L-ASSESSMENT OF INDUSTRY CAPABILITIES TO PERFORM AIRCREW OPERATIONS SPECIAL NOTICE: This is a Request For Information (RFI). Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) currently operates a fleet of unique test support aircraft and is primarily interested in assessing industry capabilities to perform aircrew operations for these aircraft. AFMC is also interested in innovative approaches to reduce costs in other areas of the test support aircraft mission, including maintenance. The aircraft under consideration for contractor aircrew support include: 3 NT/T-39s, 3 C-12s, 1 C-130, 1 KC-135R, 3 EC-18Bs, 2 EC-135Es, and 1 NKC-135E based at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), CA; 1 C-135E based at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; 1 C-135E and 2 NKC-135B/E based at Kirtland AFB, NM. Contractor aircrew members shall be fully qualified to appropriate FAA and/or military standards but do not need to be graduates of a formal test pilot school. Contractor aircrew members need to be available to support test missions conducted worldwide. At this time, AFMC is interested in addressing the feasibility of contracting for test support aircraft operations. This RFI is no way obligates the government to future contracting proposals from industry to satisfy test support aircraft requirements. Please provide information by 10 July 1998 on your capabilities and experience in performing these services. If you have any questions, please contact Major Mark Frassinelli at (937) 257-8526 or e-mail (frassinm@wpgate1.wpafb.af.mil). Please provide information electronically, if possible. Other types of information can be mailed at HQ AFMC/DO at 4225 Logistics Ave., Suite 2, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-5714.

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