18 -- DISTINGUISHED SPACE INDUSTRY PROGRAM

Notice Date

February 2, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL -- PL "Space Vehicles Directorate", 2251 Maxwell Ave, Kirtland AFB, NM, 87177

ZIP Code

87177

E-Mail Address

Paulette Windley (Paulette.Windley@Kirtland.af.mil)

Description

The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/VS) is seeking input from private industry to support acquisition planning for the FY 2002 Distinguished Space Industry Fellows Program. The information received in response to the Request for Information (RFI) will assist AFRL/VS to identify technical areas in which private industry has interest in establishing collaborative, cost-share on-site research, or other technical presence through participation in the Distinguished Space Industry Fellows Program (DSIF). The DSIF Program is offered by AFRL/VS to facilitate improved understanding and long-term partnerships between the government space technology community and private industry. The DSIF Program invites scientists and engineers from industry to participate through a competitive selection process to conduct specific, pre-negotiated, technology research or development efforts at an AFRL/VS facility for a period of one year. The scientific studies and experimentation undertaken by Distinguished Space Industry Fellows are directed toward advancing the state-of-the-art in specific space technologies and is not related to the development of a specific weapon system or a specific hardware development effort. The Distinguished Space Industry Fellow remains a company employee while participating in this program and returns to their company at the end of their tenure. The Distinguished Space Industry Fellows Program potentially offers technical interchange opportunities. This interchange involves visits to other government and non-government members of the space technology community for the purpose of providing the Space Industry Fellows with insight into technology priorities of the government space technology enterprise. In response to this RFI, private industry may suggest opportunities for technical interchange visits necessary to meet the objectives of furthering future AFRL and industry technical interchange, collaboration, and partnership. AFRL/VS technical topic areas that may be of interest to companies considering nomination of one or more of their employees for participation in the FY 2002 DSIF Program include, but are not limited to the following. Respondents to this RFI are invited to suggest additional topic areas: -- Research and/or development in radiation effects upon microcircuits and or MEMS devices -- Comprehension of basic radiation mechanisms to improve methods of mitigation -- Reconfigurable computing, assessment of needs and identification of the benefits of reconfigurable computer in near and far-term missions, demonstration of reconfigurable computing technology including software, projection of the performance of radiation hardened reconfigurable computing -- Advanced processing architecture/optical interconnect technology, assessment of the benefits of optical interconnect technology in advanced processing architectures for space borne applications, optically-interconnected architecture that is scalable and extensible, assessment of the radiation performance of such architecture, development of suitable qualification and validation procedures for optical interconnect technologies and architectures including identification of flight opportunities -- Radiation hardened component technology, assessment of the Single Event Upset (SEU) performance of current and future analog circuit technology, and providing the foundation for starting the development of a generally accepted procedure for evaluating the radiation performance of analog circuit technologies -- Space inflatable structures -- Photovoltaic technology, new spectral/ polarimetric sensor design concepts to determine more effective methods of collecting mission critical information, basic technologies required to enable clusters of satellites to cooperatively perform the function of a larger, single satellite (i.e. distributed satellite systems), and thin film photovoltaics, multifunctional structures. -- Miniaturized electronics, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) -- Nano/microsatellites -- Satellite formation flying -- Satellite servicing concepts -- Intra-satellite communications -- Autonomous satellite command and control Information provided by companies in response to this RFI is intended to give the Air Force an understanding of the range of technical areas and projects that would invite consideration by industry to participate in the AFRL/VS DSIF Program. Responses should include respondent's full contact information and business or industry affiliation. Written responses or dialog with respondents clearly indicated as competition-sensitive or proprietary will be handled appropriately. Proprietary information should be identified as such on each page. Interested parties should reply no later than 30 days from the posting of this RFI. Firms responding are requested to indicate whether they are, or are not, a small business, a small disadvantaged business, a women-owned business, an intra-government organization, a large business, or an education/non-profit organization. The size standard is 1,000 employees, NAICS 541710. This synopsis is a Request for Information only and does not constitute a commitment on the part of the Government to purchase or acquire systems or services. The Government will not reimburse response preparation expenses for this effort or pay for information requested herein. . If you have any questions, please direct them to Dr. Nancy Soper, Corporate Development Officer, AFRL Space Vehicles via email (nancy.soper@kirtland.af.mil). Responses to this RFI should be submitted via email to both Dr. Soper and to Helen Casillas (helen.casillas@kirtland.af.mil)or mail submittals in hard copy, or on a diskette in Microsoft Word format, to: Dr. Nancy Soper, AFRL/VS, Bldg 472 Room 201, 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5776, and to Helen Casillas, Det 8 AFRL/PKVS, 2251 Maxwell Ave SE, Bldg 426, Room 131, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5773

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