DARPA-SN-16-23.pdf

DARPA-SN-16-23 Sole Source Notice for STO Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) Program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Contracts Management Office (CMO), intends to award a sole source contract to Technology Service Corporation, Inc., 55 Corporate Drive, 3rd Floor, Trumbull, CT 06611, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements, 10 U.S.C. 2304(c) (1).

The intended award to Technology Service Corporation will provide advanced algorithms and processing for detecting, focusing, and re-locating stationary and moving targets for the Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) radar. The ViSAR system is a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) that operates in the Extra high Frequency (EHF) band in order to provide SAR imagery at high frame rate to enable U.S. aircraft to engage stationary and maneuvering ground targets through clouds. Technology Service Corporation will leverage their algorithm development completed under DARPA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) No. 12-41, technical area 4 and their work as subcontractor to the ViSAR prime contractor Raytheon, who was awarded the system development contract under DARPA BAA No. 13-06 Technical Area 2.

Under those efforts Technology Service Corporation developed the baseline ViSAR processing algorithms for imaging the background and detecting and re-positioning returns from moving dismounts and vehicles. Technology Service Corporation validated their baseline algorithms with synthetic raw data from a scene simulator that models the EHF-band phenomenology as well as the ViSAR geometry and waveform. Under this effort Technology Service Corporation will develop advanced detection and focusing algorithms that have the potential to provide capabilities beyond what can be achieved with the baseline approach. Technology Service Corporation will integrate these advanced algorithms into the ViSAR processing architecture and characterize performance.

This announcement constitutes the only notice; a written solicitation will not be issued.

Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to perform by responding to this notice by the specified closing date. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, the Government will consider all proposals received by the closing date specified in this notice. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.

Contract Contracting Office Address: 675 N. Randolph Street, Arlington, VA 22203-2114.

Primary Point of Contact: Tina Stuard, Contracting Officer, Tina.Stuard@darpa.mil.