99 -- FORCE PROTECTION The Aeronautical Systems Center, Weapons, Air Base, and Range Product Support Office, Contracting Division (ASC/WMOK), in support of the Air Base Systems Division (ASC/VXO), is interested in acquiring information on commercially available equipment which could be used by the Air Force for the protection of personnel and resources. This request for information (RFI) is focused in the following areas. (1) Explosives Detection and Disposal: (a) Hand-held or robotics systems capable of detecting explosives or explosive components located inside of vehicles, packages, briefcases, or on/about a person, (b) Munitions disruptors, (c) Improvised explosive device defeat systems for large vehicles; (2)Physical Security of Personnel and Base Infrastructure: (a) Improved ballistic protection systems for individuals which are lighter and less bulky than those presently in use. Protection rendered must be equal to or greater than that currently employed. Candidate systems must be compatible with present camouflage patterns worn by personnel, (b) Eyewear that affords protection from small arms fire, shrapnel, and/or laser weapons. Eyewear should not fog up during extreme or changing environmental conditions, (c) Systems and techniques to reinforce buildings, bunkers, revetments, vehicles, and other structures requiring protection. Systems must be transportable, relocatable and must have a long shelf-life, (d) Chemical/biological protective masks and garments that allow personnel normal freedom of movement and optimum visibility, especially peripheral, while affording maximum protection from known anti-personnel agents; (3) Chemical/Biological Agent Detection/Neutralization: (a) Personal agent detection kits capable of instantaneously alarming personnel when in the presence of known anti-personnel agents, (4) Surveillance Systems: (a) Items capable of assisting security forces in detecting and defeating small, 4 to 6 person teams of aggressors. Items must be all-weather capable, and able to operate during day and night operations, (b) Devices that can be worn by individuals, compatible with present gear, to identify personnel as friend or foe. System must work in extreme temperature and atmospheric conditions and possess an extremely high degree of reliability, (c) Systems to detect the presence of movement, humans, sound and other factors and capable of transmitting notice of alert via wireless communication system to remote site away from the protected area; and (5) Instantaneous Warning/Alerting Systems: Speaker system capable of notifying building or area occupants with differing signal dependent upon varying tones, speech, frequencies, etc. Firms having such equipment/systems are requested to submit literature/brochures outlining the specifications/ capabilities of these items to ASC/VXO, Attn: Major Dmytro Schabla, 101 W. D Avenue, Ste 16, Eglin AFB FL 32542-5495 within 15 days of the date of publication. Responses will be evaluated and a solicitation list established of those firms determined capable of fulfilling the Government's requirements. This request for information (RFI) is for planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a request for proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any follow-on acquisitions. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI or otherwise pay for the information solicited. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of submission of responses to this RFI and Government use of such information. This RFI does not constitute the solicitation of proposals. No telephone requests. For Contracting information contact Mr. Jeffrey D. Cox, Contracting Officer, at (904) 882-6769, ext 297. For further information concerning technical aspects, contact Major Dmytro Schabla at the above address or telephone (904) 882-4681. Responders to this RFI may be requested to provide additional details/information based on their initial submittals.*****

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