Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Code 210000D, 1 Administration Circle, China Lake, CA 93555-6100

66 -- DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM SOL N68936-98-R-0082 POC Derrick Hu, Contract Specialist, (760) 939-9655 The Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA intends to procure on an other than full and open competition basis with Nicolet Instrument Technologies, Inc. 5225-4 Verona Road, Madison, WI 53711-4495 one (1) Data Acquisition System (DAS) using FAR Part 12, commercial items procedures. The DAS consists of two high speed and four medium speed data recorders, each capable of digitizing, recording, displaying and analyzing from 16 to 32 channels of analog data. This system will be used at the test facilities of the Weapons Survivability Laboratory (WSL), China Lake, CA, to acquire, record, and analyze test instrumentation data. The WSL is tasked with performing survivability testing for all military services; providing empirical data on the vulnerability of aircraft and weapon systems to actual threats. These expensive, highly instrumented tests rely on data acquisition systems to acquire all test data. The accuracy and integrity of this data is of the utmost importance. Ease of use is equally important because considerable time is spent, during a test program, in the analysis and generation of reports containing this test data. A data acquisition system that meets the minimum specifications will provide the required accuracy, features, and ease of use that are critical to the WSL mission,. Distinguishing features of the Nicolet Instrument Technologies DAS are as follows: Ability to mix high and medium speed acquisition modules in the same data recorder. 75 minutes of record time to hard disk on 32 analog channels at a 100 kHz sample rate per channel. 30 minute recording time to hard disk on 16 analog channels at a 500 kHz sample rate per channel, while simultaneously recording the same data sampled at up to 10 Msamples/second to a transient memory of 2 Msamples per channel. 32 digital inputs on medium speed recorders. A digital signal processor (DSP) for each medium speed channel that can provide intra-channel math functions, waveform measurement functions and digital filtering. DSP calculations can be substituted for the waveform data, displayed numerically or used as a trigger source. 4 counter/timer inputs per medium speed recorder, that can count up or count down or measure frequency, rpm or encoder position. Memory architecture that allows uninterrupted, maximum rate, 32 channel recording simultaneous with the display, analysis or archiving of previously recorded data using any Microsoft Windows 95 application software. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302, using FAR Part 12 procedures. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Responses to this intent to procure Nicolet Instrument Technologies, Inc. should be submitted in writing to Commander, Code 210000D, Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, Attn: Derrick Hu, N68936-98-R-0082, China Lake, CA 93555-6100 no later than 15 days from the date of this synopsis. Address any questions to Derrick Hu at the above address or call (760) 939-9655. (0057)

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