US Army, CECOM Acquisition Center, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey 07703-5008

58 -- WIDEBAND RADIO NETWORKING SOL DAAB07-97-R-D081 DUE 092997 POC Point of Contact -- Don Upmal, (732) 532-0440, Adam Gerner, (732) 427-3953. E-MAIL: Wideband Radio Networking, upmal@doim6.monmouth.army.mil. The CECOM Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate, Fort Monmouth, NJ, is planning to initiate a new Research & Development effort in the area of wideband tactical data radio networks. Here the term "wideband" refers to both high data rate and use of spread spectrum signaling. In order to support the envisioned Army's Force XXI digital battlefield, new wideband radio networks need to be developed to supplement the current capacity of the legacy radios of today and the near future, including SINCGARS, EPLRS, and NTDR. The objective of this effort is to deliver an experimental capability with which to develop and evaluate new wideband network radio "waveforms" to meet this need. For the purposes of this document, the term "waveform" refers to the software/ hardware functionality needed to implement the network, link, and physical layers of the OSI protocol stack, below the Internet Protocol (IP) layer. The two major areas of interest are (1) the development of new wideband networked data waveforms and (2) the procurement of a software based, modular, reprogrammable/ reconfigurable Network RadioTestbed (NRT), which can be used to host new candidate waveforms and provide the CECOM Digital Integrated Laboratory (DIL) with the ability to experiment with other "third party" developmental wideband waveforms. This new wideband waveform and testbed effort will ultimately be initiated via the issuance of a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), asking that proposals be submitted IAW the BAA technical requirements. However, in view of the dynamic state-of-the-art of this technology, it is first planned to perform a Market Survey in order to evaluate the present "state" of this technology and gather informed comments for development of a better defined and more feasible BAA document. SURVEY INSTRUCTIONS AND QUESTIONS. A draft version of the above described BAA has been included on the CECOM Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate internet website. The website URL is (www.fotlan.army.mil). It is requested that the draft BAA be downloaded, thoroughly reviewed, and comments submitted related to it's technical content and the feasibility of the requested products. In addition to your general comments, it is also requested that the following specific questions be answered: 1. Does your company have an existing or developmental waveform(s) that meets the technical requirements as stated in the draft BAA? 2. Does your company have any COTS and/or NDI based product(s) that could meet the technical requirements (or some subset) of the programmable wideband Network Radio Testbed (NRT)? If the answer is yes, then please provide technical information on these products and the Software Development Environment (SDE) used to generate the software used on these products. 3. If your company does have a waveform and testbed which meets the BAA description, please provide a short discussion relative to providing data rights and/or licensing agreements for Government and third party use of the waveform, testbed, and SDE software, as described in the draft BAA. 4. Please indicate if there would be any difficulty in providing the documentation required in the draft BAA and/or its use by the Government and select third party personnel. 5. Please comment as to whether the funding level and profile indicated in the draft BAA is sufficient for the items being solicited. If possible, also provide separate cost information for the data waveform, the SDE, and unit costs for the following quantities of the NRT: a. 1-5; b. 6-10; c. 11-15 d. 16-20 SURVEY RESPONSES: 1. All Survey responses shall be returned to: U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, ATTN: AMSEL-RD-ST-WL-WI (A. Gerner / D. Upmal), Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703 or via electronic mail as an MS-Word document to: (gerner@doim6.monmouth.army.mil), (upmal@doim6.monmouth. army.mil) 2. Any questions shall be addressed to Mr. Adam Gerner, (732) 427-3953 or Mr. Don Upmal, (732) 532-0440. (0223)

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