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A -- DASG60-97-0075 -- AIRBORNE TEST AND MEASUREMENTS SUPPORT (ATMS) SOL DASG60-97-R-0070 POC O. Wayne Koger, Contract Specialist, Donald C. Reesman, Contracting Officer, CSSD-CM-CK, (205) 955-1187 The Measurements Platforms Division of the Sensors Directorate of the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command (USASSDC) seeks sources with the capability of conducting the Airborne Test and Measurements Support (ATMS) effort. This effort is a follow-on to the current High Altitude Observatory (HALO) program ATMS activities. The principal objective of the ATMS effort is to perform high altitude airborne measurements, collect test data, and reduce these data to provide optical signature information applicable to the theater and strategic ballistic missile defense environment; to include reentry vehicle/objects signatures, plume/wake phenomenology studies, missile/target intercepts, and debris characterization. Accomplishment of these objectives involves the following: (a) technical analysis of mission test requirements with respect to measurement capabilities; (b) mission planning support, range coordination, and mission conduct; (c) provision of aircraft, aircraft modifications, and associated aircraft operations and maintenance to support mission conduct; (d) sensor development, acquisition, integration, operation, maintenance, and coordination activities; and (e) reduction, analysis, reporting, and presentation of HALO-collected data. These activities will be conducted at the contractor facility and/or CONUS/OCONUS sites (U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll, Eastern Test Range, Western Test Range, White Sands Missile Range, etc.). The ATMS effort requires offerors with in-depth high altitude aircraft operation and maintenance experience, and electro-optical (ultraviolet, visible, and infrared) sensor hardware/software engineering experience. It requires the facilities and capabilities to provide and/or perform the following activities: measurement aircraft, including flight operations, certification, modifications, and maintenance; optical sensor instruments/systems, as well as subsystem components; and optical system calibration and data reduction. Subsystems include the electro-optical sensors; optical grade aircraft measurement windows (BK-7 glass, standard & UV fused Silica, and infrared ZnS & ZnSe); telescope, lenses, and optical subsystems; computerized sensor pointing (0227)

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