Coastal Systems Station, Dahlgren Division, 6703 W. Highway 98, Panama City, FL 32407-7001

A -- H-60 TECHNOLOGY INSERTION SOL N61331-99-R-0015 DUE 040199 POC Contract Specialist/John Miller, (850) 235-5399; Contracting Officer/Carol Dreger (850) 234-4863 WEB: www.ncsc.navy.mil/Contracts/Synopsis/syntable.htm, www.ncsc.navy.mil. E-MAIL: Miller John H III DLPC, Miller John H III DLPC. 17. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Coastal Systems Station, Panama City, Florida, is seeking proposals to do applied research to study technology insertions for optimizing the mission time for neutralizing a threat mine, reducing man-in-the-loop requirements, and utilizing an autonomous neutralization system deployed from an H-60 aircraft for an in-stride capability. The current airborne mine neutralization system (AMNS) mission consists of Pre-launch phase, Launch phase, Transit/Tracking phase, Acquisition/Homing/Identification phase, and Target Neutralization phase. The autonomous technology to be investigated includes the necessary hardware, software and control systems for the neutralization vehicle to transit, acquire, identify and neutralize threat mines without a tether to or without continuous control from the helicopter. After launch of the autonomous vehicle, the helicopter will transit to another predetermined location while the vehicle completes the remaining phases of the mission. Study areas of interest include conceptual P3I technology compatibility with and integration into the H-60 helicopter to include the tactics, optimum number of autonomous expendables and time required for neutralization and verification of success. Also, the study will include the level of effort required to develop the described autonomous neutralization system. Level of effort should include cost, schedule, software development effort (lines of code), and safety concerns. This requirement is being advertised subject to availability of funding. The level of effort will be approximately five man years in scope with a period of performance of approximately six months. Potential offerors are hereby notified that the Government may award more than one contract based on receipt of more than one technically superior offer in response to this synopsis and availability of funding. It is anticipated that successful offerors will be capable of demonstrating significant past performance in the areas of relevant AMNS technologies, aircraft systems integration, mine countermeasures, and image processing. Brief technical proposals and a cost proposal will be requested. No telephone requests will be accepted. The successful offeror must have a SECRET facility clearance. RFPs may be requested via mail or facsimile machine (850) 234-4251. Address requests to _John Miller, CSS Code SP10. Posted 02/12/99 (W-SN298101). (0043)

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