SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Intent to Announce Request for Prototype Proposals (RPP) under the Spectrum Forward Other Transaction Agreement (W15QKN-21-9-5599)
- Notice Date
- 4/14/2021 8:28:32 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 54171
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life SciencesT
- Contracting Office
- W6QK ACC-PICA PICATINNY ARSENAL NJ 07806-5000 USA
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN-21-Z-0GXH
- Archive Date
- 09/30/2021
- Description
- Please note that this Special Notice is for information purposes only and does not constitute a request for proposal or call for white paper. A project award will not be awarded from this announcement. The U.S. Army Contracting Command-New Jersey (ACC-NJ), Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000, has entered into a Prototype OTA with the NSC. The term of this agreement is not to exceed five (5) years from the date of award, 15 December 2020. The value of the projects awarded under the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall not exceed $2.5 Billion. Under this acquisition vehicle, the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)) in coordination with the NSC will carry out a coordinated research and development Program designed to accelerate enhancing mission effectiveness, streamlining and upgrading communications infrastructure, improving efficient spectrum utilization, and advancing microelectronics to enable protected and resilient networks. �The focus of this OTA includes the following Technology Objectives: �������������� Accelerate maturation, integration, adaptation, and deployment of 4th Industrial Revolution (e.g. augmented reality, big data analytics, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, etc.) and digital technology enhancements that contribute to dominant operational capability; �������������� Accelerate maturation, adaptation, and deployment of dual-use information communications infrastructure and network enhancements that contribute to operational capability and commercially available applications; �������������� Accelerate and support development/adoption of prototype policy, regulation, and standards that enable effective, coexistent military and commercial use of congested spectrum; �������������� Provide for system protection and resiliency against adversarial action while in homeland and/or deployed status; �������������� Cooperatively, dynamically, and/or cognitively share spectrum with other spectrum dependent systems operating in the same frequency band without causing interference; �������������� Operate effectively in spectrum environments that are congested with users in co-located bands in a manner resilient to interference; �������������� Operate in spite of adversary attempts to deny spectrum utilization while in homeland and/or deployed status; �������������� Operate in spite of adversary attempts to disrupt and disable spectrum dependent systems; and �������������� Operate in spite of adversary penetration, compromise, or exploitation of networks or systems. The NSC membership possesses a collective expertise in the following areas to enable enhanced operational capability for systems that transmit and receive in the electromagnetic spectrum environment: Ubiquitous Connectivity; Cognitive Spectrum Access & Sharing; Cybersecurity; Radio Frequency-Free Space Optics Cooperative Systems; Autonomous Systems (Ground/Air/Maritime); Internet of Things (Narrow Band/Critical/Massive); Electronic Warfare; Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); Software Defined Radios/Networking/Architectures; Radar Systems; Digital Signal Processing; Microelectronics; Software Reconfigurability; Nanotechnology; Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence; Autonomy/Robotics; Biotechnology; Big Data Analytics; Edge and Cloud Computing; Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality; Location Detection; 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing; and 5th generation (5G) information communications technologies, products, and services including the use of zero trust. The consortium is comprised of a well-balanced and uniquely qualified mixture of traditional contractors, non-traditional contractors, utility producers, investment firms, non-governmental organizations, and academia, representing the vast majority of the key players in the industry. The purpose of this announcement is to provide industry in general advanced notification of Government intent. The Government intends to announce multiple Request for Prototype Proposals (RPP) for execution of project award(s) in support of electromagnetic spectrum related research areas to the NSC. Only members of the NSC in good standing are permitted to submit proposals in response to a given RPP. The NSC is an open consortium with� low barriers for membership. Any interested company, academic institution, or contractor can become a member and join the consortium to widen knowledge and technical expertise to continue to advance in technologies and meet Government needs. The Government shall determine which research and development endeavors to pursue and projects to fund. The Government shall provide the NSC calls for proposals and the NSC, through its authorized agent, shall make those calls available to NSC Members who will then decide whether to submit proposals in response to such calls and, if so, will prepare their individual proposal(s) or will individually establish a team to prepare a team proposal(s). The Government shall be solely responsible for evaluation and selection of proposals for project funding from among the proposals submitted. Once it receives notification of selection of a project for funding, the NSC by its agent will enter into a Project Agreement with the NSC member entity or team whose proposal was selected by the Government through this competitive process. The NSC agent shall execute and administer the award and Project Agreement and the Government's designated Technical Manager will supervise the technical work performed by the NSC Member(s) whose proposals are selected for funding by the Government. Any issued Request for Prototype Proposal (RPP) will clearly indicate whether a follow-on production contract or transaction is contemplated. For more information interested Parties can visit the consortium website at http://www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/. Projects to be solicited under the OTA in FY�21 are as follows: Multiband Control Channel Architecture (MICCA): The Multiband Control Channel Architecture effort is a piece of the automated spectrum ecosystem that will enable dynamic spectrum access for large force exercises and other spectrum intensive scenarios. It will leverage Machine-to-Machine (M2M) protocols and interfaces to enable near-real-time command, control, and communications.� MICCA is a multi-band control channel to issue real-time spectrum operating parameters and usage data to and from capable spectrum-dependent systems (SDS) during exercises such as those conducted for the Air Combat Training System (ACTS). The ultimate goal of MICCA is to enable the flexible spectrum access and spectrum operations agility by developing a standardized method for distributing spectrum parameters, data products, and related control messages. This will allow for �closed loop� spectrum operations in near real time. Operational Spectrum Comprehension, Analytics, and Response (OSCAR): The goal of the Operational Spectrum Comprehension, Analytics, and Response effort is to provide advanced spectrum management capabilities to the incumbent systems in the AWS-3 bands, however, the OSCAR prototype will be applicable to all spectrum being managed on range so as to not fragment tool suites for Installation Managers. OSCAR will provide the spectrum management tools, workflows, and sensor network necessary to increase spectrum utilization and improve range spectrum management.� This project will create a software application with unified graphical user interface, automated workflows, sensor network, and extensible framework needed at testing and training ranges for aerial combat training to ensure that spectrum is available when and where needed for the AWS-3 impacted systems and incumbent systems. Risk-Informed Spectrum Access (RISA): The objective of the Risk-Informed Spectrum Access effort is to develop and demonstrate a set of prototype spectrum access planning, management and operational tools that provide the capability to identify, assess and reduce systemic risk in SDSs, both initially during planning stages, as well as in an online manner throughout the mission. These tools will have the potential to be employed in legacy systems as well as infrastructure-based (e.g., DoD test and training ranges) and infrastructure-free (e.g., tactical edge) spectrum access systems. Specifically, the RISA effort will produce risk-informed baseline spectrum sharing rules that address issues such as exclusion zones, maximum transmit powers, and boundary conditions, that allow for efficient spectrum sharing across legacy, directed as well as dynamic spectrum sharing systems. This would be combined with tools (and algorithms) that provide real-time situational awareness and risk assessment / mitigation at run-time to reduce the situational uncertainty encountered by the spectrum access systems and adjust their permitted behavior accordingly. Thus, the adaptive systems may increase their efficiency, while reducing the overall risk. This development effort will be modular so that these tools can be incorporated into the inner workings of spectrum access systems where applicable, regardless of spectrum sharing architectures in order to create common operating picture of spectrum situational awareness.� The RISA project will identify, evaluate, develop, and integrate high performance models for assessing and predicting the state of the electromagnetic operating environment (EMOE) for the sake of producing estimates of risk associated with coexistence of SDSs in a given operational scenario.�
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