Saturday, April 18, 2015

Army Ft Belvoir seeks new small business SENSOR SERVICES (WEBS)

A--WARRIOR ENABLING BROAD SENSOR SERVICES (WEBS) ON RAMP
: W909MY15RWEBS

: Sources Sought
: Added: Apr 17, 2015 3:01 pm
 The Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) Belvoir Division (ACC-APG-Belvoir) is conducting Market Research on behalf of the Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Communication-Electronics Research, Development & Engineering Center (CERDEC), Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD). The
purpose of this Market Research is to conduct research in accordance with the on-ramp clause provided in the Warrior Enabling Broad Sensor Services (WEBS) contracts. The potential use of the on-ramp will provide an opportunity for additional viable business partners.


WEBS is a small business set aside, multiple award, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity, Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Fixed Price and Cost Plus Incentive Fee type contract. To be considered potential sources must be able to provide services that include, but are not limited to,
  • sensor research and development,
  • prototype sensor system fabrication,
  • sensor technology engineering,
  • administrative and operations support for night vision and electronic sensors systems, such as
    • field technology assistance,
    • test and evaluation, and
    • engineering support and services. 
These services will require personnel with scientific, engineering, analytical, computer programming, manufacturing, administrative, management and various other technical skills. Potential offerors must
be able to support the equipment, systems, facilities and operations under the responsibility of NVESD at Fort Belvoir and Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia and other locations both CONUS and OCONUS.

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The technological areas which the potential offerors may support include, but may not be limited to, the following:

  1. Identify new material growth and processing techniques that will yield high-resolution large-format cooled Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) that have reduced dark current, improved operability, and the ability to operate at high temperatures without loss of performance.
  2. Develop new techniques and processes for the growth and processing of very large area high performance cooled focal plane arrays (mega pixel size) using low cost substrates for IR sensors.
  3. Research, develop, demonstrate, and evaluate novel Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) for the inclusion in hyperspectral sensing systems.
  4. Research, develop, demonstrate, and evaluate high resolution, high dynamic range solid state visible/near IR low light focal plane imagers.
  5. Research, develop, demonstrate, and evaluate optical designs, materials and manufacturing processes with the goal of reducing cost, and size while maintaining optical performance in transmission and resolution.
  6. Research, develop, demonstrate, and evaluate micro displays and display modules suitable for low profile; high resolution mounted virtual imaging applications with the goal of decreasing power and improving display properties of contrast, luminance and color gamut.
  7. Develop models used in camouflage analysis, including models to predict the thermal signature and/or susceptibility of camouflage systems (e.g, nets) in deployed environments.
  8. Research, design, develop, test, and evaluate multi-functional lightweight laser components for supporting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) and soldier-based applications.
  9. Research in the areas of human signatures for military tactical, biomedical, and biometric applications.
  10. Develop, test, and evaluate primary and confirmatory standoff and close-in sensor technologies as well as developing signal-processing techniques specifically designed to identify the location of buried and non-buried explosive hazards in all environments.
  11. Develop, test, and evaluate hardware and software for the standoff defeat of buried, non-buried, and obscured explosive hazards in all environments?
  12. Research and engineering development, technology demonstration, prototype fabrication, sensor/aircraft integration, field testing and data collection to assist NVESD in accomplishing its mission to demonstrate and transition superior Intelligent Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to Army aviators.
  13. Develop the following technologies and/or capabilities:
    • - Cockpit displays to include Heads Up Displays
    • - Helmet mounted displays
    • - Real time image stitching and orthorectification
    • - On-board electronic image stabilization, data acquisition, and processing
    • - Passive/active systems and processing to detect hostile fire
    • - Passive/active systems and processing to detect wires and other man-made obstacles, providing warning, and guidance command (symbology) during clear/inclement weather conditions and/or through brownout/whiteout environments
    • - Large format focal plane arrays
    • - Image intensified (I2) imagers
    • - Cooled/Uncooled Infrared imagers
    • - HDTV and day TV imagers
    • - Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), scanning to form a 3D image and augmented with passive imagery
    • - Sensor fusion to include Radar and other sensor technologies
    • - Multi-Band Intelligent Fusion Algorithm
    • - High resolution plus step stare for maximum persistent area coverage for route reconnaissance and vehicle tracking
    • - Medium resolution plus step stare for enhanced RSTA - Search at recognition/Identification resolution
    • - Multiple Target Tracking in both Wide Field of View(WFOV) & Near Field of View (NFOV) Infrared (IR) Sensors
    • - Hostile Fire Detection for vehicles and fixed sites including small arms, RPGs and ATGMs
    • - Infrared Search and Track (IRST) algorithms for ground based systems
    • - Large format focal plane arrays for long range ground based situational awareness
    • - Threat sensor detection and countermeasures
    • - Multispectral Facial ID for handheld applications
  14. Explore sensor fusion to expand the limits of operation in Degraded Visual Environment (DVE), develop systems to pursue narrow-band LWIR atmospheric transmission windows in DVE; assess/increase the performance/penetration of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in DVE; assess/improve the SWAP-C, resolution and false alarm rate of radar systems; provide additional image-processing enhancements to include, but not be limited to, synthetic vision, image fusion, additional DVE symbology, and local area processing; and provide additional situational awareness through distributed aperture schemes and purpose-built pilotage sensors.
  15. Demonstrate a High Definition (HD) digital monocular Helmet Mounted Display (HMD) to overcome limitations imposed by the current analog, Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)-based Apache pilotage HMD and reduce Apache HMD operating and support cost.
  16. Develop algorithms and prototype hardware for sensor technologies designed for the detection of buried high and low metal Anti-Tank (AT) landmines, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), and triggering devices.
  17. Support the integration and modification of existing sensor technology into Soldier and vehicle platforms to provide the Warfighter with advanced sensor technologies capable of improving standoff distances and situational awareness  
Responses to this Sources Sought are due no later than 4:00 PM EST (local time at Fort Belvoir, VA) on 01 May 2015. Email responses should not exceed 5 Megabytes (MB). Responses received after this date and time may not be reviewed. Acknowledgement of receipt will be issued if requested. The subject of the email message shall be: W909MY15RWEBS-Your Company's Name. All requests for further information must be in writing and via email; telephonic requests for additional information
will not be honored.

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