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A -- MUNITIONS TELEMETRY REQUIREMENTS STUDY SOL MNK 96-028 POC Stacey Darhower, (904) 882-4294, Ext 3523, Contract Specialist, or Jean Pulley, (904) 882-4294, Ext 3402, Contracting Officer. The Assessment and Instrumentation Division of Wright Laboratory's Armament Directorate is contemplating the award of a 18-month program for a microcircuit construction study with the goal of establishing a technology that enables the construction of wireless instrumentation circuits for munitions operations and test. The sponsor's objective is to develop shock survivable microcircuit construction techniques (surface mount and multi-chip module) for baseband mixed signal and radio frequency applications. Consideration of all elements of these circuits, including substrates, components, power sources, oscillators, and connectors is required. These techniques will eventually be used to build circuits for use in instruments for battle damage assessment, fuze testing and warhead testing for hard target penetrators, soft target attack munitions, and other extreme environment instrumentation applications. This contract will emphasize the theoretical aspects of the study of electro-mechanical properties of microcircuit structures in the presence of severe shock, temperature, vibration, and acceleration. An empirical study of the problem will be conducted by the sponsor in parallel to the contracted effort. The sponsor will use a hybrid circuit assembly facility at Eglin AFB to develop experiments and to evaluate the contractor's results. The contracted effort shall begin with a definition of the environments expected for hard target penetrators, and warhead casing tests, warhead payload tests, and fuzing tests for each integrating concept. Government data will be furnished to baseline this task. General models shall be developed for each application (e.g. bomb baseplates, casings, fuzewells, tailkits). Models shall be constructed for elementary circuit elements (wirebonds, epoxy bonds, semiconductors, ceramics, substrate materials, enclosures) and electrical/mechanical/thermal failure mechanisms predicted. Models for circuit constructs shall be developed and performance predicted. Promising construction techniques shall be recommended. A cost plus fixed fee contract with an approximate value of $500,000 is envisioned. Research and Development Streamlined Contracting Procedures (RDSCP) apply to this acquisition in accordance with DFARS 235.70. A standard request for proposal (RFP) will not be issued and award without discussions is contemplated. The complete solicitation is scheduled for release on or about 11 April 96 and will appear in the Commerce Business Daily. Proposals will be due 30 days after issuance of solicitation. It is anticipated that award will occur in July 96. Firms having applicable interest who did not respond to the Sources Sought synposis should submit capability and background particulars in accordance with Numbered Note 25 to WL/MNK, Eglin AFB FL 32542-6810, Attn: Stacey Darhower. Foreign sources are excluded from this effort. Prospective sources must have a facility clearance of up to the SECRET level. Responses to this synopsis must be received within 15 days from date of publication. Firms responding to this synopsis should state whether they are or are not a small business concern as defined in FAR 52.219-1 (Size standard is 500, SIC Code 8731). The Air Force reserves the right to consider a small business set-aside based on responses hereto. This requirement may be pursued sole source if the Air Force determines that only one source is capable of satisfying the requirements. For further information concerning technical aspects, you are encouraged to contact Ken Williamson, WL/MNSI, Eglin AFB FL 32542-6810, (904) 882-5767, ext 3229. For contractual information contact Ms Stacey Darhower, Contract Specialist, or Ms Jean Pulley, Contracting Officer, WL/MNK, Eglin AFB FL 32542-6810, (904) 882-4294, ext 3423 and 3402, respectively. An ombudsman has been established for this acquisition. The only purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious concerns from potential offerors when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate his concern during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. All potential offerors should use established channels to request information, pose questions, and voice concerns before resorting to the Ombudsman. Potential offerors are invited to contact ASC Eglin's Ombudsman, Colonel Timothy R. Kinney at (904) 882-9051 with serious concerns only. See numbered Note 25. (0081)

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