A01_-_Salient_Characteristics.doc

Salient Characteristics Commercial Availability Certification:

I have evaluated the commercial marketplace and determined that all of the salient characteristics documented below are available in products/services offered in the commercial marketplace.

Signature (typed name):

Thomas Parker Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) or Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) The Coatings, Corrosion and Engineering Polymers Branch (CCEPB) within the Weapons and Materials Research Directorate (WMRD) at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) requires a vacuum x-ray camera and associated accessories that have the following characteristics:

1) Shall have a position sensitive x-ray detector with a pixel size of 13.5 micrometers or less.

2) Shall have at least 2048 pixels in the horizontal direction.

3) Shall have a vertical dimension of 13.5 micrometers pixels or greater but shall be capable of being binned or added together via hardware or software to effectively create a monolithic integrated vertical stripe of counts.

4) Shall come with software, hardware (computer, acquisition card, operating system, etc.) and cables to control and acquire data from the camera. This software shall include a graphical user interface and the software shall be usable “out of the box”, i.e. not require any end user supplied software code to run, control, and acquire data from the camera.

5) Shall have the ability for the user to write custom code to control and acquire data from the camera.

6) The camera shall be compatible with a high vacuum environment (on the order of 10 to the negative six Torr or lower).

7) The camera shall be equipped with cables, fittings, and vacuum feed through flanges for all power, data, water, and any other items necessary to control and run the camera while in a sealed vacuum chamber.

8) The vacuum flanges shall be the conflat type (or compatible).

9) The vacuum chamber that houses the camera shall have multiple flanges available including: eight (8) inch (”) conflat or compatible, six (6)” conflat or compatible, four and half (4 ½)” conflat or compatible to two and three quarters (2 ¾)” conflat or compatible. The preferred flanges would be a six (6)” conflat and one or more two and three quarters (2 ¾)” conflat flanges.

10) The vendor shall supply in vacuum cables and external of one (1) meter in length or more.

11) The X-ray camera shall be sensitive to the x-ray energy range of at least one (1) kilo electron volt to eight (8) kilo electron volts.

12) The quantum efficiency over the energy range specified shall be on average of at least 50 precent. If the Contractor has multiple detector elements that meet this sensitivity requirement the Contractors shall submit multiple quotes and/or list the sensor options requested on the quote.

13) The camera weight shall be five (5) kilograms or less.

14) All vendor supplied equipment must be configured to accept standard voltages, frequencies and plugs found in the United States. A frequency of nominally 60 Hertz and a line voltage of nominally 120 volts alternating current.

Contracting Officer:

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