SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- DON-SNOTE-041027-004 Modification: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR JOINT UNMANNED SYSTEMS COMMON CONTROL
- Notice Date
- 11/2/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- NSWC Panama City, Code XPS1, 110 Vernon Ave., Panama City, FL
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 041027004
- Response Due
- 11/12/2004
- Archive Date
- 12/12/2004
- Description
- This modification provides directions to obtain the Attachments to this announcement. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY (RFI)! The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City (NSWC-PC) at Panama City, FL is requesting information from industry for a new integrated capability to concurrently manage multiple unmanned systems of all types (air, sea surface, undersea, and ground), and to do so with an application of joint messaging standards that will help lead to the eventual state where most unmanned systems across all the services are truly interoperable. THIS IS NOT A NOTICE OF SOLICITATION ISSUANCE, BUT RATHER A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY from industry on existent planning tools and other software or algorithm products that could potentially add functional value to a standards-based open architecture. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and NSWC-PC will not pay respondents for information provided in response to this RFI. Res! ponses to the RFI will not be returned. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. At present, a single architecture that allows for the concurrent management of large numbers of unmanned systems of all types using joint interoperability standards, is non-proprietary, scaleable and open to support expansion and affordable technology refresh does not exist. The primary goal of the NAVSURFWARCEN Panama City's Joint Unmanned Systems Common Control (JUSC2) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) is to integrate select Commercial and Government Off-the-Shelf (COTS/GOTS) technologies, legacy systems, and emergent joint standards to provide a first spiral development of such an architecture, and to develop and demonstrate a Joint Concept of Operations that will enhance the joint force commander's ability to conduct effective joint and coalition operations. The approach to this program is not an attempt to build a single com! mon control system, but to federate separate USV, UAV, USV, and UGV common control segments onto a common LAN with open architecture standards applied in two areas. The first area is Joint interoperability messaging standards (Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems, or JAUS and NATO STANAGs for UAVs) being developed within DoD that will be applied to unmanned R&D systems currently in development. Select systems are being modified to conform to the joint standards and inter-service operation and control hand-off will be demonstrated. For select unmanned systems that are already in the acquisition program stage, plans and estimated cost & schedule for joint standards conversion will be developed. The second area of standards application is within the local area network (LAN) that integrates the separate control segments into a common system. Open Architecture (OA) standards will be applied to the processing segments to ensure that new capabilities or individual unmanned ! systems can be inserted into the architecture with a minimum of change required to the overall system to maintain affordability and configuration control. The separate legacy control segments, once integrated, communicate with a higher level common unmanned systems management system/operator interface that applies the functions shown in the left column of Attachment 1 to produce a capability to concurrently manage large numbers of all types of unmanned systems. The purpose of this RFI is to gather information on technologies that could be relevant for consideration for technology refresh of this architecture beyond the ACTD, which has a near-term focus on the Littoral Combat ship. The intent is to explore further development for broader joint unmanned systems applications across all services. To the extent simplifying assumptions are needed, respondents are encouraged to make and document such assumptions in their responses. This RFI seeks descriptions of candidate techn! ologies that potentially offer one or more of the capabilities listed in Attachment 1 (Table 1). Additionally, a synopsis should be included in the submission to include, but not be limited to the following: Conceptual Alternatives, Feasibility Assessment, Estimated Cost and Schedule Estimates, Corporate Expertise, and any other suggestions or discussion the respondent deems appropriate. In particular, please describe any projects you have been involved in that are similar in concept to what is described in this RFI, including management and operations approach, security requirements, security assurance processes, and any relevant lessons learned. In addition to a synopsis, submissions must include the prescribed format in the attachment to this synopsis for ease of review and prioritization. This is intended to minimize the effort of the respondent and structure the responses for ease of analysis by the government. Responders should indicate which portions of their res! ponse are proprietary and should mark them accordingly. All information received in response to this RFI that is marked Proprietary will be handled accordingly. NSWC-PC may hold an information exchange meeting to discuss this RFI with interested potential respondents. Details about this meeting will be made available at a later date. If you wish to attend such a meeting please notify the synopsis contact. All correspondence related to this matter should be e-mailed (preferred) in Microsoft Office format to Allan.Ziemba@navy.mil, faxed to (850)234-4251, or mailed to arrive no later then 3:00 PM on 12 November 2004. This synopsis may be found at http://www.ncsc.navy.mil/Contracts/Ztables/syntable.htm. The attachment is posted on the Synopses page.
- Web Link
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NSWC Panama City Synopses
(http://www.ncsc.navy.mil/Contracts/Ztables/syntable.htm)
- Record
- SN00702749-W 20041104/041102212054 (fbodaily.com)
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