SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- SIMULATION SOFTWARE
- Notice Date
- 7/17/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
- ZIP Code
- 94035-1000
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ2-38187-MSC
- Response Due
- 7/31/2002
- Point of Contact
- Miin-Shiou Chen, Purchasing Agent, Phone (650) 604-0089, Fax (650) 604-4357, Email mschen@mail.arc.nasa.gov - Ronnee R. Gonzalez, Contracting Officer, Phone (650) 604-4386, Fax (650) 604-4357, Email rgonzalez@mail.arc.nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Miin-Shiou Chen
(mschen@mail.arc.nasa.gov)
- Description
- NASA/ARC plans to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for upgraded Software development tools for use in piloted aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) simulation studies. The software tools, capable of importing digital terrain elevation and feature analysis data (from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency) to create a 3D database, are to be used in the Flight Simulation Facilities at NASA Ames Research Center. Some of the same 3D databases will eventually be used in the cockpit during actual flight. This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP). NASA/ARC intends to purchase Vega Prime, Annual Support for Vega Prime, Vega Prime Runtime Environment, upgrade MultiGen Creator to Creator Pro with Terrain Pro, and Annual Support for MultiGen Creator Terrain Bundle for Windows, from MultiGen-Paradigm Inc., 19100 Von Karman, Ste 900, Irvine, CA 92612, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) based on the fact that the helicopter-simulation software tools of MultiGen-Paradigm Inc. are able to process tremendous amount of digital elevation terrain data and produce the high-quality clear graphic displays for pilots (or UAV operators) to use during simulations and actual flight. In addition, MultiGen-Paradigm Creator is currently being used to establish a "first-generation" capability at ARC for synthetic vision simulation in the RIPTIDE simulator. In order to continue with this development and to advance our synthetic vision simulation capabilities, NASA Ames intends to procure from MultiGen-Paradigm the software upgrades mentioned above. The software shall be able to import geometrically corrected satellite images, digital terrain elevation data (DTED), and digital feature analysis data (DFAD) from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency archives with the additional ability to create new objects in the database. Two flight displays shall be developed using the software: 1) The primary flight display which will be a perspective 3D view of the terrain from the eye-point of a simulated, moving aircraft that includes a grid-world (no texture), random textured, and a photo-textured representation of the terrain. 2) The secondary flight display which will be a scrolling, rotating image of the terrain (using satellite photos) in such a way that the eye-point is always at a specified location on the screen and the vertical direction of the photo is aligned with the simulated aircraft heading - a photo-moving map. On both the primary and secondary flight display, the OpenGL graphics symbology and text data shall overlay the terrain image or photo image, in order to provide the pilot with aircraft state information. Compatibility with the existing Openflight file format is required. It is critical that the software tools purchased have the following specific characteristics: 1) the symbology graphics software shall be user programmable in OpenGL; 2) the aircraft state information shall be received using TCP/IP sockets on an Ethernet network; 3) the software shall run on IBM PC compatible computers running either a Linux or Windows NT, 2000 or XP operating system; 4) the output shall be IBM PC compatible video, from 640x480 to 1280x1024 resolution; 5) the update rate of the generated graphical display shall be 25Hz, minimum. The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 1:30 p.m. local time on July 31, 2002. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer, which shall be considered by the agency. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B". Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html
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