SOURCES SOUGHT
59 -- Common Missile Warning System (CMWS), AN/AAR-57 and an Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasure (ATIRCM) System, AN/ALQ-212, spares, and engineering and technical services
- Notice Date
- 1/31/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334419
— Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - RSA (W58RGZ) Aviation, SPARKMAN CIR BLDG 5303, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, 35898-0000, United States
- ZIP Code
- 35898-0000
- Solicitation Number
- W58RGZ-17-R-CMWS
- Archive Date
- 3/17/2017
- Point of Contact
- Stefanie Polk, Phone: 2568425034
- E-Mail Address
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stefanie.f.polk.civ@mail.mil
(stefanie.f.polk.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Program Management Office Aircraft Survivability Equipment (PMO ASE) is seeking sources and information for a Common Missile Warning System (CMWS), AN/AAR-57 and an Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasure (ATIRCM) System, AN/ALQ-212, spares, and engineering and technical services to include contractor logistic support programs. The PMO ASE is anticipating a limited CMWS and ATIRCM systems/spares production to support system sustainment and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. PMO ASE is also seeking sources to provide technical, engineering, software, and logistics services for both CMWS & ATIRCM over the next five (5) years. ATIRCM services will be required upon the receipt of valid services requirements. The CMWS systems shall be installed on rotary and fixed-wing aircraft to detect the launch and flight of Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs) and provide audible and visual warnings to the aircrew. The CMWS must be integrated to meet the flight and operational environment requirements of the DOD's rotary wing aircraft such as UH/MH-60, CH/MH-47, and AH-64A/D. No changes to existing configurations will be permitted. System integrity shall be maintained. The CMWS must be integrated to meet the flight and operational environment requirements of fixed-wing aircraft, such as RC-12, C-12, and UC-35. The CMWS includes the Improved Countermeasure Dispenser (ICMD) that activates expendables to provide the missile countermeasures. The ICMD shall have the capability to monitor munitions firings upon a system or manual cue. The ICMD is capable of being loaded with, and dispensing three or more types of expendables, such as flares, chaff and smoke/aerosols. The CMWS shall be composed of the following components; an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) supporting up to six (6) Electro Optical Missile Sensors (EOMS) and up to four (4) ICMDs where an ICMD is defined as one (1) sequencer and two (2) smart dispenser payload modules. The ATIRCM shall be used in-conjunction with CMWS, and consist of two (2) IR-Jam Heads, two (2) MBL IR-Jam Lasers, two (2) Optical Couplers, and two (2) Jam Head Control Units used on the CH-47D/F aircraft. The CMWS shall maintain established interfaces with the UH/MH/HH-60, CH/MH-47, AH-64, RC/UC/C-12 and UC-35 aircrafts and do not require unique configurations, or software loads, for installation on aircraft of the same type. The systems must be fully compatible and interoperable with existing systems without any changes to system configurations. Interested sources must be able to provide Form, Fit and Functional equivalent Shop Replaceable Units (SRU) spares for the AN/AAR-57's already fielded to the DOD. The engineering service is anticipated to include, engineering study and analysis, advanced IR missile jam code development, system software development and sustainment, logistics, system integration and installation, and testing support services. The effort is envisioned to provide support for all CMWS systems already fielded as well as CMWS systems that will be produced within the follow-on production contract. The interested source shall support a Contractor Logistic Support effort involving Field Service Representation, Engineering, Software, Documentation and Training, and Deployment support. Depot Repair and Maintenance of the AN/ALQ-212(V) and the AN/AAR-57(V) during the same time period of the spares production contract are also anticipated requirement over the next 5 years. The contractor shall have the potential of supporting approximately 2400 CMWS and 83 ATIRCM in the field concurrently. The Government does not possess verified and validated Technical Data Packages for the AN/AAR-57 or the AN/ALQ-212, suitable for competition at this time. Any interested sources shall be required to provide written details of their experience with the similar systems technology, details of complex equivalent production capabilities meeting that of the anticipated quantities. The CMWS is considered critical mission-essential equipment used abroad by all rotary-wing and most fixed-wing aircraft. It is the core element of the Suite of Integrated Infrared Countermeasures (SIIRCM) concept