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16 -- DIGITAL DATA RECORDING SYSTEMS DUE 071699 POC Contact: Carla Biver, (301) 757-7074 or Contracting Officer, LCDR John Gray, (301) 757-7071 E-MAIL: BiverCL@navair.navy.mil, BiverCL@navair.navy.mil. This is a revision to the announcement submission # 339846 posted on 07 June 1999. The Shared Reconnaissance Pod (SHARP) Program is seeking information from both U.S. and NATO data storage industries on the state-of-the-art of disk recording systems with removable memory storage cartridge(s). The intent is to leverage commercial recorder developments for a possible off-the-shelf Data Storage System (DSS) solution for SHARP. The Government does not currently plan to limit the SHARP DSS to a specific recorder technology. The SHARP Program plans to competitively award a contract for a digital data recording system in August 2000. Organizations are requested to provide information on their built and proven off-the-shelf systems that most closely meets the performance and requirements detailed in this CBD announcement. The provided information should include flight test data to include detailed system description, installation description, and detailed test procedures; laboratory test results to include detailed system description, installation description, and detailed test procedures; possible re-designs to existing systems to better meet the requirements; required periodic maintenance; and predicted and demonstrated reliability in a harsh environment. Organizations are also requested to provide information on systems currently under development that would more closely meet the requirements than their off-the shelf system. Responses shall not exceed 20 pages. All contractors who believe they have a system that will meet the requirements are requested to provide responses to NAVAIR by 16 July 1999. The DSS will be used in the tactical reconnaissance environment. It is desired that the DSS accept multiple rate-independent high data rate record inputs (variable up to1-2 giga bits per second each with a minimum data rate of 120 mega bits per second or lower each) and to provide multiple rate-independent high data rate read channels (variable up to 1-2 giga bits per second each), high data capacity (100 giga bytes), low power consumption (less than 500 watts), Bit Error Rates (BER) greater then 10exp-10, and high reliability (greater than 2600 airborne hours in accordance with MIL-STD 217). Typical environmental requirements include: operating temperature range: -40 to 70 degrees C; full operation in sustained accelerations of 7 g's; operation (degraded Bit Error Rate below 10exp-10 is acceptable) during 32g, 11 milli second duration shocks; operational altitudes up to 50,000 feet above sea level (non-pressurized), operational vibrations in accordance with the MIL-STD-5400 curves for jet airplane installations, operation in a 200 volt/meter environment, and unprotected short term storage of the removable memory in a 200 volt/meter environment without data loss It is also desired that the system have the capability to record multiple rate-independent data streams while at the same time and at independent data rates simultaneously reproducing multiple previously-recorded data sets. Posted 06/23/99 (W-SN346461). (0174)

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