Polarimetric Imaging Data Analyses

The US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Environmental Laboratory (EL) intends to issue an award on a sole source basis (IAW FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)) to Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc., 200 Westside SQ, STE 320, Huntsville, Alabama 35801-4875 for the effort to analyze and collect data from Yuma Proving Ground specifically to demonstrate detection of manmade objects in environmental backgrounds and validate those analyses on newly collected data.

The contractor must have the capabilities to furnish all labor, materials and supplies to conduct polarimetric imaging data acquisition of target locations as specified by EL. The data acquisitions are expected to be performed in the field with varied environmental backgrounds.  The polarimetric imaging systems shall be able to collect data in the field under environmental conditions at target distance ranges from 10 meters to 50 meters. The imagers shall be focal plane polarized and able to collect full frame polarimetric images at 30 frames per second. The LWIR polarimetric imager shall have at least 640 x 512 pixels in the focal plane array, with each pixel sensitive to LWIR wavelengths ranging from 7.5 to 13.5 um. The SWIR polarimetric imager shall have at least 640 x 512 pixels with each pixel sensitive to SWIR wavelengths in a SWIR band such as 900 nm to 1.6 um. The VIS polarimetric imager shall have a least 2464 x 2056 pixels in the focal plane array, with the pixels sensitive to VIS wavelengths ranging from 400 to 700 nm. The acquisition system shall be able to output near real time calibrated images representing the linear Stokes parameters and derived polarimetric parameters S0, S1, S2, and DoLP, as well as eTherm. The instrument used must provide data that is compatible with the data produced by the Pyxis instruments.  

The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 541330 – Environmental Engineering Services.  This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation document exists for this requirement.  However, parties interested in responding to this notice shall submit technical data sufficient to determine capability in providing the same or similar supply.  All capability statements received by the closing date of this publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Capability statements shall be submitted only by e-mail as a Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, or Adobe PDF attachment to Shinita.M.Jordan@usace.army.mil and Sonia.j.boyd@usace.army.mil.  Statements are due by 12:00pm Central Time, Monday, 24 July 2023.  No phone calls will be accepted.