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A -- Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (N-UCAS) (OB1815170) (2006-06-29)

The Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) Program is being transitioned to
the Navy Unmanned Combat Air Systems (N-UCAS) Program. The N-UCAS Advanced
Development Program Office (ADPO) has a requirement to develop and demonstrate
technologies and operational concepts that will provide effective, affordable,
survivable, and supportable Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) systems. In
support of this requirement, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) intends to
hold a limited competition to develop, build and test an aircraft carrier (CV)
based Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) Demonstration System. Participants
will be limited to the current J-UCAS sources, which are: The McDonnell
Douglas Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company (Boeing);
and the Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Northrop). Boeing and Northrop
are the only known responsible sources with the required technical expertise to
satisfy the Government’s requirements. Award to any source other than current
J-UCAS participants would result in significant schedule delays as well as
substantial duplication of costs that would not be recovered through full and
open competition. The Demonstration System effort will be structured to mature
critical technologies and reduce risk for aircraft carrier integration of an
operationally relevant UCAS with a Low Observable (LO) planform. The N-UCAS
demonstration shall include, but is not limited to, Carrier Control Approach
(CCA) operations, launch and recovery, deck operations and supportability.
Activities will focus towards a suitability demonstration of a relevant LO
planform aboard ship no later than 2011. The UCAS demonstration system will
include an Air Vehicle (AV) and Mission Control System (MCS) design approach.
All correspondence, Request for Proposals and Questions and Answers will be
posted to the NAVAIR website at http://www.navair.navy.mil (select Business> and then select ). A draft Statement of
Objectives (SOO) is planned to be released in the May 2006 timeframe. All
questions and correspondence regarding this synopsis shall be sent to the
Contracting Officer at [Please use the link below].

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