STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)

FOR

UNMANNED VEHICLES

1.1 Description of Requirement

The contractor shall provide unmanned vehicles that operate remotely in the ocean environment. The unmanned vehicles shall provide at a minimum the capability to collect ocean temperature and pressure data. All instruments proposed must meet a shelf life standard of eighteen months before requiring battery pack replacement or sensor recalibrations. Optionally unmanned vehicles capable of including other sensor configurations for conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD), transmissivity, bioluminescence, currents, and wave spectra are considered a benefit to the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) mission set. Deployment capabilities are vessel and air deployable. Please see Sectio 2.0 Salient Characteristics.

Proposed instruments shall show capability in one, some, or all areas. Identify modularity of the proposed instruments to add or exclude sensor packages to show multiple configurations for differing collection mission sets. Identify deployment lifecycle by number of profiles to power system discharge rates. If using self-regenerative technology, identify approximate amount sensor degradation over time due to biofouling or sensor mechanical/electrical degradation over time. Provide other sensor capabilities that are not covered in the listed ocean collection sensor requirements. Contractors must provide instrument encoders/decoders and technical documentation to convert collected data to specified formats for ingest into the government systems.

Instrument Data Integration Services. Integration services for unmanned systems require programming support to develop application programming interfaces, data formatting scripts, and interfaces for data ingest into government databases and other collection systems prior to initial deployment.

Calibration Services. Calibration services apply to all sensor packages to return the sensors to original specifications at time of purchase prior to initial deployment.

Maintenance Services. Maintenance services apply to the instrument body itself to include battery replacement, body module upgrades to incorporate additional sensors, preventive maintenance, and minor repairs to the instrument body prior to initial deployment.

Other Requirements:

· Unmanned vehicles meet at a minimum temperature and pressure sensor packages.

· All applicable software required to ingest, and process collected data from the profiling instrument.

· All applicable technical support to integrate the collected data into government real-time data handling systems.

· Offerors shall provide a warranty of up to one year prior to deployment and replacement of instruments that fail upon deployment due to instrument failures outside government control at no cost to the government. Storage specifications shall be provided at shipment time.

· Internationally approved shipping crates.

2.0 Salient Characteristics

2.0.1 Required instrument characteristics for ocean collection include the following:

· Communication variances using Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) approved transmitters/receivers with government specified encryption capability for non-public releasable data.

· Air Deployment Hardening Variance: from 500 to 10,000 feet above sea level at air speeds up to 500 miles per hour. Attached parachutes and coverings must survive initial deployment forces and the instrument must reach the ocean surface at full operational capability.

· Vessel Deployment Hardening Variance: from 1 to 60 feet above sea level at vessel speeds from 0 to 25 knots.

· Power System Longevity Variance: 1 hour and above in system depletion rates.

· Power System Types: Alkaline or Lithium

2.2 All sensors installed on an unmanned system must be rated to withstand ocean pressures equal to or exceeding the crush depth of the instrument body installed on. Sensor type variations for ocean collection include all, some, or one of the following:

· Conductivity Sensor:

· Sensor ranges are 0 to 9.0 S/m

· Calibrated ranged are 0 to 6.0 S/m

· Temperature Sensor:

· Sensor Accuracy: 0.1 degrees Celsius

· Sensor range: - 5 to 42 degrees Celsius.

· Pressure Sensor:

· Resolution Minimum: 0.1 dbar.

· Sensor Range: Surface to instrument depth.

· Optical Sensor

· Wavelength Standard Ranges: 470 to 532 nanometers (Other wavelengths are allowed to be proposed).

· Fluorometer

· All detection specifications are allowable for consideration. (No specific government standard)

· Radiance/Irradiance sensor

· All detection specifications are allowable for consideration. (No specific government standard)

· Bioluminescence sensor

· All detection specifications are allowable for consideration. (No specific government standard)

· Current Sensor

· Data collected must be able to derive direction and speed

· Wave Spectra

· All detection specifications are allowable for consideration. (No specific government standard).

· Acoustic Sensor

· All detection specifications are allowable for consideration. (No specific government standard)

· Echosounder

· All detection specifications are allowable for consideration. (No specific government standard)

4.1 Vendors shall provide an organizational level quality acceptance plan as part of the proposal response outlining the vendor’s process to ensure delivery schedules are met and quality of the product or service mitigates failures of products on delivery or service criteria is not to acceptance standards. Vendors shall annotate facility standards, if any, within the International Standards Organization (ISO) for hazmat, safety, and production practices.

4.3 Military Specification (MILSPEC) LM_MIL-STD-129R_140218 shipping marking and labeling standards are instituted to meet FOB destination requirements to military locations globally.

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