US Army, CECOM Acquisition Center, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey 07703-5008

58 -- TACTICAL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE RADAR (TUAVR) SOL DAAB07-97-R-J047 DUE 032897 POC Contact Point, Irene Andrews, Contract Specialist, (908) 532-3507; William H. Applegate, Contracting Officer, (908) 532-3506. This is a competitive, Best Value Solicitation No. DAAB07-97-R-J047 for Synthetic Aperture Radar to be carried by the Outrider unmanned aerial vehicle. The initial TUAVR acquisition is a 30 month effort for the design, fabrication, test and delivery of two (2) Synthetic Aperture Radar/Moving Target Indicator (SAR/MTI) payloads, two sets of radar Ground Control Station (GCS) elements, and one set of spares. There is an option for: five (5) radars; five (5) sets of GCS elements; and one (1) set of spares. Options will be included for engineering support and maintenance on a time and materials basis. The radars will each be integrated and flight tested in a contractor furnished testbed aircraft prior to integration into the Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) OUTRIDER. The radar should provide, at a minimum, four modes of operation: a fully focused coarse resolution (3 foot) SAR search/strip map mode; a fully focused coarse resolution (3 foot) SAR spotlight mode; a high resolution (1 foot) SAR spotlight mode: and a MTI mode. The radar shall be able to operate in day/night all weather conditions and provide a target detection, recognition, and identification capability to tactical commanders. This effort will provide the Army, Navy and Marines with a low cost, light weight, modular, adverse weather, day/night, image intelligence, real time, high resolution payload integrated onto the TUAV platform. Draft documents will be posted on the CECOM Electronic Bulletin Board (EBB). All interested parties wishing to do business with CECOM are invited to access, operate, send and receive data from the CECOM EBB system. For directions on how to request a users identification code, password, and instructions call the EBB System Operator at (908) 532-3820, or FAX your request to (908) 532-6020. A final solicitation will be issued O/A Feb 28, 1997. An award will be made O/A Jun 18, 1997. (0358)

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