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A -- HIGH POWER DISCRIMINATOR IN SUPPORT OF THE STANDARD MISSILE SM-3 FOR EXOATMOSPHERIC INTERCEPTS SOL N00024-98-R-5365 POC (SEA 02532N) Laura C. Wentz, Contract Negotiator, (703)602-8000, x539; (SEA 02532) Leon Godfrey, Contracting Officer, (703)602-8000, x532 The Navy has embarked on a program to develop and deploy Area and Theater Wide ballistic missile defense capabilities aboard AEGIS ships. Studies have suggested that additional power and target discrimination may be needed to counter the far term Theater Wide exoatmospheric threat. This need may be met with the addition of a dedicated high power discriminator (HPD) capable of providing long range tracking and discrimination. A prototype HPD is the next logical step to validate expected benefits via shipboard testing in a realistic ballistic missile and at sea environment. Congress provided the Navy with funding to develop an HPD leveraged from the Army's significant investment in Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD). This procurement will be conducted pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1). The Raytheon Company is the designer and developer for the Army THAAD Radar, and as such, is the only source with the requisite knowledge and technical experience to provide this HPD development. Therefore, the Naval Sea Systems Command intends to conduct a sole source procurement for the preliminary design of a prototype HPD from Raytheon Company. The prototype HPD is intended to be a shipboard adaptation of THAAD Radar to support Theater Wide Standard Missile SM-3 exoatmospheric intercepts. HPD preliminary design will be based on minimal changes to THAAD Radar to accommodate the shipboard environment. -See Numbered Note(s): 22 (0346)

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