United States Special Operations Command, Directorate of Procurement (SOAC-KB), 2418 Florida Keys Ave., MacDill AFB, FL 33621-5316

58 -- LEAFLET DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM POC Mr. Edward More, Contracting Officer, (813)840-5453 E-MAIL: moree@soac.hqsocom.mil, spadarom@soac.hqsocom.mil. United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is conducting market research of potential sources for Psychological Operations Leaflet Delivery System. This is not a solicitation but a request for information. The 4th Psychological Operations Group (POG) has a requirement for a leaflet delivery system for which USSOCOM is the purchasing agent. Leaflet Delivery System (LDS) is a family of systems which will provide PSYOP forces the ability to safely and accurately disseminate small to large quantities of PSYOP products (leaflets) over small to large area targets in all threat environments. LDS will be non-lethal, non-threatening, low radar profile systems. Proposed LDS include remote-controlled systems which can be employed from perimeter areas; payloads which can be delivered from unmanned aerial vehicles, high altitude low opening delivery systems delivered by manned and unmanned aircraft. In order to accurately deliver leaflets in denied, hostile, or remote areas, some LDS will require homing andguidance systems, timers, and barometric devices for activating at pre-designated altitudes and locations. The LDS family should be varied to allow PSYOP and supporting forces to choose the appropriate system for a product dissemination based on policy, operational requirements, aircraft availability, and environmental restrictions such as wind velocities and hostile fire. LDS may consist of multiple variants to satisfy the following requirements: Short Range: disseminate leaflets to a minimum of 75 miles and up to 800 miles from launch location; Long Range: disseminate leaflets to a minimum of 800 miles and up to 1600 miles from launch location; Payload: Short Range carriage and single release of a minimum of 75lbs and up to 150lbs of printed material; Longe Range: carriage and single release of a minimum of 500lbs and up to 1000lbs of printed material in five separately releasable packages of 200 pounds each; Accuracy: Short Range: deliver leaflets to accomplish a desired pattern size and density on the ground with a Desired Mean Point of Impact (DMPI) of at least 500 meters and an objective of 250 meters; Long Range: deliver leaflets to accomplish a desired pattern size and density on the ground with a DMPI of at least 750 meters with an objective of 500 meters; Pattern and Density: density of leaflets with the ground pattern of a leaflet drop of 6-33 leaflets per 100 sq. meters (threshold) and 33-100 sq. meters (objective): Surface ceiling: Short Range: operating and releasing from a minimum of 500ft above ground level (AGL) to 15,000ft above sea level (ASL) and up to 500ft AFL to 20,000ft ASL: Long Range: operating and releasing from a minimum of 500ft AGL to 20,000ft ASL and up to 500ft AGL to 30,000 ASL; Mission Rates: Short Range: sustained operations at a minimum of one mission per day and up to three missions per day: Long Range: sustained operations at a minimum of three missions per week and up to one mission per day; Reliability: reliability to reach target locations must be at least 75% with an objective of 95%; Survivability: as a minimum LDS must disseminate leaflets in low, medium, and high defense threat environments with an object of dissemination in low, medium, and high defense threat environments with a low radar, visual acquisition and variable flight profile; Dispersion Predictability: dispersion patterns must be predictable to with 75% (threshold), and 90% (objective) using current and future calculation methods; Loading Time: systems should be able to load onto delivery platform with full performance capability within 2 hours (threshold) and 1 hour (objective) of delivery of leaflets to LDS operator; Product Dissemination Capability: provide a flexible capability to support the dissemination of single sheet print products (threshold), products such as candy bars, matchboxes and radios (objective), to meet military objectives and policy restrictions. USSOCOM is requesting information in the form of White Papers submitted to USSOCOM, ATTN: SOAC-PMC4 (Mr. Mark Spadaro), 7701 Tampa Point Blvd.,MacDill AFB, FL 33621-5323 for technical evaluation. Offerors may be requested to brief the proposed system to the 4th POG at Fort Bragg, NC, after evaluation of the White Paper. USSOCOM Contracting Office point of contact is Mr. Edward More at moree@soac.hqsocom.mil. (0324)

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