U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command, Attn: SMDC-CM, 106 Wynn Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805-1990

A -- DASG60-00-0010, INFRARED INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM (IRIS) MISSION SUPPORT, OPERATIONS, AND MAINTENANCE (IMSOM) SOL DASG60-99-0010 POC O. Wayne Koger, Contract Specialist, (256) 955-3001, Donald C. Reesman, Contracting Officer, SMDC-CM-AK, (256) 955-3000 The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command's (USASMDC's) Sensors Directorate has a requirement for continued Infrared Instrumentation System (IRIS) Mission Support, Operations, and Maintenance (IMSOM) work until an expected replacement for the IRIS can be completed and put into service. Currently, the development of this sensor is underway but is not expected to be completed and fully placed into service until FY 02. During the period following depletion of remaining level-of-effort hours under the IMSOM contract and the replacement sensor being placed into full service, several critical flight tests are scheduled that require IMSOM services to provide critical optical test data and intercept verification data necessary to meet demonstration validation program requirements. To bridge this gap, USASMDC plans, pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1, to award a contract modification to continue IMSOM effort under existing Contract DASG60-95-C-0077 on a sole source basis with the incumbent IMSOM contractor, CACI/Automated Sciences Group (ASG), Inc., 1100 N. Glebe Road, Silver Spring, MD 22201. This effort continues the prior work of ASG, which developed the IRIS and which has operated and maintained the IRIS under various sole source and competitively awarded contracts since its inception. The modification will add approximately 60,000 level-of-effort (LOE) hours and extend the period of performance of the contract by 24months. It has been determined that award of these additional hours to any other source would result in a substantial duplication of cost to the Government not expected to be recovered by competition. This action will provide the continued availability of highly specialized services relating to operation of the Infrared Instrumentation System (IRIS). The IRIS sensor is installed on a contractor-leased and substantially modified Gulfstream IIb aircraft which conducts airborne optical measurements on targets of interest to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), USASMDC, Program Executive Office for Air and Missile Defense (PEO-AMD), and other government agencies. The IRIS is a unique, three-color, cryogenically cooled, imaging, infrared sensor system providing optical data collection coverage in a variety of infrared wavebands. The objective of this effort is to provide technical analyses of mission test requirements with respect to IRIS measurement capabilities, mission planning support for mission conduct and range coordination, sensor and aircraft integration activities, IRIS operations and maintenance to support data collection, reduction and analysis of that data to provide infrared signatures along with an assessment of its impact to theater and strategic ballistic missile systems, and improvement and modernization of the IRIS and associated equipment. These activities will be conducted at the contractor facility and/or CONUS/OCONUS sites (U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll, Eastern Test Range, Western Test Range, White Sands Missile Range, etc.). A TOP SECRET facility clearance and a SECRET safeguarding capability is required for this effort. Written responses must cite the synopsis number for this notice and be submitted to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, ATTN: SMDC-CM-AK/Mr. O. Wayne Koger, P.O. Box 1500, Huntsville, AL 35807-3801. See Note 22. Posted 04/27/00 (W-SN449138). (0118)

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