ESC/PKR, R&D Contracting Division, 104 Barksdale St., Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-1806

A -- AIRBORNE INFRARED MEASUREMENT, ANALYSIS, AND INSTRUMENT OPERATION MODIFICATION AND MAINTENANCE SOL F1628-98-R-0013 POC Shirley A. Halliday, Contract Specialist, 781-377-4018; Robert W. Tyrrell, Contracting Officer, 781-377-2930 WEB: ESC Business Opportunities Web Page, http://www.herbb.hanscom.af.mil. E-MAIL: Click Here to E-mail the POC, hallidays@hanscom.af.mil. Notice of Contract Action for the purpose of issuing a Full and Open Competition in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Optical Effects Division, Airborne Measurements Branch to continue work in the following areas: Reduce, correlate, analyze, and publish IR and visual data collected with emphasis on model validation and system requirements, which is presently being performed by UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY. This contract F19628-93-C-0183 is scheduled to be completed by 1) 98DEC02. The contractor shall continue the work in the following areas: Perform validation and verification of U.S. Government standard codes for Electro-optical signature simulation. Operate, modify, and maintain equipment necessary to perform airborne infrared (IR) spectral, spatial, and radiometric measurements of backgrounds, atmospheric structure, and targets. These measurements will normally be conducted in the 0.2 to 15-micrometer wavelength region from the FISTA and the ground-based mobile facility Flying Infrared Signatures Technology Trailer.Various scientific areas of interest pertinent to the Air Force Research Laboratory at [HANSCOM] include:1) Obtain and convert spectral, spatial, and radiometric IR signature data from measured to absolute units and perform detailed analyses and studies on this data Digitalizing and transferring data from interferometers, spatial mappers, and radiometers into a format necessary for further processing. This initial digitization will place data into a format necessary for use in existing computer systems. 2) Providing a complete reduction of in-flight and ground based data. Of aircraft, rocket, background, and target measurements made with interferometers, spatial mappers, and radiometers. 3)Converting measured spectral, spatial and radiometeric IR signature data from measured units to absolute calibrated units. 4)Performing manipulations as required to compensate for noise, specific measurement artifacts, and other effects. 5)Reviewing, determining, and identifying characteristics associated with the normalization of directional and directional reflectance data from paint samples taken from measured targets. 6)Providing methods of describing signature parameters using existing computational analysis models that include the primary sources of infrared radiation (2-15 um) for aircraft, rocket, and ground targets. 7)Determining which target signature components are significant and evaluate their characteristics. 8)Analyzing and improving the understanding of IR radiation from various environmental elements of target signatures. 9)Using state-of-the-art atmospheric transmission/radiation calculations to account for the effects of the intervening atmosphere between the measurement platform and the target. 10)Analyzing strategic and tactical aircraft signatures in various atmospheric scenarios and provide spectral plots of apparent scene contrast radiance, target radiance, and background radiance. 11)Comparing models of target signatures with actual measurements made by AFRL and other sources provided through AFRL. 12)Operating, maintaining, and repairing existing infrared measurement equipment for continued use on board the FISTA. In support of in-house and customer efforts AFRL utilizes a wide variety of IR measurement instrumentation onboard FISTA and the FISTT to characterize operational targets and their backgrounds. 13) The contractor will operate and maintain this existing innovative measurement equipment and compatible recording devices as necessary to harmonize the FISTA capabilities as dictated by various mutable customer requirements. 14). The contractor provides operation, maintenance, and reconstruction, of this AFRL owned instrumentation while at AFRL, and additionally installation, operation, maintenance, and removal while deploying onboard the FISTA or the FISTT. FISTA operates and maintains a variety of IR measurement Instrumentation which includes a Schottky-barrier Airborne Infrared Sensor (SAIRS), a Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) instrument, three (3) interferometers, and various other IR and visual sensor systems. 15)The particular instruments used for each mission are selected based on the data requirements of the requesting agencies program. These instruments are maintained and stored at AFRL and installed on the FISTA prior to each deployment. The items listed are not Government Furnished Equipment (GFE), but equipment to be maintained under this acquisition. 16)The contractor will provide up to four (4) flight qualified professional personnel, with TOP SECRET clearances, scientifically trained and well-versed in IR techniques, to accompany Air Force personnel on the Air Force FISTA (NKC-135A) aircraft for the purpose of data collection. A total of six hundred and forty (640) hours total per year of flight duty time is nominally required for all four (4) flight qualified personnel. These flight qualified personnel will be required to obtain and maintain Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) class III flight examination certificates, and Air Force physiological, survival and aircraft familiarization training to initialize and maintain flight qualification status. The period of performance will be fifty one (51) months (inclusive of final report). Firms responding should indicate whether they are a large business, small disadvantaged business, 8(a) concern, or woman-owned small business, and whether they are a U.S. or foreign-owned firm. This was previously synopsized on 26 NOV 1996, as a sources sought synopsis. Disclosure of classified and export-controlled unclassified (including sensitive unclassified) information shall be denied to Foreign Governments and Foreign Nationals, including firms Under Foreign ownership; influence, or control, even if the firm has been granted a reciprocal, industrial, security facility clearance. This foreign disclosure denial applies to both the solicitation and to contract performance, and it also applies to prime contractors as well as all sub-contractors. Each respondent to this notice of contract action is requested to submit with their reply a description of their qualifications as set forth in the above referenced synopsis, and also a name and telephone number for a point of contact. Please include two (2) self-addressed mailing labels. Organizations interested in receiving and RFP should respond in writing within fifteen (15)days of this publication to ESC/PKR, ATTN: Shirley Halliday, 104 Barksdale Street, Building 1520, 3rd Floor, Hanscom AFB Ma 01731-1806, Reference F19628-98-R-0013. Verbal requests for a copy of the solicitation cannot be honored. See Numbered Notes 13, 25 and 26. (0117)

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