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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 19, 2006 FBO #1696
SOLICITATION NOTICE

16 -- Universal Armament Interface NOTICE OF CONTRACT ACTION

Notice Date

7/17/2006
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

336413 — Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, ASC - Aeronautical Systems Center, 2275 D Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433-7218
 

ZIP Code

45433-7218
 

Solicitation Number

FA8626-06-R-XXX
 

Response Due

7/31/2006
 

Archive Date

8/15/2006
 

Description

Notice of Contract Action (NOCA) OFFADD: 646 AERONAUTICAL SYSTESM SQUADRON (646 AESS), 2145 MONAHAN WAY, WRIGHT- PATTERSON AFB, OH 45433-7017 SUBJECT: ASC/AASS UAI FOLLOW-0N EFFORT CONTRACT This is not a Request for Proposal Submission. THIS IS A NOTICE OF CONTRACT ACTION. The Aging Aircraft Systems Squadron (AASS) is contemplating the issuance of Sole Source Contracts with the following Industry Team Members: The Boeing Company P.O. Box 516 Mailcode: S270-3804 St. Louis MO 63166-0516 Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation Integrated Systems/Air Combat Systems RG00/W6 One Hornet Way El Segundo, CA 90245-2805 Lockheed Martin Corporation 5600 Sand Lake Road MP 615 Orlando FL 32819 Raytheon Company Raytheon Missile systems TU/M09/3 1151 E. Hermans Rd Tucson AZ 85706 No solicitation is being issued at this time and this notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges to the Government will arise as a result of a response to this notice. The Government anticipates awarding four cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract modifications. The period of performance will be 36 months for this effort with a range of $16M to a maximum of $20M. Acquisition Environment: The statutory authority, which permits other than full and open competition for this acquisition is 10 United States Code (USC) 2304(c) (1), as implemented by 6.302-1(a) (2) (ii) (A); Only one source, or limited number of sources, and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The program office plans to issue the RFP on 24 Jul 06 and award this contract by 8 Nov 06. Requirements: 1. Provide support to individual platform/store program offices in their efforts toward integration of UAI requirements into their specific Operational Flight Program (OFP) and Mission Planning Environment (MPE) upgrades. This support will be situational and will depend on need and a request from the Program Office for such support. Support may be provided at all program phases of an OFP upgrade, including requirements definition and generation, system development and demonstration, and system testing and fielding. 2. Provide Platform/Store Interface Control Document (PSICD), Mission Planning (MPICD) and Launch Acceptable Region Data Package (LARDP) Super Joint Interface Control Working Group (SJICWG) support, to consist of secretariat functions utilizing a secure WEB site provided by the Government, providing key technical support in generating proposed changes or additions to the PSICD, MPICD, and LARDP packages and associated Certification Compliance Plans, as well as providing partial support from Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) programs not currently funded for UAI implementation to participate in SJICWG activities. All SJICWG support will follow the specified processes outlined in the UAI Interface Control Plan. 3. Perform a Risk Reduction study for incorporation of follow on interface requirements into current UAI development efforts. Follow on interface requirements are defined as those that are outside the scope of current UAI development efforts, and include but are not limited to: Air to Air stores; Post launch Communications (i.e. Weapons Data Link Network (WDLN); Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); Joint Miniature Munition Interface (JMMI) and/or Miniature Munition/Store Interface (MMSI) interfaces currently used between Bomb Release Unit -61 (BRU-61) and Small Diameter Bomb I (SDB I); targeting and training pods; joint service platform and store programs not included in current efforts; and foreign manufactured platforms and stores. This effort will include technical reports and presentations documenting potential candidates identified, feasibility, trade studies, as well as roadmaps and plans for incorporating interfaces from these systems or technologies into the UAI program. For those interfaces or technologies deemed feasible for near-term inclusion into UAI, draft Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) and associated draft Interface Change Notices (ICNs) will be generated with respect to the appropriate PSICD, MPICD, and LARDP core Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) documents. The draft ECPs/ICNs will either be incorporated into UAI core documents through formal SJICWG processes, accompanied by completion of quality assurance checklists by affected programs, or will otherwise be refined during follow on, full development efforts to address and incorporate these interfaces into UAI. Technical Objective: Contractor(s) shall define a protocol for achieving rapid, low cost integration of weapons onto aircraft by decoupling the integration from the aircraft Operational Flight Program (OFP) update cycles. Technical characteristics of the UAI protocol and the documents defining it shall be as follows: UAI must be capable of being implemented on legacy aircraft and maintain compatibility of legacy stores. UAI will not impose a common operating system across legacy aircraft or weapons. UAI will not require an upload of an OFP. For full UAI functionality, the aircraft must have ability to communicate with stores using a MIL-STD-1553 protocol, without violating the MIL-STD-1760 requirements for the use of standard messages. Modification of existing stores to be compatible with UAI is allowed. Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) will be used as the UAI mission planning baseline system. The LAR efforts within SJICWG support shall include creation of a stand alone UAI LAR requirements document which may be included or referenced contractually in programs which choose to implement UAI compliant LAR algorithms. Document created as part of the LARDP development efforts shall be used as a baseline in generating this requirements document. The core ICDs shall define and document a single set of messages (the ?consolidated set?) that meet the requirements above. These ICDs shall incorporate interface requirements and growth features to accommodate foreseeable new weapon interface requirements. The ICDs will identify the existing weapons ICDs (the ?superset?) that are used as baseline requirements in defining the consolidated set. For potential subcontracting opportunities, interested parties may contact : The Boeing Company ? Jerry Hespen, 636-236-1955 Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation Integrated Systems/Air Combat Systems ?Kristen August, 310-332-5321 Raytheon Company, Raytheon Missile Systems ? Mark Holm, 520-545-9427 Lockheed Martin Corporation ? Dave Neel, 817-935-4392 Inquiries should be directed to Ms. Pamela Bates, (937) 255-2425 ext 2109 or Mr. Lawrence Doelker (937) 255-3385 ext. 3810; AAES/PK, Bld 28, 2145 Monahan Way, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7017.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 646 AERONAUTICAL SYSTESM SQUADRON (646 AESS), 2145 MONAHAN WAY, WRIGHT- PATTERSON AFB, OH

Zip Code: 45433-7017

Country: UNITED STATES
 

Record

SN01090818-W 20060719/060717220550 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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