SOURCES SOUGHT
18 -- FA9453-17-S-0004 Next-Generation Space Environment Technologies (NSET) - Sources Sought Notice NSET
- Notice Date
- 3/30/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- 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, AFRL/RVKV - Kirtland AFB, 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 87117, United States
- ZIP Code
- 87117
- Solicitation Number
- FA9453-17-S-0004-NSET
- Point of Contact
- Francis M. Eggert, Phone: 5058467603, Shannon Falconi, Phone: 5058533237
- E-Mail Address
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Francis.Eggert@us.af.mil, shannon.falconi@us.af.mil
(Francis.Eggert@us.af.mil, shannon.falconi@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- AFRL/RVKVB Sources Sought tracking number: FA9453-17-S-0004 Next-Generation Space Environment Technologies (NSET) SUSPENSE: 19 APRIL 2017, 3:00 P.M. MST 30 March 2017 SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS AFRL/RVKVB Sources Sought tracking number: FA9453-17-S-0004 Next-Generation Space Environment Technologies (NSET) SYNOPSIS: The Air Force Research Laboratory, Battlespace Environment Division, is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to determine the availability of industry and academic sources with the capabilities and capacity to provide research and development with respect to Next-Generation Space Environment Technologies (NSET) based upon the Research and Development work, which is currently on-going per Contract FA9453-15-C-0050 awarded 8 April 2015 for Integrated Space Environment Technologies (ISET). The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541712. NOTE!! THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. This notice is for planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. If you have any technical or contracting question(s), please send your written questions via an e-mail to the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist only. All technical questions will be forwarded to the Program Manager who will respond through the Contracting Officer or Specialist. Note, no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. AFRL is seeking potential offerors with the capability to provide applied research and development and advanced technology development activities enabling next-generation space environment technologies for the joint warfighter. The Government's objective is to build upon the current state of the art, expand where necessary the current state of the science, and ultimately to advance the Air Force's operational capabilities to predict, specify, mitigate and exploit the space environment. In particular, this effort will perform cross-disciplinary research and development to integrate models, data and tools across the solar, heliosphere, magnetosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere domains to meet Air Force needs, including the investigation, design, toward prototyping, and evaluation of new measurement techniques and software tools, and the definition of interfaces for those capabilities to the larger Air Force toolset. The results of this work will be captured in reports and data sets key to advancing the Government's science and technology efforts in this area. This effort does not represent separate, discipline scientific and engineering activities. The Government's existing and planned contracts and in-house research teams have produced and continue to produce substantial discipline knowledge and technologies. The objectives of this effort relate to the interdisciplinary development and integration of those products and products of the greater research community leading to innovative new space environment awareness, mitigation and exploitation capabilities. In such a body of work, the various research activities are expected to be tightly coupled, with requirements from one aspect driving scientific investigation of another, with the combined results feeding into novel technologies. These new capabilities must be cost-effective, and new ideas that build on existing capabilities and investments will likely prove advantageous. It is anticipated that this effort will require access to and processing of classified information. A DD254 will be required; the successful offeror will need the appropriate security clearance prior to award. Responsive offerors will demonstrate depth of knowledge in and breadth of knowledge across the relevant discipline areas, experience in integrating research across those disciplines, and experience in the development of advanced technology from those integrated results, as evidenced by past projects. Professional software development capability and experience are also required, as is experience with space environment sensor design, data handling, processing and analysis of results from space flight experiments. Information regarding your organization's capabilities and experience must be in writing and should include information relevant and specific to the technical areas below. It should address each of the following qualifications: (1) Experience: An outline of previous similar projects, specific experience in performing the items listed below; (2) Personnel: Name, professional qualification and specific experience of scientists and/or technical personnel who may be assigned as project director and other key positions; and (3) Any other specific and relevant information about this