MODIFICATION
A -- AFWA Battlespace Environment Institute
- Notice Date
- 7/12/2005
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Combat Command, 55 CONS, 101 Washington Sq Bldg 40, Offutt AFB, NE, 68113-2107
- ZIP Code
- 68113-2107
- Solicitation Number
- FA4600-05-T-0045
- Response Due
- 7/5/2005
- Archive Date
- 7/20/2005
- Description
- ** Subject Synposis is hereby canceled.** The contractor shall provide all labor, materials, equipment, and tools necessary to perform at Offutt AFB, NE and designated areas. This effort is to seek qualified sources capable of providing support on behalf of Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) for modeling and integration work in support of The Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and Battlespace Environment Institute (BEI). The ESMF collaboration is building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. The ESMF defines an architecture for composing multi-component applications and includes data structures and utilities for developing model components. ESMF is aiming to create a framework usable by individual researchers as well as major operational and research centers, and seeks to engage the community in its development. ESMF is on schedule and will be the dominant whole-earth framework for decades to come. DoD established the Battlespace Environments Institute (BEI) within the broad ESMF, of which, AFWA is a co-founder. This will allow DoD to tailor access to 19 major earth system modeling components and 30 ESMF applications to meet its requirements. The BEI will foster cross-service and cross-agency collaborations and savings, and the rapid transfer of new models to support DoD Battlespace Environments Missions. The emphasis of this requirement is to exploit existing technology, establish a close working relationship between AFWA and the earth scientists and computational experts from major U.S. Earth modeling centers, and assist AFWA in fulfilling its set of BEI obligations. More specifically, the short- and long- term space weather model development goals of a multi-year project Requirements include but not limited to are: 1) Establish definitions, evaluation methodologies, metrics, presentation formats, and contribution policies for a Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) high-performance computing benchmark with relevance to AFWA operational requirements and the WRF user community at large. 2) Establish a WRF parallel benchmark web presence on the maintained WRF web site, also accessible through the official BEI web site. 3) Select a WRF benchmark case, preferably a case that coincides with a theater configuration targeted for operational implementation at AFWA. 4) Establish a threshold (minimum) set of benchmarks should be generated for the following series of super computing machines: IBM P4, Cray X1 and Origin 3000. 5) Act as the technical lead and objective officiator, final arbitrator and judge for all generic and vendor-specific optimizations made to officially released WRF baseline codes by hardware and/or software engineers working for AFWA and/or BEI. 6) Establish an objective verification method to determine the effects of generic and vendor-specific optimizations on the WRF benchmark case solution(s). 7) Make available starting WRF baseline (V 2.0.3.1) and all follow-on, optimized releases to the numerical weather prediction community off of the official WRF and the BEI mirror web sites. 8) Improved WRF performances should be tracked, quantified, graphically depicted and displayed on the WRF and BEI web sites on an as needed basis. 9) Ensure that WRF can interoperate as a coupled component within ESMF, to the extent that this can be done without compromising WRF performance or functionality for other users, applications, or coupling modalities. 10) Investigate feasibility of extending or integrating ESMF coupling mechanisms and approaches with other existing mechanisms and approaches to coupling (e.g. I/O API based techniques). 11) Participate in relevant BEI meetings and other activities, traveling when necessary and appropriate. 12) Consult and provide limited technical support to BEI application groups using WRF as a coupled component within ESMF. 13) Collaborate with the AFWA BEI team on the design of the extended space weather forecast system (coupled Hakamada-Akasofu-Fry (HAF) - Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM) GAIM and HAFv.2-GAIM within the ESMF). 13) Install and generate a proof-of-concept, retrospective run of a one-way coupled the HAF-GAIM and HAFv.2-GAIM systems (outside the bounds of the ESMF) on AFWA?s development system. 14) Work with scientists and AFWA to devise an integrated software development plan to deliver prototypes real-time, one-way coupled HAF-GAIM and HAFv.2-GAIM modeling systems that is ESMF compliant/compatible. 15) Generate and provide WRF parallel benchmarks using the latest official release of the WRF modeling system, V 2.0.3.1. 16) Generate benchmarks using a case preferable to AFWA and coincident with a theater configuration targeted for operational implementation. 17) Work with the AFWA BEI team will generate a threshold (minimum) set of benchmarks for the following series of super computing machines: IBM P4 and P5, Cray X1 and Cray XD1, and SGI Altix 3700. Objective set of benchmarks may also include Cray XT3 results. 18) Work with scientists to establish an objective verification method to determine the effects of generic and vendor-specific optimizations on the WRF benchmark case solution(s). Required support is commercial; therefore, FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, shall apply to this acquisition. The contractor shall perform in accordance with the standards outlined in the Statement of Work (SOW). Four statements of work will be posted. This acquisition will be solicited as a Request for Proposals (RFP) utilizing FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. A requirements contract will result from the solicitation. Period of performance will be for a base period starting 01 August 2005 through 30 September 05 and five (5) one-year option periods subject to the availability of funds. It is anticipated multiple awards will be made. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this procurement is 541710 with a size standard of not to exceed 500 employees. The solicitations will posted ON OR ABOUT 5 JULY 2005. The entire solicitation will be made available ONLY on the Federal Business Opportunities website http://www.eps.gov. No paper copies will be issued. Potential offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation package. To be eligible for contract award, offerors must be registered in the DoD Central Contractor Registration (CCR). Register via the CCR website at http://www.ccr.gov or by contacting CCR Customer Service Contact Information at 1-888-227-2423. All responsible businesses may submit a proposal to the 55th Contracting Squadron. Any questions regarding this notice should be directed to Shawn Anderson, 55 CONS/LGCB, 101 Washington Square Bldg 40, Offutt AFB, NE 68113, telephone (402) 294-2628 or e-mail shawn.anderson@offutt.af.mil or Donald Miller, telephone (402) 294-3974 or e-mail donald.miller@offutt.af.mil.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Offutt AFB, NE
- Zip Code: 68113
- Zip Code: 68113
- Record
- SN00845207-W 20050714/050712211850 (fbodaily.com)
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