MODIFICATION
A -- Vendor Collaboration - Air Force Test Center - Small Business Industry Day (SBID)
- Notice Date
- 10/15/2014
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, HQ Air Force Test Center (AFTC) - Edwards, 5 S WOLFE AVE, Edwards AFB, California, 93524-1185, United States
- ZIP Code
- 93524-1185
- Solicitation Number
- AFTC2014SBID
- Point of Contact
- Dwight L Franke, , Doug Hoffelt,
- E-Mail Address
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dwight.franke@us.af.mil, douglas.hoffelt.1@us.af.mil
(dwight.franke@us.af.mil, douglas.hoffelt.1@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 15 Oct 2014 deleted #001 Track Two opportunity. 19 Sep 2014 - Added Small Business Opportunities and Event Details 16 June 2014 - Extended due date to 21 July 2014 NEW - 19 Sep 2014 On 9 June 2014 the Air Force Test Center (AFTC) announced the Small Business Industry Day (SBID) event to be held in Huntsville, AL, under the title of "Air Force Test Center - Vendor Collaboration - Small Business Industry Day (SBID)," which focused on the Track 1 of the SBID event. This supplemental announcement identifies the location and date of the event at the Huntsville Marriot in Huntsville, AL, 18-20 November 2014 and the specific business opportunities intended to be set aside for small business (these are in addition to the opportunities listed on 9 June). The AF SBID provides a forum for small businesses to present products of interest to the AF, learn about upcoming AFTC business opportunities, meet with subject matter experts on technology needs, and meet with major defense contractors for partnership opportunities. Depending on the level of response and associated building capacity, attendance may be limited and/or on a first come, first serve basis. SBs must register at the website below in order to attend the SBID event. Track 2 sessions are designed to provide further information on the requirements listed below followed by a question and answer exchange. Invitations for one-on-one meetings (not guaranteed for all participants) will be sent directly to individual small businesses after registration opens. Questions received may be answered via amendment(s) to this announcement if deemed relevant to all parties unless a specific request for privacy is included. Registration: https://conference.brtrc.com/AFSBID/2014TestCenter Send event venue questions to: Ms. Camille M. Piazza at afsbid@brtrc.com The AFTC plays a critical role in developmental test and evaluation (T&E) for AFMC's air and ground systems and is an essential cornerstone to the command's consolidation initiative from 12 centers to five. Headquartered at Edwards AFB, CA, AFTC leads the Air Force's T&E mission, conducting developmental T&E of air, space, and cyber systems to provide timely, objective, and accurate information to decision makers. The AFTC is comprised of the following organizations: 412th TW, Edwards AFB, CA, Arnold Engineering and Development Complex, Arnold AFB, TN, and the 96th TW, Eglin AFB, FL. Track Two - Small Business Opportunities: -013 High Temperature IR Target Simulation Required to test sensors with a primary mission of observing plume data. These data are from high temperature sources and follow a different black body curve than lower temperature sources. -015 Calibrate Multi Spectral Projection Sources Required to calibrate multi spectral projection sources. -016 Project Multiple Sources In A Radiometrically Correct Spectrum Modern sensors operate in multiple spectral regions. This source is required to project multiple sources; some possibly extend shapes, across multiple spectral bands at the same time, and in a radiometrically correct spectrum. -017 Calibrate Multiple Spectral Bands Simultaneous With Projection Of Multiple Specific Narrow Band Line Widths Modern sensors operate in multiple spectral regions, including IR, visible, and UV. This source is required to precisely calibrate multiple spectral bands at the same time, with simultaneous projection of multiple specific narrow band line widths. -018 Improve Heat Flow Through Cryovacuum Chambers There is a need for a cryogenic control valve to improve control of heat flow through cryovacuum chambers to provide the stability needed for efficient testing. -019 Calibration Testing There is a need for compact narrow-line tunable source for sensor system responsivity testing. This capability is required to provide very narrow spectral lines, from a user selectable spectrum for precise calibration testing. -020 Develop Wide Field of View Sensor Array Test Method(s) Modern wide field of view and large format sensor arrays exceed the physical capability of current test facilities. A method is required to test these new sensors using existing facilities in new manners to avoid the cost of excessive facility contraction. -024 Space Simulator Testing There is a requirement to test sensors with a primary mission of observing plume data. This data is from high temperature sources and follow a different black body curve than lower temperature sources. -025 Sensor Calibration There is a requirement for in-band non-blackbody Flood Source for SUT uniformity. This will be used to calibrate sensors uniformity across the entire sensor with a constant illumination (radiometric). -027 Project wide and extremely wide fields of view There is a need for Wide Field of View (>9 