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1.0 Purpose The purpose of this special notice is to gain knowledge of and help the Government understand vendor interest in participating in a series of Performance & Interoperability Quick-looks to include: Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) SIQ, Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) WIQ, and Mobile Users Objective System (MUOS) MIQ. Information gathered from this survey will assist the government in determining personnel resources and specific test schedules required to assist vendor in these Performance & Interoperability Quick-look events. These quick-look events allow vendors from both government-funded and internal R&D-funded programs to test their products with the networking waveform reference standard and other network terminals. This enables multiple procurement sources ensuring a mature marketplace for SRW, WNW and MUOS terminals. 2.0 Background The Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC) envisions supporting vendors interested in participating in the SIQ, WIQ and MIQs in order to evaluate and facilitate vendor participation in future key test events, including Network Integration Evaluation (NIE 14.1/14.2) and MUOS End-to-End test events. The plan is to allow vendors the opportunity to test their platforms against the SRW, WNW, and MUOS reference Implementations in a multi-vendor radio network. Each event (SIQ, WIQ and MIQ) is planned to be conducted in two phases. Phase I will be performed in a laboratory environment which will establish the baseline reference implementation to compare to each vendors host radio platforms. Phase II may include an evaluation of interoperability in a multi-vendor radio network with Over-The-Air Testing (OTA). The Phase I plan is to conduct test events starting with SRW in May 2013 in Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG) in Aberdeen, MD, WNW in June 2013, which may be conducted entirely at either APG or SPAWAR Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic in Charleston, SC, or at both facilities, and MUOS in July 2013 at SSC Pacific in San Diego, CA. The Government may conduct Phase II (Dates TBD) at various locations, to include, Fort Huachuca, AZ, Fort Dix, NJ and/or White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), NM. Phase II is intended to include an OTA multi-tier network architecture. 3.0 Entrance Criteria Vendors will be required to provide radio quantities, with ported waveform versions as follows: SIQ: Five (5) required [seven (7) desired] radios; running SRW version 1.01.1C, 1.01.2, 1.1.1 or 1.1.1.1 WIQ: Five (5) required [seven (7) desired] radios; running WNW version 4.0.5.1 (or later) MIQ: Two (2) radios; running MUOS version 3.1 Each interoperability Quick-look participant/vendor must provide all necessary ancillaries to operate the radio platforms, i.e., handsets, data interface cables, power cables for each variant. Each of the platforms must provide a plan to address and implement COMSEC and TRANSEC requirements. A vendors implementation must be compliant with the relevant waveform Configuration Capability Package (CCP). These SRW, WNW, and MUOS CCPs will be published and available in the applicable SRW, WNW, or MUOS Information Repository (IR) storefront. Any questions regarding these events and/or entrance criteria should be addressed with the JTNC Government Technical Point of Contact (TPOC), Mr. Greg Adams, at [email protected] or at 619-524-5794. 4.0 Requested Information Interested vendors are invited to submit their system capabilities of their prospective software/hardware. If a vendor is interested in participating in any of the subject test events but is not able to meet the entrance criteria as stated above, please contact the TPOC for further guidance or available options. 5.0 Submission Instructions and Format Interested Vendors are invited to respond to this market survey by providing the following information: (1) Name and address of applicant/company (Corporate/Principal Office) (2) Name, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of point of contact (3) Completed Information Assurance Questionnaire (MS Office Excel File) This is not a request for proposals. Please do not submit proposals at this time. JTNC is only seeking sources through market research at this time to determine industry interest in participating in these Key Test Events and the availability of non-developmental capabilities. The Government does not make any promise or guarantee that by submitting a response to this notice that the interested vendor will be selected to participate in any of these Events. Government will respect proprietary markings submitted for this market survey. Government requests contractor to segregate and mark proprietary documents accordingly. Acknowledgement of receipt will not be made. Availability of any formal solicitation will be announced separately. The Government will not pay for any materials provided in response to this market survey or any follow-up information requests. Submittals will not be returned to the sender. 6.0 Submission Submission may be in contractor format and compatible with MS Office Word or Adobe PDF format. Completed responses to the RFI must be in MS Office Excel or Adobe PDF format. All documents should be submitted by email no later than 4:00 PDT on 22 March, 2013 to [email protected] Contracting Office Address: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Bldg. 7, 33050 Nixie Way San Diego, CA, 92147 United States Primary Point of Contact: Diane Thornewell Contracting Officer [email protected] Phone: (619) 524-6378

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