SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- JOINT MODELING AND SIMULATION SYSTEM (JMASS)
- Notice Date
- 6/9/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- ESC/CX, C2 Enterprise Integration, 15 Eglin St., Bldg. 1607, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-1801
- ZIP Code
- 01731-1801
- Solicitation Number
- CX-03-0001
- Response Due
- 7/23/2003
- Archive Date
- 8/15/2003
- Point of Contact
- ESC/CXK, Attn: Ms Diane O'Neil, e-mail at diane.oneil@hanscom.af.mil, voice, 781-377-2388, fax 781-377- 4624, 15 Eglin Street, Building 1607, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2100.
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Click Here to E-mail the POC
(diane.oneil@hanscom.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Joint Modeling and Simulation System (JMASS) Request For Information (RFI) The Command and Control Enterprise Integration (C2EI)Office at Electronic Systems Center (ESC), Hanscom AFB is requesting information, on behalf of all of the JMASS partners (including Army and Navy), from industry for business approaches to obtain market research data to assist in developing Joint Modeling and Simulation System (JMASS) sustainment and enhancement planning. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. It is not a Request For Proposal, a Request for Quotation, an Invitation for Bids, a solicitation, or an indication the US Air Force or ESC will contract for the items contained in the RFI. ESC will not pay respondents for information provided in response to this RFI. The Joint Modeling and Simulation System (JMASS) program http://www.redstone.army.mil/amrdec/jmass/ is a systems-level software architecture and infrastructure that supports modeling and simulation analysis for the acquisition, engineering, and test and evaluation communities. The JMASS process fosters development and reuse of models and simulations to support concept evaluation, requirement definition, test criteria derivation, test design and prediction, and operating performance and effectiveness analysis. JMASS is not a specific model, but rather an integrated set of software products consisting of interface standards, tools, and services that facilitate development for modeling, simulation, and analysis. Simulation composability (i.e. building targeted simulation systems out of reusable model components) is the next great advance in modeling and simulation. Advances in software technologies (programming paradigms, languages, development tools, etc) are clearing the way for true simulation composability and will ultimately and significantly reduce cost and increase speed of delivery of modeling and simulation solutions. As a simulation composability architecture, JMASS provides a stepping-stone toward achieving the broad vision of simulation composability. The JSB is: "A Joint Synthetic Battlespace providing better decisions and warfighting skills to build the world's most respected air and space forces for the Joint Force Commander." The Joint Synthetic Battlespace for the Air Force (JSB-AF) will provide realistic representations of friendly and threat warfighting capabilities, realistic representations of the natural environment where the warfighting capabilities exist, and an architecture framework to support developing representations that allow the easy and rapid integration of those representations into synthetic battlespaces. Additionally, it will provide a mechanism to capture and distribute information generated by the JSB-AF and its users to support training, mission rehearsal, decision support, acquisition, deployment, employment, operations, tactics/strategy development for deployment, Courses of Action (COA) analysis and development, security, and the sustainment of warfighting capabilities. The Joint Synthetic Battlespace (JSB) https://cx.hanscom.af.mil/JSB/ activity plans to leverage legacy simulations such as JMASS. The C2EI Office requests industry comments/opinions concerning the following: 1. Your corporate ability to support JMASS sustainment to begin Fall 2003. Your estimate of time required to become proficient on maintaining JMASS code. 2. Your technical approach to providing timely software maintenance to existing JMASS users. 3. Recommend preferable contract type and estimates for this software maintenance activity. 4. Your corporate understanding of existing JMASS users and potential JMASS applications. Are you a current JMASS user? 5. Suggestions on the future of JMASS. 6. Suggestions on JMASS ability to support JSB emerging requirements. Please provide a synopsis, no more than 5 pages, that addresses items 1-6 above. Your response to this RFI is requested NLT 23 Jun 03, 12:00 PM (noon) EDT. Responders should indicate which portions of their response are proprietary or competition sensitive and should mark them accordingly. All correspondence related to this matter should be e-mailed (preferred), faxed or mailed to ESC/CXK, Attn: Ms Diane O'Neil, e-mail at diane.oneil@hanscom.af.mil, voice, 781-377-2388, fax 781-377- 4624, 15 Eglin Street, Building 1607, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2100.
- Web Link
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ESC Business Opportunities Web Page
(http://www.herbb.hanscom.af.mil)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 15 Eglin St., Hanscom AFB
- Zip Code: 01731
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 01731
- Record
- SN00342739-W 20030611/030609213331 (fbodaily.com)
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