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A -- DASG60-98-0009, ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTER SOL DASG60-98-R-0013 DUE 040798 POC Melissa D. Webb, Contract Specialist, Melissa D. Webb, Contracting Officer, (205) 955-1600 The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC), Missile Defense and Space Technology Center, Systems Directorate requirement entitled "Advanced Research Center" (ARC) provides authorized contractors and government agencies a centralized resource for addressing space and missile defense technologies in a classified or unclassified environment. The requirements of the ARC include reliable, fault tolerant computing; software techniques for complex systems, real-time algorithm computation, super computer processing, parallel processing, visualization, modeling and simulation, communications, software development, testbed development, technical and administrative services. The ARC provides customers with a unique resource to address space and missile defense subsystems, technologies and applications under analysis to include; Battle Management/Command, Control, Computers, Communications and Intelligence (BMC4I); Search, Acquisition, Track and Kill Assessment (SATKA); Kinetic Energy Weapons (KEW);Directed Energy Weapons (DEW); Sensors, and applications. Research testbeds utilizing special and/or off-the-shelf test equipment that can be configured to support space and missile defense experimentation, exercises, testing, analysis, and possible deployment is required. The objective of this effort is to provide the framework to establish, implement and operate the ARC as a research facility that allows ARC customers the capability to examine their requirements by: (1) serving as a focal point for USASSDC and the Program Executive Office-Army Missile Defense (PEO-AMD) or other government agencies, and contractors conducting research, development, integration and test, verification and validation, analysis and operational concept studies; (2) supporting experimentation, exercises and evaluation of advanced computing hardware/software and (3) providing the resources to develop, evaluate and demonstrate advanced space or missile defense and Warfighter concepts. This solicitation announcement is not a solicitation for proposals; however, any firm competent to perform the effort described above should submit written requests for solicitation DASG60-98-R-0013 SMDC-CM-CK, Melissa D. Webb, at the address above, within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date of publication of this notice. The small business size standard is 1,000 employees. Firms responding to this notice should indicate whether they are a large, small, or small and disadvantaged business. Foreign participation is not open to this acquisition. SIC Code 8731 is applicable. (0012)

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