U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Acquisition Center, Bldg 4488, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5280

A -- COMMON INFANTRY, AVIATION AND ARMOR MISSILE SYSTEM REQUEST FOR INFORMATION DUE 031000 POC POC Julia Marsh, Contract Specialist, AMSAM-AC-TM-T, 256-876-7065, Sandra Byars-Smith, Contracting Officer 256-876-4201 Paragraph 1: The purpose of this notice is to announce the release of the Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile System RFI. The Program Executive Office, Tactical Missiles (PEO-TM), on behalf of the U.S. Army, desires to obtain information to serve as a market survey to aid in developing an acquisition strategy for a common missile system with multiple applications. The U.S. Army is interested in ascertaining the potential for developing a common missile to meet the Infantry, Aviation, and Armor requirements for the next generation missile system. The Government does not presently intend to award a contract, but desires information on risk, capability, price, innovative acquisition methodology and other information in planning the acquisition of the Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile System. This RFI is also intended to solicit industry's view on the feasibility of incorporating Simulation and Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements, and Training (SMART). As a result of issuing this RFI, the Government expects to receive technical, programmatic, and innovative acquisition methodology data to assist in determining system solutions to the following: (1) determining the ability of current and near term technology to support a Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile System; (2) to determine the most advantageous level of commonality between air and ground missile variants; (3) to determine the estimated cost savings to the Government as compared to independent aviation and infantry missiles, (4) to determine the estimated performance characteristics and (5) to determine an estimated unit cost for 50,592 missiles during the period 2008-2017. Therefore, the Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile may be a single configuration, or may include air and ground variants that minimize overall life-cycle costs by maximizing commonality between the variants while meeting aviation and infantry requirements. The primary role of the Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile is to save total life-cycle costs through commonality, horizontal technology integration and advanced manufacturing techniques while defeating the T-90 PIP1 tank as a primary target and engage secondary targets such as buildings, field fortifications, helicopters and light armored vehicles. The Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile must interface with the specific TOW and HELLFIRE platforms. In addition, the Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile must have primary fire and forget guidance as well as secondary precision point target capability. Any concept employing an active sensor to meet these requirements must have a low probability of intercept. The Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile must also have adverse weather and battlefield obscurants' capabilities at least as robust as the platform target acquisition systems. Concepts must have robust performance in countermeasure environments. The launcher interface approaches must identify any required modifications to the launchers or platforms. Any approach thatwould require major modification or replacement of existing launchers must be accompanied by supporting life-cycle cost estimates. Platforms must retain the capability to fire existing TOW and HELLFIRE missiles. The Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile must include, through modularity and standard interfaces, the capability to easily incorporate future technology improvements in order to provide lethality for future Army-After-Next platforms such as the Future Combat System or the Future Infantry Vehicle. Any information provided should contain technical, operational, and test data to produce a clear picture of the capabilities of the system concept. This may be accomplished using such tools as system/ subsystem component test/performance data or analytical studies using simulations or other means to produce system/subsystem data. Additionally, the logistics approach should be consistent with the "certified round" support concept. The missile should have no scheduled maintenance requirements during the missile's certification period other than normal stockpile reliability-type random testing to confirm the inventory's reliability status. This maintenance-free certification period should be at least 10 years with a desired period of 15-20 years. The missile should have a modular design to allow cost-effective modernization via spares exchange. The missile design should minimize demilitarization costs. The EMD program is expected to commence in FY03 and continue for approximately 60 months. Paragraph 2: THIS REQUIREMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. This announcement is an expression of interest only and does not obligate the U.S. Government in any way. This RFI is for planning purposes only and will not result in a contract award. The U.S. Government is not liable for any costs associated with the preparation of any responses to this RFI or its associated information package. Paragraph 3: Please respond in writing to Commander, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, AMSAM-AC-TM-T, ATTN: Ms. Julia Marsh, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5280, within 30 days of this announcement to request your copy of the Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile System's informational package. Industry responses to this informational package are due no later than March 10, 2000. No telephone inquiries will be accepted. The Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile System RFI contains both classified and unclassified data and data whose export is restricted by the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U.S.C. Sec 2751 et seq) or the Export Administration Act (Title 50, U.S.C. APP 2401-2402). U.S. contractors should also include their cage code and classified mailing address with each request in order to receive the classified portion of the RFI. To participate in the Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile program, foreign firms would be required to subcontract with U.S. primes who possess a U.S. facility clearance with technologies/data safeguarding capabilities, inclusive of the authority to receive critical technology and/or data required to execute a Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile EMD program and subsequent product improvements. Foreign industry, non-U.S. citizens, or foreign representatives desiring a copy of the releasable portion of the RFI, must submit an official request for information through their respective embassy, Washington DC, to Headquarters, Department of the Army, ATTN: DAMI-CHS. These requests will be adjudicated on a case-by-case basis. Paragraph 4: A reading room has been established for this requirement and is located in the Redstone Scientific and Information Center (RSIC), Building 4484, Redstone Arsenal, AL. The Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Missile System Reading Room will open on November 29, 1999 and be available for three hour intervals from 1230-1530 on Mondays, and 0830-1130 and 1230-1530, Tuesday through Thursday, except federal holidays until March 9, 2000. The reading room will open and close promptly. No briefcases, tape recorders, cameras or reproduction equipment will be allowed. A RSIC staff member will provide a copy machine and paper to reproduce copies of documents limited to one copy per document. Standard RSIC procedures for copying and transporting of classified material will be followed. The Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Reading Room will contain both classified and unclassified data and data whose export is restricted by the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U.S.C Sec 2751 et seq) or the Export Administration Act (Title 50, U.S.C. APP 2401-2402). Any U.S. Citizen representing any U.S. entity may review the information by submitting a visit request providing the necessary information to verify the company's/individual's security clearance to Ms. Julia Marsh (Fax 256-842-7146) prior to a contractor's visit. Foreign access to the Common Infantry, Aviation and Armor Reading Room will be authorized only after an official request for visit has been approved. Foreign visit requests are submitted through the respective embassies to Headquarters, Department of the Army, ATTN: DAMI-CHS. Requests received in any other manner will not be honored. Upon approval by the Government, appointments can be scheduled with RSIC by calling Ms. Gwen Wallace at 256-842-8446. Posted 10/28/99 (W-SN396162). (0301)

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