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A -- ENGINEERING, SCIENTIFIC, AND COMPUTER SUPPORT OF SPACE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS AND PROJECTS SOL N00173-99-R-JW01 POC James P. Waldenfelds, Contract Specialist, Code 3230.JW (202)767-3003, John W. Adams, Contracting Officer WEB: Click here., http://heron.nrl.navy.mil/contracts/home.htm. The Naval Research Laboratory has a requirement, which is set aside on a 100% basis for small business concerns under SIC Code 8731, for engineering, scientific, and computer services in support of research in space science. Areas of research include distribution and characteristics of background terrestrial and extraterrestrial sources of radio and infrared radiation, and related areas of atmospheric science, solar physics, upper air physics, radio propagation, infrared transmission, infrared detectors, and related electronics and cryogenic techniques. Also included are new applications in areas of interest to the Navy, such as precise, time and position determination, remote sensing, and surveillance. This contract will provide R&D expertise for the design, fabrication, assembly, integration, test and operation of sophisticated scientific instruments and experimental payloads. It will also provide support of field operations and deployment of experimental packages. It will involve satellite design, computer modeling experiment design, and data analysis instrument packaging. It will involve processing, reducing and analyzing massive amounts of raw data, which will in turn involve writing new programs or modifying existing programs. Techniques are ground based, airborne, and spaceborne. Both on site and off site work will be involved, but it is anticipated that all staff will work primarily at NRL. Research will result in scientific publications. The anticipated contract type is cost plus fixed fee term, with a base year plus four option years. A single award is anticipated in late spring, 1999. A SECRET facility clearance is required, and all personnel must be US citizens eligible for SECRET clearance. A staff of about ten full-time positions is anticipated, with advance degrees anticipated for half the staff and bachelors degrees for the rest except for a technician (some equivalencies). A detailed statement of work will be issued with the solicitation. Proposals will be due approximately 35 days after the solicitation is issued. This contract follows contract N00014-94-C-2104, which is being performed by Interferometrics, Inc., of Chantilly, VA. NRL uses Electronic Commerce (EC) to issue RFPs and amendments to RFPs. This solicitation and any amendments to it will be available via the Internet at the URL address shown below. Paper copies of the RFP will not be provided. Numbered Notes 1 and 26 apply. Posted 01/28/99 (W-SN292298). (0028)

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