PROTOTYPE HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP (HITL) SIMULATOR DEVELOPMENT

Special Notice N0016421SNB30 Agency: Department of the Navy Office: Naval Sea Systems Command Location: NSWC Crane Division Classification Code: AJ13 - General Science & Technology R&D Services NAICS Code: 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) Response Due Date: 2/26/2021 Request for Solutions: PROTOTYPE HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP (HITL) SIMULATOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSE This Request for Solutions (RFS) is issued to seek prototype support to address Modeling & Simulation (M&S) issues in the area of countermeasures and countermeasure techniques to protect U.S. aircraft from threat missile systems. The threat environment is changing at an ever-increasing rate. This reality requires the capability to respond rapidly to new threat missile systems. This cannot be done without an efficient means of developing prototype models, simulators, countermeasures, and countermeasure techniques. The advent of each new threat missile system triggers the requirement for the development of multiple new prototype systems. These requirements cannot be met without an efficient, flexible acquisition strategy. The Government will evaluate the solutions with the intent of awarding an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) in accordance with 10 U.S. Code - 2371b. BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY S2MARTS Vendors interested in responding to this RFS must be members of the Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS) consortium. Interested parties may visit S2MARTS.org for membership information. This project will be managed by a Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division Project Manager. PROJECT OVERVIEW The Government requires a suite of Test & Evaluation (T&E) ready simulators for threat exploitation and countermeasure development that have been fully documented, verified, validated, and accredited. Prototype simulators will be sufficiently documented to allow routine replication of the prototypes in response to run capacity requirements. Given the increasing rate of threat development, in order to maintain robust protection of our aircraft and aircrews, the Government requires support for prototype HITL simulator development. The desired end-state objective of this RFS is to have one or more Performers fully integrated in all aspects of HITL Simulator development with the Government. Below, the various phases of HITL simulator development are outlined. Please visit the S2MARTS website at https://s2marts.org/ to review the full RFS. Contracting Office Address: 300 Hwy 361 Crane, IN 47522 United States Primary Point of Contact.: Heather Krout heather.krout@navy.mil Phone: 812-854-3298 Secondary Point of Contact: Don Davis donal.davis@navy.mil Phone: 812-854-3709