Airborne Data Recorders

LOCATION: 412 Test Engineering Group/Edwards AFB CA 93524 TITLE: IRIG-106 Airborne/Ground Data Recorders Products, Sustainment, Upgrade/Enhancement and Repair THIS IS A MARKET SURVEY FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPISIS. NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE FOR ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS SYNOPSIS OR ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION REQUESTS. THE PURPOSE OF THIS SYNOPSIS IS TO SEEK POTENTIALY QUALIFIED SOURCES AND THEIR SIZE CLASSIFICATIONS (SMALL BUSINESS, LARGE BUSINESS, ETC.). PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST A COPY OF A SOLICITATION, AS ONE DOES NOT EXIST. 1. Purpose. This is a sources sought synopsis as part of Market Research being conducted by the United States Air Force to identify potential sources for one or more anticipated Airborne Data Recorder supply and services contracts. 2. Requirement. The AFTC , 412 Test Engineering Group (TENG), Edwards AFB is seeking information and comments from offerors who can provide non-developmental, production ready IRIG-106 compatible Airborne Data Recorders suitable for use in high performance military test aircraft, and sustainment services for both new and legacy airborne data recorder products. The Airborne Data Recorders compatibility with Range Commanders Council document Inter-Range Instrumentation Group (IRIG) Standard 106, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11 is required. Backwards compatibility with previous releases of IRIG 106, Chapters 9 and 10 is required. Compatibility with IRIG-106 Telemetry Network Standard (Chapters 21 thru 28) is highly desirable. Continued compatibility must be ensured. The IRIG is the standards body of the Range Commanders Council whose primary mission is to provide data interoperability across test organizations. The data interoperability interface is critical to the success of this acquisition. The airborne data recorders must be capable of simultaneous high speed recording from many combinations and many types of data (digital, analog, audio, video, and busses) on the military test aircraft (e.g. PCM, Mil-Std-1553, Mil-Std-1760, Fibre Channel, IEEE 1394b, RS-170/NTSC, DVI, S-video, VGA, RGBHV, RS-343, Discrete Logic Level Hi/Lo, Digital Audio, Universal Serial Bus, Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, RS232/422/485, ARINC 429, ARINC 664, ARINC 708, SCSI, SATA, etc.), as well as be capable of delivering that data output at high speed after the recording mission. Offerors will be required to have demonstrated experience and expertise in supporting legacy product, providing system enhancements and upgrades, repair, technical support, and retrofit for hardware, firmware, and software products as necessary. The offerors will be required to have demonstrated experience and expertise in supporting new technical recording requirements including but not limited to new data types that will be defined in future publications of RCC IRIG 106, Chapters 9, 10, and 11, as well as supporting higher data rates and greater storage capacity as they become necessary. Capability to support new TmNS technical recording requirements in RCC IRIG 106 Chapters 21-28 is highly desired. Legacy airborne data recorder products to be supported include recorders and recorder modules provided by Ampex, Calculex, Curtis-Wright / Teletronics Technology Corporation, and Zodiac (Heim/ENERTEC) Data Systems . Offerors shall comment on their ability to perform the required services on the products of these manufacturers. Products Airborne Data Recorders and components Services System Enhancement/Upgrade to enhance the capabilities of products provided under contract. Repair/Retrofit/Analysis of products provided under contract and of legacy products in order to restore intended function and to determine cause of failure. Technical Support and Field Service in order to assist with proper installation, operation, and maintenance. Offerors shall comment upon their ability to provide airworthiness documentation consistent with airworthiness criteria found in Mil-Hdbk-516c, their data system volatile and non-volatile memory, their Supply Chain Integrity processes for both hardware and software, and their Quality Assurance processes and certifications, if any. 3. Information requested. The Government requests interested offerors that can fully provide and support this requirement furnish the following information: - A. Company name, address, points of contact, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. - B. Information should include a brief description of experience in providing the type of products and services described above. Please include contract references relating to research and engineering expertise to include: contract number; agency supported, period of performance, original contract value, and Point of Contact (POC) with current phone number. The information package must be clear, concise, and complete. The Air Force is under no obligation to provide feedback to the company, or to contact the company for clarification of any information submitted in response to this request. - C. Identification of business size (small or large) and identify the socioeconomic disadvantaged category, as defined the Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR Part 19 and also currently listed in the System for Award Management (SAM). Small business size standards are published by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and may be found at www.sba.gov/size/sizetable2002.html. The potential North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes assigned to this procurement is 334511, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical and Nautical system and Instrument Manufacturing. - D. Any other information deemed useful to the Air Force. Information packages should be limited to no more than 3 pages. 4. Inquiries. Any qualified and interested companies responding to this announcement must be able to provide legacy equipment support. Partial support responses that do not include legacy support will not be accepted. All responses shall be forwarded to Bill Taylor, william.taylor.48@us.af.mil or call @ 661-277-1081, or to Grace Watson, divinagracia.watson@us.af.mil or call 661-275-4497. Response to this RFI no later than 17 June 2019.