The Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center (RDC), which is now part of the service’s newly consolidated Acquisition Directorate (CG-9), is tasked to provide system engineering and technical assistance (SETA) to all aspects of RDC activities. Tasking will typically be related to the following RDC functional areas: requirements, alternatives, cost and operations analysis; systems engineering and planning; human systems integration; environmental impact and safety assessments of proposed acquisitions/systems; logistics; test and evaluation; modeling and simulation; workforce and staffing analysis; risk analysis; acquisition strategy; request for proposal generation and proposal evaluation. Sol. No. HSCG32-08-R-R00007. Respond by April 21. Contact: Brenda Burke, contracting officer, 860-441-2872, [email protected].