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A -- AJ92 DEVELOP INTERFACE DESIGN FOR TELEPRESENCE MICROSCOPY COLLABORATORY SOL 53SBNB760249 DUE 080897 POC Linda Shariati, Contracting Officer, (301)975-5053 WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage, http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST Contracts Office, Contract@nist.gov. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to procure on a sole source basis the services of Dr. Nestor Zaluzec, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago for: The development of a GUI interface plan which meets the requirements stated herein; A platform independent GUI which facilitates remote user TPM collaborations using industry standard communication protocols; and A platform independent electronic notebook which can be used to record, store, and document microscopy/microanalysis information. NIST is interested in implementing the concept of remote TelePresence applied to scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and microanalysis for the National Automated Manufacturing Testbed (NAMT). This work will institute a design study and implement the results into an interactive interface for remote TelePresence collaborations. The laboratory implementation shall be designed in a manner which will allow platform independent access to electron microscopy and microanalysis facilities within selected programs at NIST. In collaboration with investigators at NIST, Dr. Zaluzec shall visit and study the microscopy and microanalysis facilities needs at NIST for TelePresence. He shall document the operating modes and procedures within those facilities and design an interactive, platform independent, graphical user interface (GUI) for remote collaborations. In consultation with NIST personnel, this interface will be evaluated for its efficacy, iterated and then converted into a NIST specific platform independent graphical user interface for TelePresence microscopy (TPM). This user interface will be tested at NIST within the SEM metrology project of the Nanometer Scale Metrology Program of the Precision Engineering Division (PED) and be modified as necessary. Once the TPM collaboration interface is operational, a second phase of the project shall begin and focus upon the development of the local implementation of an electronic notebook for testing the concepts of storage, retrival and archiving of images, data, and text which are produced by the TPM Collaboratory. The Contractor shall provide a Key Personnel that meets the following minimum requirements: Published papers in the area of TelePresence Collaboratory concept; successful implementation of such capability in a microanalysis laboratory and in a similar platform independent manner as described above; and, identification of an Internet site from which the facility and expertise of this implementation can be observed. NIST requires the contract be completed within one year with the possibility of an extension of services in compliance with FAR 52.217-8. No solicitation will be issued. Requests for a copy of a solicitation package for this acquisition will be disregarded. A request for quotation will be verbally requested from Dr. Nestor Zaluzec and the anticipated award date is on or around August 8, 1997. In accordance with FAR 5.207(e)(3), Numbered Note 22 DOES NOT APPLY. Numbered Note 26 does apply. (0202)

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