deg) and Ludicrously Wide Field of view (>120 deg) sensor test projectors. Modern sensors have wide and extremely wide fields of view. Current technology requires large, expensive, dedicated optical systems to fill the field of view. These would be prohibitive for the new generation of Wide Field of View system. This task should develop new technology, possibly using meta materials or other means, to project WFOV scenes without needed large optical trains. -028 Improved Projection Technology There is a requirement for a large format multispectral scene projector. Current scene projectors are limited to 512x512 or 1024x1024 pixels, while sensor arrays already exceed this by factors of four or more. New projection technology is needed to test these large and very large format arrays. -029 Improved Cryogenic Cooling Technology Current sources us cryogenic fluids, such as liquid helium to cool focal planes to single digit temperatures. These systems require bulky and expensive cryogenic plants. This requirement is to develop a solid state cooling technology that is capable of reaching cryogenic temperatures without the use of cryogenic fluids and bulky, mechanical equipment. -031 Improved High Energy Sources (Space Qualification Testing) Space qualification testing of electronic components requires high energy sources. Technology is needed that can provide these higher energies at low cost and high flux rate. There is a requirement for a high flux electron source with an energy range from 10Kev to 1Mev. -032 Variable High Flux Atomic Oxygen Source Space qualification testing of materials requires high flux atomic oxygen sources. Current technology is limited in the flux rate it can provide. Technology is needed that can provide high flux rate atomic oxygen, representing atomic oxygen density at orbits from 89 to 105 minute periods. -039 Operation of Technical Library Responsible for Information Technology Equipment, Training, Collection Development, Technical Discussions, Building Manager Responsibilities, Technical Library Operations, Sensitive/Classified Literature and Searches, Process Technical Reports, Requests for Limited Documents, Accountability of Classified Information/Requirements, Technical Reports Publication Support, Access Verification, and operation Collaboration Rooms -040 Aircraft Maintenance Provides on and off-equipment maintenance on 34 aircraft to include F-15, F-16, A-10, C-130 and UH-1N aircraft and assigned engines in support of the 96th Test Wing test missions. The Aircraft Maintenance Backshop performs modification manufacturing of prototypes, produces aircraft and engine modifications and fabrication, maintains armament systems, provides required supply support, and monitors and ensures compliance with training and environmental programs. Provides host base Crash Recovery and Hydrazine response team support. -041 Flight Line Support This requirement includes arrival services, foreign garbage support, departure services, aircrew support, end of runway inspections, processing services, transient aircraft safety, transient aircraft carrying munitions, aircraft parking, aircraft inspections, flight line maintenance support, flight line recovery support, and maintenance and support activities -045 Towed Airborne Plume Simulator Dynamic Range Improvement There is a need for a low flow rate pyrophoric fuel valve and control system. The center operates the Towed Airborne Plume Simulator (TAPS), which relies upon the combustion of a pyrophoric fluid to produce signatures. The current system operates over a flow rate range of 0.2 - 10 cubic inches per sec (cis). In order to improve the dynamic range of the system, an additional valve is sought to provide a lower flow rate range: 0.02 - 5 cis preferred, 0.05 - 5 cis acceptable. The design of the current valve is not amenable to simply scaling down. The valve must provide good spray atomization over the entire flow range, and be controllable to 1% of full scale. -046 Missile Radiometric Signature Development Infrared signatures for testing aircraft missile warning sensors are currently produced by combustion, as in the Towed Airborne Plume Simulator at AEDC. This project aims to produce missile radiometric signatures from LWIR through UV without combustion: perhaps through LEDs, lasers like the QCL, or various other means. Thus, the safety and precautions associated with pyrophoric fuel are eliminated, and the signatures can be controlled more precisely and over a wider spectral range. -047 Improved Missile Attitude Tracking Missile attitude during the initial second after launch is a key parameter in signature prediction models. To validate these models, missile attitude in all three dimensions must be known within one degree. One current method uses cameras to view the missile as it flies past a patterned background painted in segments and records the angle measured with respect to that background. Also, stereo photogrammetry has been used, but current techniques rely on laborious human-in-the-loop target tracking. Alternate solutions may be possible. -048 Thermal Mapping Camera There is a requirement for a single frame, fast integration, thermal mapping camera to study flow effect on scaled models moving at hypersonic speeds in a long test chamber. The temperatures encountered could be up to 2500 degrees C. Integration times as low as 100 ƞs is