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A -- INTEGRATED REAL-TIME INFORMATION INTO/OUT OF THE COCKPIT (RTIC/RTOC) FOR COMBAT AIRCRAFT (IRRCA) SOL PRDA No. 97-22-AAK DUE 100297 POC Contact Dawn M. Ross, Contract Negotiator, (937) 255-5252 or Phillip W. Marcum, Contracting Officer, (937) 255-5252 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract negotiator, rossdm@aa.wpafb.af.mil. INTRODUCTION: PRDA 97-22-AAK is hereby amended to provide the following clarifications and additions to the technical requirements of this PRDA. Due to this amendment, the proposal submittal date has been changed from 23 Sep 97 to 2 Oct 97. The following are clarifications to this PRDA: (1) The ESAI software will not be made available as a deliverable under this contract until approximately 1 May 98. As a result of this date, the contractor can propose to use their software as a part of this effort. The contractor shall ensure that this software can perform multi-level correlation and data fusion to include correlation and fusion of disparate data sources, situation assessment, and response determination. This software shall be able to understand and operate with inputs from sources such as TRAP/TADIX-B, TIBS, on-board sensors, and command and control information from a ground station element or surrogate air operations center and (2) Where the PRDA states that a Multi-Mission Advanced Tactical Terminal (MATT) will be used should be changed to read "The contractor shall use a tactical terminal that is capable of receiving off-board threat and imagery data via over the horizon satellite communications and is certified for safety of flight". Paragraph B-REQUIREMENTS, (3) TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS is hereby amended to add the following: (1) In addition to the flight demonstration to be performed during FY99, the contractor shall perform a ground-based simulation/demonstration in an LO aircraft hot mock-up to show the military utility of fusing both on-board and off-board sensor inputs for the purposes of enhanced survivability and mission flexibility for future LO aircraft. This ground based demonstration should be representative of LO aircraft that have multiple on-board sensors to include fire control radars, electronic support measures equipment, a radar warning receiver, multi-spectral targeting devices, and communication and navigation equipment. The purpose of this ground-based exercise is to provide design tradeoffs and proof of principle determination of the value and utility that both off-board and multiple on-board sensors can provide for future LO aircraft. and (2) As part of the flight demonstration in FY99, the contractor shall investigate and demonstrate the fusion of imagery and threat information for the purposes of displaying this product in the cockpit. This imagery/threat data fusion and display shall occur as part of a retargeting/retasking exercise during the demonstration. It is anticipated that the bulk of this fusion will be done on the ground and transmitted to the aircraft, however, the contractor shall investigate the feasibility of performing this fusion in the air using the on-board avionics equipment and software. In addition, the contractor shall investigate and demonstrate the feasibility of transmitting small sub-image chips to augment on-board pre stored images. The purpose of this is to reduce the image size that will be transmitted over the datalink while providing enough image information for retargeting. The contractor shall investigate how to georegister and stitch the sub-image chips onto the existing pre-stored images. (0240)

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