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18 -- SPACE BASED INFRARED SYSTEMS LOW SEGMENT PROGRAM DEFINITION RFP RELEASE SOL F04701-98-R-0006 DUE 090298 POC Contract Negotiator, Denise Wheaton 310/363-5819/Contracting Officer, Linda Barnard, 310/363-6689 WEB: click here to download announcements on documents availability, http://www.laafb.af.mil/SMC/MT/Sbirs.htm. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, linda.barnard@losangeles.af.mil. Spaced Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Program Office, Advanced Programs Division, is releasing its Firm Fixed Price Request for Proposal for the SBIRS Low Program Definition phase of the System on Systems (SoS) architecture on or around 20 July 1998. Congress mandated an accelerated SBIRS Low program deployment and the Department of Defense and the USAF have committed to beginning this deployment in FY04. SBIRS Low will be deployed as the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) component of the SBIRS "System of Systems" (SoS) architecture. The baseline SBIRS architecture includes satellites in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO), Low Earth Orbit (LEO), and sensors hosted on satellites in Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO). Ground assets include a Continental United States (CONUS)-based Mission Control Station (MCS), a backup MCS (MCSB), a survivable MCS (SMCS), overseas Relay Ground Stations (RGSs), Multi-Mission Mobile Processors (M3Ps), and associated communications links. The SBIRS Low program provides the LEO satellite constellation for precision midcourse tracking capability critical for effective Ballistic Missile Defense. SBIRS Low will also improve capabilities for missile warning, technical intelligence, and battlespace characterization by complementing the performance of SBIRS Increment 2. Full constellation deployment is expected by mid-FY07. The addition of the SBIRS Low system to the current SBIRS High system constitutes SBIRS Increment 3 of the SoS architecture. Increment 4 is the follow-on concept to achieve a best value systems architecture. The Program Definition (PD) effort develops an initial design for the SBIRS Low for Increment 3 to carry into Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) to begin to deploy the SBIRS Low system in FY04, and defines a transition plan for an Increment 4 SBIRS concept. Request for Proposal release is anticipated on or about 20 July 1998, with proposals due no later than 45 calendar days afterward. All electronic proposals and hard copies (other than Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI)) will be submitted to Fort MacArthur, Bldg 410 (ESSF), San Pedro, CA 90731, Attention: Linda S. Barnard.. SCI portions of the proposal will be submitted to SMC/INS (SMC SSO), 180 Skynet Street, Los Angeles AFB, CA 90245-4690, Attention: John Q. Petit. Announcements on document availability and the document review schedule will be posted in the SBIRS Program Office web site (http://www.laafb.af.mil/SMC/MT/Sbirs.htm). Paper copies of SBIRS program requirements documents are located in the SBIRS Program Office document library. Visits to this library will be by request only and will be restricted to three visitors per firm per visit due to space limitations. A catalogue of library documents is accessible through the SBIRS Program Office web site. Unclassified and non-proprietary documents will also be available through the web site. CD ROMS of classified documents may be requested by authorized parties. Contact Ms Linda Jeter at (310) 363-6610, email linda.jeter@losangeles.af.mil for all library inquiries and authorization. All Visitor Clearances should be faxed to the Visitor Control fax at (310) 363-6882. Requests should specify "Attn Tommy Le: SBIRS Low Technical Document Library". Since access to classified and critical technologies will be required for this effort, we expect that foreign contractors will be authorized only for non-restricted portions of the acquisition. Direct technical questions to Maj Larry Schaefer, SMC/MTAS, at (310) 363-6853, email Larry.Schaefer@losangeles.af.mil, and contractual questions to Ms Linda S. Barnard, SMC/MTKA, at (310) 363-6689, email linda.barnard@losangeles.af.mil. All future announcements, updates, and unclassified information for this program will be available on the SBIRS Program Office home page of the World Wide Web. See note 26**** Posted 07/02/98. (0183)

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