SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Support for ASEC- Mortars/Common and Artillery/Tank Weapon Fire Control Support
- Notice Date
- 10/8/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- US Army, Army Contracting Command, Joint Munitions and Lethality (JM&L) Contracting Center, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN-10-X-0260
- Response Due
- 11/12/2010
- Archive Date
- 12/12/2010
- Point of Contact
- Thomas Howes, Contract Specialist, (973)724-2962
- E-Mail Address
-
Thomas Howes
(thomas.howes1@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Army RDECOM-ARDEC (Picatinny Arsenal) is conducting a market survey to study the availability of services under two (2) functional areas. The two (2) functional areas are (1) Mortars and Common Fire Control, and (2) Artillery and Tank Weapon Fire Control System (FCS) Support; and are explained in more detail below. FA 1 Mortars and Common Fire Control The Mortars and Common Fire Control Team supports a wide spectrum of products including, but not limited to, such programs as the Mortar Fire Control System (MFCS), Lightweight Handheld Mortar Ballistic Computer (LHMBC), M777A2 LW-155 Digital Fire Control System, M119A3 Digitization, and other current and future programs related to mortars and common fire control systems. Activities include requirements analysis, documentation, design, development, product reviews, acquisition, systems integration, unit and integration testing, configuration management, product and process improvement, and training and field support. These activities are required for successful research and development efforts and to address engineering change proposals; product improvements; corrections for deficiencies and shortcomings; routine maintenance; information assurance, Army Software Blocking requirements; Command, Control and Communication (C3) block update requirements; Ballistic Kernel improvements; and situational awareness requirements such as FBCB2. Specific Requirements for Mortars and Common Fire Control Support: Experience with Software and System requirements is a must. The Contractor shall have extensive domain knowledge and knowledge in the following functional areas: a. Soldier Machine Interfaces/Graphical User Interfacesb. COMNET /Communications (MIL-STD-188-220, MIL-STD-2045-47001, and MIL-STD-6017) c. Weapon Displaysd. Navigation Unitse. Mission Management/Fire Mission Processingf. Ballistics processing Development Support: The Contractor shall provide support in developing Software Requirements and developing code based on those requirements. This effort shall require domain experience in mortars, as well as software coding in Visual C++ and C#. The Contractor is required to have extensive knowledge and experience in the use of the Mortars Software Development Environment and Processes. All code developed for the effort shall be maintained and configuration controlled using a software configuration management (CM) tool such as Microsoft Team foundation server or Source Gear Vault. This effort will be performed on site at the ASEC. The Contractor is required to have domain experience in development of software related to the areas of mortars, message parsing, composition and decomposition in accordance with MIL-STD-6017 (Variable Message Formatting), navigation, UTM Coordinates, Lat/Long Coordinates, True North Coordinates, MIL-STD 188-220 protocol, Soldier Machine Interface development, UDP/IP networking, and ammunition selection processing. Experience in UML design and unit testing is essential. The Contractor shall have extensive mortar software domain knowledge. Software Verification Testing Support: The Contractor shall provide support in planning, developing, and conducting Software Verification Test of the mortars/common fire control software to ensure conformance to baseline requirements. This effort shall require extensive domain experience in mortars. Software Verification Testing support shall include Requirements Analysis, Test Planning, Software Test Documentation development, Test execution (including dry-runs), Regression Testing and support of regression analysis, and Software Test Reporting. The contractor shall perform Software Verification Test in accordance with the ASEC software testing process. Experience in the ASECs testing process is required. Systems Engineering Verification Support: The Contractor shall provide support to evaluate the mortar/common fire control software products throughout the software development process. This evaluation support includes, but is not limited to, peer review of mortars software work products, data review board activities, witnessing of testing (both formal and informal), configuration audit activities, and support of mortars reviews and meetings. This effort shall require extensive domain experience as well as software domain knowledge in mortars. Software Configuration Management Support: The Contractor shall provide support to configuration manage and control the mortars/common fire control software baseline products throughout the projects life cycle upgrade. The Contractor shall plan and support the mortars/common fire control software products using ASECs Software Configuration management (SCM) processes and procedures. The SCM tasks shall be performed using Microsoft Team foundation server or Source Gear Vault for software configuration management and DOORS for documentation Configuration Management. Experience in the use of these tools is essential for this task. This effort shall require extensive mortar software domain knowledge. Software Process and Performance Analysis Support: The Contractor shall provide support for software process assurance to the mortars/common fire control projects to assure that all of the process requirements are being implemented in accordance with ASECs Organizational Software Policies and Procedures. Extensive knowledge of the ASEC Organizational Policies and Procedures is required for this effort. The Contractor shall provide support for tracking and analyzing the projects performance. The contractor for this effort shall use earned Value Management (EVM). EVM experience is essential for this effort. FA 2 - Artillery and Tank Weapon Fire Control System (FCS) Support The Artillery and Tank Weapon Fire Control System (FCS) Teams support a wide spectrum of products including, but not limited to, M109 Paladin Fire Control, M1A1 Abram Fire Control, and other current and future programs related to Artillery and Tank fire control systems. The Fire Control Systems & Technology Directorate (FCS&TD) works with the respective Program Managers (PMs) of the Artillery and Tank systems to support the system software development and system software maintenance efforts. The FCS&TD will be acquiring Information Technology