Sterling Software (US) Inc., P.O. Box 138, Moffett Field, CA 94035-0138

D -- OBJECT-ORIENTED AND OBJECT-BASED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE!! SOL 0911709124FEST!! POC Diane H. Harper, 415-961-9836, facsimile only WEB: Click here to view narrative, http://www.ssd.sterling.com/Sources_Sought.html. E-MAIL: click here to contact Diane Harper via email, dhharper@mail.arc.nasa.gov. Sterling Software is seeking sources to provide an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and Engineering Data Management System (EDMS) for use in an aerodynamic research and development environment, that includes integrating a host of design, analysis, and, manufacturing functions. The selected system must also be able to support enterprise-wide deployment, to include a wide variety of non-engineering and design information; e.g. cost data, accounting, finance, MRP integration s, etc. The proposed system shall be dominate of COTS-based applications and technologies (e.g., web, platform technologies, GUI s, DBMS s) that allow the integration of NASA Ames core competency technologies (e.g., computational physics and advanced AI technologies), as well as integration of select commercial software using an object-oriented, distributed- database schema. The system shall have communication mechanisms that allow NASA users to share messages and data-bases, enhance collaboration, contain process managementfunctions that allow users to develop knowledge-based processes and procedures that establish and control the movement and use of information throughout the entire lifecycle of the engineering objects, and have file storage and access controls that allow for multiple levels of access to NASA processes and information across multiple databases, ensuring security. The system shall use object modeling to capture NASA research products, documents, and their relationships from inception (and independently of the application files that represent them). Demonstrated integration with the following COTS tools is required; PTC Pro-Engineer, EDS Unigraphics, Bentley System MicroStation (on Mac, Win 95/NT, SGI Iris platforms), SolidWork s SolidWorks, Intergraph I/EMS, Surfware SurfCAM (integrated with SolidWorks), PTC Mechanica/Rasna (integrated with Pro- Engineer), SRAC Cosmos/M, MathCAD, AIS XESS, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project, Adobe Acrobat, and Quicktime (Mac, PC and SGI platforms). The overall system and architecture shall be based as much is technically feasible on current state-of-the-art COTS products. In general, the following technologies and standards support are a minimum and mandatory. A COTS Information Management (IM) application based upon or embedded with an OODBMS and written in C++, including underlying database support for DDE, SQL, ODBC and ODMG-93 standards, CORBA compliant architecture and technologies (available within 6 mos from contract award), web-based GUI technology, Java Class Libraries, Perl and Tcl/Tk Technologies, application-specific query language (with natural language syntax) and open API (toolkit) capability, heterogeneous platform and UI support to include; Motif, Open Look, OpenGL, MS Windows 3.x, MS Windows 95, MS Windows NT, Apple Macintosh and X-Windows (for remote machines without client software). Supported US DoD CALS protocols shall include IGES (including NASA-IGES subset), CCITT Group IV, SGML, CGM, PDES/STEP (AP 203) and MilStd 1840A. The system should support the defacto CFD standard, PLOT3D, which will be replaced as appropriate and feasible by the emerging CGNS standards. The system must meet all requirements for documentation and documentation control called for under ISO-9000 (Level 1-4) series of standards in replacement of NASA NHB5300.4(1B) requirements. Applications and technologies that will not be considered and are not qualified for the overall system include; RDBMS-based and/or ORDBMS-based IM, EDMS, Doc Mgm t and/or PDM Applications (including the use of high overhead middleware and ORB s), RDBMS and/or ORDBMS technologies on their own coupled with object-oriented extensions, or object-oriented system architectures that are based upon a back-end RDBMS. The COTS Application should not require NASA users to modify their applications, data, or, processes to achieve the productivity benefits of effective information management. One hundred seats of the client modules, and two seats of appropriate administrator modules will be provided. The contractor will also provide services for the planning, installation, integration of select NASA software tools, and imple-menta-tion of the COTS EDMS application. The contractor should have significant personnel with the following IT and custom programming skills, Unix, Windows and Apple Operating Systems, C, C++, C-shell, FORTRAN, HTML, Java, javascripts, Tcl/Tk, Perl, etc, web-based technologies, AI experience such as Lisp, system design and implementation, OODBMS administration and performance fine tuning, and engineering process modeling. Contractor should have at a minimum five years experience in the IM, EDMS, Doc Mgm t and PDM market and at least ten years minimum experience in the Design Automation, CAE (CFD, FEM/FEA), CAD/CAM/CIM, mechanical and electrical engineering. Additionally, at least five references in the aerospace (DoD and commercial), aeronautical, and applied research lab (such as NASA, DOE, CERN, etc.) environments will be required. (0084)

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