Installation services of communications equipment

Tender description

The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR), in support of program executive office command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (PEO C4I), Navy Command and Control Program Office (PMW 150), on behalf of the North Atlantic Treaty. 1) Organization (NATO) Improved Link Eleven (NILE) Nations is conducting a market survey to determine the interest and capability of Industry to provide in-service support (ISS) to the NILE products. 2) This RFI intends to accomplish two objectives: (a) to gain an understanding of which interested parties exist in the current marketplace; and (b) to gain an understanding of how those interested parties could meet the technical objectives, performance requirements, and COMSEC requirements for NILE. PMW 150 is interested in responses that can employ a modular approach to meeting the requirements of the NILE technical documents; 3) During the late 1980s, NATO, agreeing on the need to improve the performance of Link 11, produced a Mission Need Statement (MNS) and later the elementary requirements document that became the basis for the establishment of the NILE project; 4) The Link 22 goals are to replace Link 11, thereby removing its inherent limitations; to improve allied interoperability; to complement Link 16; and to enhance the commanders’ war fighting capability; 5) The design of Link 22 uses a layered communications stack approach to produce a modular, open system architecture, with well-defined interfaces between the components, This approach allows for substitution of components on either side of the interface, and it maximizes extensions and enables contributions from multiple providers during the sustainment of Link 22. The full requirement is available now from Kate McCoy or Amy Kilby UK Representative — NATO Improved Link Eleven (NILE) PMO: (858) 537-8784 (office) (619) 261-3409 (cell) Amy.kilby.uk@navy.mil