A-Box SOW rev (004)_Redacted.pdf

STATEMENT OF WORK

for

Replacement of the

AN/MPN-14K Airport Surveillance Radar

(ASR)

The Indicator Control Box (C-8625/T) “A-Box”

Prepared by:

12 Apr 22

DRAFT

1. INTRODUCTION

The AN/MPN-14K Landing Control Central (LCC) is a tactical air traffic control system comprised of two equipment vans housing radar and associated communications and electronics equipment: The Precision Approach Radar (PAR)/Airport Surveillance Radar

(ASR) van and the Operational (OPS) van. The Indicator Control Box (C-8625T) “A-Box” interfaces physically and functionally with a segment of Interrogator Set AN/TPX-42

Identification Friend or Foe (IFF). It operates in conjunction with an indicator group to enable synthetic target symbols to be displayed on the indicator as determined by the controls located on its front panel assembly.

1.0 Problem Statement

1.1 Scope

The scope of this work statement is to develop, test, manufacture, and deploy a total of forty-eight (48) “A-Box” units, to include forty (40) production units, four (4) First Article

Test (FAT) units and four (4) spare units, along with the complete technical data package

(TDP). Upon completion of the FAT and acceptance by the Government/Program Office, the Contractor will assemble remaining units and will distribute them to the units and locations identified in Table 1. First article units will be removed and shipped to Tobyhanna

Army Depot (TYAD) and remain installed in the system mock-up and will not be considered production units. Additionally, the TDP and field-level maintenance instructions will be delivered to the ATCALS Program Office ten (10) days prior to start of full-rate production.

2. DESCRIPTION

The A-Box is physically mounted atop or near the display console depending upon specific radar site requirements. All controls and indicators required by the controller for the selection of data at this particular display console are contained on the front panel assembly. The rear panel contained the data and power connectors which interface the A-Box to system requirement.

The A-Box enables the operator to maintain control of the operation of his particular console and, to a limited degree, exercise some control over the system. The A-Box performs the following functions:

a. Supplies digital levels to the interrogator display for use in selection of display presentation.

b. Requests and displays interrogation modes.

c. Indicates system status and alarm states.

d. Selects display formats, bracket video, and target trails.

e. Selects position of displayed format.

f. Controls format and bracket video brightness.

All data on all aircraft in the terminal area carrying transponders, which are responding to the interrogations from the system transmitter, are available to each controller. The controller selects the information they desires by using switches and controls located on the front panel assembly of the A-

Box. The A-Box provides for mode selection (1C, 2C or 3C) to ensure that the Interrogator Set will cause the transmitter to send out the interrogations to the aircraft in the modes desired by the controller. Other controls (such as identity filter switches) permit the display of information on only those aircraft the operator is required to control. Additional alternative operational modes, controls and indications are also controlled through the A-Box.

The A-box is part of the Interrogator Set AN/TPX-42A(V), when integrated with an air traffic control

(GCA, RAPCON, or RATCC) radar provides numeric and symbolic displays of position, identity, altitude, emergency, communication failure, and hijack of aircraft in the terminal airspace on an operators

PPI display.

The Interrogator Set provides for the transmission, reception, and processing of identification friend or foe (IFF) signals. It identifies every replying transponder-equipped aircraft up to 200 nautical miles.

There are processing and storage capabilities for 128 aircraft within the radar coverage. The system automatically displays a center mark position symbol superimposed over the primary radar blip, shows the past three trail positions of the aircraft utilizing the target history, and moves two numeric lines of data, containing identity and altitude, along with the target.

It interfaces with the control indicator group to enable the control of the indicator functions. Controls digital levels of display presentations. Requests and displays interrogation modes. Indicates system status and alarm states. Selects display formats, bracket video, and target trails. Selects position of displayed format. Controls format and bracket video brightness. Normally mounted atop or beside display console.

3. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT/SPECIFICATION

Must function with ASR Flat Panel Indicator and associated TPX-42 Interrogator system.

