SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Cellular Airborne Transceiver for Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry
- Notice Date
- 5/27/2021 7:13:20 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 54171
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life SciencesT
- Contracting Office
- W6QK ACC-PICA PICATINNY ARSENAL NJ 07806-5000 USA
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN21X0IAX
- Response Due
- 6/3/2021 1:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 06/18/2021
- Point of Contact
- Sean P. McAvoy
- E-Mail Address
-
sean.p.mcavoy.civ@mail.mil
(sean.p.mcavoy.civ@mail.mil)
- Description
- Please note that this Special Notice is for information purposes only and does not constitute a request for proposal or call for white paper. A project award will not be awarded from this announcement. The U.S. Army Contracting Command-New Jersey (ACC-NJ), Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000, has entered into a Prototype OTA with the NSC. The term of this agreement is not to exceed five (5) years from the date of award, 15 December 2020. The value of the projects awarded under the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall not exceed $2.5 Billion. Under this acquisition vehicle, the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)) in coordination with the NSC will carry out a coordinated research and development Program designed to accelerate enhancing mission effectiveness, streamlining and upgrading communications infrastructure, improving efficient spectrum utilization, and advancing microelectronics to enable protected and resilient networks.� The focus of this OTA includes the following Technology Objectives: �������������� Accelerate maturation, integration, adaptation, and deployment of 4th Industrial Revolution (e.g. augmented reality, big data analytics, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, etc.) and digital technology enhancements that contribute to dominant operational capability; �������������� Accelerate maturation, adaptation, and deployment of dual-use information communications infrastructure and network enhancements that contribute to operational capability and commercially available applications; �������������� Accelerate and support development/adoption of prototype policy, regulation, and standards that enable effective, coexistent military and commercial use of congested spectrum; �������������� Provide for system protection and resiliency against adversarial action while in homeland and/or deployed status; �������������� Cooperatively, dynamically, and/or cognitively share spectrum with other spectrum dependent systems operating in the same frequency band without causing interference; �������������� Operate effectively in spectrum environments that are congested with users in co-located bands in a manner resilient to interference; �������������� Operate in spite of adversary attempts to deny spectrum utilization while in homeland and/or deployed status; �������������� Operate in spite of adversary attempts to disrupt and disable spectrum dependent systems; and �������������� Operate in spite of adversary penetration, compromise, or exploitation of networks or systems. The NSC membership possesses a collective expertise in the following areas to enable enhanced operational capability for systems that transmit and receive in the electromagnetic spectrum environment: Ubiquitous Connectivity; Cognitive Spectrum Access & Sharing; Cybersecurity; Radio Frequency-Free Space Optics Cooperative Systems; Autonomous Systems (Ground/Air/Maritime); Internet of Things (Narrow Band/Critical/Massive); Electronic Warfare; Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); Software Defined Radios/Networking/Architectures; Radar Systems; Digital Signal Processing; Microelectronics; Software Reconfigurability; Nanotechnology; Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence; Autonomy/Robotics; Biotechnology; Big Data Analytics; Edge and Cloud Computing; Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality; Location Detection; 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing; and 5th generation (5G) information communications technologies, products, and services including the use of zero trust. The consortium is comprised of a well-balanced and uniquely qualified mixture of traditional contractors, non-traditional contractors, utility producers, investment firms, non-governmental organizations, and academia, representing the vast majority of the key players in the industry. The purpose of this announcement is to provide industry in general advanced notification of Government intent. The Government intends to announce multiple Request for Prototype Proposals (RPP) for execution of project award(s) in support of electromagnetic spectrum related research areas to the NSC. Only members of the NSC in good standing are permitted to submit proposals in response to a given RPP. The NSC is an open consortium with low barriers for membership. Any interested company, academic institution, or contractor can become a member and join the consortium to widen knowledge and technical expertise to continue to advance in technologies and meet Government needs. The Government shall determine which research and development endeavors to pursue and projects to fund. The Government shall provide the NSC calls for proposals and the NSC, through its authorized agent, shall make those calls available to NSC Members who will then decide whether to submit proposals in response to such calls and, if so, will prepare their individual proposal(s) or will individually establish a team to prepare a team proposal(s). The Government shall be solely responsible for evaluation and selection of proposals for project funding from among the proposals submitted. Once it receives notification of selection of a project for funding, the NSC by its agent will enter into a Project Agreement with the NSC member entity or team whose proposal was selected by the Government through this competitive process. The NSC agent shall execute and administer the award and Project Agreement and the Government's designated Technical Manager will supervise the technical work performed by the NSC Member(s) whose proposals are selected for funding by the Government. Any issued Request for Prototype Proposal (RPP) will clearly indicate whether a follow-on production contract or transaction is contemplated. For more information interested Parties can visit the consortium website at http://www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/. Projects to be solicited under the OTA are as follows: Cellular Airborne Transceiver for Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry The objective of the Cellular Airborne Transceiver is to develop and demonstrate a prototype transceiver which provides DoD test ranges the ability to implement a distributed range infrastructure leveraging cellular technology that has been tailored to support Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry�greatly improving RF spectral efficiency at DoD test ranges.� The prototype cellular based airborne transceiver will provide advanced radio technologies and concepts to increase the spectral efficiency of the test infrastructure, provide increased bandwidth and flexibility to testing not available using traditional methods, and revolutionize the DoD test infrastructure by leveraging commercial wireless communications architectures.� In addition, the cellular based airborne transceiver mitigates the loss of available spectrum and alleviates RF spectrum congestion by providing test ranges the capability to reuse RF spectrum through spatial separation and potentially reduce test infrastructure costs�both of which provide a direct benefit to the DoD Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB).
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- Place of Performance
- Address: USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN06014693-F 20210529/210527230108 (samdaily.us)
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