particular area of procurement that would improve the government's knowledge of interested organization's' capabilities. Interested organizations must demonstrate and document, in any capability statements submitted, extensive experience with and the ability to perform the below tasks. Organizations should clearly demonstrate the capability to administer and coordinate interrelated tasks in an effective and timely manner. Documentation may include, but not be limited to, contracts both Government and commercial, identification of the organization for whom the work was performed (include government points of contact both technical and contractual), references, (i.e. names, titles, telephone numbers), and any other information serving to document the organization's capability, e.g., awards, commendations, etc. The successful offeror will be required to: Conduct both applied research (6.2) and advanced technology development (6.3) as part of an integrated research effort focused on advancing the Air Force's capabilities to predict, specify, mitigate and exploit the space environment. Achieving this objective will require coordinated, simultaneous activity in several interrelated areas, such as the research, development, toward prototyping, and evaluation of advanced techniques for the sensing, collection, transport, processing, and storage of terrestrial and space system geophysical data needed to support novel capabilities, including the planning, scheduling and evaluation of collection schemes. Such efforts should advance the Government's existing techniques, as well as enable new capabilities, and must specifically include the exploitation of the complex AFRL Demonstrations and Science Experiments, Very Low Frequency Particle Mapper, ESPA-Augmented GEO Laboratory Experiment, and other upcoming space missions addressing elements of the space environment. Using such data sets, the effort should conduct research, development, design, toward prototyping, and evaluation of integrated space environment modeling techniques that exploit multiple measurement platforms, phenomena and environmental domains to provide integrated, statistical predictions and specifications needed to support novel capabilities. The efforts should advance the Government's prediction and specification ability, as well as providing new capabilities. Specific target applications include AFRL's AE9/AP9/SPM radiation belt climatology, assimilative outer zone electron and solar proton cutoff models, multi-data type scintillation model, total electron content, solar UV/EUV and RF specification models, flare prediction models, predictive solar wind models, the Air Force Coverage Analysis Program, and wave-particle interaction simulations. The integrated modeling techniques should be driven and exercised by next generation space environment impact prediction, visualization and attribution technologies that combine, as appropriate, solar, solar wind, magnetosphere and ionosphere observational data, integrated environmental models, and engineering data to provide enhanced awareness, predictive capabilities, and mitigation and exploitation courses of action. This research, development, design, toward prototyping, and evaluation effort should enhance the Government's existing space system awareness and planning capabilities, as well as enable new capabilities. These new technologies must in turn consider compatibility and interoperability with the larger Air Force toolset for situational awareness and command and control. Specific types of impacts include upsets, degradation or interference to space vehicles or their payloads and radio frequency systems, to include communication and surveillance applications. Gains over the current state-of-practice at this end of the utility chain are the ultimate goal of this work. Submission Instructions: Any proprietary information should be marked accordingly. Interested organizations that believe they possess the capability and capacity necessary to successfully undertake the tasks described above are invited to submit their capability statement via email or standard mail by 3 pm MDT on 19 APRIL 2017. If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, NAICS codes, and size and type of ownership for the organization as well as any claimed socio-economic status (e.g. 8(a) certified program participant, small disadvantaged, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran owned, HUB Zone or women-owned); and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. Submit Statement of Capabilities to the personnel outlined below. All work performed under the contract will be limited to U.S. citizens only. Det 8 AFRL/RVKVB Attn: Contracting Officer Mr. Francis M. Eggert 3550 Aberdeen Ave Bldg 570, Ste 1160 Kirtland AFB, NM 87117 (505) 846-7603 phone Francis.eggert@us.af.mil Det 8 AFRL/RVKVB Det 8 AFRL/RVKVB Attn: Contract Specialist Ms. Shannon Falconi 3550 Aberdeen Ave Bldg 570, Ste 1160 Kirtland AFB, NM 87117 (505) 853-3237 phone Shannon.falconi@us.af.mil AFRL/RVBXR AFRL/RVBXR Attn: Program Manager, Dr. Michael Starks Kirtland AFB, NM 87117
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- Place of Performance
- Address: AFRL/RVKVB; 3550 Aberdeen Ave; Building 570; Suite: 1160, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 87123, United States
- Zip Code: 87123
- Zip Code: 87123
- Record
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