70 -- SOFTWARE/HARDWARE TOOLS

Notice Date

July 24, 2001

Contracting Office

Dahlgren Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, 17320 Dahlgren Road, Dahlgren, VA 22448-5100

ZIP Code

22448-5100

Solicitation Number

N00178-01-Q-3034

Response Due

August 1, 2001

Point of Contact

sd13 (540) 653-7765

E-Mail Address

Dahlgren Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (sd13@nswc.navy.mil)

Description

The purpose of this synopsis is to announce NAVSUP's Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Obsolescense Mitigation and Evaluation Tools (COMET) Request For Information (RFI). The intent of this RFI is to identify relevant initiatives and software/hardware tools that exist or are under development in industry and government. NAVSUP's Navy Logistics Productivity (NLP) initiatives will provide improved access to Navy logistic and engineering databases and introduce new simulation, modeling and validation tools. The NLP initiatives will significantly influence and improve the Navy's business of Fleet systems maintenance, supply and support and the development and evolution of next generations of weapons and ship systems. COMET is an automated obsolescence mitigation and abatement tool that will apply COTS and Open System Architectures (OSA) solutions to Fleet deployed systems (both legacy and COTS based systems). COMET will provide design capture analysis, functional modeling and simulation, requirements definition and COTS design implementations. Components and assemblies for many deployed legacy systems are no longer available. Legacy system design data varies greatly in detail, completeness and accuracy. Costs and development lead time to re-engineer and manufacture replacement components and assemblies are often times excessive. COMET will provide the supply system case manager a new process to develop model-based performance requirements, design profiles and test requirements which enable the integration of multi-vendor COTS/OSA implementations of system assemblies required by the Fleet. The opportunity to replace legacy designs or obsolete COTS deployed equipment with equivalent and interchangeable new COTS implementations will significantly aid in the ever increasing obsolescence management issues. Navy legacy electronic systems and COTS/OSA systems use a wide variety of components and architectures and include digital, analog and mixed signal implementations. COMET will provide a system analysis and evaluation process to determine the probability and complexity of capturing system performance and behavior as functional models. The models created by COMET will represent the basis of a performance specification for component/system acquisition and a single point definition for configuration management and design feedback. System test requirements will be generated directly from the models. An automated demonstration of a subset of the envisioned potential capabilities of COMET can be viewed at the LINKURL below. Responses to this RFI should include the companies name, address, POC with phone number, and a brief synopsis of corporate experience and potential candidate off-the-shelf or in-development tools that relate to this RFI. These responses should be submitted by August 1, 2001 via email to sd13@nswc.navy.mil.

Web Link

Dahlgren Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (http://www.nswc.navy.mil/supply)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010726/70SOL015.HTM (W-205 SN50S7H3)