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Naval Research Laboratory 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20375 ATTN: Code 3220.RV

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R&D Efforts for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Software Development Solicitation No.: N00173-16-R-EB05

Amendment No.: 0001

Summary of Changes

Amendment 0001 -- Summary of Changes

1. Federal Business Opportunities – “Notice Details” are changed to include the complete NAICS Code, 541715 -- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences

(except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Small Business Size Standard: 1,000.

2. Attachment 3 – Key Personnel Qualifications, is revised as follows:

a. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineer required education is revised

From:

“BS in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in the development of digital signal processing and software, firmware, and hardware”

To:

“BS in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or other related field with a specialization in the development of digital signal processing and software, firmware, and hardware”

b. Senior Software Engineer required education is revised

From:

“MS in Electrical Engineering”

To:

“MS Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or other related field”

See attached amended Key Personnel Qualifications.

R&D Efforts for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Software Development Solicitation No.: N00173-16-R-EB05

Solicitation Attachment 03

Key Personnel Qualifications

KEY PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS – AMENDMENT 0001

1. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineer

a. Education:

1) BS in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or other related fields with a specialization in the development of digital signal processing and software, firmware, and hardware.

b. Security Clearance:

1) Secret

c. Experience Requirements:

The following minimum experience is required:

1) 5 years of experience in digital signal processing algorithm development and implementation.

2) Demonstrated knowledge of the requirements, alternatives, workings, interrelationships and tradeoffs of DSP based systems and leading-edge technologies relevant to these systems.

3) Demonstrated knowledge in current digital circuit and software design including digital signal acquisition and processing technologies.

4) Experience developing signal acquisition systems based on the Annapolis Microsystems

Wildstar platform.

5) Demonstrated experience with the COREFIRE FPGA programming environment (With respect to the Wildstar platform).

6) Demonstrated history of software development using the target high-bandwidth processing hardware and the requisite developmental systems.

7) Demonstrated experience with the established DSP techniques including FFTs, convolution, digital filters, number system conversions, vector algebra, trigonometry, and other more esoteric algorithms.

8) Demonstrated ability to design digital assemblies, subassemblies and circuits using all currently existing digital circuit design and fabrication technologies.

9) Demonstrated experience with the development and integration of digital signal acquisition systems including the application of high speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital signal processors (DSPs) shall be required.

10) Demonstrated knowledge of the current digital logic families to include, but not limited to, the integration and programming of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

11) Experience with a variety of target systems, including PowerPC, Athlon or Pentium microprocessors, and their operating systems, to include Linux, Unix, and Windows.

12) Experience with relevant industry standard compilers and development tools such as

Microsoft Visual C++.

13) Experience with widely available modern programming languages (e.g., C and C++) to develop near real-time applications to run under commercial real time operating systems

(RTOS), primarily Wind River VxWorks.

R&D Efforts for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Software Development Solicitation No.: N00173-16-R-EB05

Solicitation Attachment 03

Key Personnel Qualifications

14) Experience with developing custom interfaces and, when required, make modifications and/or additions to the RTOS source.

15) Experience with advanced software development capability including programming in

Assembly Language, YHDL, Visual C++ and MATLAB. This also includes a demonstrated capability in system and module definition and documentation and fluency in computer aided design (CAD) modeling of systems and digital circuitry.

2. Senior Software Engineer (2 FTE’s are Key Personnel)

a. Education:

1) MS Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or other related fields

b. Security Clearance:

1) Secret

c. Experience Requirements:

The following minimum experience is required:

1) 5 years of experience in algorithm development in a research and development environment.

2) Experience programming in MATLAB and Visual C++.

3) Experience in graphic user interface (GUI) development, real-time signal processing and interfacing to digital acquisition hardware.

4) Demonstrated capability of developing system level software for processing real-time emitter data.

5) Demonstrated understanding of DSP technology and capabilities.