US Army, CECOM Acquisition Center, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey 07703-5008

D -- COMMON NETWORK PLANNING SOFTWARE (CNPS) DUE 052197 POC Point of Contact -- Mr. David Morrissey, 908-532-9728, ext 5808. E-MAIL: CNPS, morrissd@doim6.monmouth.army.mil. Common Network Planning Software (CNPS). The Government has a need to replace the current Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) Network Planning Software (DNPS) with new software that maintains existing critical DNPS features and provides additional features to reduce operator workload, improve planning performance and ease life cycle maintenance. DNPS is used at the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) management sites, U.S. Army Space Command (USARSPACE) Regional Space Support Centers (RSSCs), and DSCS Operations Centers (DSCSOC) to plan communications services that will be supported by DSCS. Although the initial focus of the CNPS is to plan for services on DSCS satellites, it is intended that the CNPS architecture shall be modular and extensible so that it can easily support other SHF space assets such as commercial transponders operating on C, Ku and Ka bands and future SHF satellites. CNPS shall also be compliant with the Army's Technical Architecture, achieve Level 8 compliance with the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) Common Operating Environment (COE) and support the Objective DSCS Operations Center (ODOC) Operational Requirements Document (ORD). The major functions of the CNPS shall include: operator input, electronic input, satellite definition, terminal definition, modem definition, waveform definition, scenario definition, link budget analysis, margin leveling, satellite parameter determination, mission scheduling, central data store, electronic output, and operator input. The CNPS software shall also include utilities that support frequency management, sun conjunction prediction, and unit conversion calculations. Since CNPS will be operational software, it must include proper controls to maintain data integrity throughout the DISA management infrastructure. The CNPS design shall also be flexible and modular to meet an evolving operational concept. The CNPS will be a distributed software application that will operate the DSCSOCs and the DISA and USARSPACE management sites. It shall also have the capability to easily migrate to computer platforms that are COE compliant as the DSCS Operations Control System (DOCS) undergoes future hardware upgrades. There will be a future release to industry of the Performance Specification for CNPS. See NOTES: 26. Send written replies to PM Milsatcom, ATTN: SFAE-C3S-MSA-DC ( Mr. David Morrisssey), Ft. Monmouth, NJ 07703-5508, by COB 21 May 97. This notice is not a solicitation. The purpose of this notice is to seek sources interested in providing commercial services. The FASA definition of commercial items includes two types of services: The first type includes installation, maintenance, repair, training, and other services that are procured for the support of commercial items. The source of such services must (a) offer them to the general public and the federal government contemporaneously and under similar terms and conditions, and (b) offer to use the same workforce for providing the federal government with such services as that used for providing them to the general public. The second type of services that is included in the FASA definition of commercial items is those of a type that is offered and sold competitively, in substantial quantities, in the commercial marketplace, based on established catalog or market prices for specific tasks performed under standard commercial terms and conditions. (0125)

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