Questions and Responses 24AUG2026_Amendment 0006.xlsx

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(a) load-handling tasks,

(b) cabin ingress/egress activities,

(c) crew coordination functions,

(d) personnel positioning, and

(e) equipment placement.

For each identified task, please specify whether it requires direct physical interaction by the trainee (and therefore requires physical hardware in either the HTS or D-HTS) or may instead be represented through mixed-reality technologies. Please identify any USCG Standardization qualification, currency, or misison-essential training events intended to be supported.

Please refer to the revised SOW section 2.2.k for the HTS and section 2.3.n for the D-HTS incorporated as part of Amendment 0006.

The Government will not release specific internal USCG training syllabi, curriculum pathways, or organizational qualification events as part of this solicitation, but instead requires the Hoist Training Simulator (HTS) and Deployable Hoist Training Simulator (D-HTS) to deliver the objective hardware, physics, and environmental capabilities defined in the Statement of Work (SOW) using the FAA Part 60 (Level 7 FTD) standard as a baseline for the flight model, environmental rendering, and system latency. To support these capabilities, the fixed HTS/D-HTS must utilize a physical cabin mock-up integrated with a dynamic overhead mechanical gantry to physically replicate dynamic pendulum swing and variable vertical cable tension and Mixed-Reality (MR) visual physics to simulate cable swing while maintaining a physically accurate door frame, step, and tether points. Across both systems, physical hardware is strictly required for direct tactile interactions—including a replica hoist control pendant with realistic spring-centering and variable speed, load-bearing cabin floors, door sills, fully rated safety harness (gunner's belt) tether anchor points in the cabin ceiling, and a physical Intercom System (ICS) cord and hoist control panels. MR technologies may be used to represent the external environment (such as height above surface, water spray, terrain, airframe exterior, and target vessels with wave-induced pitch/roll or relative underway motion) and the aerodynamic drag, wind slipstream, and trajectory behaviors of the payload once clear of the cabin door frame, provided that the integrated physics engine and instructor software maintain the technical capability to simulate emergency procedures including fouled or snagged cables (triggering physical tension lockup), and runaway hoists (uncommanded payout/inhaul).

4 SOW The SOW describes the HTS as a "full-size, immersive, mixed-reality hoist trainer replicating the MH-60T cabin environment," but does not specify dimensional requirements or identify which cabin features require physical replication versus mixed-reality representation. Please identify:

(a) the minimum physical cabin dimensions required, including cabin length, width, height, cabin door opening dimensions and usable floor area;

(b) for each of the following cabin elements, whether physical replication is required or mixed-reality representation is acceptable; seating, litter stanchions, rescue equipment stowage locations, swimmer entry area, cabin floor, cabin threshold, door structure, hoist operator station, hoist controls, rescue basket interface, litter interface, and rescue swimmer interface and

(c) whether the Government requires replication of the entire MH-60T cabin, or only those areas necessary to support flight mechanic, rescue swimmer, litter, rescue basket, and equipment transition training during hoist operations.

(b) If contractor-defined interfaces are permitted, will open interface documentation be required to support future Government integration efforts?

(c) Does the Government intend or require the HTS and D-HTS to interoperate with any FTD other than the one acquired through this solicitation?

(d) How will the interoperability compliance be validated during FAT and SAT?

(a) What is the maximum palletized height?

(b) What is the maximum fully configured operating height?

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