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Product Director (PD) Aerostats Title: Persistent Surveillance Systems-Tethered (PSS-T) Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Integration with Digital Receiver Technology's (DRT) 3300 Sensor Request for Infor... Product Director (PD) Aerostats Title: Persistent Surveillance Systems-Tethered (PSS-T) Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Integration with Digital Receiver Technology's (DRT) 3300 Sensor Request for Information (RFI) This Request for Information (RFI) is for planning purposes in FY19 only and shall not be considered as an Invitation for Bid (IFB), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Request for Proposal (RFP), or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. All business types may respond to this RFI. Your response to this RFI will be treated as information only. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of contractor responses and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Government reserves the right to reject input resulting from this request. This request does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. The Army, in developing its acquisition strategy, Performance Work Statement, Statement of Objectives and/or Performance Based Specification(s), may use the information provided. Parties responding to this RFI are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to pay for the information submitted in response to this RFI. PD Aerostats is conducting market research to determine vendors that have experience developing radio frequency (RF) over fiber integration solutions that have a solution to integrate DRT's 3300 Sensor onto Persistent Surveillance Systems-Tethered (PSS-T) aerostats. The Army has an IMMEDIATE NEED to integrate and to deploy the DRT's 3300 Sensor on PSS-T aerostats in theater. Minimum requirements for the integration include the following: 1. The proposed solution must be capable of voice intercept and direction finding (DF). 2. Frequency range of integrated antennas shall include VHF/UHF/L-Band with an effective ground trace collection range of 25 kilometers with an objective range of 50 kilometers or more. 3. The solution must be integrated into three separate enclaves: the airborne component, the fiber optic tether component, and the ground processing component. The solution provider will design the digitized RF/IF-over-fiber link which must be compatible with single mode fiber using an approach which supports the specified frequency range, throughput, and channelization requirements. 4. The DRT 3300 will not be part of the aerostat payload, but will be located at a nearby ground processing location. Only the antennas will be part of the aerostat payload. 5. The solution will not cause a change in the current classification of the PSS-T system (envelope, tether, and GCS), and remain on a separate network in its entirety. 6. The proposed solution shall not degrade from current performance standards of the PSS-T tether. The system must operate on a single mode fiber that supports data transmission. 7. Solution will be demonstrated in end-to-end system test in a laboratory environment with test conditions specified by the Government. Subsequent performance testing will be conducted on a Government range, where the government will conduct scenario based testing to fully test the sensors' capabilities. 8. The solution shall meet the performance requirements outlined in MIL-STD-810 Part Two Sections 500 through 528; and IEEE 1900.2-2008 Recommended Practice for the Analysis of In-Band and Adjacent Band Interference and Coexistence Between Radio Systems. 9. The Government will provide the PSS-T system and available PSS-T technical data to allow for test and integration of the DRT 3300 sensor. Vendor Response Requirements: All material submitted in response to this RFI must be unclassified. The response is limited to fifteen (15) pages. Responses are due ten (10) business days from date of posting of this RFI. Provide a response in electronic format (Microsoft Office 2007 or higher Suite format) describing the approach to meet the objectives established above and should address the following items: 1. Approach to meet integration requirements above. 2. Any size, weight and power tradeoffs for the airborne and ground enclaves. 3. Experience developing RF over fiber demonstrating capability to carry out integration solution. 4. Outline of expedited schedule to meet the immediate need. 5. Rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost for the solution. Information received in response to an RFI shall be safeguarded adequately from unauthorized disclosure.