A -- SYNTHETIC NATURAL ENVIRONMENT TERRAIN DATABASES FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION

Notice Date

April 25, 2001

Contracting Office

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

ZIP Code

22315-3864

Solicitation Number

N/A

Point of Contact

Ms. Ronaly Hofseth, (703) 428-6620

Description

The Army Corps of Engineers anticipates issuing a solicitation for an effort that will develop Synthetic Natural Environment (SNE) terrain databases for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) activities, Environmental Data Model (EDM) constructions and analysis of these systems, and analysis tools for the accumulated sets of EDMs. The work will accommodate the needs of the U.S. Army and the joint military service agencies as well as the needs of other service offices. It is anticipated that a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract will be issued, for a base year and four option years. The dollar value is expected to be approximately $50M for the life of the contract. Non-commercial, government owned property would be furnished for the contract. Sources are being sought to identify the interest in industry to fulfill this requirement. It is anticipated that to successfully implement the projected tasks associated with this effort, that a thorough knowledge and understanding of each system and their development will be required for applications such as: JointSAF, WARfighters SIMulation 2000 (WARSIM), OneSAF Testbed (OTB), Modular Semi-Automatic Forces (ModSAF), Dynamic Terrain Simulator (DTSim), Ocean, Atmosphere, Space Environmental Services (OASES), OpenScene ModStealth and associated databases and runtime environmental models. It is also expected that there will be requirements to posses a thorough working knowledge and understanding of the Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification (SEDRIS), High Level Architecture (HLA), the Runtime Infrastructure (RTI) that is distributed by the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), and the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) architecture. A thorough familiarity with DMSO's Integrated Natural Environments Authenticated Representation Program (INE-ARP) will be necessary to be successful. This effort will also require at a minimum a SECRET clearance for key personnel and the potential for the contractor site to be accredited to operate at a SECRET, System High level. There may be some occasions in which R&D modeling and simulation expertise is required with clearances at the TS/SCI level. The key work to be performed will be centered around the generation of terrain data bases (TDBs), Compact Terrain Databases (CTDB Version 7, Big and Little Endian formats), and S1000 databases, used by JSAF, ModSAF, OTB, DTSim, and ModStealth. In addition, it is important to be able to generate TDBs in different coordinate systems, either UTM or in the GTRS-based GCS. We are also anticipating the need to: generate SEDRIS Transmittal Format (STF) data sets as used by the SEDRIS-to-CTDB compiler (either in UTM or GTRS based GCS coordinate systems), generate 3 dimensional OpenScene Modstealth visual databases (GDE format), generate S1000 data sets as used by the CTDB compiler, generate 3 dimensional OpenFlight format visual data sets, and 3 dimensional models of structures and equipment in the OpenFlight format, and to generate 3 dimensional models of structures and equipment in STF. Further, to be successful, it is anticipated that there must be skill and ability to extract features from imagery and integrate the features into new or existing CTDBs, Big and Little Endian, coded with appropriate EDM characterizations, to enhance tools to support environmental scenario composition, tailoring, and exercise initialization, and to maintain a record of changes to the virtual battlespace to update for new customer's requirements. In addition, there must be the ability to develop and coordinate standardized EDMs, to incorporate all elements of terrain, the atmosphere, ocean, space, and cross-domain environmental data and models into a dataset supporting a distributed simulation scenario. It is expected that there will be exercise, experiment, integration, and test events and demonstrations in support of government-directed activities, and the need to provide a Verification, Validation, and Accreditation effort. Company capability papers regarding this sources sought notice can be sent via mail to U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, ATTN: CEMVK-CT-M, Ms. Ronaly Hofseth, 7701 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, VA 22315-3864; via facsimile to (703) 428-6995; or via e-mail to rhofseth@tec.army.mil. Respondents should indicate whether they are a large business, a small business, a small disadvantaged business, a woman-owned business or a HUBZONE business. Information must be submitted on or before 6:00 p.m. EST on 2 May 2001. This announcement is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor does it promise that any procurement activity will follow.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010427/ASOL007.HTM (W-115 SN50K2C6)