Global_Lightning_Data_PWS_Rev_0.1t_(24_Aug_16).pdf

Solicitation FA4600-15-R-0022

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

for

Global Lightning Data

3 Aug 2016

Revision 0.1

Prepared by

Air Force Life Cycle Management Center

Weather Systems Branch

AFLCMC-HBAW

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

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REVISION/CHANGE RECORD

Revision Date Revision/Change Description Sections Affected

NEW (0.0) 29 Feb 2016 Initial Issue ALL

0.1 3 Aug 2016 Modify requirements for draft RFP comments Tables 2 & 4

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION PAGE NO.

1.0 INTRODUCTION

2.0 PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES AND STANDARDS (Services Summary)

3.0 REQUIREMENTS/CONSTRAINTS

4.0 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS

APPENDIX A - Coverage Area Maps By Zone

APPENDIX B - Acronyms And Definitions

LIST OF TABLES

SECTION PAGE NO.

Table 1. Geographic Zones for Lightning Coverage

Table 2. Minimum Technical Specifications for CG Lightning LA, TA, Data Delivery

Time, Probability of Detection (DE), False Detection, and False Flash Type Id by Geographic Zone

Table 3. Minimum Technical Specifications for Lightning Polarity, Estimated Peak

Current, and Strokes/Flash by Geographic Zone for CG

Table 4. Minimum Technical Specifications for Cloud Flash (CF) Data by Location

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 The objective is to purchase global lightning data which provides Air Force weather forecasters with near-real time lightning data used for situational awareness and prediction of weather events. This information assists in protecting resources and improving mission effectiveness for Air Force and Army operations worldwide.

1.2 This procurement will obtain streaming global lightning observation data. It will include both cloud-to-ground (CG) and cloud flash (CF) lightning data. The data will come from

26 zones covering the entire globe (see Table 1) except Zone 15 which has no minimum requirement. The Contractor’s lightning detection network transmits data to the Air Force

Weather Strategic Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

1.3 Air Force Weather requires that the vendor provide uninterrupted data flow, communications and data distribution and requires the vendor to verify that lightning data it provides meets Air Force lightning data technical requirements. Any failure of either the detection network or of the Contractor’s communication system that results in a loss of availability is a system outage. Network availability is required to be at 98% or better in each zone except Zone 15 which has no minimum requirement.

2.0 PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES AND STANDARDS (Services Summary)

Performance Objective

PWS

Paragraph

Performance Threshold

(Acceptable Quality Level)

Data delivery format 3.3 Streaming ASCII text or XML format

Data stream content elements 3.4 Stream elements specified in para 3.4.1

Data stream format 3.4 Data received in Stroke format

Data encrypted 3.5 Data received encrypted

Data receipt method 3.6 Data delivered via internet

Data delivery 3.7 Delivered in four data feeds

Data availability 3.8 24 hours per day, 7 days per week per data requirements in Tables 2 to 4

Service Issue Notification 3.8 Notified when data feed compromised

Network Availability 3.9 98% uptime

Data Availability by zone except

Zone 15

3.9 98% uptime

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Performance Objective

PWS

Paragraph

Performance Threshold

(Acceptable Quality Level)

Help Desk 3.10 Acknowledge calls 24/7/365, initial response within 10 hours after receiving service call

3.0 REQUIREMENTS/CONSTRAINTS

3.1 The Government requires the ability to freely distribute government-generated products that contain lightning data to any participating Federal agency, contractors supporting the agency on an active contract, and to cooperating state and local government agencies at no additional cost, as long as the Contractor's raw data is not available to unauthorized users.

3.1.1 Authorized users of lightning data products is defined as any person or organization that the government has authorized to receive the products, to include 557th

Weather Wing (557 WW), the US Air Force, other military agencies (e.g., US Navy, US Army), US Government (e.g., US Geological Survey, Department of Homeland Defense), other foreign government's agencies (e.g., United Kingdom meteorological organizations), research facilities to whom the Air Force Weather Strategic Center provides data, and contractors working on behalf of Air Force Weather.

3.1.2 These products will be distributed in a secure manner to prevent unauthorized access and will not be released outside of the authorized users specified in paragraph 3.1.1.

Lightning data products derived from the Contractor's raw data will prevent the user community to view the raw data on which the product is based (e.g., Air Force Weather Strategic Center

AFW-WEBS will display where the lightning strike is located on a map, but anyone viewing that map will not be able to interrogate the plot point for the raw data used to make the map display).

