PLANNING MEETING FOR THE UPCOMING WINTER CAPTIVE FLIGHT TEST (CFT) AND SIGNATURE DATA COLLECTION The Air Force Development Test Center, Joint Munitions Test and Evaluation Program Office, Project CHICKEN LITTLE (CL), Eglin AFB FL intends to conduct a submunition seeker/sensor captive flight test (CFT) and signature data collection during the period of January to March 1999. The test will be conducted at Camp Grayling and at the Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena MI. The testing events will utilize foreign and domestic, classified and unclassified, ground mobile vehicles as test items 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 government and industry for participation in this testing activity. 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 ground mobile threats, ground truth data, range operations, meteorological data, etc., the offerors will be required to provide the Government a complete set of collected data. It is CL policy that data collected and retained will be protected as propriety and 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, which can be accommodated. In that case, offerors will be selected based on the following criteria: 1) technical parameters, 2) maturity of the test, and 3) potential applications. Participating offerors 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. Additional costs for identified participants as a result of this solicitation will be allocated to each participant based on the individual additional costs for their participation. Offerors will be required to have established security clearances for all involved personnel at the time of SOC signature. A planning meeting and site survey will be held 14 and 15 October 1998 at Camp Grayling MI. The POC at Eglin AFB FL is Craig A. Yort (Litton/TASC), commercial (850)882-8412 or DSN 872. The planning meeting will be held at the Army Aviation Support Facility #2, Camp Grayling MI. Meeting time will be at 8:30 each morning. Written requirements must be established by 30 September 1998 and forwarded to the Program Office to allow for sufficient Government coordination of resources, airspace and logistical needs requested by each participant for the set-up and execution of the CFT signature data collection. The site survey and initial set-up is anticipated to commence immediately following the planning meeting. Interested participants are encouraged to attend the planning meeting and to have in attendance qualified individual(s) representing your organizations interests in potentially participating. Since this is not a request for a formal contract award, there will be no Request for Proposal, 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 commercial (805)882-9764 or DSN 872, ATTN: Bill Hetter, phone number (805)882-8412 at Eglin AFB FL not later than ten working days prior to the planning meeting. For further information 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. Posted 09/03/98 (W-SN245233).

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