support that is inclusive of system software requirements development and analysis, system software design, development and integration, system software configuration management, system software process and performance analysis, and system software training and field support. These activities are required for successful research and development efforts for the Artillery and Tank systems to address engineering change proposals; product improvements and upgrade; corrective actions for deficiencies and shortcomings; routine maintenance; information assurance and Army Software Blocking (Capability Set) requirements; Command, Control and Communications (C3) block update requirements; prognostics requirements; and situational awareness requirements. The following areas will require contractual support: Specific Requirements for Artillery & Tank Weapon Systems Support: System Requirements Support: The Contractor shall provide support in coordinating detailed requirements with the TRADOC System Manager (TSM), user representatives, the Program Manager (PM) and the Software Blocking community. The Contractor shall use approved new requirements to develop detailed system software requirements, architecture, design, and system interoperability specifications. The Contractor shall develop system integration tests and conduct these tests to insure that system requirements and system interoperability have been implemented correctly. This effort will require extensive domain experience in Field Artillery. Experience with functionality and doctrine of the M109A6 Paladin and their Software and System requirements is required. The Contractor shall have extensive domain knowledge in the following functional areas as they apply to embedded software for artillery and tank weapon systems: a. Displays and Display Controlb. VMF Message Processingc. Navigationd. Communications (MIL-STD-188-220 and MIL-STD-2045-47001) e. Ballisticsf. Ammunition Selectiong. System Power up and Initializationh. Embedded Trainingi. Prognostics and Diagnostics System Software Development Support: The Contractor shall provide support in developing software requirements and implementing software changes based on those requirements. This effort will require domain experience in Field Artillery, as well as software coding in Ada. Experience with development of Paladin software is required. The Contractor is required to have extensive knowledge and experience in the use of the ASEC Software Development Environment and Processes. All code developed for the effort shall be maintained and configuration controlled using the Rational Software ClearCase Software CM tool. Knowledge and experience with this tool is essential for the Paladin effort. This effort shall be performed on site at ASEC. The Contractor is required to have domain experience in development of software related to the areas of Artillery Ballistics, Muzzle Velocity Processing, Message Parsing, Message Composition, Message Decomposition, Navigation, UTM Coordinates, Lat/Long Coordinates, True North Coordinates, MIL-STD 188-220, MIL-STD 1553, Variable Message Formatting, Paladin Soldier Machine Interface development, UDP/IP networking, Ammunition Selection Processing and development of Paladin specific Automated Test Tools. The Contractor shall have extensive domain knowledge in the functional areas as they apply to embedded software for artillery and tank weapon systems. Software Engineering Verification Testing Support: The Contractor shall provide support in planning, developing, and conducting Software Engineering Verification Tests of the embedded artillery and tank weapon systems software to ensure conformance to their baseline requirements. This effort will require extensive domain experience in Field Artillery. Software Engineering Verification Testing support shall include software requirements analysis, test planning, test documentation development, test execution (including software system integration, pre-record, and record testing), regression testing and support of regression analysis, and test reporting. The contractor shall perform Software Engineering Verification Tests in accordance with ASECs software engineering verification process. Experience in the ASECs software engineering verification process is required. System Engineering Verification Support: The Contractor shall provide support to evaluate the embedded artillery and tank weapon systems software products throughout the software development process. This evaluation support includes, but is not limited to, peer review of software work products, data review board activities, witnessing of testing (both formal and informal), configuration audit activities, and support of reviews and meetings. This effort will require extensive domain experience in Field Artillery. Software Configuration Management Support: The Contractor shall provide support to configuration manage and control the software baseline products throughout the projects life cycle upgrade. The Contractor shall plan and support the software products using ASECs Software Configuration management (SCM) processes and procedures. The majority of the SCM task shall be performed using the Rational ClearCase SCM tool (Paladin) and DOORS documentation Configuration Management tools. Experience in the use of these tools is essential for this task. This effort will require extensive domain experience in Field Artillery. The Contractor shall have extensive knowledge in the functional areas as they apply to embedded software for artillery and tank weapon systems. Software Process and Performance Analysis Support: The Contractor shall provide support for software process assurance to assure that all of the process requirements are being implemented in accordance with ASECs Organizational Software Policies and Procedures. Extensive knowledge of the organizations policies and procedures is required for this effort. The Contractor shall provide support for tracking and analyzing the projects performance. The ASEC Earned Value Management (EVM) system shall be maintained and used by the contractor for this effort. Experience in EVM and ASECs Organizational Software Policies and Procedures are required for this effort. The Point of Contact for this effort is Thomas Howes, e-mail address is thomas.howes1@us.army.mil, please contact via e-mail only. This Market Survey is for planning purposes only and should not be construed as a request for proposal or as an obligation on the part of the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Market Survey or otherwise pay for information solicited. The information you provide will only be used by the U.S. Army in developing its acquisition approach for future services under the two (2) functional areas.
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