U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, ATTN: SMDC-CM-CT, PO Box 1500, Huntsville, AL 35807-3801/106 Wynn Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805-1990

A -- EXTENDED AIR DEFENSE TESTBED (EADTB) INTEGRATION AND U.S. SITE DEVELOPMENT POC Belinda Williams, Contract Specialist, (256)955-1187 The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command plans to contract for effort title, Extended Air Defense Testbed (EADTB) Integration and U.S. Site Development. EADTB requirements are characterized by software development reaching maturity, continuing user enhancement and increasing user support requirements. The contractor will be required to efficiently manage and field a team of software engineers, developers, testers, hardware technicians and support staff, with expertise in Ada programming, ORACLE Database, and EADTB applications necessary to continue to meet the increasing numbers of growing U.S. Government modeling and simulation studies and events for critical space and missile defense issue resolution. Expectations are that EADTB software, which is comprised of approximately 2 million lines of Ada code, will require inclusion of 50 to 80 Software Change Requests (SCR) annually which would drive software deliveries. User support requirements are growing and include activities such as: direct user support, user call desk support, site support, resolution of open items (software trouble reports, etc), user experiments and study support, creation and revision of techical specifications and documentation, recreation and revision of on-line resources such as user documentation and EADTB Web Browser, formalized training, site installations to possibly include configuration management. Additionally, the contractor shall be required to support the Government at demonstrations of EADTB capabilities to include user conferences, symposiums, and training and exercise events. The standard industrial classification code is 8731 with a small business size standard of 1,000 employees. Respondents should state whether they are a small business or a small disadvantaged business. Interested contractors should submit their written qualification statements to U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, P.O. Box 1500, ATTN: Belinda Williams, Huntsville, AL 35807 within fourteen days after publication of this article. Foreign participation at the subcontract level is anticipated. See Note(s): 25. Posted 10/15/98 (I-SN262499). (0288)

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