Industry Day | Reconfigurable Small Unmanned Comms

In support of the Reconfigurable Small Unmanned Comms Technical Concept call from August 2018, the Government will conduct a webinar Industry Day Wednesday, May 22nd at 10:00AM – 12:00PM ET. The webinar Industry Day is expected to be followed by a Request for Prototype Proposal release in June for the attached draft Statement of Work (pending any changes resulting from Industry Day).

The Reconfigurable Communications for Small Unmanned Systems (RCSUS) project objective is to develop and integrate performance enhancements for small unmanned communications systems. The initial target system for integration of the technology developed under this effort will be Small Unmanned Aircraft (Group 1). Many of the technologies developed under this effort shall be portable to other unmanned systems including Unmanned Ground Vehicles and Group 2 and larger unmanned aerial systems (UAS). These portable enhancements shall include dynamic spectrum access (DSA), Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM), and encryption. Prototypes will be used to demonstrate the underlying capability enhancements and to support development of the Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) small UAS (SUAS). The prototypes shall have the ability to transition to pre-production and production systems in order to support the production needs of the LRR SUAS. Production quantities are estimated to be 5000 units. The capability improvements will also become the basis for new common waveform and hardware specifications. Work to be performed will include architecture development, specification development, and prototype development. The prototype is directly relevant to military mission effectiveness as the warfighter must be able to employ, via secure and resilient communications, small unmanned systems in congested and contested spectrum environments. Under this effort, contractors will require access to threat-related data and access to Non-Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).

The project will be executed in two phases. Phase 1 shall result in a system architecture that describes the proposed solution, and Phase 2 will result in delivery of communication system prototypes, interface control documents (ICD), and redlined waveform specifications. Phase 1 is expected to be about 90 days and Phase 2 is expected to be approximately 18 months. Phase 2 candidates will be chosen from the Phase 1 participants. A contract award for Phase 1 does not guarantee a contract award for Phase 2.

Please note: All NAMC members are invited to bid on the NSC RPP, even if your organization is not an NSC member. Should a NAMC member organization choose to submit a proposal, you must join the NSC prior to proposal submission. Alternatively, NAMC members may team with an existing NSC member as the lead without having to join NSC.