ATC TSS 15G34 Tech Refresh - Sources Sought Notice_27AUG2026.docx

Air Traffic Control (ATC) Tower Simulation System (TSS) 15G34 Tech Refresh

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

NAICS: 541519 - Other Computer Related Service – Small Business Size Standard $34.0M

PSC: 6910 - TRAINING AIDS

INTRODUCTION:

The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) is defining its acquisition strategy for the solicitation and award of a Tech Refresh to all Air Traffic Control (ATC) Tower Simulation Systems (TSS). The TSS was originally developed and delivered by UFA, Inc. The delivery included current hardware that will be upgraded due to obsolescence and UFA, Inc. site-specific proprietary-owned software. The TSS will be delivered to Naval and Marine Corps facilities throughout the world. The ATC TSS shall provide realistic training for Tower Air Traffic Controllers in a non-operational environment. The TSS shall be a partial-scale ATC Tower simulator providing an interactive, highly realistic environment for controller training. In operation, the TSS shall support up to three simultaneous positions including local control, ground control, and flight data. Realistic scenarios will be generated and modified at the direction of an instructor using an input terminal equipped with a graphical user interface. The TSS shall provide synthetic voice response and voice recognition to allow the trainee to talk to the TSS. The voice recognition system shall interpret the trainee’s commands and translate them into actual aircraft movements depicted on the screen. The TSS shall then acknowledge trainees' instructions using synthetic voice. A recorded playback feature shall allow instructors to review and evaluate performance with the trainee after the training session.

After responses to this market research are received, NAWCTSD will evaluate the viable options and select the final acquisition strategy. Therefore, your response to this research is instrumental in supporting your company’s business interests. Information from both large and small businesses is requested. It is anticipated that any resulting contract will be accomplished under the provisions of a firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract.

DISCLAIMER:

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS

NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND

SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

ACQUISITION DESCRIPTION:

The Department of Navy (DON) has a clear need to maintain current tower simulator and associated simulator administrator support to enhance training, proficiency, and safety of flight for Naval Aviation. Reduced flight operations coupled with antidotal information that simulators enhance current skill sets, reduce time-to-train, provide non-standard scenario training and reinforce perishable skills affirms the need for a tower simulator. Along with the existing terminal radar and precision radar simulators, the tower simulator completes ashore training to support the multiple disciplines required of today’s air traffic controller.

Chief of Naval Operations, OPNAV N980A, requests a high-fidelity air traffic control tower simulator device be upgraded to address training and proficiency deficiencies that includes software and scenario support. N980A will be responsible for developing overarching training and readiness regulations and requirements that dictate usage and employment of the simulator device.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

This Sources Sought is not a request for competitive proposals. If your company is interested in competing for this requirement, please provide a response to this request in accordance with the directions below. Interested sources may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirements. Any response to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government. Interested businesses should submit a brief capabilities statement package (no more than 10 8.5 x 11 inch pages, font no smaller than 10 point). You should discuss any recent successful experience with similar efforts, the dollar value of those successful efforts, your company’s available expertise and resources (facility, financial, and personnel) to accomplish the technical capabilities, address what areas & percentage of work you would expect to subcontract with other organizations, if any. All responses shall include your SAM.gov registered Company Name, Company Address, Company Business Size, and Points of Contact (POC) including name, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, Unique Entity ID, and CAGE Code. In addition, your response should demonstrate your ability to perform the following requirements:

a. Perform a Tech Refresh to include the upgrade, integration, and testing of both hardware and software.

b. Develop visual databases to represent designated airfields.

c. Provide user friendly scenario development tool.

d. Provide environmental effects (weather, rain, wind, visibility, day/night).

Identify if your company is considered “small business” or “large business” under the size standard associated with the NAICS code listed within this announcement. If considered “small business,” identify your company’s socio-economic status [i.e., HUBZone, SDVOSB, 8(a), or WOSB].

Please address if your company is interested in participating as a prime or subcontractor. If interested in the prime contractor role and plan on subcontracting to other companies in order to deliver technical capability, please provide details on exactly which tasks will be assigned to those subcontractors; in addition, provide the names of those anticipated subcontractors, and list the anticipated percentage of small business subcontracting.

If applicable, please identify other contract vehicles the Government should consider for this requirement for which your company is an awardee [e.g., Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC), Multi-Agency Contracts, Other Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDC), Federal Supply Schedules (FSS), Basic Ordering Agreements (BOA), Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA), Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Awards]. ***NOTE: The scope of this requirement must fit the scope of your identified contract vehicle; if proposing a SBIR or STTR Phase III, you must describe how the scope of this requirement would derive from your Phase I/II work.***

Responses shall be limited to no more than ten (10) pages. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. This sources sought notice is not to be considered a request for quotations or proposals. No solicitation document is available. No contract will be awarded on the basis of offers received in response to this notice, but will be used to determine if a comparable source is available and more advantageous to the Government.

Please submit your information via email to: Contract Specialist, Wyatt Nunes at wyatt.k.nunes2.civ@us.navy.mil. Submittals are due no later than 18 September 1500 EST, 2026.

LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING: If you are a small business interested in being the prime contractor for this effort, please be advised that the RFO clause 52.219-14, “Limitations on Subcontracting,” includes the definition of “Similarly Situated Entity” and provides a methodology for the 50% calculation for compliance with the clause. Small business primes may count “first-tier subcontracted” work performed by Similarly Situated Entities as if it were performed by the prime itself. To assist in our market research and determination for this effort, if you are a small business interested in priming this effort and plan to utilize “Similarly Situated Entities” to meet the Limitations on Subcontracting requirements, please identify the name, CAGE Code (and UEI, if known) of the specific company(s) you intend to partner/subcontract with to meet the requirements as well as their small business size status under the NAICS Code that you as the prime would assign for their workshare. Information regarding any planned “Similarly Situated Entity” should be included in answering any questions outlined in the Sources Sought Notice to assist the Government’s capability determination.