SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Environmental Ship Motion Forecasting (ESMF) System
- Notice Date
- 5/8/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, NSWC Carderock Division, 9500 MacArthur Boulevard, West Bethesda, Maryland, 20817-5700
- ZIP Code
- 20817-5700
- Solicitation Number
- N0016717R0014
- Archive Date
- 6/7/2017
- Point of Contact
- Derek D. Devine, Phone: 3012272410
- E-Mail Address
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derek.devine@navy.mil
(derek.devine@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division intends on issuing an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ), Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) contract for continued development of the Environmental Ship Motion Forecasting (ESMF) System. The contract will have a two (2) year ordering period. The ESMF system combines the real-time sensing of the temporal and spacial wave field and creates wave propagation models to predict vessel motion. The system integrates environmental sensing/reconstruction, environmental forecasting, ship motion measurement, and decision support system/operator guidance into an open source framework architecture. The code developed for this framework acts as middleware to tie all of the components together and is the core to the success of the entire system. This system enables the Warfighter to make more informed decisions for onboard and ship-to-ship operations, which is a critical capability for the Sea Basing environment. The Government does not currently possess the source code for the ESMF system. The only known source who possesses the source code is Applied Physical Sciences 475 Bridge Street, Suite 100, Groton, CT, 06340. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement which shall be considered by the agency. Any interested parties must explain how they will readily perform these services without unacceptable delays relating to additional time and cost to gain specific knowledge of ESMF system. This notice is not a request for competitive offers. However, all offers received within the 15 days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. However, a determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this solicitation is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Contractors must be properly registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). Offerors may obtain information on SAM registration and annual confirmation requirements by calling 1-866-606-8220 or via the internet at https://www.sam.gov. DRAFT SOW Statement of Work (SOW) for Engineering Technical Services for ENVIRONMENTAL AND SHIP MOTION FORECASTING SYSTEM, NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER, CARDEROCK DIVISION 1. BACKGROUND The Strategic and Theater Sealift Program Office (PMS385) is responsible for the development of new systems to enhance the capability of the Navy’s Sealift Capabilities based on the needs of the Strategic Mobility and Combat Logistics Division of Chief Of Naval Operations Staff (OPNAV N42) for Sealift Research and Development (R&D). PMS 385 is tasked with developing an alternative approach to reduce the challenges associated with the Seabasing concept. This concept has been developed in order to enable Operational Maneuver from the Sea (OMFTS), the Marine Corps’ warfare doctrine where all logistics support will come from the sea, rather than from supply points ashore. This offshore logistics presence creates a number of challenges associated with the transfer of material between ships in order to facilitate and sustain shoreside amphibious operations; one of these challenges is the mitigation of delays in material transfer caused by excessive ship motion The Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting System (ESMF) program seeks to provide sea-based forces with environmental and ship motion forecasting as input to the Common Operation Tactical Picture (COTP), in order to forecast windows of opportunity for inter/intraship material and personnel movement. This contract is intended to continue the development of the ESMF system to improve reliability of the system and develop potential prototypes. 2. SCOPE 2.1. User Operational Evaluation System (UOES) The contractor shall support the current UOES developed under N00014-11-D-3041 as described below: 2.1.1. UOES Support The contractor shall support the UOES on United States Navy Ship (USNS) MONTFORD POINT (T-ESD-1) or USNS JOHN GLENN (T-ESD-2). This support includes set up, tear down, movement of the UOES between the ships; maintenance of the UOES; repair; and training. 2.1.2. ESD UOES Technical Manual The contractor shall perform updates to the User and Technical Manuals to ensure the UOES manuals reflect the any changes to the listing of spares, operability, visual aids of the systems. 2.2. ESMF System Enhancements and Improvements The contractor shall enhance the ESMF system to improve ease of operation, utility, and accuracy over a range of environmental and ship-loading conditions. The algorithm enhancements break into two categories: wave retrieval and ship-motion forecasting. 2.2.1. Conduct Core Algorithm Enhancements for Wave Retrieval and Forecasting The contractor shall perform algorithm enhancements for wave retrieval and forecasting to improve forecasting accuracy and operational range of wave measurement process. The process of filtering radar data according to its signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) shall be adapted for low-wind wave retrieval to provide an overall SNR of the data used to produce a wave measurement solution. The contractor shall automate the radar configuration by automating the sector selection, which are dependent upon radar ‘dead’ zones. Dead zones are caused by either permanent obstructions such as the ship’s superstructure or temporary ones such as another ship. The contractor shall improve the wave retrieval discretization algorithm to optimize processing efficiency while ensuring ideal resolution in space and time to enhance ship motion forecasting. 2.2.2. Conduct Core Algorithm Enhancements for Ship Motion Forecasting The contractor shall improve the ship-motion forecasting by streamlining development of a ship database for new ship geometries. This database shall include a selection of generic ship types for which pre-calculated databases exist. The database shall contain key ship parameters, including length, beam, draft, form coefficients, and mass properties, that will scale the values in the generic database. The contractor shall extend the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) adaptive tuning implementation to the surge, sway, and yaw modes. The contractor shall refine the two-ship modeling to extend the UKF for connector stiffness, pre-tension, and deployment of the Vehicle Transfer Ramp. These improvements will allow the UKF additivity to tune the ship motion model through the full range of ESD/LMSR skin-to-skin evolution. During operation, the contactor shall refine the UKF adaptive tuning model to match the realized dynamics. The process will be tested using replay of existing ESMF data, as well as with any emerging test opportunities. 2.3. ESMF System Application to Additional Ships/Vehicles and Operations The contractor shall develop the ESMF for additional ships/vehicles and operations. The contractor shall: 2.3.1. Develop and fabricate additional prototypes as UOES 2.3.2. Research the application of generalized ship/vehicle motion model to specific ship classes and other vehicles platforms 2.3.3. Develop of hull/vehicle-specific motion models 2.3.4. Installation of any additional prototypes
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