16--PRODUCTION AND SUSTAINMENT FOR WEAPONS FIRE DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR GROUND AND AERIAL EMPLOYMENT

THIS IS FOR INFORMATION GATHERING PURPOSES ONLY. The Government is investigating possible sources for the production and sustainment of a weapons fire detection and identification system for ground and aerial employment. This system must include a sensing, processing, display, and a wired and/or wireless information dissemination capability and a computer-based training capability for sustainment training in the field. The system must provide real-time detection, classification, and location of weapons firings based on their infrared signatures with minimum false alarms. The sensor portion of the system must meet the space, weight, and power requirements of current and future military medium range unmanned aerial vehicles. A single sensor must be capable of detections in a 90 degree field of view minimum and have the ability to interoperate with other sensors to provide 360 degrees of coverage. The system must detect, identify, and locate small arms, mortars, rocket propelled grenades, man-portable anti-aircraft weapons, tanks, and artillery. System must provide real-time display of fired munitions and capable of dissemination of the information detected via existing voice and/or data military architectures using the appropriate USMTF message format. Anti-tampering hardware and software must be integrated into the design. The system must be adaptable to mount on a HMMWV, other military ground vehicles, towers, tripods, aerostats, or aircraft and operate on 18-36 Volt DC power. Respondents to this sources sought must provide performance data for their candidate system. Should the Government decide to further pursue this requirement, respondents should be prepared to demonstrate performance of their system in a ground employment configuration against government selected targets from the above list at a government test range within 30 days of notification. The Government will be responsible for range and target availability. In addition, respondents must demonstrate a production capability for 1 to 25 systems within 180 days of initial order and the ability to perform training and sustainment functions at worldwide locations.