Department of the Air Force, Air Combat Command, ACC CONS, 130 Douglas Street, Suite 401, Langley AFB, VA, 23665-2791

84 -- FLIGHT HELMETS SOL Reference-Number-LGCU001 DUE 060100 POC Millicent Holder, Contract Manager, Phone 757-764-4247, Fax 757-764-9695, Email millicent.holder@langley.af.mil WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=R&ProjID=Reference-Num ber-LGCU001&LocID=206. E-MAIL: Millicent Holder, millicent.holder@langley.af.mil. The Air Combat Command Life Support Requirements Branch is interested in information regarding any current or developmental flight helmet technology. The helmet must protect the user, integrate with life support/escape systems, and enable employment of weapons systems within their performance envelope to maximize combat capability. It must allow users to safely operate in normal (as defined in mission profiles; Air to Air, Air to ground, etc...) as well as adverse conditions at designed aircraft flight performance envelopes and allow safe, virtually injury free ground egress, ejection, and/or bailout. The helmet must be maintained on the user through speeds compatible with current and planned ejection seat capabilities and its weight must be within safe human design limits (i.e. neck loads) when fully assembled with internal and external components. It must protect the member's head from impacts and penetrations associated with basic aircraft maneuvers as well as ejection and bailout. It will be required to integrate with all current aircrew life support and chemical/biological equipment and serve as a platform for current and planned cueing systems, night vision capability, and laser eye protection. It must be stable, within center of gravity standards, comfortable to the user, accommodate prescription eyeglasses (with appropriate eye relief), and not cause muscle fatigue/strain during normal or emergency use. The helmet should take advantage of new design/construction materials which are fire retardant, impact resistant, increase service life, decrease inspection cycles, and decrease size/weight. The helmet must accommodate the 1 to 99 percentile flying population. Please send any commercial literature to the following address NLT 1 Jun 00: HQ ACC/DRSR, 204 Dodd Blvd, Suite 226, Langley AFB, VA 23665-2789. Contracting POC is Ms. Della Shelton at Posted 05/05/00 (D-SN452151). (0126)

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