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70 -- MARKET SURVEY/COMMERCIAL AVAILABILITY, LAND COMBAT SPECTRUM MODEL POC Linda Wallis, (703)706-2779, Gail Gilchrist, (703)706-1710 WEB: N/A,. E-MAIL: N/A, lcwalli@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil. THIS IS A MARKET SURVEY ONLY -- NO SOLICITATION EXISTS. This market survey is being conducted in order to determine the commercial availability or capabilities (or nondevelopmental items availability) of a Land Combat spectrum Model for use by the National Ground Intelligence Center, Charlottesville, VA. Land Combat Spectrum Model (LSCM) is the first segment of the Military Capability Spectra Project (MCSP) that encompasses Land, Sea, Air and Joint Military Capability spectra. The MCSP will be a decision aid for decision makers and commanders who need a validated assessment of military strengths and weaknesses. The LSCM portion (currently in advanced beta) identifies and scales land military capability around the world. It uses maps, charts, and tests to give the decision maker an easy-to-visualize summary of relative capabilities and the effects of technology-based upgrades, changing economic conditions, perceived threats and military acquisitions on the global balance of power. Future versions will expand the scope from LCSM to MCSP by providing a multi-service-joint model using state-of-the-art visualization techniques for complex data. It will incorporate scenario analyses via an adaptation of the Discrete Richardson Model and will involve a significant effort in RDT&E to develop conflict analysis methodologies in conjunction with existing capability analysis techniques. The user tool associated with the MCSP will run on Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 97, Sun Solaris, and the MacIntosh platforms. Software must be written in portable, object-oriented, compiled code (preferably C++ or Delphi) that accesses corporate Oracle databases to extract the model's stored data and parameters. MCSP needs to have access to academic and commercial consultants and contractors to develop and refine mathematical concepts including applications of chaos/complexity theory, self-organized criticality, semiotics, and cellular automata, expansion and extension of the rating schema and their subsequent applications, and state-of-the-art visualizations techniques for complex data sets. Please provide information on the commercial items which would be sufficient to enable the government to determine whether or not your product meets the government's needs. Attach literature and specification information. In addition, please provide the following information: (1) Is the item customarily available in the commercial marketplace? (2) Does the item require modification in order to meet the Government's requirement? If so, provide your customary practices regarding customizing, modifying or tailoring of items to meet the government purposes. (3) Is the item used exclusively for Government purposes? (4) Is the product a foreign manufactured product? If so, where? (5) Business size. (6) Provide a list of potential suppliers. (7) Are the items available under existing government contracts? (8) Best Price offered and ordering information. Provide the information by 31 January 1997. THIS IS A MARKET SURVEY ONLY -- NO SOLICITATION EXISTS.**** (0006)

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