US Army Topographic Engineering Center, Contracts Office (CETEC-CT), 7701 Telegraph Rd, Alexandria, VA 22315-3864

A -- JOINT PRECISION STRIKE DEMONSTRATION (JPSD) PROGRAM POC Elvira Phillips,(703)428-6623; Nancy VanNICE, Contracting Officer,(703)428-6608 The U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center intends to award a follow-on contract on a sole source basis with Raytheon Systems Development Company to support the execution of the Joint Precision Strike Demonstration Project Office's (JPSD-PO) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations (ACTDs): Rapid Terrain Visualization (RTV); Theater Precision Strike Operations (TPSO); and future ACTDs. This support will require the contractor to: conduct fully integrated live/simulated demonstrations with geographically dispersed participants, involving improved and emerging precision strike technologies, concepts and architectures; to acquire, integrate, sustain, and transition ACTD leave behind products to field units; and to work with warfighters and Service Battle Laboratories in the exercise and development of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) in the area of precision strike technologies. Work under this contract will require a thorough understanding of Joint Precision Strike functions (Surveillance, Target Acquisition, Strike Planning, Weapons Delivery and Damage Assessment), the TTPs used by a Joint headquarters and subordinate organizations to accomplish these tasks, and the C2 systems that support and merge these functions into a system of systems. Integration efforts will combine existing models and simulations with live user play to create a virtual battlefield, maintaining the present infrastructure of the JPSD Integration and Evaluation Center and providing for the growth of that infrastructure to meet JPSD requirements. Additionally new and evolving technologies and systems (C3, sensors and weapons) associated with these functional areas will be integrated into existing military systems. Other areas of interest are: sensor and weapon evaluations; participation in Joint Warfighter Exercises; and modeling, simulation and analysis support for the JPSD-PO, PEOs and other designated Government agencies. The software functional areas in support of the ACTDs shall include automated data collection/reduction analysis, virtual architecture prototyping, geographically distributed demonstrations, and data correlation and display. More details of the JPSD-PO can be found at www.monmouth.army.mil/peoiew/jpsd/home.htm JPSD's Integration and Evaluation Center (IEC), located at USATEC, Alexandria, Virginia will be used in the development, demonstration and analysis necessary to facilitate the integration of precision strike technologies, concepts and architectures supporting ACTDs. The facility has an "open system architecture" which accommodates evolutionary operational growth and expansion without the need to radically modify or redesign the IEC's basic hardware and software architecture. It uses COTS and GOTS hardware and software and contains high speed parallel processors, large screen displays, interactive workstations, networking, and interfaces to a number of sensors, weapon systems and wide area communication links to support JPSD-PO ACTDs. The RTV ACTD (FY99-00) requires support in the areas of rapid collection, generation, transformation and exploitation of digital topographic data. The fundamental RTV ACTD objective is to demonstrate the technologies and infrastructure necessary to provide high resolution (DTED V = 1 meter resolution) elevation data, feature data, and imagery over a 90 x 90 kilometer area in 72 hours. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) technologies will be used to generate very high resolution digital terrain elevation data. Integrating this IFSAR capability onto an aerial platform, and rapidly processing this quantity of data will be a major component of the ACTD. The second major component of the ACTD is the semi-automated extraction and attribution of tactically significant features (roads, rivers, vegetation and soil types, etc) from high resolution commercial Multi-Spectral Imagery (MSI). Mature COTS/GOTS technologies will be integrated wherever possible, and a residual leave behind operational capability will be transitioned to XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Capabilities demonstrated at XVIII Airborne Corps with potentially significant value to the Experimental Force (EXFOR) will be provided to III Corps for their evaluation. The RTV ACTD will participate in several Warfighter exercises and develop a comprehensive concept of operations for tactical exploitation of high resolution terrain data. A strong corporate background in aircraft systems integration and topographic sciences including, automated cartography, geodetic science, photogrammetry, image processing, feature extraction, MSI/HSI, geographic information systems, laser radar (LIDAR), IFSAR, error propagation, and differential GPS will be required. A more comprehensive description of the RTV ACTD can be found at www.acq.osd.mil/at/rtv.htm The TPSO ACTD (FY99-03) focuses on providing the CINC USFK/CFC with a significantly improved capability to conduct theater counterfire and precision strike operations in near real time through the synchronization of joint and coalition force. The focusof this ACTD is the Joint C2 interoperability of the Army's Deep Operation Coordination Center (DOCC) at Echelon Above Corps. The primary focus of this ACTD is to enhance and integrate Army specific and Joint C2 systems at the strategic level-specifically at the theater Army level-necessary to conduct these operations. Our approach to this objective will be to use the POM supported C2 systems as the baseline and "normalize" integration and enhancements into these baseline systems. The contractor will be required to partake in the planning and execution of TPSO ACTD major objectives which include: provision of enhanced precision strike support to the theater through an accurate, near real time, common operational picture to appropriate commanders and staff elements, provision of enhanced precision strike capability by the integration of enhanced functionality into joint command and control systems, and the horizontal integration of these systems across the services in support of a joint and/or allied headquarters. As part of this effort, the contractor will be required to partake in the planning and execution of a baseline demonstration in FY99, an Unreinforced Scenario (Korea) in FY00 and a Transition to a Reinforced Scenario in FYO1. This contract effort will include a base year plus four option years. Anticipated contract is indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ), cost-plus-fixed-fee, with a ceiling value of $95M. Contract performance requires personnel and facilities cleared for access to TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (TS/SCI). This synopsis is for informational purposes only. See Note 22. (0051)

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