3.2 Air Force Weather requires the ability to distribute raw lightning data to authorized users for the purposes of product creation and data archival. Authorized users of raw lightning data are defined as the Air Force Operational Weather Squadrons (OWS) and Weather

Squadrons (WS). The data will be distributed in a secure manner to prevent unauthorized access and the data will not be released outside of the OWSs and WSs. OWS and WS created data products derived from the Contractor's raw data will not allow the user community to view the raw data on which the product is based (see paragraph 3.1.2). The 14 WS will not distribute archived raw lightning data to anyone other than the 557 WW user community.

3.3 The Contractor shall deliver the lightning data in a streaming ASCII text or XML format.

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3.4 Data Stream.

3.4.1 The data stream shall include date-time (UTC) to thousandths of a second, latitude (deg) and longitude (deg) (to thousandths), signal strength (ka), polarity, multiplicity

(#strokes/flash), and the number of sensors used to collect the data.

3.4.2 The data stream shall be provided in Stroke format.

3.4.3 The data stream shall be flowing within 30 days of contract award. This provides the vendor with a transition period to get set up to deliver the data to the Air Force

Weather Strategic Center.

3.5 The data shall be encrypted as it is transmitted to prevent unauthorized receivers from using the data.

3.6 The data shall be delivered to the Air Force Weather Strategic Center through the internet as the primary transmission method.

3.7 The data shall be delivered to the Air Force Weather Strategic Center in four data feeds as follows: production primary, production backup, development primary, development backup.

3.8 The data shall be delivered to the Air Force Weather Strategic Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Contractor shall notify 557 WW when the data flow has been compromised (ex. sensors are down causing gaps in the data, network issues that prevent the delivery of data, etc.).

3.9 Outages.

3.9.1 Network availability shall be 98% or higher in each month of the period of performance. The network shall be down no more than 12 hours in any month. The calculations used are based on an average 28 day month and are listed below:

28 days/mon * 24 hours/day = 672 hours/month.

660 hours network up / 672 hours/mo = 98% uptime

672 hours/mo – 660 hours uptime = 12 hours downtime/month

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3.9.2 Data availability shall be 98% or higher in each month of the period of performance for each data zone. The data shall be unavailable no more than 12 hours in any month for any data zone. The calculations used are based on an average 28 day month and are listed below:

28 days/mon * 24 hours/day = 672 hours/month.

660 hours data flowing / 672 hours/mo = 98% uptime

672 hours/mo – 660 data flowing = 12 hours data unavailable/month.

Data availability is only affected if there are not enough sensors to cover a given zone. Having one sensor unable to provide data in a given zone shall not have an impact, if there are other sensors that adequately cover the zone and provide the data for that zone.

3.10 Help Desk. The Contractor shall provide troubleshooting/technical support for the global lightning data feeds.

3.10.1 The Contractor Help Desk shall field service requests from operational squadrons made through the 557 WW, Global Mission Support Center (GMSC) located at Offutt

Air Force Base.

3.10.2 The Contractor Help Desk shall acknowledge all service calls 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and shall make an initial response to all service requests within ten (10) hours of receiving the service call from the GMSC.

3.10.3 The Contractor shall accept data reship requests from the 14 WS if the Air

Force Strategic Weather Center did not receive the data or cannot provide to the 14 WS located at Asheville, N.C.

3.10.4 The number of in-bound calls made for technical assistance shall be unlimited.

3.11 Government furnished equipment and information shall not be provided.

3.12 Contractor performance shall take place at the Contractor’s facility.

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4.0 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS

5.0

Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM), Federal Lightning Data

Requirements, FCM-R27-2008, July 2008, website: http://www.ofcm.gov/r27-lds/fcm-r27.htm

Table 1. Geographic Zones for Lightning Coverage.

Zones 1-15 are defined as all land area and the adjacent marine areas around the land area within each zone. There is no minimum technical requirement for Zone 15. Zones 16-26 are defined as the marine area within each zone. There is very little land, aside from some small islands in these zones. See Appendix A for maps of each zone.

Zone Area

Zone 1A

Zone 1B

Zone 2

Zone 3

Zone 4

Zone 5

48 Contiguous States and the Virgin Islands

Puerto Rico

Alaska

Hawaii

Canada

Mexico

Zone 6

Zone 7

Zone 8

Zone 9

Zone 10

Central and South America

Europe

Northern Asia

Southern Asia

Middle East

Zone 11

Zone 12

Zone 13

Zone 14

Zone 15

Africa

East Indies and the Philippines

Australia and New Zealand

Greenland and Iceland

Antarctica

Zone 16

Zone 17

Zone 18

Zone 19

Zone 20

Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and West Indies

North Atlantic Ocean

South Atlantic Ocean

Mediterranean and Black Seas

Northeast Pacific Ocean

Zone 21 Northwest Pacific Ocean http://www.ofcm.gov/r27-lds/fcm-r27.htm

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Zone 22

Zone 23

Zone 24

Zone 25

Southeast Pacific Ocean

Southwest Pacific Ocean

Indian Ocean

Arctic Ocean

Zone 26 Southern Ocean

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Table 2. Minimum Technical Specifications for CG Lightning LA, TA, Data Delivery Time, Probability of Detection (DE), False Detection, and False Flash Type Id by Geographic Zone.

