SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- INVESTIGATION FOR LOW POWER TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SOURCES SOUGHT (SS) NOTICE Reference BAA W15P7T-13-R-A424, Topic Number: S0816 Reduced Size, Weight and Power
- Notice Date
- 10/2/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division A, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-1846
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- W15P7T-15-R-A424
- Response Due
- 11/14/2014
- Archive Date
- 12/14/2014
- Point of Contact
- Pierre Beljour, 443-861-4614
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division A
(pierre.beljour@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The US Army is looking to increase the power efficiency of its tactical networks. Further the Army would like to be able to leverage the tremendous power of commercial smart devices (phones, tablets, etc) to rapidly deploy more efficient information exchange capabilities to the Soldier, dismounted and in small units. Key to this is the ability to adapt and leverage commercial quote mark green communications quote mark and military research and product development for greater power efficiency in a tactical environment. To realize this vision CERDEC S&TCD is interested in working with industry to investigate the current limitations of power-efficient hardware components, waveforms, networks, applications, and soldier interface technology and to develop solutions that both solve these deficiencies on today's handheld and manpack soldier radio systems but also can be introduced in the near-term (e.g. through software only updates) and deployed in the mid and far term via the Joint Capabilities Identification and Development (JCID) process, into future soldier radio and related electronics acquisitions and releases. Current soldier radio systems were not designed for minimum thermal signature, power efficiency, or low total energy consumption per mission. The commercial initiatives in end-user battery efficiency have been accompanied by low power radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), System-on-Chip (SoC), and digital signal processing (DSP) architectures in combination with improvements in waveforms and networking architecture. Commercial wireless systems designs recently have been driven by the fact that the largest single operating expense (OPEX) in radio access networks is the electrical power. The Joint Capabilities Integration Development (JCID) requirements process has emphasized soldier tactical communications capability for a given battery life and therefore has not specifically leveraged commercial technologies for the reduction of energy footprint for soldier radio tactical use. Although there are a few commercial wireless devices such as cell phones that have been deployed to theater in soldier information systems, these systems generally do not address the full range of requirements of handheld or manpack soldier radios. Further, commercial systems rely on commercially allocated spectrum and do not provide the flexibility to operate in bands available to the Army. Most of these solutions rely on commercial components and provide little to no ability to protect the communications against high power interference, relying instead on fixed cellular infrastructure to control power to manage interference. Commercial systems do not address intentional interference nor malicious RF jamming. Contractual questions may be directed to Contracting Officer, David Greaves, at e-mail: David.a.greaves4.civ@mail.mil, or Contract Specialists, Pierre Beljour, at e-mail: pierre.r.beljour.civ@mail.mil; Oladayo Kaka, at email: Oladayo.a.kaka.civ@mail.mil
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/notices/bd13cbd8eed6bd1b0191ef6e9224eb79)
- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division A 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, Aberdeen Proving Ground MD
- Zip Code: 21005-1846
- Zip Code: 21005-1846
- Record
- SN03541142-W 20141004/141002235038-bd13cbd8eed6bd1b0191ef6e9224eb79 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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