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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JUNE 14,1996 PSA#1616IMPROVED SPACE COMPUTER PROGRAM (ISCP) BRIEFING FOR INDUSTRY Pamela A.
Moffat, Contract Specialist, 505-846-1401; Stephen M. Sandager,
Contracting Officer, 505-846-5935. Mr Steven Sandager, Contracting
Officer, (505) 846-5935, Maj Ronald S. Marx, Program Manager (505)
846-6067, Capt Joseph D. Nedeau, Deputy Program Manager, (505)
846-5810. On 21 June 1996, a Briefing for Industry (BFI) will be
conducted at 377th ABW, Presentation Center, 2000 Wyoming Blvd, S.E.,
Kirtland AFB, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The morning session consists of an
ISCP Overview, including background, technical approach, and
programmatics. The afternoon session contains ISCP related technology
briefings. ISCP is a three (3) Phase program incorporating technologies
provided by on-going research and development programs to create
robust, on-board processing capabilities for 21st century Department of
Defense (DoD) satellites. Phase I, ISCP Study, consists of a
requirements, technologies, and architectures study. Two separate
studies will be performed, and these studies will be used for future
Air Force planning and will be made available to the Phase II offerors.
Phase II, ISCP Technology Testbed Demonstration, will develop a system
simulation and a testbed based on commercial hardware to be utilized
for system tradeoffs and technology integration evaluations for ISCP.
Phase III, ISCP Demonstration, will consist of the design and
fabrication of a space qualifiable integrated electronics package. The
Phase II and Phase III combined contracts are anticipated to be
approximately $50M. The level of classification is UNCLASSIFIED. The
objectives of ISCP are: (a) on-board, real-time signal processing for
Hyperspectral Imagery (HSI) and Space Based Radar (SBR) missions, (2)
fully autonomous satellite operations, (3) reduced weight, volume,
power, and cost required to make future electronics subsystems
affordable, and (4) high, on-board processing and memory capacities to
accommodate commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and software
derivatives. ISCP also incorporates key programmatic themes: (1)
flexible architectures capable of supporting a variety of design system
solutions rather than optimized for single system solutions and (2)
scalable building blocks for specific applications. NOTE: Foreign firms
are advised that there may be restrictions to becoming the prime
contractor. Industry participants should send visit requests to Captain
Joseph Nedeau, PL/VTEE, 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE, Kirtland AFB NM
87117-5776. Faxed visit requests are acceptable, Telephone/Fax: (505)
846-5810/5815. Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0442 19960613\SP-0002.MSC)
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