DOT Volpe Center continues JHU/APL for ADS-B & TCAS support

Support Services for Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) and Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) programs. - DTRT5714Q80075 - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities

The United States Department of Transportation (DOT), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center), located in Cambridge, MA, under the statutory authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(3), and FAR Part 6, paragraph 6.302-3{a)(2)(ii), intends to award a contract on a non-competitive basis to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL).

ADS-B supports NEXTGEN

TCAS enhances Flight Safety

The objective of this procurement is to acquire the essential services of JHU/APL to provide support to the Volpe Center's efforts on the Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) and  Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) programs. The Government's minimum need is twofold:

1. to continue with in-service management, Air Traffic Control (ATC) and cockpit applications and programmatic  (common) support in the implementation of ADS-B and broadcast services
   as the replacement for current secondary radar in the National Airspace  System (NAS) that supports the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Surveillance and Broadcast Services (SBS) Program Office; and
2. advance the TCAS as the primary, flight deck-based, anti-collision system.

Background

Cyber Operations Aviation Safety

For more than a decade, APL has supported the development of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), the next-generation airborne surveillance and cockpit avionics technology. APL participated in development of the system specifications, performed modeling and analysis of Air Traffic Control safe separation between aircraft with ADS-B, validated ADS-B system requirements, developed requirements for legacy FAA automation systems integration with ADS-B, served on
international standards committees, and created the performance monitor for the national ADS-B system. As a result, APL is part of a 26-organization team that received the 2007 Collier Trophy, awarded annually by the National Aeronautic Association “for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual
use during the preceding year."


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