Frame assembly sufficient to meet existing mechanical fit requirements

Graphics processor assembly

COTS flat panel display

Use of existing power and signal cables/harness (115 Vac ±10%, single phase, 60 Hz ±5%; 5 Vac at 2.1 amperes; 20 Vdc at 1.4 am-peres)

Maximum control sizing to avoid accidental presses

Chemical glove compatible

Numeric entry previously done via thumb wheels to be done using pop-up numeric entry dialog for ease and speed

Dark UI used for maximum visibility of illuminated controls

Sliders dialog instead of knob controls for ease of adjustability

Fit comfortably in a 12.1”16:9 display

STATE MEM button to access control state loading and saving

A-Box must contain the following front panel control and indicators

POSN Switch-Indicators-Two-position pushbutton switch permits the scan pulse from the

Indica-tor Group to interrogate the octal identity code contained in its associ-ated identity filter thumbwheel switches. When activated, switch en-ables generation of ″X″ symbol indicating a reported target position on the PPI. In addition, SCAN CODE and SCAN DISCRETE pulses can be sent to Indicator Group provided the CODE and D switch-indicators are activated, respectively.

D Switch Indicators-Two-position pushbutton switch is energized only when its associated

POSN switch is activated. When activated, switch enables generation of a SCAN DISCRETE pulse to the Indicator Group during the scan pulse for its associated identity filter thumbwheel switch. This SCAN DISCRETE pulse enables the Indicator Group to inspect for an identity match on all 4-octal digits of the identity filter thumbwheel switch. If the D switch-indicator is in the unactivated state, with the POSN switch activated, the Indicator Group ″block decodes″ (inspects only the two most significant octal digits to obtain an identity match).

CODE Switch-Indicators-Two-position pushbutton switch is energized only when its associated

POSN switch is activated. When activated, the switch enables generation of a SCAN CODE pulse to the Indicator Group during the scan pulse for its associated identity filter thumbwheel switch.

This SCAN CODE pulse enables the Indicator Group to display the identity numerics (if the identity matches) for its associated identity filter thumbwheel switch. In the unactivated stat, with an identity match, the identity numerics are not displayed.

Identity Filter Switches-Ten individual, switches provide capability of selecting maximum of ten aircraft identity codes. When activated by its associated POSN switch-indicator, the 4-digit octal code (12-bit binary code) is generated and sent to the Indicator Group for filtering purposes.

Upper Limit Switches-Ten-position, 3-digit binary-coded-decimal switches provide capability to select upper limit of altitude layer in 100-foot increments (000 to 999).

ALT FILT Switch Indicator-Two-position pushbutton switch, when activated enables generation of an ALT FILT signal to the Indicator Group. This ALT FILT signal enables the

Indicator Group to inspect target altitude data to determine if the target position is between the limits set by the UPPER LIMIT and LOWER LIMIT switches.

Lower Limit Switches-Ten-position, 3-digit binary-coded-decimal switches provide capability to select lower limit of altitude layer in 100-foot increments (000 to 999).

1, 2, 3A, C Indicator-Lamps illuminate (green) to indicate which interrogation modes are actually being transmitted by Receiver-Transmitter Group.

1, 2, 3A, C Indicator-Lamps illuminate (green) to indicate modes selected by the mode select switch S1.

1C, 2C, 3C Mode Select Switch-Three-position switch determines which mode interlace request is trans-mitted to Coder-Synchronizer SN-453/T as follows:

Switch Position Interlace

1C Mode 1 and Mode C

2C Mode 2 and Mode C

3C Mode 3A and Mode C

EMBER Indicator-Indicator Lamp flashes red for a target with an emergency condition as detected by Indicator Data Processor.

COMM FLR Indicator-Lamp flashes red to indicate a target with a communication failure condition as detected by Indicator Data Processor.

RANGE ERROR Indicator-Lamp flashes red when a range error condition is detected by

Interconnecting Group. If the range error condition is overridden by the RANGE ERROR/OVRD switch-indicator located on Interrogator Set Control, the lamp will continue to flash.

RDC RANGE Indicator-Lamp illuminates red to indicate a reduced range (150 to 100, or 100 to

60 nautical miles) condition as selected by the MAX RANGE switch located on Interrogator Set

Control.

INTERR Indicator-Lamp illuminates green to indicate RF interrogations are being trans-mitted by Receiver-Transmitter Group. Lamp extinguishes when Inter-connecting Group detects an error in either the transmitter, receiver, or video section of Receiver-Transmitter Group.

DEFRUIT Indicator-Lamp illuminates green when Interference Blanker has been switched into the system by Interrogator Set Control Lamp extinguishes when Interference Blanker is bypassed.

