SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- Sources Sought for Replacement Control and Communicaitons System (AN/FSC-160(v) Patch and Test Facility (PTF)
- Notice Date
- 10/31/2008
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334220
— Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U. S. Army Materiel Command, US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07, US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07, ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008
- ZIP Code
- 07703-5008
- Solicitation Number
- W15P7T-XX-X-XXXX
- Response Due
- 11/30/2008
- Archive Date
- 1/29/2009
- Point of Contact
- Vernay Salas, 732-532-12193<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This announcement is a sources sought for the Replacement Control and Communications System (AN/FSC-160(v) Patch and Test Facility (PTF). All potential offerors shall notify the Government POC, Mr. Marvin Kass at (732)532-4691 or email at Marvin.Kass@us.army.mil. In addition, if available, each offeror shall provide a generic white paper setting forth their current or future capabilities for this effort, as well as any existing contract that they may have for this work. A drawing is associated with this effort which cannot be posted. Interested parties should contact Vernay.Salas@us.army.mil to receive the drawing. The Govenrment will not reimburse potential offerors for this information. A detailed description of the effort is as follows: 1.SCOPE This document was generated to describe the engineering performance plan for the Replacement Control and Communications System AN/FSC 160 (V) Patch and Test Facility (PTF). 1.1General The Wideband Control Program Office of PM DCATS has a requirement for the Replacement Control, Communications System AN/FSC 160 (V) PTF for FY12. The equipment must be in-place for operation starting in FY 13 and the installation approach must utilize minimum user circuit disruption and still allow for complete site installation. During the PTF replacement/upgrade for the Terrestrial Critical Control Circuit (TCCC) and Objective DSCS Operational Control Subsystem (ODOCS) Network circuits extended downtime is not an option. It should be noted that this document will refer to the ODOCS Network, but in the future the name will change to Wideband SATCOM Operational Management System (WSOMS) Network. The Contractor shall assemble, integrate, configure, administer to, and deliver the hardware, software, and other materials necessary to provide the capabilities of the PTF as described herein. The Contractor shall provide equipment installation at the specified eight locations (i.e., Ft. Detrick, Ft. Meade, CP Roberts, Ft. Buckner, Landstuhl, Joint SATCOM Engineering Center (JSEC), Ft. Gordon and DCF DOCS Certification Facility). Any technology recommended by an Engineering Performance Plan must be valid for the five (5) year life span of 2012-17. 1.2Background The Wideband Satellite Operations Center (WSOC) is a Satellite Command and Control Center (SC2C) that performs satellite transmission and payload control of wideband military satellites for the Department of Defense (DoD). The WSOC oversees and directs the actions of terminals accessing its assigned satellite. It activates and controls terminal transmissions, constantly monitoring the Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum as seen by its collocated Satellite Communication (SATCOM) earth terminals. The WSOC uses satellite Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) signals to configure the communication payload and monitor the health of the satellite assigned to it. Presently there are five (5) WSOCS worldwide that contain a PTF (i.e., Ft. Meade, Ft. Detrick, CP Roberts, Landstuhl and Ft. Buckner). In addition there is a PTF at JSEC (Ft Monmouth), Ft. Gordon and the DCF DOCS Certification Facility. DoD will build two new WSOCS over next several years. Each WSOC uses Terrestrial Critical Control Circuit (TCCC) systems for Command and Control (C2) of the SATCOM terminals and coordination with planning and management sites. Low-speed serial TCCC circuits connect the WSOCs and SATCOM terminals for C2. In addition to the TCCC, other high-speed ODOCS Network circuits interconnect satellite planning and monitoring systems between the WSOCs and their management sites. The configuration of each PTF is unique to the site layout for each WSOC and the circuits it supports, but all PTFs must meet some common requirements and use common types of equipment. The location of the PTF is designed to meet the specific requirements of the WSOC at which the PTF is installed. The PTF has a Black Equipment Area (BEA) and a Red Equipment Area (REA) to separate red signals that are in the clear (unencrypted) from protected black signals (encrypted). The existing PTF contains KG-84s and KIV-7s encryption devices, which the Government intends to replace with KIV-7M devices and associated encryption rack mount enclosures. Although the exact equipment complement and location may vary from site to site, the basic layout will consist of the BEA and the REA. These two areas will be apart from each other regardless of the site IAW National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Advisory Memorandum (NSTISSAM) TEMPEST/2-95, Red/Black installation guidance. Although each rack has the same commercial construction features, dimensions and types of components, regardless of the site location, the number of racks may vary according to the circuit requirements at each WSOC. Within each WSOC, the TCCC and other ODOCS Network circuits terminate within the PTF. The PTF is integral to each WSOC and consists of equipment racks containing equipment such as distribution frames, isolation units, modems, multiplexers, patch panels, conditioning equipment, encryption devices, and test equipment. This equipment allows PTF operators at the WSOC to exercise the essential control over circuits interconnecting the WSOCs internal subsystems with each other and external facilities. This control provides the capability to make quality assessments of circuit conditions, monitor input/output signals during operation and maintenance, resolve distributed service (caused within the PTF), and generally take any action that may be necessary to ensure fast, reliable, and secure exchange of information between those circuits routed through the PTF. 2.CURRENT PTF DESCRIPTION The Control, Communications System AN/FSC-160 (V) (PTF) provides the various components/cabling required to interface the ODOCS Wide Area Network (WAN) circuits, the Communications Subsystem AN/FSC-130 GTC3S, the AN/USC-28(V) Satellite Communications Set AN/USC-28(V), and the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) Electronic Counter Counter Measure (ECCM) Control Subsystem (DECS) communications interface AN/FSC-115. The PTF currently provides: "Up to 32 low-speed GTC3S user data ports that are routed to remote user destinations (KG-84/ VERSAMUX) "8 T1 ODOCS WAN circuits (KIV-7HS /CORNET PCU) "10 DECS/USC-28 circuits (KG-84s/KIV-7s) The PTF also provides the necessary distribution racks, isolation units, patch panels, and associated test equipment to allow PTF operators at each WSOC to monitor, analyze, diagnose and troubleshoot the circuits interconnecting the WSOCs internal subsystems i.e., (DOSS, DFCS, GTC3S, USC-28, RSCCE, DECS, WSOMs, etc.) and external facilities. It provides the operator the capability to make assessments of circuit conditions, monitor input/output signals during operations and maintenance, restore disrupted service (within the PTF), and generally take any action that may be necessary to ensure fast, reliable and secure exchange of information between those circuits routed through the PTF. The current PTF configuration is illustrated in Figure 1 with the exception of Ft. Detrick. Ft Detricks configuration is illustrated in Figure 2. This configuration was installed in the WSOC in 1987 and has undergone three limited upgrades. It should be noted that these upgrades concerned only the PTF circuit paths used by the TCCC and ODOCS Network circuits. The first upgrade, the ODOCS WAN Upgrade, replaced the Red side wiring with an RS-530 standard. It also included replacement of the KG-84 encryption devices with the KIV-7 encryption devices and replacing some of the Versamux fiber-optic multiplexers with the Cornet Fiber Port Concentrator Units (PCU) in the WSOCs and the collocated Technical Control Facility (TCF). This Upgrade was precipitated by the requirement to increase the ODOCS Network circuit paths through the PTF to data rates of up to 1.544 Mbps. The second upgrade performed added redundancy to the Cornet Fiber PCUs by adding an A/B switch on the copper side of the PCU and adding an additional PCU with a separate fiber optic cable path between the WSOC and the TCF. The third upgrade was to ODOCS Network T1 data rates were required and it was discovered that the existing cabling and the patch panel modules in the ADC PatchMate Patch panels could not reliably pass T1 data rates. As a result, the ODOCS Network circuit paths were replaced with new RS530 cables and RS530 patch modules. These changes were applied to both the Red (unencrypted) and the Black (encrypted) sides of the PTF. The patch modules (Red) for the ODOCS Network circuits were installed into the KIV-7 rack and the cables where rerouted to use the shortest path possible. In addition the existing Bantam patch (Black) panels were bypassed and replaced with RS530 patch modules that were installed in the multiplexer rack. The Patch Panel