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A -- SENSOR FOR OPTICALLY CHARACTERIZING RING-EDDY ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE EMANATING SOUND POC Anthony J. Flaherty, Acquisition Manager, (617)494-2673 WEB: Volpe Acquisition Division Home Page, http://www.Volpe.DOT.GOV.PROCURE.HTM. The Volpe National Transportation System Center (Volpe Center) intends to negotiate on a non-competitive basis with Flight Safety Technology,Inc. for the further development, test, and evaluation of a proprietary sensor ( "SOCRATES", Sensor for Optically Characterizing Ring-eddy Atmospheric Turbulence Emanating Sound) capable of providing detection, classification, localization and tracking functions on distant sounds emanated by various weather and man-made anomalies that pose hazards to commercial and general aviation. The sensor will be tested to assess its capability to detect aviation hazards involving clear air turbulence, severe wind gusting along mountainous airstrip approaches, downdrafts producing windshears and microbursts, all of which are naturally occurring meteorological phenomena, and wake vortices which are generated by aircraft in flight. All of these phenomena, at sometime or other, have proven to be hazardous to aircraft and passengers. Further, access to "SOCRATES" technology is possible only through Flight Safety Technology, Inc. This synopsis will be relied on to support two contracts. The first contract will focus on demonstrating and evaluating a single line Socrates sensor and gathering background data at representative airport environments. The second contract will use the experiences developed under the first contract to further develop the technology. Interested sources must respond in writing to this synopsis with a qualification package no later than fifteen days from its publication date. Telephonic inquiries will not be honored. See Note 22. This notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Business and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, please call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. The solicitation and any document related to this procurement will be available on the Internet; these documents will be available in text format and reside on a WWW server which may be accessed using Web browsers. The WWW address, or URL, of the Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page is: "http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure.htm". Offerors desiring to receive electronic notification of the solicitation's posting and availability for downloading may register at the Volpe Center site. Contractors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments and other notices, the responsibility for providing the Government with an accurate and complete e-mail address lies withthe contractor. The Government will make no additional efforts to deliver information when the system indicates that transmissions cannot be delivered to the e-mail address provided. Requests for a hardcopy of the solicitation may be mailed or sent via E-Mail to FlahertyA@Volpe1.Dot.Gov. (0050)

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