Gantner DAQ System Upgrade

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is seeking to procure a Gantner Data Acquisition (DAQ) System Upgrade through a Sources Sought notice. This procurement involves modern, rack-mountable hardware and accompanying software to replace obsolete equipment currently used in static, fatigue, and thermo-mechanical testing at the Full Scale Structural Facility. The system must support a minimum of 1,000 simultaneous data channels with 500VDC isolation, 0.05% acceptable error tolerance, and delta-sigma analog-to-digital conversion at 20-bit minimum resolution across multiple sensor types including strain gauges, load cells, pressure sensors, thermocouples, and digital I/O channels. The required software must operate on Windows 10 and 11 platforms, feature real-time graphical displays with 100ms latency, support remote web browser access, include alarm thresholds and high-speed data buffering capabilities, and integrate with Modbus TCP/IP and EtherCAT protocols. Interested parties must submit responses by March 11, 2026, at 10 AM Eastern Time addressing company identification, small business status certification, and relevant capability and experience; responses should be sent to Mike Hornberger at michael.hornberger.1@us.af.mil with the subject line "Gantner DAQ System Upgrade."

This Sources Sought notice does not represent a commitment by the Government to award a contract or reimburse quote preparation costs. No set-aside designations have been applied to this procurement, which falls under NAICS code 334515 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical Instrument Manufacturing). The procurement includes 10 19-inch rack-mountable chassis with 10 card slots each and 1TB SSD storage per unit, along with 8 real-time operating system controllers capable of 200 samples per second data acquisition with a scalable and daisy-chainable architecture. The system configuration specifies 32 quarter-bridge strain measurement channels, 750 full-bridge channels for load cells and pressure sensors, 100 analog input channels, 500 thermocouple channels supporting eight thermocouple types with individual cold junction compensation, and 8 digital I/O channels at 24V. No specific award value or incumbent contractor information has been disclosed in this Sources Sought phase, which is designed to allow the Government to conduct initial market research regarding available capabilities prior to formal solicitation.