Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) – Orlando, TSD intends to issue a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract to Advanced Systems Technologies, Inc.(AST) on a sole source basis. This FFP contract will provide for the follow-on phase of a multi-phased effort for training product development for the SubSkillsNet project. SubSkillsNet is a family of part-task trainers under development at NAVAIR Orlando that focus on tactics, navigation and piloting, collision avoidance, classification of sonar contact information and contact target motion analysis (TMA). Each trainer is designed to run individually as a single task trainer or networked with other SubSkillsNet trainers to provide a low-cost team training capability. There are currently over two-dozen unique applications that have been delivered to the fleet. The SubSkillsNet software was developed by AST under Navy oversight. NAVAIR Orlando TSD has identified requirements for several related products that must be completed in the near term. These products fall into the SubSkillsNet family and add increased functionality to the networked training system. A set of personal computer (PC)-based part-task training software products shall be updated, along with materials to support the training of piloting and navigation teams. The contractor will be required to provide qualified personnel to upgrade and integrate the individual part-task training software training products for the SubSkillsNet to form a multi-use team trainer and will continue designing, developing, documenting, and testing each of the twelve (12) SubSkillsNet components described in the Statement of Work (SOW). The delivery schedule for these components ranges from 1 month to 13 months. The work will be conducted on site at the NAVAIR Orlando DeFlorez building to be coincident with the laboratory and test facility. Some integration tasks will be conducted at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Carderock MD, the Naval Submarine Base in Groton CT, and at Lockheed Martin in Manassas VA. All personnel working on this project must have Security Clearances at the Secret Level. The following list contains the specialized skills required to develop and maintain SubSkillsNet, VISIT, and PMOBT applications. · Sufficient knowledge of and experience with the NMEA 0183 interface to extend the SubSkillsNet/VMS real-time data communication. Since NMEA 0183 is a serial protocol, this knowledge also extends to familiarity with virtual serial port software. · The capability to write software to read, process, and write Digital Nautical Chart data (DNC) and Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED). · Knowledge of and experience with SQL, XML, HTML and PSP sufficient to create dynamic databases, generate documentation, and maintain a website. · Extensive knowledge of and experience with TCP/IP programming, especially as it relates to interfacing to the Common Basic Operator Trainer (CBOT), the Sonar Basic Operator Trainer (SBOT), and the Naiad library high-level networking functions used throughout the SubSkillsNet product line. · Ability to implement DIS protocol data units (PDUs), standard and experimental, to create real-time visualizations of ocean surface, underwater, ships, navigation aids, and landmass. · Experience with hardware and software interfaces to servo-digital converters and custom USB boards. · Experience with MicroSoft Visual Studio C++ IDE, InstallShield, Visual Source Safe, 3D Studio Max, DirectX9 (sound, interface, and 3D) · Familiarity and experience with creating surface ship, submarine, and aircraft spherical photographs. This process requires professional photography skills using specialized equipment and subsequent digital editing and “stitching” of adjacent photographs to create each spherical node. Also required is knowledge of maintaining and extending 3D rendering software that projects each resulting image file onto a flat display surface. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. After reviewing the above information, interested parties that believe they are technically capable of meeting all of these requirements, including the delivery schedules, may provide a technical capabilities statement with sufficient technical information to allow for an evaluation of the company’s ability to meet the Government’s requirements. Please provide the technical capabilities statement to the Contracting Officer, Patricia Neal (Davenport), at [email protected] , FAX 407-380-4164, Phone 407-380-4064, as soon as possible, but NLT 22 April 2005. NAVAIR Orlando, TSC, will consider all responses.

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