U.S. Army CECOM, CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008

A -- TECHNICAL AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT SOL 98-01 DUE 012898 POC Richard Brady (732-427-6523)/Louise Huntley (732-427-7101) The U.S. Army Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate is seeking qualified and interested sources to provide independent technical analysis and engineering support to Product Manager Signals Warfare in the area of Common High Accuracy Airborne Location Systems (CHAALS), Common High Accuracy Location Systems-Exploitable (CHALS-X), CHALS-X(M) and CHAALS Remote Data Link (RDL) weapon location systems. These systems provide the targeting capability required to support the Division commander's requirements to locate the enemy by providing for precise location of High Value Targets (HVTs) utilizing the Time Difference Of Arrival/Differential Doppler (TDOA/DD) techniques and incorporating advances in electronics state of the art and distributed processing to provide for improved capabilities and increased frequency range. The offeror should be able to demonstrate a capability of performing engineering support services for upgrades, improvements and repairs along with associated testing. Technical support includes hardware and software modifications and updates against the existing baseline, and to correct problems encountered during integration and test of those modifications. Test support includes any field or flight tests related to the software or hardware modifications, or related to technical demonstrations where accurate geolocation is required to a system solution. In addition, the offeror shall install the required equipment into a specified vehicle, provide the air worthiness qualification data, and support the collection of data for the required test. Qualified and interested sources must also provide a qualified field support representative to support CHALS-X/X(M) when provided as GFE to another contractor, and provide technical assistance from equipment check-out through equipment repair/refurbishment. Interested offerors must show proof of specialized experience with TDOA/DD to be able to collect performance data, compile results and compare performance with system specification and analyze live fire test results. The majority of work will be accomplished at the contractor's facility. The Government does not possess competitive technical data and some of the available data contains parts which are now obsolete. Interested parties should contact PM Signals Warfare, ATTN: SFAE-IEW&S-SG (Richard Brady/Louise Huntley), Building 288, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703, 732-427-6534/7101, FAX 732-427-6450 not later than January 28,1998 with their qualifications. (0006)

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