MODIFICATION
58 -- Video Data Link Spectrum Relocation Handheld Development
- Notice Date
- 5/4/2016
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 334220
— Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFLCMC/PK - WPAFB (includes PZ, WL, WW, WI, WN, WK, LP, WF, WK), 2275 D Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433-7218, United States
- ZIP Code
- 45433-7218
- Solicitation Number
- FA8629-15-R-2474
- Archive Date
- 10/29/2015
- Point of Contact
- Joseph A. Plessinger, Phone: 9376568205
- E-Mail Address
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joseph.plessinger@us.af.mil
(joseph.plessinger@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- UPDATE: 4 May 2016 A System Requirement Document is available upon request to Government contractors in accordance with DoD "For Official Use Only (FOUO)" Guidelines and Directives. Additionally, MATLAB and GNU Radio implementations of three waveforms: 466ER, Tactical, and VNW are available upon request to Government contractors for Government work. Requests for the above are to be submitted to the parties listed below. HandheldVideo Data Link (VDL) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) PROGRAM SUMMARY: This Request for Information (RFI) is issued for information purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation or commit the government to award a contract now or in the future. Submitting information for this RFI is voluntary, and participants will not be compensated. Your response to this RFI will be treated as information only. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses to this announcement or the Government's use of such information. This request does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. No funds have been authorized, appropriated, or received for this effort. The information provided may be used by the AF in developing its acquisition strategy, statement of work/statement of objectives, and performance specifications. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained within their response. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), Battlefield Airmen Branch (BA) is soliciting information to identify sources to provide Engineering Manufacturing and Development (EMD), production, and sustainment capabilities for Dismounted VDL systems. The Dismounted VDL program was approved to enhance dismounted system capability and to address loss of spectrum, due to spectrum auction. Bandwidths 1695-1710 and 1755-1780MHz were auctioned in L-Band, and bandwidths 2025-2110MHz were expanded in the lower portion of S-Band. VDL capability improves Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance (ISR) essential to close air support, Command & Control (C2), air superiority, target identification, and situational awareness (SA). The Dismounted VDL system's overall concept is to receive, transmit, and display secure and unsecure FMV and annotated images to and from C2 nodes (Dismounted, Mounted, Airborne) via a small, lightweight, ruggedized, and reliable receiver or transceiver. The system will be operator-carried for long durations on limited battery power in a full spectrum of environmental and combat conditions. Minimum Dismounted VDL Requirements This system is required to possess Type 1 encryption capability through the use of NSA cryptocore modernization (CCM) and Government approved AES encryption. The Government desires this system to be depot-level repairable. The system must be interoperable with 466ER, Tactical, VNW, FM analog, DDL, STD-CDL and BE-CDL waveforms. The system must support UHF, L-Band, S-Band, C-Band, and KU-Band and support new S-Band frequencies of 2025 to 2110 MHz. The system must be water-resistant and ruggedized. The government anticipates allocating 10 to 15 million dollars to this effort or efforts. The government is interested in evolutionary increases in capability, as well as reductions in Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP). This may culminate in multiple development efforts and contracts; both for an advanced capability device, as well as for a very low SWaP, receive-only device. 1. In addition to meeting the above requirements, provide a technology development roadmap for Dismounted VDL, for receive-only and transceiver systems, for the next 5 years. 2. The system requirements for the transceiver may require networking capability in either a mesh or hub-spoke structure. 3. Identify other peripherals envisioned to be necessary to utilize your system? 4. Identify GPS capability you can provide within the stated timeline? 5. Describe the user interface of any proposed system, including the Web-based graphical user interface, if applicable. 6. What improvements in SWaP can you achieve in this timeline, and how? Sustainment 1. Describe your training concept. 2. What is the maintenance concept to include software updates? 3. What built-in test/diagnostic capabilities do you envision? 4. Describe your approach for repair and diagnostic capabilities of the system. System Quality 1. What mean time between failure (MTBF) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) have you achieved in previous similar products? Capabilities Package The capabilities package should be brief and concise, yet clearly demonstrate an ability to meet the stated requirements. The package shall include the following information and address the questions below: Company/Institute Name: Address: Point of Contact (to include phone number and email address) : CAGE Code: Web Page URL: Size of business pursuant to NAICS Code Insert 6 digit code and title here, size standard Insert size standard here. Based on the above NAICS Code, state whether your company is: Small Business (Yes / No) Self-Certified or Third Party Certified Women-Owned Small Business (Yes / No) Self-Certified or Third Party Certified Economically Disadvantaged Women- Owned Small Business (Yes/No) Self-Certified or Third Party Certified HUBZone Certified (Yes / No) Self-Certified or Third Party Certified Veteran Owned Small Business (Yes / No) Self-Certified or Third Party Certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (Yes / No) Self-Certified or Third Party Certified 8(a) Certified (Yes / No) Self-Certified or Third Party Certified SBA Certification Date: ____________ SBA Graduation Date: ______________ The NAICS code for this requirement, if applicable to the company's capabilities, should be included in the company's NAICS code listing in SAM. Is your company domestically or foreign owned (if foreign, please indicate the country of ownership). Respondents should also state whether they are interested in being a prime contractor for this requirement or a subcontractor. Responses, communications and additional considerations: One (1) paper copies should be submitted to the program office as outlined below. Respondents shall limit submissions to 20 pages or less and should include technical and descriptive text to provide sufficient detail on production and sustainment capabilities. The submitted documentation becomes the property of the U.S. Government and will not be returned. Respondents who submit proprietary data shall clearly mark the data with appropriate markings on the cover sheet and on each applicable page. Any proprietary data submitted may be handled by contract support services personnel who have signed Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA). Any material that is not marked proprietary will be considered publicly-releasable. Any proprietary information received in response to this request will be properly protected from any unauthorized disclosure. The Government will not use proprietary information submitted from any one firm to establish the capability and requirements for any future systems acquisition, so as to not inadvertently restrict competition. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI. A determination not to compete this action based on responses received is solely within the discretion of the Government. E-mail copies of the paper submittal will be accepted. Responses shall be received by 4:00pm (est), on 12 October 2015. Paper/e-mail submittals should be sent to the below contacts within AFLCMC/WISK. Broad industry participation for this Sources Sought is encouraged. U.S. and non-U.S. firms are permitted to respond to this Dismounted VDL System Sources Sought. Responses to questions from interested parties will be promptly answered and posted on Fed Biz Ops (FBO), unless some release of proprietary information is involved or the answer addresses a question peculiar to a company or that company's response. This notice may be updated as additional information becomes available. Please check the FBO site for updates to this announcement and register to receive e-mail notices of any updates to the FBO announcement. For more information on this Sources Sought, please contact the AF POCs below. E-mail communications are preferred. Please note that all prospective contractors must be registered in System for Award Management (SAM) database to be awarded a Department of Defense contract. To learn more about this SAM requirement and how to register, please visit the SAM internet website at https://www.sam.gov/portal/SAM/#1#1. Please submit all responses to the below POCs: Joseph Plessinger, Contracting Officer AFLCMC/WISK (Bldg 46) 1895 5th St Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7233 Contracting Officer, Joseph.Plessinger@us.af.mil Programmatic: Captain Jason Craycraft, VDL Program Manager (937) 656-8118 jason.craycraft.3@us.af.mil
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