purchased must, therefore, allow students to communicate with each other, the simulation, the pseudo pilots, and/or the pilotsin live aircraft simultaneously. The AMS communication system will be required to interface, via a patch panel, with Dave Clark headsets and microphones (located at each of the 36 workstations), 10 real UHF radios, and nine simulated UHF radios located remote from the AMS. Interface consists of line level audio in and out of the SGI workstations, as weel as, physical push-to-talk interfaces. It is essential that this equipment be compatiable with the three dimensional Audio Distribution System (ADS) patch panel (similar to the one on the AWACS aircraft) and the SGI hardware, be based on digital signal processing (DSP) technology, meet all of the DIS protocols as identified by the Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1278, and service 32 active DIS and/or real transmitters and receivers simultaneously. The simulated communications equipment consists of central switching unit, ethernet interfaces, intercom switching software, voice networking software, radio environmnet software, monitor and keyboard software, remote interface units, DI/DO cards, and special purpose computer to control interface between real UHF radios and simulate radios. This hardware and software must also have established interoperability with all other DIS communication implementations such as the Mu-law and CVSD compression for the SINCGARS Radio Model (SRM) and must be compatiable with ASTi equipment running on other government simulations planned for interface with the AMS systems. Requested DEL 30 days. All requests for solicitations shall be made in writing or by facsimile (210-652-4673), within 30 days of publication of this notice. Telephone requests will not be accepted. See Note 22. (0365)

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