ALL A/C POSN Switch Indicator-Two-position pushbutton switch, when activated enables generation of an ALL A/C POSITION signal to the Indicator Group for purposes of generating small circle symbols for all targets not selected by identity filter thumbwheel switches.

ALL A/C CODE Switch Indicator-Two-position pushbutton switch is energized only when the

ALL A/C POSN switch-indicator is activated. When activated, switch S3 enables generation of an

ALL A/C CODE signal to the Indicator Group which generates identity numerics for all targets not selected by identity filter thumbwheel switches.

ALL A/C ALT Switch Indicator-Two-position pushbutton switch is energized only when the

ALL A/C POSN switch is activated. When activated, switch enables generation of a low-level

ALL A/C ALT signal to the Indicator Group which generates altitude numerics for all targets not selected by identity filter thumbwheel switches.

BRKST VIDEO Switch Indicator-Two-position pushbutton switch, when activated enables generation of a BRACKET ENABLE signal to the Indicator Group for purposes of permitting the bracket video from Video Signal Processor to be dis-played on the PPI.

TARGET TRAIL Switch Indicator-Two-position pushbutton switch, when activated enables generation of a TARGET TRAIL signal to the Indicator Group, which displays target trail history on PPI.

SELECT ALL Switch Indicator-Two-position pushbutton switch, when activated enables generation of a SELECT ALT signal to the Indicator Group, which displays altitude numerics on the PPI for those targets selected by the identity filter thumbwheel switches.

Format Display Select- Five-position toggle switch controls position of target format (identity and altitude numerics) on the PPI about the target symbol as follows:

Switch Position Interlace

N On top of symbol

S Below symbol

E To right of symbol

W To left of symbol

Center Superimposed on symbol

DIMMER Switch- Minimum-to-maximum lamp brightness is achieved by rotating switch clockwise from positions l through 4; position 5 (LAMP TEST) pro-vides maximum brightness of all indicators and illuminated switches for locating faulty lamps.

VIDEO BRIGHTNESS Control- Dual concentric potentiometer controls format video brightness (outside control) and bracket video brightness (inside control).

Audible Alarm Indicator (Internal)- Activates to indicate aircraft emergency or communication failure conditions as detected by the Indicator Data Processor. In addition, the alarm is activated when range error condition is detected by Interconnecting Group. When activated, alarm sounds three bursts (1 second on/off).

Indicator Control (A-Box)

Indicator Control (A-Box) Front Panel DRAFT

Target Display Legend

4. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The period of performance for this effort shall be 12 months after contract award. In the event an extension is required, the request will be worked through the Contracting Officer.

5. QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Contractor shall establish and maintain a documented quality system that, at a minimum is compliant with the requirements of ANSI/ISO/ASQ Q9001:2015, Quality Management

Systems Requirements or equivalent. The quality system shall address the Contractor’s processes for ensuring quality services, documentation, hardware and software. The quality system procedures, planning and all other documentation and data that comprise the quality system shall be made available to the Government/Program Office upon request.

6. CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBILITIES

4.0 Program Management

The Contractor shall maintain a formal organization to manage the contract/task order including program control, quality assurance, configuration management and security.

The Contractor shall assign a Program Manager to organize, plan, schedule, implement, control and report on all elements of the contract/task order. The Program Manager shall be prepared to discuss the status of contract activities with the Government/Program

Office at any time during normal business hours (8:00 am to 4:00 pm CST).

The Contractor’s Program Manager shall be identified to the Government/ATCALS

Program Office. The Contractor shall provide all necessary qualified personnel, management, non- personal administrative and technical services, materials and facilities to support the requirements of this SOW including shipping of completed units.

4.1 Meetings and Reports

a) Status Reports

The Contractor shall submit monthly status reports IAW (CDRL A001 DI-

MGMT-81928 Contractor’s Progress and Status Report) throughout the period of performance of the contract.

b) Program Management Reviews/Technical Interchange Meetings

The first Program Management Review/Technical Interchange Meeting

(PMR/TIM) shall be held in conjunction with the Kickoff Meeting and may be accomplished via telecon.

The purpose of the PMR is to discuss contract status, track and review outstanding action items, review potential and actual programmatic problem areas and proposed solutions, and track and discuss planned versus actual for schedule and performance.

The purpose of the TIM is to discuss specific technical activities, including but not limited to technical actions items, studies, test plans, test results, technical decisions, and implementation concerns to continue visibility into technical progress.

