NASA/ARC plans to issue a DRAFT Request for Proposal (RFP) for support and development of the Airspace Concepts Evaluation System (ACES) fast time Air Traffic management (ATM) simulation tool. NextGen-Airspace project is conducting research into advanced ATM concepts in order to increase the capacity and efficiency of the Nation Airspace System (NAS), and ACES is an important simulation tool supporting this research.
The principal objectives of this research activity are two-fold: (1) to enhance and extend the system-wide modeling and simulation capability inherent in ACES to accommodate higher fidelity analyses of NextGen air traffic management concepts and capabilities currently undergoing research by the NextGen Airspace and NextGen Airportal projects; and (2) to integrate the concept models developed for ACES fully across all operational parts of the software. These operational concepts are:
- Traffic flow management (TFM) operational concepts
- Separation Assurance (SA) operational concepts
- Dynamic Airspace Configuration (DAC) operational concepts
- Airspace Super Density Operations (ASDO) operational concepts
Supporting objectives are to:
- Transition ACES to a new architecture, which is currently in prototype, to support modeling evolution and decomposition commensurate with NextGen concepts, which NASA and others will pursue.
- Enhance ACES flexibility, maintainability, and usability for an evolving user-base across a range of applications.
- Provide software and model verification and validation studies.
- Create new analytical output metrics.
- Create new models for TFM, SA, DAC, and ASDO.
- Integrate third-party models into ACES.
- Develop pre- and post-processing tools for ACES data.
- Develop custom models per researcher requirements.
- Maintain the ACES software, including bug fixes, and periodic testing and release
This procurement is a follow-on requirement. The current contract is a cost-plus-award-fee contract number NNA05BE01C with Raytheon Company. The current end date of the contract is January 31, 2009 and the total contract value is $14M. Use the links at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/FOIA/agency/ to request information through the FOIA office
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The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26.
The anticipated release date of the DRAFT RFP NNA090248332R is on or about 10/15/2008 with an anticipated proposal due date of on or about 01/08/2008.
All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency.
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