desirable. -049 Hone Very Long Bore Tapers There is a requirement for the ability to hone the bores of very long (130 ft.) straight tubes to both maintain the surface finish and occasionally to adjust the bore size. Standard long tube equipment is built for honing straight bores and is therefore difficult to manipulate through a tapered bore. A computer controlled hydraulic or servo motor operated hone is required that can hone tapers up to 0.1 inch over the 130- ft. -050 Improved Hydrogen Launcher Cleaner There is a need for a hydrogen launch cleaner. The current operation involves a very large two stage hydrogen launcher. The first stage of compression in the launcher uses military grade class 3 propellants. This propellant leaves a heavy residue that must be removed from the first 100 feet of the launcher after every operational cycle. The currently available environmentally approved cleaner is ineffective and leaves the bore less clean than required. -051 Boundary Layer Observation There is a requirement for the ability to observe the boundary layer on subscale models moving at hypersonic speeds. The models are launched at the testing speeds into a 1000 ft. long, 10 ft. diameter test chamber where they are observed through acrylic ports. A high resolution image of the flow phenomena around the model is required to allow the image to be enlarged and interrogated for flow effects like boundary layer transition. -053 Directed Energy Aero-optic Test Capability for High Speed Testing There is a requirement for a directed energy aero-optic test capability for high speed testing. Testing aero-optic systems in large high speed wind tunnels provides an opportunity to evaluate full-scale hardware at flight conditions over a wide range of laser deployment angles. The aero-optic effects of the airframe boundary layer and shear layer on the beam can be quantified only if the facility induced jitter can be subtracted out. Recent wind tunnel experiments have confirmed the vibration levels of the wind tunnel structure are low and this wind tunnel will be a suitable site for aero-optics testing. -054 Quantum Cascade Laser System A quantum cascade laser system is required for gas diagnostics in systems-under-test (turbine engine, scramjet, rocket, etc.) exhaust as well as vitiated facility flows. These are typically high temperature gas streams 1000K+, low to atmospheric pressure, possibly laden with combustion by-product gases (CO, CO2, H2O, NO, etc.). Since our test requirements cover a wide range of test conditions, a single wavelength or multiple fixed wavelength diagnostics system is NOT desired. A need exists for a widely tunable (nominally 200 cm-1) laser system of narrow line width (<2 MHZ, for obtaining spectral data on high temperature gases at low pressures) that operates in the mid-infrared spectral region (2-6 microns) capable of rapid mode-hop free operation over a wide spectral range with power of 10mW or higher. Ideally the system will not require cryogens and is (or can be) easily coupled to fiber optics for delivery and retrieval of the transmitted light from test cell that operates in a harsh environment with difficult optical access. -055 Real-time Radiography system Real-time Radiography system is in need of rejuvenation or replacement. The X-ray source, while fully capable of meeting current needs, requires refurbishment as well as modernization of its controls and data acquisition system. The system controls must be updated to ensure remote and coordinated operation with the sensors and data acquisition systems. The system's low level light sensors and associated recording systems need to be upgraded/replaced with state of the art low light level sensors that can work with current state of the art x-ray conversions screens and allow utilization full capabilities of the source. Alternate sensors that operate independent of x-ray screens such as x-ray image sensors or other new technologies will be considered. The mission of this system is to collect real time x-ray scenes at greater than 300 frames per second (synchronized with the x-ray source) of a rocket motor or other articles under test. -056 Arc heater segments and module assemblies Additional suppliers are needed for arc heater segments and module assemblies. A design that will lend itself to manufacture by a wide range of competent machine shops and e-beam welding vendors and a methodology for quality testing of manufactured parts to ensure integrity before insertion into the heaters is required. This is an ongoing need and the capability will be utilized as soon as available. Previous Announcment The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) is pleased to announce a Small Business Industry Day (SBID) to be held in Huntsville, AL during the third week of November 2014. The AFTC plays a critical role in developmental test and evaluation (T&E) for AFMC's air and ground systems and is an essential cornerstone to the command's consolidation initiative from 12 centers to five. Headquartered at Edwards AFB, CA, AFTC leads the Air Force's T&E mission, conducting developmental T&E of air, space, and cyber systems to provide timely, objective, and accurate information to decision makers. The AFTC is comprised of the following organizations: 412th TW, Edwards AFB, CA, Arnold Engineering and Development Complex, Arnold AFB, TN, and the 96th TW, Eglin