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A -- MDARS-E INTRUSION DETECTION AND ASSESSMENT SUBSYSTEM SOL DAAB15-99-R-MDAR POC Terri White, (703) 325-6172 WEB: Army Business Opportunities Page, http://abop.monmouth.army.mil. E-MAIL: POC for MDARS-E on the ABOP, wmcala@hoffman-issaa2.army.mil. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP). The purpose of this announcement is to request identification of potential sources from industry for the Army's pending Mobile Detection Assessment Response System -- Exterior (MDARS-E) Intrusion Detection and Assessment Subsystem (IDAS) procurement. MDARS-E consists of an exterior patrol unit with Mission Payload Suite (MPS) and Differential Global Positioning System. The IDAS is part of the MPS. The MDARS-E IDAS procurement will be managed by the materiel developer, the Office of the Product Manager, Physical Security Equipment (PM-PSE), at Fort Belvoir, VA. The MDARS-E patrol unit will be capable of conducting semi-autonomous, random patrols and surveillance activities in exterior environments such as materiel storage yards, arsenals, petroleum storage areas, airfields, rail yards, and port facilities. Primary activities to be conducted include intruder detection, product assessment (inventory), and barrier assessment (remote lock reading). The MDARS-Exterior (MDARS-E) patrol unit is part of the MDARS system, which consists of the MDARS control station, the MDARS-Interior (MDARS-I) remote platform vehicles for use in interior environments such as warehouses, and the MDARS-E patrol unit for use in exterior environments. Position location for the patrol unit is provided by the Differential Global Positioning System. See Appendix A of the MDARS-E Specification for an overview of MDARS system operations. High dollar value and critical US assets in external storage sites may be vulnerable to an intruder or saboteur intending to deprive the US of these assets. The objective of MDARS-E IDAS is to protect these assets by providing commanders with a highly secure, standardized, semi-autonomous intrusion detection system mounted on a robotic vehicle. MDARS-E will introduce exterior patrol units employing a suite of sensors including the IDAS. The patrol unit is controlled by a control station that houses monitoring and annunciation equipment programmed with artificialintelligence. MDARS-E IDAS will satisfy an immediate Army requirement for a semi-autonomous mobile capability for patrolling physical security sites at Department of Defense (DoD) installations. Without operator intervention other than system initiation, the patrol unit will automatically move randomly to and throughout designated patrol areas in exterior environments primarily during non-duty hours. While on random patrol, the patrol unit will semi-autonomously conduct surveillance and check for intruders using the IDAS. Operator's input from the control station will be required only if an intruder is detected or the patrol unit encounters a situation it is not programmed to handle. If the MDARS-E patrol unit detects an intruder using the IDAS, the video link to the control station will be activated, and an audible/visual alarm will be annunciated at the control station. The security officer will be able to see, hear, and talk to the intruder as well as send the patrol unit to a location where the intruder might be hiding. MDARS-E also will interface with RF/Microwave and Hardwire/Fiber Optic communication networks. Functional users of MDARS-E are supply and maintenance activities of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Approximately 18 depots are currently planned for operational deployment of MDARS. Department of Defense (DoD) security and law enforcement units will operate MDARS-E. To date MDARS-E has undergone Program Definition and Risk Reduction, which has resulted in development of brassboard patrol unit models. Technical Feasibility Testing (TFT) is scheduled for early 2000. In preparation for the conduct of TFT, the Government is seeking sources from industry for an IDAS to be tested during TFT, initially mounted on a stationary stand, and later to be integrated into a brassboard MDARS-E patrol unit. The following are IDAS performance requirements: The IDAS shall be able to detect the motion of a human intruder (running, walking, or crawling) to a required minimum range of 100 meters over 360 degrees around the patrol unit (scanning the 360 degree sector and providing a detection solution in 10 seconds or less), 45 degree above and below the horizontal, in an operational environment. The IDAS shall provide a probability of detection of 95 % (.95) or better, minimizing nuisance alarms (a nuisance alarm is caused by something other than a human intruder). The IDAS shall provide the control station operator the capability to visually assess the area 360 degrees around the patrol unit and identify human intruders from a distance of 2 m or less out to a range of at least 100 m. The visual assessment coverage shall include the area from horizontal to 45 degrees below horizontal in normal (104 lux), low light, and starlight (10-3 lux) conditions. Visual assessment capability shall include operator controls for pan, tilt, and zoom of camera(s). The MDARS-E Draft Specification (ESPEC.PDF) and "Sources Sought" questionnaire (IDAS QUES6.DOC) are posted on the Army Business Opportunities Page (ABOP) at "http://abop.monmouth.army.mil/". Click on "Army Business Opportunities", then select "CECOM/USA Communications and Electronics Command" from the drop down menu. These documents are downloadable and are posted as a "Request for Information (RFI)" session. This announcement is identified on the ABOP as "MDARS-E, DAAB15-99-R-MDAR, Pre-Solicitation." Click on the "Yellow" folder to access the MDARS-E draft documents. Questionnaire responses to this announcement are to be submitted as an attached Word (6.0/95 or greater) or PDF file via email to wmcala@hoffman-issaa2.army.mil. Your email response should also include: Vendor name, Company address, email address and Company Web Site address. Responses for the "Sources Sought" questionnaire are due no later than 30 days from the date of this announcement. Responses can also be submitted in hard copy, and if available, video (VHS format) can be sent to: Product Manager, Physical Security Equipment, ATTN: AMSEL-DSA-PSE (Mr. Jerry Edwards), 5900 Putman Road, Suite 1, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia 22060-5420. Questions concerning this announcement may be submitted electronically to twhite@hoffman-issaa2.army.mil. See also the MDARS-E RFI CBD announcement dated 7 Jul 99. Posted 07/27/99 (W-SN359320). (0208)

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