Electronic Systems Center/AVK, Contracting Division, Command & Control Systems, 20 Schilling Circle, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2816

A -- NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MODEL (NASM) POC Marian Cameron, Contract Specialist, 617-377-6602; Major Jacques Hammann, Contracting Officer, 617-377-6601. Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA anticipates a competitive acquisition for the development of the National Air and Space Warfare Model (NASM), to be used by the United States Air Force to provide a realistic computer simulated environment for use by the Air Component Commanders, their staffs, and other organizations to educate, train, develop doctrine and tactics, formulate and assess operational plans, assess war fighting situations, define requirements, and provide operational input to the acquisition process. United States Air Force Program Management Directive (PMD) 2375 provides direction for the development of the National Air and Space Warfare Model (NASM). NASM will be developed as a computer-based simulation system composed of portable, interoperable, and reusable components within a flexible common framework to integrate representations of the full range of Air Force missions, which may stand alone or be tightly coupled with the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS). NASM will be flexible and extensible to incorporate additional functionality and evolve to address additional modeling and simulation user communities and operational needs. NASM must be able to provide a standalone Air Force training capability and also support the Air Force's joint training requirements. To support the joint training environment, NASM must interface with the JSIMS model and simulation. NASM will develop the required capability to meet the JSIMS initial operational capability (IOC) date of 1999. NASM will capitalize on the common services and applications developed under the JSIMS program. NASM will also make use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), Government off-the-shelf (GOTS), Government furnished items (GFI), and non-developmental items (NDI) to the maximum extent possible. NASM will interface with ''real-world'' C4I systems in their native message formats, to provide more realistic training in the users' natural environment. Contract efforts will include analysis and identification of software requirements, software development, software and hardware integration, and training. Eligible firms must be proficient in the areas of software development employing object oriented analysis, design and implementation, modeling and simulation with particular emphasis on training, distributed computer systems, and computer security. Experience with computer based training operations at: Battlestaff Training School (BTS), Warrior Preparation Center (WPC), Joint Training, Analysis and Simulation Center (JTASC), and other training and simulation centers is desired. The Government contemplates a five year an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity type contract. with a seven year period of performance is contemplated. Interested firms may request to be put on the solicitation mailing list by submitting a written request to the contract specialist listed above. Requests must indicate whether they are a large, small, disadvantaged, or women-owned concern and specify a contact person with their telephone number. Additionally, sources shall indicate if they are US or foreign owned/controlled. Interested firms shall submit their qualifications and capabilities within 30 days of this publication. Responses to this synopsis may include papers and/or information on products or past performance in the technical area of modeling and simulation. The response should be limited to fifty pages and should be delivered within forty-five days of initial synopsis publication. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute an IFB or RFP.a commitment by the Government to solicit offerors. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development 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 the proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Colonel Claude E. Messamore, Jr. at (617)377-5106. The Ombudsman should only be 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, or issues that require contractor confidentiality. (0209)

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