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B -- EXTERNAL MACHINE TRANSLATION DEVELOPMENT SOL F33600-99-R-0001 DUE 072500 POC Thomas Beaver / Harry Oeters,(937)257-5666 x 4547 (937)-257-2135 x 4549 WEB: 01R0001-External Machine Translation Development, http://www.pixs.wpafb.af.mil/pixslibr/01R0001/01R0001.asp. E-MAIL: Tom.Beaver@wpafb.af.mil; Harry.Oeters@wpafb.af.mil, Tom.Beaver@wpafb.af.mil; Harry.Oeters@wpafb.af.mil. Background "17. The National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC)is contemplating a superseding,5 year, single award, contract for continuing development of machine translation(MT) software and the expansion of dictionaries, which are integral to the functioning of NAIC'S Systran MT systems. NAIC has been developing, operating, and maintaining Systran MT systems since 1969. The Systran MT Systems are the only known MT systems that cover the wide range of systems of interest to NAIC and which employ the context-sensitive language analysis that is compatible with the NAIC's systems . In addition, Systran MT systems have been identified by the DODISS migration board as the only migration MT System. The contractual effort will provide for continuing upgrades and enhancements to existing Systran MT systems, which will include the development and maintenance of Russian-English, French-English, German-English, Chinese-English, Spanish-English, Korean-English, Slovak-English, Albanian,-English, Ukrainian-English, Serbo-Croation-English, Japanese-English, Polish-English, English-Chinese, English-Korean, English-Japanese, English-Korean and Czech-English. Experience is required in various computer languages and operating systems. These include C and C + +, UNIX, Linux, Java, Unicode, and SunOS4.x, and Solaris 2.x operating systems. Potential sources must provide evidence and experience to operate and maintain the Systran MT system. If an offeror has a commercially available machine translation system that will provide 100% of the functionality of the Systran MT System, please provide information for the USAF to evaluate its ability to function as an alternative to the Systran MT System. All responses will be evaluated against the criteria in this announcement.Limit responses to 10 pages or less. Responses are requested by 25 July 00 This notice announces the intent of the Air Force to issue a sole-source award to Systran Software, Inc. for these services . A 60 month, time and materials contract is contemplated. Foreign participation on this contract is not authorized. This notice is a presolicitation notice for this acquisition. An Ombudsman has been established for this acquisition. The only purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious concerns with potential offerors, when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate his/her concerns during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. Potential offerors should use established channels to request information, pose questions, and voice concerns before resorting to the use of the Ombudsman. Potential offerors are invited to contact ASC's Ombudsman, Mr. Stephen J. Plaisted, ASC/SYI at (937) 255-9095, stephen.plaisted@ascsy.wpafb.af.mil with serious concerns only. Routine communication concerning this acquisition shall be directed to Mr. Harry Oeters at (937)257-3215, Harry.Oeters@wpafb.af.mil, ASC/PKWRB, WPAFB, Oh 45433-5309 " Posted 07/07/00 (D-SN472252). (0189)

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