Zone Horizontal Location

Accuracy

Timing

Accuracy Data Delivery Time Probability of Detection

Probability of False

Detection

Probability of False

Flash Type

Id

Zone 1A 500 meters or better for 90% of the area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be one (1) minute or less for 99% of all flashes

90% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No more than 5%

Zone 1B 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be two (2) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 2 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be two (2) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 3 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be two (2) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 4 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be two (2) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

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Accuracy

Timing

Accuracy Data Delivery Time Probability of Detection

Probability of False

Detection

Probability of False

Flash Type

Id

Zone 5 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 6 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be two (2) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 7 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be two (2) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 8 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be two (2) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 9 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 10 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be two (2) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

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Accuracy

Timing

Accuracy Data Delivery Time Probability of Detection

Probability of False

Detection

Probability of False

Flash Type

Id

Zone 11 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

60% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 12 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 13 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

50% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 14 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 15 No requirement No requirement

No requirement No requirement No requirement

No requirement

Zone 16 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

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Accuracy

Timing

Accuracy Data Delivery Time Probability of Detection

Probability of False

Detection

Probability of False

Flash Type

Id

Zone 17 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 18 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

50% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 19 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 20 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

50% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 21 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 22 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

25% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

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Accuracy

Timing

Accuracy Data Delivery Time Probability of Detection

Probability of False

Detection

Probability of False

Flash Type

Id

Zone 23 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

50% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 24 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

50% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 25 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

70% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

No requirement

Zone 26 10 km or better for

70% of the land area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

5% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 1%

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Table 3. Minimum Technical Specifications for Lightning Polarity, Estimated Peak

Current, and Strokes/Flash by Geographic Zone for CG.

Zones 1-26

Polarity Report for all CG flashes

Estimated Peak

Current Report for all CG flashes

Strokes per Flash Report for all CG flashes

Table 4. Minimum Technical Specifications for Cloud Flash (CF) Data by Location.

Location

Horizontal

Location

Accuracy

Timing

Accuracy

Data Delivery

Time

Probability of

Detection

Probability of False

Detection

Zone 1A 10 km or better for

90% of the area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be one (1) minute or less for 99% of all flashes

15% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 5%

Zones 1B

- 10

10 km or better for

70% of the area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

10% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 5%

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Zone 11 10 km or better for

70% of the area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

5% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 5%

Zones 12

- 14

10 km or better for

70% of the area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

10% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 5%

Zone 15 No requirement

No requirement

No requirement No requirement No requirement

Zones 16

- 21

10 km or better for

70% of the area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

10% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 5%

Zone 22 10 km or better for

70% of the area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

5% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

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Zones 23

- 25

10 km or better for

70% of the area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

10% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

No more than 5%

Zone 26 10 km or better for

70% of the area within the zone

0.001 seconds or better

Total time from the time the flash occurs to the time that flash is reported shall be three (3) minutes or less for 99% of all flashes

<1% or more of all flashes within the zone shall be reported

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APPENDIX A - Coverage Area Maps By Zone

Reference: Federal Lightning Data Requirements (FCM-R27-2008)

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APPENDIX B - Acronyms And Definitions

Reference: Federal Lightning Data Requirements (FCM-R27-2008)

ACRONYMS

AFW-WEBS Air Force Weather WEB Services

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CDRL Contract Data Requirements List

CF Cloud Flash

CG Cloud to Ground

GMSC Global Mission Support Cell

OFCM Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology

OWS Operational Weather Squadron

PWS Performance Word Statement

UTC Coordinated Universal Time (current local time in time zone)

WS Weather Squadron

XML Extensible Markup Language

DEFINITIONS.

Cloud Flash - Any lightning flash that does not strike ground. In the scientific literature, this is often called an intra-cloud flash, which, strictly defined, is a flash that stays within a single cloud. Other types of cloud flash include a cloud-to-cloud flash and a cloud-to-air flash.

(Note: Determining the subcategory of a cloud flash requires knowledge of cloud boundaries, which no lightning mapping system can provide. Therefore, subcategories of cloud flashes are not addressed in requirements and specifications.)

Cloud-to-Ground - Lightning having a channel spanning from a cloud to the earth. A cloud-to-ground flash can also be called a ground flash.