and is a U.S. Army Acquisition Category 1 (ACAT 1) Program. The CMWS Program is satisfying the Army's requirements for enhanced aircraft survivability against IR guided threat missile systems. The CMWS is the Aviation infrared survivability capability provider for the Future Force. It will also complement, supplement and interface with other ASE to provide broad-spectrum platform protection. Enhancements will continue to significantly reduce aircraft and aircrew casualties and permit extended operations within battle space environments populated with threat missiles. The CMWS configurations vary by platform; currently, there are twelve (12) system versions. The CMWS performs missile detection and classification, false alarm rejection, and missile declaration functions. The CMWS also sends a missile alert signal to on-board avionics and other ASE. In turn, visual and aural warnings to the aircrew are provided by on-board avionics systems. Commands are issued to dispenser systems to eject decoys to provide for expendable countermeasures against an incoming infrared missile. Each EOMS collects in-band electromagnetic radiation, converts it to electrical signals, and supplies these signals to the ECU. The ECU analyzes this data to determine the existence of a missile threat. If a threat exists, the ECU transmits missile threat messages to the APR-39 for further processing, threat display, and audio cueing or the ECU transmits audio directly to the Inter-Communications System (ICS) and displays the threat via the Control Indicator (CI) or Multi- Function Display (MFD). Both the visual and aural indications provide threat type and relative position information to the pilots. If the ECU determines that a missile launch has occurred, it supplies a command signal to the sequencers. The sequencers process the Dispense Command Signal and sends a flare launch command to the dispensers, firing a flare solution. Providing the CMWS is armed, a flare solution will dispense automatically in an attempt to counter the incoming missile associated with that interaction. The Digital Control Display Unit (DCDU) for CI, located in the cockpit, provides both the pilot and co-pilot with interface to the CMWS. The DCDU and CI display system status information, Improved Countermeasure Dispenser (ICMD) inventory, and software version number. In the event of an ECU failure, the MODE switch on the DCDU can be set to BYPASS to allow manual dispensing of munitions. The ATIRCM System's (AN/ALQ-212) jam head is cued after the CMWS detects a missile that has been fired at the aircraft. ATIRCM tracks the trajectory of the missile in relation to the aircraft using its IR tracking system. Once the missile is tracked, ATIRCM emits an infrared laser beam to disorient the missile's infrared seeker, deflecting it off course. This allows the aircraft to safely escape a missile attack. ATIRCM has recently been approved for export by the DOD and FMS of ATIRCM hardware and integration services are anticipated over the next five (5) years. This effort would be a follow-on contract to W58RGZ-13-D-0245 which is an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract utilizing Firm-Fixed Price delivery orders for CMWS and ATIRCM hardware and Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) task orders for the AN/AAR-57(V) Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) System Engineering, Technical, and Logistics Support services for both the CMWS and OT-255/ALQ-212(V) ATIRCM Systems. RESPONSES: All interested parties should submit a written response to this posting no later than 02 March 2017 at 1200 (Central) to stefanie.f.polk.civ@mail.mil. Phone calls will not be accepted. Responses shall be limited to 15 one-sided pages. Submissions shall be capable of being printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with one inch margin (top, bottom, left and right) and a 12 point Arial or Times New Roman font. Line spacing shall be set at no less than single space. Tables, drawings and header/footer information shall be 10 point Arial font or larger. For tables and drawings, landscape orientation is permitted. Microsoft Office Professional 2000 and PowerPoint 2000 or later shall be used to create the files. All graphics shall be compatible with MS PowerPoint 2000. If any of the material provided contains proprietary information, please mark and identify disposition instructions (submitted data will not be returned). Responses should include, but is not limited to the following: a) Company History: A one page history to include previous major products and primary customer base. b) Past Experience Information: List your company's experience within the last five years for work of a similar size, type, and complexity as described above. Include the following information: Contract Number, type of contract, Dollar value of contract, Government Point of Contact with knowledge of performance (POC must be current and reachable)
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