SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Future Combat Systems (FCS) Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)Development Request for Information (RFI) Only
- Notice Date
- 5/23/2007
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334210
— Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- TACOM - Warren Acquisition Center, ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road, Warren, MI 48397-5000
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- USA-SNOTE-070523-001
- Archive Date
- 8/20/2007
- Description
- The following represents a notice placed by the US Army on behalf of The Boeing Company in support of Boeing's role as Lead Systems Integrator for the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. THis does not represent a present or future Government procire ment. Contact the Boeing POC listed in the message below, not the US Government POC listed on this announcement. The Boeing Company, in conjunction with our partner Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), together acting as Future Combat Systems (FCS) Lead Systems Integrator (LSI) for the Army, is pleased to announce a new Request for Information for n etwork technologies related to networked voice communications. FCS is a networked 'system of systems.' It utilizes advanced communications and technologies to link soldiers with unmanned air platforms, ground platforms, and sensors. The FCS network is a mobile ad hoc network that will be primarily IP based, but will also support legacy technologies with high levels of information assurance. In addition to this RFI effort, the FCS LSI is working on different but related networking technologies that may impact voice performance. The LSI has the task to determine the tolerable voice quality limits for MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network) performance p arameters in terms of delay, packet-loss, and jitter for end-to-end voice packet transportation. A part of this effort takes into account other sources of voice quality degradations stemming from acoustic design (handset/headset/microphone etc.) and envir onmental noise (such as inside a manned combat vehicle). In addition, the Quality-of-Service design in the FCS network will provide some degree of preferential treatment (in terms of per hop behavior) to voice packets from the QoS assurance and contention perspective in contrast with other data and media services sharing the converged FCS IP network. Boeing is sending out this RFI to identify and understand ongoing work in networking technologies with the focus on fields that may assist the LSI's SDSI (Software and Distributed Systems Integration) IPT in the following tasks as applied to tactical MANET networks: o VoIP Applications o Low bit rate CODECs for deployment in MANET environment o Loss Concealment Techniques o Multicast applications The deadline for RFI package submittal is 15 August 2007. Information contained in the RFI response may be utilized for future FCS Requests for Proposals. Interested parties are hereby requested to respond within 45 days of this announcement. Please refer to the FCS Home Page (FCS Bid Opportunities) for announcement details at http://www.boeing.com/fcs. Point of contact: Dr. Arun Arunachalam Phone: (714) 762-6331 (o) or (949) 677-2819 (c) The mailing address is: The Boeing Company Future Combat Systems 5301 Bolsa Ave. MC H017-D626 Huntington Beach, CA 92647-2003 Attention: David Williams Phone: (714) 896-2398 (o) or (714) 625-5532 (c)
- Record
- SN01301541-W 20070525/070523230118 (fbodaily.com)
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