RFI/Sources Sought United States Army (U.S. Army) Rotary Wing Contingency Communications System (RWCC) Service
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Level of Government: | Federal |
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Opps ID: | NBD00159538892252570 |
Posted Date: | Feb 22, 2024 |
Due Date: | Mar 7, 2024 |
Source: | https://sam.gov/opp/7f8f76b81d... |
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- Contract Opportunity Type: Sources Sought (Original)
- All Dates/Times are: (UTC-05:00) EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NEW YORK, USA
- Original Published Date: Feb 22, 2024 03:23 pm EST
- Original Response Date: Mar 07, 2024 05:00 pm EST
- Inactive Policy: Manual
- Original Inactive Date: Dec 31, 2024
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Initiative:
- None
- Original Set Aside:
- Product Service Code: DG11 - IT AND TELECOM - NETWORK: TELECOM ACCESS SERVICES
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NAICS Code:
- 517410 - Satellite Telecommunications
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Place of Performance:
Washington , DCUSA
A. United States Army (U.S. Army) Rotary Wing Contingency Communications System (RWCC) requires Ku-Band services for through-the-rotors, airborne broadband SATCOM. Managed Ku-Band SIMOP subscription service and the required teleport hosted Net Aggregation and ISP access will provide communications for Senior Department of Defense (DoD) personnel during critical U.S. Army support for critical DoD missions while onboard U.S. Army aircraft. These SIMOPs will provide helicopter passengers uninterruptible and seamless connectivity to DoD networks like that available in their office environments while in flight within a coverage area of 250 nautical miles around the National Capital Region (NCR) (CONUS Only). This managed SIMOP service must allow the US Army to port SIMOP subscriptions between multiple aircraft as determined by U.S. Army mission needs.
B. The US Army Aircraft also utilize a Net Agility SDWAN Cellular System, including PacStar Chassis, PacStar 451, PacStar 444, & Cradelpoint IBR900 (x2) hardware as part of its network architecture, which also requires teleport services including Net Agility Data Aggregation using a cloud-based virtual software-defined networking (vSDN) platform, bridging disparate networks (data streams from cellular networks) and distributed cloud resources to enable robust and resilient connectivity, providing simultaneous routes for bonded packets over all available communications links, both COMSATCOM and cellular data streams, providing a powerful and responsive solution, and will rely on the contractor's existing Internet Service Provider (ISP) for access to the internet for data, voice, and video calls (VTC).
C. The anticipated timeframe for service start is 01 Jul 2024.
- CP 310 744 5804 14850 CONFERENCE CENTER DR
- CHANTILLY , VA 20151
- USA
- Venita Allen
- venita.allen@spaceforce.mil
- John Seacrist
- john.seacrist@spaceforce.mil
- Phone Number 814.541.0609
- Feb 22, 2024 03:23 pm ESTSources Sought (Original)
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