Additional PMRs/status update meetings shall be held per agreement determined by the Contractor and Government/Program Office.

The following schedule is provided as a recommended meeting schedule:

First four (4) months – monthly

Second four (4) months – bi-weekly/every other week

Final months – weekly until first units are produced and accepted

An agenda for each PMR/TIM shall be developed by the Contractor IAW (CDRL

A002 DI-ADMN-81249C Meeting Agenda). The Contractor shall provide a copy of the briefing package to the Government/Program Office electronically at least five

(5) calendar days before each PMR/TIM and a set of meeting minutes IAW

(CDRL A003 DI-ADMN-81250C Meeting Minutes) within five (5) days after the

PMR/TIM/meeting.

c) Informal Meetings

The Contractor shall support informal meetings at the request of the

Government/Program Office in the form of telecommunications – email and/or telecom. These may include short periodic meetings to determine status of the program and allow for the opportunity to address ongoing topics. This may also include more prompt meetings to discuss issues that need rapid feedback.

These informal meetings shall not require the delivery of meeting agendas, meeting minutes or presentation packages.

4.2 Schedule

The Contractor shall develop and provide a schedule outlining estimated dates for the completion of this effort. Items to be included on the schedule include but are not limited to – Critical Design Review, First Article Testing Date, Delivery dates for FAT units, Delivery dates for additional units, estimated shipping dates, meeting dates, and estimated completion date. Any deviations that may negatively impact the schedule shall be immediately reported to the Contracting Officer and the

Program Office.

Contractor format for the schedule will be acceptable but shall be in a

Microsoft electronic format such as Project or Excel.

7. First Article Test/Inspection

The Acceptance Test Procedure (ATP) for FAT testing shall be developed by the

Contractor and agreed upon by the Government/Program Office. The ATP is proposed to consist of basic operational tests of the FAT units, approval and review of TDP documentation and evaluation of four (4) units operationally working within a fielded location for 3 to 5 days. The “A-Boxes” must pass the ATP. The Contractor shall develop the ATP and provide it to the Government/Program Office for concurrence IAW (CDRL

A004 DI-QCIC-80553A/T Acceptance Test Procedures). Test requirements for the FAT shall be defined by the Contractor and approved by the Program Office. The Contractor shall plan to deliver the four (4) FAT units NLT 36 weeks (approximately 252 days) after contract award. The preferred location for the FAT is the 260th ATCS in Portsmouth, NH but may be changed by the Program Office if needed. The Program Office will strive to give the Contractor as much advance notice of the change as possible in the event the location is changed. The Contractor shall complete and deliver a FAT Trip Report IAW (CDRL A005

DI-MISC-81943 First Article Trip (FAT) Report) following the FAT installation test.

8. Production Units and Delivery

Upon acceptance of the FAT units by the Government/Program Office, the

Government/Program Office shall provide authorization to the Contractor to begin full rate production of the “A-Box” Units. Upon start, the Contractor shall provide an updated schedule

IAW (CDRL A006 DI-MGMT-81650/T Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)) showing the estimated completion dates and delivery dates and numbers of the “A-Box” Units. The

Contractor shall strive to have the first eight (8) production units produced and shipped within

60 days after direction to proceed with regularly scheduled deliveries until all remaining A-Box have been delivered to the Government. The Contractor shall deliver completed “A-Box” Units as identified in Table 2.

9. Depot Support Package

The Contractor shall develop and deliver a depot support package to include Interface Test

Adapters (ITA) (as needed), automated test program(s) for top level assembly and each LRU requiring depot level test, and documented test procedures for use on the Mixed Signal

Automated Tester (MSAT). Validation of the depot support package shall be conducted at the

Contractor’s facility.

NOTE: This depot support package does not include a MSAT test station.

Acceptance of the depot support package may be done onsite at the Contractor’s facility.

The Government/Program Office agrees to allow utilization of the MSAT based depot test station in support of manufacturing operations of production units to expedite delivery of production units.

10. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED EQUIPMENT/MATERIALS/FACILITIES

The Government/Program Office will provide access to working and correctly configured AN/MPN-14K system(s) and technical data as required.

11. DATA RIGHTS

The Government shall retain unlimited rights to the data right (i.e TDP) for product developed at the Government’s expense. At a minimum, the Government/Program Office shall be granted Limited Rights to commercial data and restricted data for products developed at

Contractor’s expense.

