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A -- SUBMUNITION SEEKER/SENSOR CAPTIVE FLIGHT TESTS (CFT) AND SIGNATURE TESTING, EGLIN AFB, FL POC Mr. Fred Reichstetter, Program Manager, (850) 882-8412, Vicky M. Dawson, Contracting Officer, (850) 882-4141 E-MAIL: clich here to contact the contract buyer via e-mail, Guntert@eglin.af.mil. The Air Force Development Test Center, Joint Munitions Test and Evaluation Program Office, Project CHICKEN LITTLE (CL), Eglin AFB FL intends to conduct submunition seeker/sensor captive flight tests (CFT) and signature testing at Eglin AFB FL test areas during the period of May to June 1998. This event will utilize foreign and domestic classified/unclassified ground mobile vehicles as targets in a static and dynamic environment intended to gather seeker/sensor system performance and/or signature data for analysis and algorithm development. This is an invitation to industry to participate in this event. Participants must provide all necessary aerial platforms; hardware/software systems, including seeker/sensor instrumentation; and all personnel to accomplish the complete set of data collection missions. Offerors will be responsible for providing all necessary insurance for personnel and hardware, hold harmless agreements, etc., to conduct activities on a US Government installation. In exchange for the provisioning of the targets, ground truth data, range operations, meteorological data, etc., the offerors will be required to provide the Government a complete set of collected data; unclassified and/or classified. It is CL policy that data collected and retained will be protected as proprietary, securely stored at the appropriate classification level(s) and will not be released/disseminated without consent of the owner/sponsor of the hardware. Restrictions because of available range time, environmental conditions, and airspace constraints may require limitations on the number of participants that can be accommodated. In that case, offerors will be selected based on the following criteria: 1) technical parameters, 2) maturity of the test item/system, and 3) potential applications. Offerors chosen for participation will be invited to sign a Statement of Capability (SOC) with CL. This SOC will define the basis for participation and identify specific requirements to be satisfied by the offeror and the Government. Offerors will be required to have established security clearances for all involved personnel at the time of SOC signature. A CFT planning meeting will be held 12 and 13 March 1998 at TASC Inc., 1992 Lewis Turner Blvd., Ft Walton Beach FL, beginning at 8:30 a.m. each day. Written requirements must be established by 25 March 1998 and forwarded to the CL Program Office to allow for sufficient Government coordination of resources, airspace, and logistical needs requested by each participant for the set-up and during conduct of the CFT. Range set-up is anticipated to commence in early May 1998 and be completed several days later. Interested participants are encouraged to attend the planning meeting to be considered responsive participants and to have in attendance qualified individual(s) representing your organization's interests in potentially participating. Additionally, the potential participant's representative(s) attending are required to be ready to present/provide to the Government a qualification package that includes a technical proposal describing their demonstration hardware. This package must also summarize recent test programs including test results, instrumentation systems, required test parameters (altitude, slant range, ground instrumentation, etc.), aerial test platform, associated technical information and capabilities/limitations. Of primary interest are advanced concept and multi-mode systems. Since this is not a request for a formal contract award, there will be no Request for Proposal (RFP), nor will any binding selection criteria be prepared. Participation under the SOC is not subject to the Contracts Dispute Act of 1978 and not subject to arbitration or dispute. Security clearances at the SECRET level are required and must be faxed to TASC, Inc., ATTN; Ms. Susan Deonarine (TASC Security Manager), at 850-863-7962, no later than two working days prior to the planning meeting. Ms. Deonarine can be reached at 850-863-8000. For further information, please contact Mr. Fred Reichstetter at 850-882-8412, DSN 872-8412. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only. It does not constitute an RFP, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. (0056)

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