National Security Technologies (NSTec), the management and operations contractor at the Nevada National Security Site, is seeking aerial surveying capabilities at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Wash., according to a request for information posted last week.
The solicitation is for collection of thermal image data over two areas at Hanford, one of the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup sites. The two areas are roughly 10.5 x 6.5 miles and 1 x 1.5 miles in size, and over a small part of the Columbia River, the solicitation said. The data will be collected Nov. 1-8.
Interested parties should be able to provide broadband thermal mid-wave infrared image data between 3.7 to 4.8 microns, the solicitation said, and image data should have “a dynamic range of 14 bits and be calibrated to apparent radiant temperature with a thermal sensitivity in Noise-equivalent differential temperature (NEDT) under 0.03 C at 12 C.”
Capability statements from interested providers are due by 5 p.m. Oct. 19 Pacific time via fbo.gov.
