B -- SMM WVE DEVISE/SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND SIGNATURE SUPPORT

Notice Date

April 23, 2001

Contracting Office

Commander, HQ USAINSCOM, Attn: IAPC-DOC, 8825 Beulah Street, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5246

ZIP Code

22060-5246

Solicitation Number

DASC01-01-R-0006

Response Due

June 11, 2001

Point of Contact

Linda C. Wallis, Contracting Officer, 703-706-2779

E-Mail Address

Contracting Officer (lcwalli@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil)

Description

The U. S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) intends to establish a sole source contract (base year plus four option years) with the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. The authority cited is FAR 6.302-1 "only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements". The purpose of this Contact is to provide the US Army National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC). Charlottesville, VA Expert Radar Signature Solutions (ERADS) Project, and other NGIC and Department of Defense (DoD) elements, support in identifying, investigating, designing, developing, installing, fabricating, upgrading, and supplying other engineering assistance for one of a kind advanced submillimeter (SMM) wave systems developed for and being used in the NGIC ERADS Compton Compact Radar Range (CCRR), the development of alternative DoD related SMM wave technologies and applications, and other radar signature analysis support. In completing this work the Contractor shall maintain a stateoftheart level of expertise in all the technical areas required for the continuing advancement and development of SMM wave devices/systems, alternate SMM technologies, and theoretical/measurement based radar signature analysis needed by NGIC to provide signatures to DoD elements. The contractor shall make recommendations to NGIC as to the applicability of new techniques, mathematical models, materials, devices, Far Infrared (FIR) sources, FIR detectors, FIR technologies, and FIR systems for use in the ERADS CCRR, in related DoD applications, and signature analysis. Devices, instruments, software and hardware systems, algorithms, detectors, receivers, sources, and other related systems shall be designed, developed, fabricated, assembled, tested, demonstrated, delivered, installed and made operational in the NGIC ERADS Project compact ranges or at other facilities. ERADS Project and FACILITIES SUPPORT: The Contractor shall conduct the necessary investigations, studies, and reviews, and participate in conferences and meetings to maintain a stateoftheart level of expertise in all scientific, engineering, and technology areas related to SMM wave technologies. Particular attention shall be given to the application of SMM wave developments for FIR sources, devices, sensors, and incoherent and coherent receivers. Based on the information acquired, the Contractor shall identify promising advances and make recommendations to NGIC in these areas. In addition, the Contractor shall provide ERADS Project support in installing, maintaining, sustaining and upgrading one of a kind advanced submillimeter wave systems developed for and being used in the NGIC and NGIC Contractor compact radar ranges. In order to sustain a state-of-the-art capability for developing SMM wave devices and related technologies in the UVa SMM wave laboratory, the Contractor shall maintain and upgrade on-site Contractor and Government furnished property (GFP). SCHOTTKY DIODE TECHNOLOGY: The object of this Task is to advance the development of; Schottky barrier conventional point contact and planar diodes, varactor type diodes, and other related devices for use in heterodyne FIR mixers, transmitters and receivers, subharmonically pumped receivers, and FIR wave guide receivers. Each of these areas shall be investigated and developed with the ultimate goal of producing more sensitive, stable, and optically isolated FIR devices, assemblies, and receivers for use in the NGIC ERADS Project compact ranges. Related hardware items and equipment along with a reliable supply of proven diodes should be developed concurrently to support these specific tasks. Items and systems developed shall be delivered, installed, and demonstrated in the NGIC ERADS Project compact ranges or other Government designated Agencies/Facilities. SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICE FIR DEVELOPMENT: The object of this Task is to investigate, evaluate and advance the development of: superconducting materials, junctions, and devices; integration and testing of these new devices as superconducting FIR direct detectors; and, integration and testing of these same devices as superconducting heterodyne FIR transceiver components. Prototype transceiver components shall be designed, developed, characterized, and tested. The final prototype components or modules shall be delivered, installed, and demonstrated in a NGIC ERADS Project test bed radar system. The applicability of using superconducting devices for advanced FIR radar systems shall be investigated and developed with the ultimate goal of producing more sensitive lower noise FIR receivers for use in the NGIC ERADS Project. ALTERNATIVE SMM WAVE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: The Contractor shall investigate, design, develop, characterize and test, components and subassemblies based on existing and emerging alternative SMM wave technologies for potential operation as sources/multipliers/amplifiers in the ERADS Project GHz and THz developmental and operational systems. New devices and device configurations for FIR frequency sources, multipliers, mixers, and transceivers shall be investigated. Promising solid state devices shall be evaluated for output frequency, power, stability, purity, and other spectral characteristics necessary for assembling a transmitter for use as either a primary FIR radiation source or a local oscillator. Solid state transmitters shall be investigate and evaluated, and if promising, developed, assembled, and tested, at Government specified frequencies in the FIR spectrum, and be delivered and installed in a NGIC ERADS Project test bed radar system. The Contractor shall also investigate, develop, characterize, evaluate, and demonstrate the application of ERADS Project and emerging SMM wave technologies/capabilities to alternative NGIC/DoD mission hyperspectral applications, such as biological material and agent sensing. The Contractor shall survey, investigate, design, develop, characterize and test, prototype analytical scattering models, expressions, or techniques for describing and understanding the fundamental principles associated with radar scatterering phenomena from typical simple shaped features found on military threat vehicles and for radar measurement technique induced errors. Work should concentrate on simple features and situations that can be exactly duplicated in compact radar range measurements for proof of theory, detailed comparisons and validation efforts/studies. Errors introduced in conventional turntable facility measurements shall be examined and evaluated. Radar signature information processed and displayed as total radar cross section (RCS) graphs, high range resolution (HRR) plots, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imagery, three dimensional ISAR imagery and moving target SAR/ISAR information shall be studied, evaluated, assessed and described or characterized. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. Interested parties may identify their interest by submitting fully descriptive capability statements no later than 15 days from the date of publication of this synopsis. The capability statements shall include specific and detailed technical documentation to support capability claims. All inquiries from responsive, interested parties will be considered. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. No telephone inquiries will be accepted; however inquiries may be submitted by mail, by email to lcwalli@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil or by fax to 703-806-1156. Numbered Notes 22 and 26 apply

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