AFB, FL. The 412th TW plans, conducts, analyzes, and reports on all flight and ground testing of aircraft, weapons systems, software and components as well as modeling and simulation for the Air Force. There are three core components for this mission: flying operations, maintenance and engineering. The 412th TW also operates the Air Force Test Pilot School. Arnold Engineering and Development Complex scientists and engineers perform ground tests, engineering analysis and technical evaluations for all the U.S. armed forces, other government agencies and commercial aerospace industry on aircraft, missiles and space systems at the conditions they will experience during a mission for research, system development and operational programs. The 96th TW plans, directs and documents T&E efforts for Air Force air-delivered weapons, navigation and guidance systems, Command and Control systems, and Air Force Special Operations Command systems. The wing provides expert evaluation and validation of the performance of systems throughout the design, development, acquisition, and sustainment process to ensure the warfighter has technologically superior, reliable, maintainable, sustainable and safe systems. The AFTC SBID event will provide a targeted forum for interested SBs to 1) allow SBs to privately brief senior government representatives on their specific capabilities and 2) hear about potential prime contractor business opportunities within the AFTC. SBs are advised that this SBID opportunity is targeted to the AFTC Broad Areas of Interest and the associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes identified in this announcement. Private briefing time limits may be required in order to accommodate all attendees and the number of attendees per company may also be limited. Furthermore, pending the level of response and building capacity issues, attendance may be limited to SBs that provide the most interesting white papers and/or a first come, first serve basis. Companies will be notified in advance of their selection to provide one-on-one briefings, the exact location of the event and of any briefing time and/or attendance limitations. To be considered for attendance, a SB must provide a white paper(s) (not to exceed 5 pages) describing their capabilities directly related to the Broad Areas of Interest/NAICs codes in this announcement. SBs may submit multiple papers but only one per Broad Area of Interest. SBs will be expected to brief the government the details of papers submitted during the SBID. Papers for purely commercial like services (including information technology, security, advisory and assistance services, & other management services) will not be considered for this targeted event. White papers are due no later than 21 Jul 2014. Submit questions about the Broad Areas of Interest white papers and the event to the points of contact listed below. Questions received may be answered via amendment(s) to this announcement if deemed relevant to all parties unless a specific request for privacy is included. Send white paper submissions & technical questions to Douglas Hoffelt at douglas.hoffelt.1@us.af.mil Send event venue questions to: Ms. Camille M. Piazza at afsbid@brtrc.com NAICS codes listed are not exclusive but were evaluated as a best fit. AFTC Broad Areas of Interest (- topic below) may fall under multiple NAICS codes to include NAICS 541712, Research & Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology). Air Force Test Center (AFTC) Broad Areas of Interest Flight Test T&E 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services - Spectrum Compression (This is an RF issue) - Cyber Vulnerability - Autonomous Systems Testing (T&E of integrated autonomous systems-of-systems) - RF Simulation 334511, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing - Micro transmitters and antennas 334220, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing GPS (global positioning system) equipment manufacturing - RF Simulation - Spectrum Compression Armament/Weapons T&E 334511, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument - Ability to Test Weapons' Target Acquisition/ID/Track - Weapon Scoring/Blast Analysis (I nstrumentation to track small, high speed fragments) - Instrumentation in GPS Denied Environment 336411, Aircraft Manufacturing - Target drones, aircraft, manufacturing and/or 336413, Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing - Targets, trailer type, aircraft, manufacturing - Tow targets, aircraft, manufacturing - Realistic Targets (Ground, Sea, and Air targets both fixed and moving) 332993, Ammunition (except Small Arms) Manufacturing and/or 336414, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing - Weapon Test Safety/Efficiency 334515, Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals, 334220, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing GPS (global positioning system) equipment manufacturing - Instrumentation in GPS Denied Environment Aerospace Ground T&E 336414, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, 334511, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing - Space Testing Environments 334513, Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables - Flow Diagnostics/Test Measurements 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services - Physics Based Modeling
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