SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- FAA GUI Development Project
- Notice Date
- 10/2/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, AJP-75 AJA - Technical Center (Atlantic City, NJ)
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- DTFACT-10-M-00001
- Response Due
- 10/16/2009
- Archive Date
- 10/31/2009
- Point of Contact
- Karen Mercer, (609) 485-6747
- E-Mail Address
-
karen.mercer@faa.gov
(karen.mercer@faa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- POC For this procurement is Harry Lutz, Contract Specialist; Harry.Lutz@FAA.gov; (609) 485-6127******************************************************************************** The test and evaluation (T&E) process is the key to ensuring a system is reliable, maintainable, and safe. It is the FAA's mission to maintain a safe and efficient airspace system; hence the FAA is continuously exploring ways to improve their T&E abilities. The William J. Hughes Technical Center (Technical Center) in Atlantic City, New Jersey is the lead test and evaluation facility of the FAA. The Technical Center has always valued partnerships which help improve the challenges of T&E. The Technical Center has embarked on collaborations with other international organizations through Action Plan 16 with EUROCONTROL, inter-governmental agencies through the Joint Development and Planning Office and Next Generation Air Traffic System (NextGen), industry through a Collaborative Research Development Agreement (CRDA) with the Boeing Company developing the Aircraft Intent Description Language, and academia through the FAA/NASA Joint University Program. These collaborations have been proven to be vital in enhancing the T&E process. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has developed a new Air Traffic Control (ATC) system to replace the existing Host Computer System in the en route domain. This system is called ERAM, for En Route Automation Modernization, and is being developed by the Lockheed Martin Corporation (LM). One primary component of ERAM is the Decision Support Tool (DST), which assists air traffic controllers in separating air traffic. Two key functions of ERAM's DST are the prediction of the future flight paths of the aircraft and the prediction of future conflicts between two aircraft or between an aircraft and a Special Use Airspace. The Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) was successfully performed by LM in September 2007. After the FAT Run for Record (RFR), a study was conducted in support of the testing and evaluation of these two key functions. This study was conducted by the Conflict Probe Assessment Team (CPAT) in the Simulation and Analysis Team (AJP-661) at the William J. Hughes Technical Center (Technical Center). In order to properly test ERAM, a large amount of data must be analyzed; thus, the system outputs an ample amount of air traffic data. Visualization tools create visual overviews of the large amounts of abstract data that usually are stored in various database tables or files. With the involved task of analyzing the data, a need for visualization tools in which to easily interface the data was realized. Development of visualization tools is not a skill set that CPAT possessed; therefore, CPAT is requesting academic partners to collaborate in the development visualization tools to aid the analysts evaluating the operational tools like ERAM and future automation concepts. The FAA is looking to partner with academic institutions within a 40 mile distance of the FAA W. J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The institution must have the following qualities:1.A rich base of undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science, Software Engineering and Engineering disciplines. 2.A faculty with experience and willingness to develop visualization tools in Java to remotely access FAA air traffic data in a relational database (e.g. Oracle).3.Selected students must be able to be employed during the summer and part time during the academic calendar to support the research and be managed by the faculty.4.The participating faculty and selected students must be able to pass FAA government security clearances to enter and work within the facility and laboratories.5.The participating faculty must have some experience in developing visualization tools in Java and working with relational databases to direct the students accordingly. The greater the experience level of the managing faculty, the better chance of selecting the university as the partner. Experience in working with aviation related data is also a desired quality. See details of Action Plan 16 at "http://acy.tc.faa.gov/cpat/tjm/". See details of this analysis in FAA Technical Note at "http://acy.tc.faa.gov/cpat/docs/EramMetricsTechNoteTN08_10.pdf".
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