12. TECHNICAL DATA PACKAGE (TDP)

The Contractor shall develop a technical data package that accurately depicts the final product. The TDP shall provide the necessary design, engineering, manufacturing, testing and quality assurance requirements information necessary to enable the procurement or manufacture of an interchangeable item that duplicates the physical and performance characteristics of the original product, without additional design engineering effort or recourse to the original design activity. Product data shall reflect the approved, tested, and accepted configuration of the defined delivered Item. All engineering product definition data created as a result of this contract shall be considered a part of the TDP. This data includes, but is not limited to CAD data, models and model based definition data sets, and

Gerber data.

13. TRAVEL

The Contractor shall travel as directed by the Contracting Officer (CO) in accordance with the Joint Travel Regulations. The Contractor shall submit travel requests to the CO at least 30 days prior to planned departure. However, travel to the 260 ATCS, Pease, ANGB, Portsmouth, NH in support of this effort is considered normal and routine travel and shall not require CO approval; but, shall require coordination with the 260 ATCS personnel and ATCALS program office before traveling. The Contractor may be requested to attend the Government/Program Office’s yearly Weapon System Review held during the spring. This review is held in the Oklahoma City, OK area.

14. HOLIDAYS AND FACILITY CLOSINGS

Contractor personnel shall only be permitted access to Government facilities when

Government personnel are present.

15. DELIVERABLES

The following is a recap of expected deliverables from the Contractor.

a. Four (4) First Article “A-Box” Units.

b. Technical Documentation including Technical Order Supplements (to include remove and replace instructions and field-level maintenance documentation), Technical Drawings, Electrical Schematics/Block Diagrams, Mechanical CAD Drawings, Circuit Card Assembly Schematics, Circuit Card Assembly CAD

(Gerber) drawings, and the Parts List IAW TMCR/(CDRL A007 DI-SESS-

81000F/T Product Drawings/Models and Associated Lists)

c. One (1) 604610 MSAT-compatible depot support package, including Test Center software and appropriate software for testing functionality of “A-Box” Unit. Note:

the software will include basic pass/fail and diagnostic information at each of the top level assemblies only (Diagnostic information at the component or subcomponent level is not included in this effort).

NOTE: This does not include a MSAT test station.

d. Forty (40) production displays as designed and shipped to the locations identified in Table 2

e. Four (4) spare units to be shipped to the Air Force supply system

CDRLs as listed throughout this SOW and identified in Table 1.

16. SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

No security clearances are required for performance of this effort. The Contractor shall perform all activities required to meet the security requirements of DOD facilities they are required to access during the performance of this contract. The Contractor, when working in

DOD facilities, shall wear identification badges on their outer garment in the chest area and abide by all rules, regulation, etc. of the DOD facility. Contractor employees shall identify themselves as Contractor personnel by introducing themselves or being introduced as

Contractor personnel and displaying distinguishing badges or other visible identification for meeting with Government/Program Office personnel. In addition, Contractor personnel shall appropriately identify themselves as Contractor employees in telephone conversations and in formal and informal written correspondence. In the event Contractor personnel required access to a government system, the Contractor shall contact the Contracting Officer for assistance.

17. Mission Essential Contractor Services. N/A.

18. Invoicing/Payment and Receipt/Acceptance:

The Contractor shall submit/process payment requests and receipt/acceptance documents via

Wide Area WorkFlow e-Business Suite/Invoicing, Receipt, Acceptance, and Property Transfer

(iRAPT) IAW all applicable clauses located in the basic contract.DRAFT

Table 1

APPLICABLE CDRLS

CDRL No. CDRL Title Paragraph

A001 Contractor’s Progress and Status Report 4.1.a

A002 Meeting Agenda 4.1.b

A003 Meeting Minutes 4.1.b

A004 Acceptance Test Procedures 5

A005 First Article Trip (FAT) Report 5

A006 Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) 6

A007 Product Drawings/Models and Associated Lists 12.b

Table 2 AN/MPN-14K LOCATIONS

UNIT/POC LOCATION ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP # of “A-Box”

UNITS

NC

28127

MO

64503

WY

82007

SC

29044

MS

39307

PA 15904 4

LA

71303

NH

OR

97603

HI

96707

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