US Army Materiel Command Acquisition Center, Army Research Laboratory Contracting Division, Attn: AMSRL-CS-PR, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197

R -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT/ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE SERVICES FOR ADVISORY GROUP ON ELECTRON DEVICES & THE DEFENSE S&T RELIANCE POC Robin Stoltz, Contract Specialist, 301-394-3381, Patricia S. Silsby, Contracting Officer, 301-394-3438 Sources are sought for a three-year effort for technical (scientific and economic) assessment of government, industrial and academic programs related to the specific field of electronics to include management/administrative advice and assistance in support of the Department of Defense (DoD) Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED); the AGED Executive Director; and the Defense S&T Reliance to include the Defense Technology Area Plan (DTAP) Panels; the Technology Area Review and Assessment (TARA) Team for Electronics; and the related Technology Panel for Electron Devices (TPED). The function of AGED is to provide technical assessment and advice to assist DoD, the Military Departments, and NASA in planning and directing adequate and economical electron device research and development programs. The AGED and its three working groups are composed of Government employees and DoD consultants from industry and academia. The Defense S&T Reliance coordinates and manages Tri-Service sponsored work in microelectronics, RF components, electro-optical devices, electronic materials and electronic integration technology to include energy storage, generation and distribution. The Defense S&T Reliance requires close coordination with AGED. Sources are sought to provide AGED with staffing services, facilities to perform assessments, functions and more specifically tasks associated with DoD Instruction 5129.39. This shall include but is not limited to the following: 1) Providing technical information and advice to OSD and DoD personnel on topics related to electron devices; 2) Critiquing technical material prepared by DoD officials on topics related to electron devices; 3) Assessing the technical content and relevance of material prepared by DoD officials for the AGED and Electronics Technical Area Review and Assessment (TARA) team for the yearly TARA reviews; 4) Providing written and verbal information on DARPA and Services' technical projects undertaken over the last 20 years in the field of electron devices; 5)Identifying and compiling a list of DoD's highest priority electron devices S&T programs; 6) Providing assessments of state-of-the-art electron device programs; 7) Assisting AGED/TPED members in developing plans and presentation material for the effective transitioning of promising electron device R&D results to processes and products useful for DOD system applications; 8) Preparing draft AGED annual report on technical accomplishments and AGED Special Technical Area Reviews; 9) Performing, documenting and presenting summaries of literature searches every two months of articles in scientific journals and trade press on topics relevant to the work of the AGED, DoD budget, and service related electron device programs; 10) Reviewing the Program Element Descriptive Summaries of all Program Elements containing electron device related 6.2 and 6.3 funding and preparing a summary of the funding and technical tasks associated with each of these programs; 11) Assisting TPED members in preparing technology roadmaps for each electron device related technical area; 12) Preparing succinct summaries of technical/programmatic reports related to DoD electron device programs; 13) Preparing draft Terms of Reference, writing portions of and editing reports for AGED conducted Special Technical Area Reviews (STARS) on subjects related to electron devices; 14) Preparing draft technical presentation material and written reports on electron device topics; and 15) Creating and maintaining World Wide Web sites for dissemination of TPED and AGED information. The contractor's management structure shall be capable of responding to the flexible nature of the requirements of DoD Instruction 5129.39. Contractor support personnel assigned to the AGED Main Group, to each of the AGED Working Groups, to the TPED Working Group; and to the Defense S&T Reliance must be familiar with electron device research and development programs in order to provide the required support services. The contractor is responsible for a wide range of documentation that comprises a normal part of the day-to-day functions of AGED and the Defense S&T Reliance. The contractor shall plan for meetings and support the topics to be discussed or presented at these meetings based on the input from the services and other government agencies. The contractor shall document the meetings of the AGED Working Groups, AGED Main Group, TPED and Defense S&T Reliance. The contractor will be required to hold a SECRET CLEARANCE in order to prepare and process agendas and reports, review and assess documents and conduct meetings. The contractor will be required to organize, administer, and document the AGED Special Technical Area Review (STAR) meetings. The contractor must be available to accomplish each of the tasks and to provide the degree of technical knowledge to respond to the changing nature of this program. The contractor shall annually review the progress of on-going or completed programs and support planning for future long-range electron device research and development efforts. The contractor shall be responsible for the dissemination of information to each of the AGED Working Groups; the AGED Main Group; and the TPED and Defense S&T Reliance, to include electronic communications as appropriate. The contractor shall conduct special surveys as requested by the AGED Executive Director and Defense S&T Reliance. The contractor will be required to plan meetings that will be held within 25 miles of Arlington, VA, and shall maintain facilities that are easily accessible via the metro. In the event that an issue arises that cannot suffer a delayed response, the contractor will be required to conduct a poll to coordinate participant comments/votes on specific program/problems. This sources sought synopsis is for informational purposes only and is not considered to be a commitment by the Government. The Government does not intend to make any awards on the basis of this notification or otherwise to pay for any information submitted. Interested/capable sources are requested to submit within fifteen (15) days from publication of this notice capability statements to include: contractor's knowledge of industrial and government electron devices research and development programs; listing of previous and on-going technology assessments in the field of electronics; understanding of the services and functions described as items one through fifteen above; evidence of a management structure to support the services and functions described above; experience of personnel in advising and assisting focused groups such as AGED; World Wide Web addresses of web sites created and maintained; and the location and description of facility. No additional information is expected to be made available during the 15-day sources sought period for submission of capability statements. Capability statements may not be submitted by fax or e-mail; any so sent will be disregarded. Send 3 copies of all written statements to the attention of US Army Materiel Command Acquisition Center, Army Research LaboratoryContracts Division, ATTN: AMSRL-CS-PR-RD/Robin E. Stoltz, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783-1197. Posted 10/21/99 (W-SN393507). (0294)

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