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69 -- COLLISION AVOIDANCE CAPABILITY AT AIR COMBAT TRAINING RANGES AND TEST RANGES DUE 121698 POC Stacey L. Hughes, (850) 882-9391 X5066 This is a Request For Information (RFI) on technologies/capabilities available to insert a collision avoidance function into existing Air Combat Training Systems (ACTS) which are used at a number of Air Force and Navy air combat training ranges and test ranges. ACTS provide accurate real-time position and velocity measurements of aircraft flying on these ranges. Currently this information is used to initiate real time simulated missile firings to provide hit/miss information, and to provide post-mission display and debriefing of participant pilots for evaluation of tactics, etc. The systems consist of pods, one mounted on each participant aircraft, which determine the position and velocity of that aircraft. This requests assumes all pods contain GPS receivers and supporting inertial navigation information derived from either pod-mounted or aircraft inertial measurements systems to determine position and velocity. This information is telemetered to ACTS ground systems located at each range which processand display the data generated in the pods or that is processed on the pod in a rangeless application. Since position and velocity information on all aircraft is already extant in these ACTS systems, it seems possible to use it to determine potential air-to-air and (with existing terrain maps) air-to-ground collision situations. Involved pilots would be warned of the hazardous situation using existing data link communications. New capabilities would include modifications to existing software in the ACTS ground computer systems, or in the pod for rangeless systems, to determine potential collision situations using existing aircraft position and velocity information and terrain maps. Also, means to transmit and display such potential collision information to the pilot would have to be determined. False alarms would have to be minimized, taking into account flight conditions normally encountered in air combat maneuvering, such as high speed flight of highly maneuvering aircraft, high closing velocities, and lowlevel maneuvers in mountainous terrain. Please provide a package by 16 Dec 98 describing your company's capabilities to provide the collision avoidance warning function as described above. This Request for Information (RFI) is for planning purposes only and shall not be considered as a Request for Proposal (RFP) or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on the responses from this RFI, or otherwise pay for the information solicited. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses to this RFI or the Government's use of such information. The Government reserves the right to reject, in whole or in part, any contractor's input resulting from this RFI. No funds have been authorized, appropriated, or received for this contemplated effort. The information you provide may be utilized by the Air Force in developing its acquisition strategy and in its Statement of Work/Statement of Objectives. The information resulting from this RFI may be released to industry as one or more RFP's. Industry is encouraged to respond with information not constrained by proprietary data rights. However, if proprietary data is included in your reply, please mark it appropriately. Any subsequent actions resulting form the evaluation of the information provided as a result of this RFI may be synopsized at a future date. If synopsized, information detailing the specific requirements of this procurement(s) will be included. Replies to this RFI should be sent to Stacey L. Hughes, AAC/WRRK, 102 West D. Ave, Suite 300, Eglin AFB FL 32542-6808 nlt 16 Dec 1998. Technical questions should be addressed to Mr. Burt Colt at (850) 882-9391, ext. 5083. Contractual questions should be addressed to Ms. Stacey Hughes at (850) 882-9391, ext. 5066. Future information may be posted at http://eglinpk.eglin.af.mil/OPS/RFP.HTM. Information regarding current ACTS programs can be found at http://www.apg.eglin.af.mil/wmr/. Posted 12/01/98 (W-SN275983). (0335)

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