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A -- VS-00-01 BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT, SPACE VEHICLES TECHNOLOGY SOL Reference-Number-VS-00-01 POC Shari Barnett, Contracting Officer, Phone (505) 846-6189, Fax (505) 846-6022, Email barnett@plk.af.mil -- Shari Barnett, Contracting Officer, Phone (505) 846-6189, Fax (505) 846-6022, Email barnett@plk.af.mil WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=M&;ProjID=Reference-Num ber-VS-00-01&LocID=1122. E-MAIL: Shari Barnett, barnett@plk.af.mil. The following changes are made to VS-00-01 Broad Agency Announcement, Space Vehicles Technology 1. Reference Kirtland AFB Technical Area Number 7, Space Electronics -- Change this area to allow receipt of proposals during the first and second quarters in addition to the third and fourth quarters. All quarters are now open to accept proposals for this area. 2. Reference Hanscom AFB Technical Area Number 5b, Airborne Measurements -- Change the technical point of contact to: Dr. John Schummers, 781-377-3652; Fax 781-377-5974; e-mail: schummers@plh.af.mil. 3. Reference Kirtland AFB Technical Areas: Add Technical Area Number 10, Microsatellite Formation Flying as follows: (10) MICROSATELLITE FORMATION FLYING: Technical point of contact: Maurice Martin, (505) 853-4118, Fax (505) 846-9666, email: martinr@plk.af.mil. Contracting point of contact regarding information on this particular technical area only: Kim Kinifick, (505) 846-7603, FAX (505) 846-7549, email: kinifick@plk.af.mil. This area covers demonstration of formations of microsatellites flying in close proximity to perform missions otherwise performed by larger, monolithic satellites. AFRL has made a significant investment in research and development in this area and seeks an industry collaborator to advance this technology. An example flight demonstration of particular interest is sparse aperture sensing using X-band antennas distributed over multiple microsatellites. Such a sensor formation could also be reconfigured to demonstrate geolocation, communications, and other mission applications. Considerable basic and exploratory research investment has been made resulting in certain Government Furnished Equipment that is available. Additional information can be found at the AFRL website, http://www.vs.afrl.af.mil/vsd/techsat21/. Other missions with similarly challenging tolerances for position and attitude knowledge and which are closely tied to Air Force mission needs will also be considered. The following technical areas are considered critical to a successful demonstration and should be among the key issues addressed in the proposal: Precision differential GPS, inter-satellite communications and ranging, micro-propulsion, distributed processing, sparse aperture sensors and processing algorithms, formation flying algorithms, and autonomous satellite operations. AFRL anticipates one award in this area. Funding budgeted for this area is approximately $20M between May 2000 and May 2005 with potential launch in March 2003. Contractor cost sharing arrangements will be considered (contact the technical POC for funding availability). Proposals will be accepted for this BAA area only until 15 Feb 2000. Posted 12/17/99 (D-SN409594). (0351)

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