Added: April 9, 2008
The Army Contracting Agency, White Sands Missile Range Directorate of Contracting intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with SciTech, Inc., 100 Wall Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-1523 to provide on-going support for the Joint Mobile Infrared Countermeasures Test System (JMITS)developed under Army contract W9124Q-04-C-0225. SciTec was the original developer of the JMITS systems. As a result of this development, SciTec possesses a unique knowledge of the design and operation of the JMITS system that no known source possess. Major components within the JMITS system that are of unique SciTec design are the UV and infrared (IR) emitters, the jam beam laser radiometers, the down range UV and IR radiometers and the data acquisition units. Additionally, the real-time operating software that controls the JMITS system is of SciTec design. The software represents on the order of 1M lines of code including embedded machine code; code developed using higher level languages and programming environments such as C++, MatLab and TENA. Communication between the different hardware components and control computers is accomplished over a proprietary high speed serial communications link, standard ETHERNET and WiFi links. Many of the non-real time code elements within the JMITS library contain unique algorithms and techniques needed to process and format the data that is shared among the JMITS components in the process of generating a missile warning system (MWS) signature and analyzing the data produced in a test run. Re-engineering this code could result in unreliable JMITS performance, and could invalidate the system as an operational test (OT) test resource.
Any work performed on the JMITS systems to include maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and producing duplicate systems/components must maintain commonality, interoperability, configuration control, validation, and uniform methodologies, procedures and processes within the overall JMITS architecture.
The following represent SciTec unique capabilities that were a direct result from the JMITS development:
" Unique optical and electro-mechanical designs in UV and IR emitters
" Proprietary emitter and radiometer operating/control firmware
" Proprietary and specialized real-time operating and control software
The following represent specialized knowledge critical to JMITS operations available from SciTec:
" UV and IR missile simulation development
" UV and IR radiometry related to missile signatures
" Jam laser radiometry and signal processing
" Extensive MWS testing, missile signature collection and associated data processing and analysis
" Missile flight and signature models; atmospheric and range corrections to missile signatures
The JMITS now represents a unique resource that is critical to ongoing service and non-DoD aircraft survivability enhancement programs. The JMITS system is specifically called out as a critical test resource in the Test and Master Plan (TEMP) for several programs and is slated for testing with many DoD programs. Many of these programs have time sensitive, schedule-driven events that require a very high reliability and availability rate from JMITS. Accordingly, the Government must have the capability for quick turn-around for maintenance and support. The Government must also perform continuing upgrades and improvements to the JMITS system in order to respond to evolving system under test (SUT) capacities and test requirements.
A cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) award is anticipated. The Government intends to issue only this single notice under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(i) - Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.Interested concerns may identify their capabilities by submitting a capability statement that demonstrates in written narrative format their ability to meet the requirement and objectives as described in this synopsis.Capability statements may be e-mailed to mindy.franklin@us.army.mil. Any interested sources will be referred to the program, and their capabilities will be evaluated, documented and considered. This notice is not a request for proposals.
