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A -- FLEXIBLE INTEROPERABLE TRANSCEIVERS (FIT) DRAFT STANDARD DUE 082599 POC Ray Fegal, Contracting Officer (407)380-4372; or Leslie Kennedy, Contract Specialist (407)380-4043 WEB: Click here to download the Draft Standard for FIT Ver., www.stricom.army.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Project Director and a technical, Eddie_ Meadows@stricom.army.mil or CirineoAV@navair.navy.mil. The US Army Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM) is soliciting comments from industry on a draft Flexible Interoperable Transceiver (FIT) Standard version 9.0. The purposed of this Standard is to define a general-purpose common RF data link capability that can be used in a wide variety of military test and training range applications, and that will promote interoperability. Planned uses for data link equipment built in conformance with this standard include time space position information (TSPI) collection, limited vehicle data collection. FIT equipment will be highly tailorable in both hardware and software to fit specific applications. Tri-Service representatives have developed the current draft version of the FIT Standard with the assistance of industry and academia. The FIT draft Standard is posted on the WWW STRICOM Home Page. Access to the STRICOM Home page is : www.stricom.army.mil:select Short Cuts, select Directorate for Acquisition; STRICOM Business Opportunities (Solicitations), select STRICOM Solicitations and Sources Sought/Market Surveys, select Document Types Sources Sought/Market Survey Notices, select Flexible Interoperable Transceiver (FIT) Standard. Upon receipt of industry comments, STRICOM will amend the FIT Standard and issue a new version 10.0, which will serve as the foundation for the development of the FIT demonstration equipment to prove out the performance of the Standard. The ultimate goal of the FIT program is to provide the Services with a final Standard that can be used by program offices to procure production transceivers that not only serve their applications but are also interoperable with one another, and can be used at multiple ranges or training centers. It is requested that industry provide their comments by inserting them directly into the electronic copy of the standard (WORD version 97) by turning on the revision markers. Then e-mail this document to Mr. Eddie Meadows at Eddie_ Meadows@stricom.army.mil . In addition, please send a copy of your submission to CirineoAV@navair.navy.mil. Comments should be provided to the above addressees NLT 25 August, 1999. Interested parties are advise that the Government does not intend to pay for the information solicited and will not recognize any costs associated with submission of information. Proprietary information is not being solicited; however, if it is submitted it should be marked accordingly. Posted 08/02/99 (W-SN361948). (0214)

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