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A -- ENGINEERING SUPPORT OF ROME LABORATORY DIGITAL BEAMFORMING EXPERIMENTS SOL PR-FY7620957014 POC Patricia Forest, Contract Negotiator, 617-377-4019; Karen M. Stone, ESC/PKRC, Contracting Officer, 617-377-5914. Sources are sought for advanced development in support of the Antennas & Components Division (RL/ERA), Rome Laboratory Electromagnetics and Reliability Directorate, to provide development for specific tasking in the area of digital beamforming. The approach of this effort is to upgrade and offer a new design of a low sidelobe, analog beamformed linear array to serve as a test bed for algorithms that perform correction and compensation. In addition, it is estimated that a minimum of 50% of the tasks shall be performed on-site at Rome Laboratory's test facility in Ipswich, MA. Interested potential sources should respond by indicating their ability to meet the following screening criteria, of equal importance: (a) experience in digital hardware, (b) signal processing, (c) experience in parallel processor digital hardware specifically for neural networks, (d) participate in reviews, and prepare and present material to satisfy program design and readiness reviews. The period of performance will be 12 months beginning in the 4th quarter of FY95. Offerors interested in documenting their capabilities to perform this work should reference PR FY7620-95-07014 in responding to the Deputy for Small Business, Attn.: ESC/BC, Mr. Alan Hart, 275 Randolph Road, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2818. Information on file at ESC/BC must be supplemented to document the capabilities in the above stated areas. Organizations not registered must submit complete qualifying information. Offerors should list persons from customer firms whom the Air Force may contact to verify applicable work experience and performance. Firms should also indicate their status if qualified as socially or economically disadvantaged. Each offeror responding to this synopsis is requested to submit with its reply, a name and telephone for a point of contact. The Government will solicit those firms meeting the screening criteria in this synopsis. Any offeror initially judged to be unqualified will be provided a copy of the solicitation upon request and any offer such a firm might submit will be evaluated without prejudice. An Ombudsamn has been apponted to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Colonel Thomas J. Mackey at (617)-377-5106. The Ombudsman should be only contacted with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes, does not constitute an IFB or RFP, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the government. Closing date for submission of responses is thirty (30) days from the publication date of this notice. See Numbered Note(s): 25. (0090)

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