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A -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO NEGOTIATE A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT FOR EXPEDITIONARY WARFARE DECISION AID ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENT SOL R-Sources Sought DUE 081398 POC Barbara A. Johnson Contract Specialist, Code 253, (703) 696-8374: Lee Ann Boyer, Contaracting Officer, Code 253, (703) 696-4841 The Office of Naval Research intends to award a contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) 1710 Goodridge Drive; McLean, VA 22102 on a sole source basis. The contract is for continued development and modification of specialized software baselines of existing Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Joint Maritime Command Information System (JMCIS) segments. SAIC is the only known company that currently possesses the required resources and in-depth technical and operational knowledge of the overall Mine Warfare and Environmental Decision Aids Library (MEDAL) system architecture design to build, test and integrate upgrades with other Mine Warfare development programs. In addition, the Office of Naval Research, in coordination with several organizations, has developed the Joint Countermine Application, and the Expeditionary Warfare Decision Support System (EDSS). Each of these expeditionary warfare tactical decision aids has proven to have significant potential to serve as mission planning, evaluation, and Command/Control for various warfare areas at command levels from unit through task force. These programs have been developed somewhat independently, but share many common operational, geographic, and technical similarities. These similarities make it very cost effective and operationally effective to make the programs share software, designs, and in some cases, software modules. This effort requires the facilities and personnel to perform work up to the SECRET level. See Numbered Note 22. Posted 06/25/98 (0176)

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