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U -- VARIABLE STABILITY AIRCRAFT SUPPORT SOL F04700-98-R-0032 DUE 121198 POC Mike Keeling, Contract Specialist, (805) 277-3900 x 2249; John C. Lemacks, Contracting Officer (805) 277-3900 x 2253 WEB: On-line Acquisition Solicitation Information System, http://afftc_pk.elan.af.mil/oasis/index.asp. E-MAIL: click e-mail link to contact the POC, mike.keeling@edex.edwards.af.mil. Notice of Contract Action. Edwards AFB CA has a requirement for Variable Stability Aircraft Support. The Government requirements are as follows: familiarize student and staff members with various aspects of the longitudinal, lateral, and directional modes of aircraft motion; instruction includes dynamic stability, short period effect of changing damping ratio, effect of changing frequency and effect of changing stick force gradient; the contractor provided variable stability aircraft (VSA) shall meet the following minimum requirements: have an elevator, aileron, and rudder response capability equal to or greater than 60 degrees per second; demonstrate short period mode natural frequencies greater than or equal to 10 radians per second and Dutch Roll mode frequencies greater than or equal to 5 radians per second; Damping ratios capabilities shall vary from unstable configurations to highly damped configurations. Normal accelerations capabilities shall have as a minimum 2.5g; have the capability to perform simulated operations handling tasks such as aggressive air-to-air tracking or air-to-ground weapons release tasks; VSA shall have center stick and side stick capabilities. The stick dynamics shall simulate friction, preload, freeplay, nonlinear gradients, bobweights, align with the capability to implement lead and lag stick command filters plus stick command pure time delay; have data acquisition, recording, and telemetry capability; have sufficient seating for a safety pilot, an evaluation pilot, and at least one student/staff observer; have a proven record of high reliability with quick maintenance turn around capabilities that will support a minimum of two sorties per day; have a transponder equipped with Mode 3C, and an UHF radio installed and functional on each aircraft. The proposed contract action is for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source (Calspan, Flight Research Group, 150 North Airport Drive, Buffalo NY 14225-1436, phone (716) 632-7500) under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(1). Interested offerors must provide adequate information describing their capability to meet the requirements stated above to this office by 11 Dec 98. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Posted 12/01/98 (W-SN275808). (0335)

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