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SSC Pacific provides systems engineering, development, integration,
test, and life-cycle support for the Customs and Border Patrol Maritime
Detection Project. As part of that effort, SSC Pacific is responsible
for installing and testing this system in the Buffalo, New York area.
This is a performance based service acquisition to provide engineering
services to support the Maritime Detection Project (MDP). The contractor
shall install radar and microwave mounts and antennas at three sites in
the Buffalo, New York area on three towers (BUN-010, BUN-011, and
BUN-013). The contractor shall: Fabricate, integrate, assemble, and
install mechanical hardware required in the development, test, and
deployment of maritime and littoral area surveillance, and autonomous
and non-autonomous systems and subsystems.
Previously/Background:
Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online AIS Passage Maps
NWS radar image from Buffalo, NY
CBP wants radar to track vessels on Lake Erie and snowmobilers crossing the ice | Government Security News
Tue, 2011-03-22 10:31 AM
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Snowmobilers on
frozen Lake Erie
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Customs and Border Protection is developing a plan to install
maritime radar systems in at least four different locations along the
shores of Lake Erie, near Buffalo, NY, to be able to detect and identify
vessels moving through the water as well as snowmobiles, jet skis and
other personal vehicles that can travel across the ice when Lake Erie
freezes.
The goal is to improve the “marine domain awareness”
that the U.S. Border Patrol tries to maintain in its Buffalo area of
responsibility, which includes the western part of New York State,
extending from the international border with Canada in the north to the
State of Pennsylvania in the south.
Maritime Radar_Northern Border - RFI_AMDA_MarRad - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities
Three
primary threats along the Northern Border are terrorism, drug
trafficking, and illegal immigration. The Operational Integration and
Analysis Directorate (OIAD), within CBP's Office of Technology
Innovation and Acquisition (OTIA), sponsored a number of user workshops
to identify and prioritize Northern Border capability gaps. Mission
needs were gathered through an iterative process during user workshops
with operators from the Office of Field Operations (OFO), the Office of
Air and Marine (OAM), the Office of Border Patrol (OBP) and the Office
of Intelligence and Operations Coordination (OIOC) that directly support
the Buffalo Area of Responsibility (
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/border_security/border_patrol/border_patrol_sectors/).
CBP designated experienced users to support the mission needs and
requirements generation process. The Northern Border Air and Marine
Domain Awareness (AMDA) Project was created as a result of this process.
The AMDA Project includes a portfolio of sub-projects. One of the
sub-projects is the Maritime Detection Sub-Project. This Maritime
Detection Sub-Project will provide an initial operational capability, as
well as an opportunity to assess available technologies, refine
operational requirements and further develop concepts of operation for
Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA).
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| Ehresmann Engineering Monopole |
For the purposes of this RFI, the maritime detection capability should
ensure coverage at the locations identified in Table 1, with priority on the
eastern part of Lake Erie and the western part of Lake Ontario. This prioritized area that extends from the
United States coastline to the international boundary line is referred to as
the AoR throughout the requirements section of this document. As previously mentioned, the AoI includes
areas from the United States coastline to the Canadian coastline. Three locations will involve deployment of
the radar sensor on existing structures.
Since there are no existing structures for the fourth location, the
government intends to provide a tower as Government-Furnished Equipment
(GFE). The tower is an 80 ft. monopolemanufactured by Ehresmann Engineering, Inc., and is currently in CBP
inventory. For the purpose of estimating
the cost for this RFI, assume that the Government will also provide for
shipping and erection of the monopole at the proposed location (Table 1, site
3).
Table 1: Notional Proposed System Locations
Sites
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Location
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Existing Infrastructure
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Lake
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Priority
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1
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Sturgeon Point (Town of Evans)
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Infrastructure exists - Erie County Water Authority
(approximately 20 ft building atop a 30 ft bluff)
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Erie
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High
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2
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NRG Plant (Dunkirk, NY)
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Existing Buillding
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Erie
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High
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3
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Ripley Beach area
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None (requires deployment of a tower)
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Erie
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High
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4
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North East, PA in the vicinity of
State Route 5 (East Lake Rd.) and State Route 89 (Freeport Rd.)
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Existing building
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Erie
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High
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The Buffalo AoR climate is influenced by both a northern location and
proximity to the Great Lakes. Winters in
the Buffalo AoR are generally cold with heavy snow, and often windy, but can
vary to include frequent thaws and rain as well. Winters span from mid-November to mid-March
and snow covers the ground more often than not from late December into early
March. The coldest month of the year is
January, with an average high temperature of approximately 31 degrees Fahrenheit
and an approximate average low of 17 degrees Fahrenheit. Any system that operates in this AoR must be
able to withstand cold temperatures for extended periods of time. The system must be able to operate not only
at the stated average temperatures, but also at the high and low temperatures
typically experienced in the AoR.
Additionally, the system should be able to operate, and must be able to
survive without damage, the infrequent record-high and record-low temperatures
of the AoR.
When the Great Lakes freeze, as they often do in the winter, surface
forms of transportation such as snowmobiles are able to cross the lakes into
the U.S. Lake Erie, being the shallowest of the Great Lakes, is the most likely
to freeze and frequently does. Lake
Ontario, while less likely to freeze over entirely, still develops an ice sheet
covering between 10% and 90% of the lake area depending on the severity of the
winter. Ice sheets typically form along
the shoreline and in slack water bays, where the lake is not as deep. This freezing of the Great Lakes increases
the number of SToI types that the system must be able to address.
MISSION REQUIREMENTS
Objective 1.1 in CBP's 2009-2014 Strategic Plan states that CBP must:
"Establish and maintain effective control of air, land, and maritime
borders through the use of the appropriate mix of infrastructure, technology
and personnel. A segment of the border
between POEs [Ports of Entry] is considered under effective control when CBP
can simultaneously and consistently achieve the following: (1) detect illegal
entries into the United States; (2) identify and classify these entries to
determine the level of threat involved; (3) efficiently and effectively respond
to these entries; and (4) bring each event to a satisfactory law enforcement
resolution."
In order to achieve effective control, CBP utilizes infrastructure,
technology and personnel in support of its key mission elements, presented
below in Table 2. The mission elements directly
supported by the contemplated Maritime Detection And Domain Awareness
capability are highlighted in grey.
Table 2: CBP Mission Elements
Mission Element
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Definition
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Deter
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To dissuade illegal cross
border activity into and out of the United States by creating and conveying a
certainty of immediate interdiction upon entry
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Detect
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To discover a possible
Surface Target of Interest (SToI)*
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Identify/Classify
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To determine whether a SToI
is a human, conveyance, or unknown and the associated level of threat. For the purposes of maritime detection,
identification focuses on key characteristics of the conveyance detected.
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Track
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To follow the
progress/movements of an SToI
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Respond
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To dispatch or employ law
enforcement resources to address an SToI
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Resolve
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To take final CBP action,
whether law enforcement action, administrative, or otherwise. This includes capture data, process
information, etc.
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*Note: For the purposes of maritime detection, SToIs include all
maritime conveyances ranging from personal conveyances (such as personal jet
skis, go fast boats, pontoon boats, snowmobiles and all terrain vehicles) to
large container ships.
OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
The initial operational capability (IOC) of the system includes the
following:
- •A.) The system shall provide
CBP agents with the ability to detect, track and classify SToIs within the AoI
during day and night operations; and
- •B.) The system shall provide
a common display of SToI data in near real time at OBP Sector IBCC (primary)
and OBP Buffalo Station (secondary).
