Fire Control Systems & Technology (FCS&T) Engineering, Technical, and Logistical Services and Support

The U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey (CCNJ) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice on behalf of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Armament Center (CCDC-AC) to determine if there are interested and qualified small businesses and expertise to assess capabilities to provide support for Indirect Fire Control Systems, Artillery Fire Control Systems, Fire Control Software, Small Arms Fire Control, Optics and Firing Table support, for the below effort. The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, material, tools, supervision, quality control, and other items necessary to provide engineering services to support on-going development projects that support Fire Control & System Technology Directorate. The work shall consist of design, development, production support and sustainment for mechanical and electromechanical components of fire control and chemical detection systems. The contractor shall have the capabilities to provide and support enhancements to fielded items. The majority of the effort includes Fire control related items and products. The coding on these projects shall be done in Java programming language, but portions also include FORTRAN, C/C++, C# Visual Basic.net., ATLAS, LabView, Lab Windows CVI, Test Stand, Test Studio, IRWindows, Python and other emerging software languages. The Contractor shall be required to have extensive experience in all the above listed languages. The Contractor shall have considerable experience and expertise in the life cycle support of Artillery Fire Control Systems. The Contractor’s responsibility shall include but is not limited to Fire Control Science, Technology, Engineering and Logistics Services and Support technical systems engineering analysis and basic scientific studies of fire control systems and performance under Task Areas Information Technology Services; Enterprise, Design, Integration, and Consolidation; and Systems Operation and Maintenance. The Contractor shall provide task specific assistance in applied research, engineering analysis, program design, software development, documentation, and training. The Contractor shall develop software using a variety of productivity tools that enable fielding the products in a multi-platform environment. The software shall be targeted for multi-user applications in a network environment employing state-of-the-art use of Graphical User Interface (GUI), graphic display, database, visualization, map and animation technology, using object-oriented programming concepts. This effort may be performed at either the Contractor’s facility with no Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) or on site at Picatinny Arsenal or another government location which has the required equipment. The Government may provide technical data or GFE to support this effort based on the current availability. The Contractor shall possess experience in development of relevant Department of Defense (DoD) compliant products.

Division 21 -	Fire Suppression.
Division 28 -	Electronic Safety and Security, Fire Detection and Alarm.