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R -- NAVIGATION AND LANDING SYSTEMS TECHNICAL/ENINGEER SUPPORT SERVICES DUE 042895 POC Mr. Ralph Vallone, Technical Officer, AND-520, 202/287-8545, or Ms. Elisa Brown, Contract Specialist, ASU-310, 202/267-7692 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) intends to award a Technical/Engineering Support Services task order contract to Ohio Univerity for approximately 60 labor years over a 5-year period starting August 1, 1996 due to a lack of necessary recent capability and expertise from other available market sources. The scope of work that promotes such emphasis on capability and expertise includes, but is not limited to, the following National Airspace System (NAS) subsystems and related requirements: (1) Landing systems especially the modernizaation of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) through the replacement of old equipment and innovating application of current technology, the upgrading of the system at airports rated eligible for higher category II, III approaches, the investigation of anomalies in ILS system performance by flight testing and analytical modeling, measurement of ILS critical areas, improving the ground-based antenna arrays using antenna technology based on theory and research findings, investigation of ground-based tolerances and standards or being too stringent in comparison to airborne specified tolerances without comprising aircraft safety during landing, solving environmental problems affecting the quality of the ILS course, such as those due to multipath, snow cover, irregular terrain and man-made obstruction; (2) The Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range/Distance Measuring Equiment (VOR/DME) and the Tatical Air Navigation Equipment (TACAN), especially improving the VOR antenna system to reduce sensivity to poloration effects, performing field analysis to assess/improve guidance signal quality, and solving problems effecting the signal quality; (3) System colocation studies such as the analysis of the effects on ILS signals on colocating the Microwave Landing System (MLS) with ILS; (4) System automation, including integraing the ILS sybstem into the Remote Maintenance Montoring System (RMMS) so that equipment performance can be montoried, controlled and certified from centralized stations; (5) System engineering including the development, testing and impementation of new hardware systems for enhancing the performance of ILS sybstems; (6) Simulation and other omputer applications for analyzing system performance especially software develoopment, database development and data processing. Recognized eminence and experience with litigation in the instrument landing field and recent hands-on experience has been established for Ohio University as a result of a past market survey conducted in early 1990 and late 1991 and also frm their current performance under an existing support services' contract. In particular, the experience in the navigation and landing fields has been shown by Ohio University in the following critical areas: (A) The NAS subsystems and scope of work identified above (B) Air traffic control system operation and proceudres (c) Maintenance automation and mathematical modeling in both landing and Navigation systems (d) System engineering in landing system (e) Software engineering including modeling and simulaiton of landng and navigation system, and (f) Most importantly, facilities, equipemnt, and instrumented aircraft owned by the conractor before the contract award in order to perform, immediately, items as outlined in the scope of work above inclduing (I) a Category II Certified Test Aircraft Operator, (II) airprt facilities equipped with ILS subsystems testbeds capable of mounting experimental subsystems and (III) aircraft eqipped with fullfange of instruments capable of evaluating guidance signals with on-line processing of flight test data as well as evaluating experimental antennas. Sources who fell that they can meet the above requirmeents with recognized litigable eminence and recent experience shall submit a written Statement of Capability (SOC) on each of the 6 areas (A through F) outlined above. The SOC shall be submitted no later than April 28, 1995 to the Contract Specialist, Navigating and Landing Aids Branch, ASU-310, at the FAA. The SOC shall include contract reference number(s), name, address and telephone number of the Contracting Officer under which similar efforts were perfimred. The SOC will be limited to 30 pages. This synopsis is a notice of intent and does not constitute and IFB nor a RFP and is not to be contrued as a command by the governemnt. The FAA is not respongoble for and will not reimburse sources for any costs incurred in response to this notice.(0072)

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