I.16.c. SSJ_AIS Update Redacted.pdf

v1.6_FEBRUARY2021 subscription service is being purchased from a company that already provides the same services to the US Navy, US Coast Guard, US Customs and Boarder Protection, and the US

Transportation Command.

ORBCOMM AIS enables satellites to monitor the worldwide AIS frequencies, demodulate, collect, analyze and download both Class A and Class B message types 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, and 27 (all Per ITU M1371-4). These frequencies cover all shipping traffic of interest, including private, public, and commercial vessels, and includes all vessel information needed to assess their radiated acoustic signature (e.g. a shipping vessel will have a much different acoustic signature than a conventional speedboat), and this data is provided by the online database to be purchased by this requirement. The data provided by the data feed is global and consists of data collected across all anticipated areas of interest to inform the modeling robustness.

While other vendors provide AIS data feeds, no other service provides data that would satisfy the current requirement without extensive rework to the UARC system, which the Government does not control, and which the Government cannot direct the UARC to do. The effort to revalidate another system to with similar AIS data would require be $450,000 based on 1.75 WY and contracting over the course of 1 calendar year of reengineering in order to ensure that the data was compatible with the existing software infrastructure, which is not a feasible solution.

RESELLERS:

There are no resellers for this product/service as confirmed by the OEM ORBCOMM.

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v1.6_FEBRUARY2021