METS Areas of Interest.pdf

Multi-Engine Training System (METS) Aircraft Sources Sought Areas of Interest

26 May 2020

Capability Qualifying Performance or Description

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External electrical power

Wall power External electric cart

What voltage, current, and frequency ranges was the airplane designed for connecting external electrical power from wall units or support equipment?

Communication Equipment

Very High Frequency (VHF) radio Ultra High Frequency (UHF) radio

Can the communication system broadcast or receive the VHF and UHF guard bands simultaneously?

Can the pilots receive or transmit on UHF guard when both radios are in a VHF mode?

Can the pilots receive or transmit on VHF guard when both radios are in a UHF mode?

Multi-Function Display (MFD)

Display symbology Declutter

Can each pilot position select independent MFD configurations?

How much information is presented on the MFDs?

How do the pilots declutter the MFDs?

How much of this information can the pilots declutter from the MFDs?

Fuel system Pressure refueling Does the airplane have the capability to pressure refuel?

If so, what is the part number of the pressure refueling receptacle?

Fatigue Life Expected usage per airplane

20,000 Flight-Hour (FH) life 65,000 landings Maximum 15 landing in one FH

Does the airplane contain a structural life monitoring system and post-mission processing for calculation of fatigue life expended?

Does the airplane contain strain gages sending data to the structural life monitoring system?

What is the airplane’s current life limit?

What is the design flight profile or usage baseline upon which the standard inspection and maintenance plan is based?

What changes to the maintenance plan would be expected with the Navy’s expected usage per airplane?

What type of repairs are required for late-life structural issues?

What program exists to evaluate life-limited components in actual usage in order to extend their life?

Corrosion protection

Advisory Circular, 43-4B Corrosion Control for Aircraft

Advisory Circular, 43-206 Inspection, Prevention, Control, and Repair of Corrosion on Avionics Equipment

Advisory Circular, 33-11, Oxidation, Hot Corrosion, Thermal Fatigue, and Erosion Characteristics Testing to Support 14 CFR, Part 33, § 33.15, Compliance for Turbine Engines

What corrosion protection characteristics are part of the airplane’s design?

Does the airplane comply with the listed FAA advisory circulars about corrosion protection?

METS Aircraft Sources Sought

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Item Unique Identification

(IUID)

DoDI 8320.04 IUID Standards for Tangible Personal Property

SECNAVINST 5200.44

Operating Materials and Supplies

– Accountability and Management

Does the airplane contain commercial unique identification of the air vehicle and any components?

Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+)

Data recording Data download Data processing Cloud server

What type of device(s) is the CBM+ data recorded?

What equipment is used to download the data from the airplane?

What equipment and software are used process the

CBM+ data?

Does a cloud server exist to evaluate CBM+ data across the entire portfolio of airplanes?

What type of reports are provided from this evaluation?

What type of interface is required to transmit the data to this cloud server?

Human Factors Acoustic Noise What is the acoustic spectrum at each pilot station for each of the flight conditions in Appendix B?

What design characteristics reduce noise in order to comply with 14 CFR Part 36—Noise Standards:

Aircraft Type and Airworthiness Certification?

Does the airplane comply with FAA Advisory Circular 36-4D Noise Standards: Aircraft Type and Airworthiness Certification

Human Factors Communication Headset What is the real-ear attenuation of the headset at frequencies from 125 Hz to 8000 Hz?

What is the maximum rated sound pressure of the headphones?

What is the frequency response of the microphone and earphones?

Is the active noise reduction a feed-forward or feed-back system?

What is the active attenuation over the range of propeller blade passage frequencies?

Do the communication headsets come in multiple sizes? If one size, what is the anthropometric population it will fit?

Avionics Systems

Cockpit Voice Recorder Flight Data Recorder

What is the audio range?

Does the cockpit voice record from the ICS or an area microphone?

What equipment is used to download, process, and replay the data from the cockpit voice and flight data recorder?

Avionics Systems

Ultra High Frequency (UHF) radios Very High Frequency (VHF) radios

Do the UHF and VHF radios comply with auditory system characteristics outlined in RTCA DO-214A?

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Avionics Systems

Intercommunication System (ICS) Does the ICS comply with FAA AC_20-133 Cockpit Noise and Speech Interference Between Crewmembers?

What is the measured preferred-frequency speech interference level?

What is the speech intelligibility performance?

Cybersecurity Cybersecurity certification Does the system transmit data externally over any of the following transmission mediums? (If yes, please elaborate and include a network diagram, if no answer no next to each one)

- Ethernet Network

- Serial Connection (e.g. RS-232, RS-485, etc.)

- RF Connection (e.g. Link 16, SATCOM, etc.)

- Avionics Bus (e.g. 1553, ARINC-429, etc.)

- Synchro

- Video Ports (HDMI, VGA, etc.)

- Traditional IT Buses (USB, SATA, Thunderbolt, etc.)

- Wireless Communications (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.)

- Other

Does the system have a connection to any of the following portable devices or removable media?

(If yes, please elaborate)

- CD/DVD ROM

- External Hard Drive (e.g. USB Hard Drives, etc.)

- Maintenance Laptop

- Other (e.g. PCMCIA etc.)

Does the system require configuration or setting changes prior to each use?

- Describe the system initialization process; is user configuration required?

Training Instructor pilot training Maintainer training

What is the length of time to train pilots and maintainers?

How many pilots and maintainers can be trained at one time?

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Sustainment Metrics Production time

Do you currently have predictions or measured performance values for the following metrics?

- Mission capable

- Full mission capable

- Non-mission capable maintenance

- Non-mission capable supply

- Logistics footprint

- Mission reliability

- Maintenance manpower per aircraft

- Mean flight hours between critical failures

- Mean corrective maintenance time for critical failures

- Direct maintenance manhours per flying hour

- Mean flight hour before maintenance event

- Mean time to repair

- Mean flight hour between removal

What Government common support equipment is compatible with the airplane?

How long does it take to produce peculiar support equipment?

How long does it take to produce maintenance ground stations?

How long does it take to set-up a maintenance ground station?