rack units (RED) contain a bulkhead assembly; cross connect blocks, a RS232 breakout panel and two 18 module Patch Panel chassis. The encryption racks, units 4,5,6,7,8, contain the cables and mounting hardware for the KG-84s and the KIV-7s. The Black Patch Panel racks are populated with Quick Connect Panel (QCP) blocks and bantam (tip/ring) type patch panels. Although the intent of the QCP cross connect blocks is to provide a means for the custom configuration of each circuit, there are no known instances where this functionality has ever been employed in the WSOC. As of this moment these QCP blocks have no real application and are superfluous to the PTF operation; therefore, the QCP blocks will most likely be eliminated from the circuits. The Black Patch Panel racks are connected to the Multiplexer racks where the WAN/RU circuits are combined (multiplexed) and forwarded to the corresponding units housed in the TCF. The limited PTF upgrades have not solved the underlying challenges/limitations of the current PTF configuration. The challenges and limitations of the current PTF are: a.Obsolete/unsupportable equipment (i.e., Versamux multiplexers) b.Incompatible equipment Versamux and PCUs c.Non industry-standard wiring throughout the PTF d.No expandability or modularity e.Dated rack design (bulkhead connectors and QCP) that provide unnecessary complexity and no expandability f.Limited documentation/drawings g.Old patch panel technology h.Single threaded fiber-optic connectivity for the GTC3S (Versamux) i.Maintaining a standard configuration at all sites Figure 1. Current PTF Configuration in the WSOC and Co-located TCF Figure 2. Ft. Detrick PTF and TCF Configuration after the Army TCF Upgrade 3.PROPOSED REPLACEMENT PTF The current PTF is functional but is severely limited in its ability to pass high speed data (230 Kbps and Higher) reliably. In addition, most of the wire/cabling is non-conventional and over twenty (20) years old. The PTF for the most part is without spare signal paths which negate the functionality of the Patch Panels. Also because the encryption devices (i.e., KG-84s and KIV-7s) have or will in the near future become unsupportable, the PTF needs immediate redesign and replacement; as a minimum, for the TCCC and ODOCS Network circuits for the locations (five (5) WSOCs and three (3) sites) identified in Paragraph 1.2 (Option A). STRATCOM, ARSTRAT and DISA management sites (RSSC CONUS (RSO), STRATCOM (GSC), ARSTRAT (CWS), RSSC PAC (RPA), DISA HQ (DISA), SITE R (SIR), (TNG), EUROPE (EUR) and (TNC), PACIFIC (PAC), and CROUGHTON (CRO)) may also be upgraded if funds become available in the future. The Contractor would be required to replace existing ODOCS Network and TCCC circuit encryption devices (KG-84's or KIV-7's) with KIV-7M GFE encryption devices and assemble, integrate, configure and provide other materials necessary to provide the capabilities within the existing management sites (Option B). The Replacement Patch and Test Facility AN/FSC-160 (V) (RPTF) specifications are listed in Table 1. It should be noted that operational requirements may change; therefore, the new design must be patchable, modular and expandable. Also the design must utilize standard commercial racks and the cables for the TCCC and ODOCS Network. It should be noted that the KIV-7Ms and the proposed Model# 3036 KIV-7M rack enclosures will be supplied as Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) to the contractor who will install the equipment into existing racks on-site for both Option A and B. Also it is imperative that the contractors work be minimally invasive (example, install one circuit at a time) and ensure that the individual circuit is fully operational per site requirements before proceeding to the next circuit for install. See Figure 3 for Proposed RPTF Block Diagram. Table 1 - Proposed RPTF Specifications Data rate75bps to 57.334Mbps ProtocolRS530 Synchronous (Balanced Data), RS232 (Synchronous balanced and Asynchronous) ConnectorsDB-25 male/female Breakout PanelsBreakout type (tip jack for oscilloscope) Red and Black Patch PanelsMatrix Switch (RED & BLACK) Encryption HardwareKIV-7M (2 channels per unit) (GFE) Encryption Rack Mount EnclosuresOne for each two KIV-7Ms (Model 3036) (GFE) Power Distribution12 outlets 115 VAC 60 Hz Surge Protector (2 per Rack) ClocksExternal (provided from the TCF) Cable TypeTwisted pair, PVC jacket a. Capacitance 12 pF/ft. 2 pF/ft. b. Conductor Gauge 24 AWG stranded or solid c. Resistance (Maximum) 16 ohms/1000 ft. d. Shield One foil and one copper braid Inter Facility CablesFiber Optic 62.5/125 Micron Duplex RacksUse existing standard EIA commercial 19 inch racks (no more than 4) (GFE) Test EquipmentFireBerd 8000, Oscilloscope Digital Storage
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