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A -- MINE HUNTER/KILLER NEUTRALIZER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION SOL DAAB15-99-R-7011 DUE 082799 POC Patricia Davis, Contract Specialist, 703-325-1713 WEB: Click here to access the Army Business Opportunity, acbop.monmouth.army.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contract specialist via, pdavis@hoffman-issaa2.army.mil. The U.S. Army CECOM Acquisition Center-Washington on behalf of the Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Marconi Aerospace Defense Systems, Inc, in Austin, Texas, a CPFF contract for a Mine Hunter/Killer Neutralizer Technology Demonstration (MHKN). The MHKN will occur in conjunction with the 3QFY00 MH/K Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD). This requirement is for a fifteen-month contract effort during which the contractor will be required to provide up to 80 partial and 20 full-size MHKNs (munitions and array structures)test articles. Delivery is required within 3-months after award in order to permit data collection to validate the MHKN against representative mines prior to the MH/K ATD. Additionally the contractor will be required to provide on-site support during the MH/K ATD. Specific MHKN performance requirements: Mine Dimensions -- destroy surface and buried antitank (AT) mines and large antipersonnel (AP) mines 15-38 cm in diameter/width. Target Location Error -- destroy surface and buried mines where any edge of the mine may be up to 25 cm from the centerpoint of the reported mine detection location. Neutralizer Delivery Mechanism (NDM) Placement Error -- provide for NDM placement error of up to 4 cm in addition to the Target Location Error. Probability of Kill and Burial Depth -- destroy mines with a 0.9 probability of kill to a depth of 13 cm overburden (required) and 21 cm (desired). Mine Environments -- destroy mines regardless of the soil overburden type, moisture content, temperature or density. Neutralization Time -- destroy mines within 60 seconds (desired) and 600 seconds (required). Mine Composition -- destroy mines without regard to the type of explosives in the main charge or fuzes, and without reliance on activating fuze mechanisms. Mine Neutralization Mechanism -- neutralize the mine by achieving complete detonation, or alternately, partial detonation, deflagration and/or combustion that prevents the mine from functioning as a mine. Prognosis for Capability Improvements -- be capable of improving the neutralization mechanism, such as transition from a detonation effect to a deflagration effect. Space for RF Fuzing -- contain space for a radio-frequency receiver, control circuit and power supply that would function to actuate the MHKN. MHKN Interface Requirements -- The MHKN shall be capable of compression from its full size to a stored diameter to ensure compatibility with the MH/K Host Vehicle Neutralizer Delivery Mechanism (NDM). The stored MHKN shall have a Maximum Diameter of 14.2" (36.0 cm). The stored MHKN shall have a Maximum Height of 7" (17.78 cm). The MHKN shall have a maximum weight of 15 lbs (6.80 kg). The MHKN shall incorporate an interface device in the form of an inverted u-shaped bracket. This bracket allows the NDM deployment arm to interface with, extract, and deploy a neutralizer. When the neutralizer has been placed on the ground, the "fingers" on the arm squeeze the bracket, decoupling the arm from the neutralizer. For the MH/K ATD, the MHKN will not contain fuzing or safing and arming mechanisms and will not actually be stored in or deployed from the Host Vehicle platform. However, the MHKN must have the correct maximum dimensions, weight, and interface capability to be compatible with the MH/K Host Vehicle. SEE Note 22. Posted 07/14/99 (W-SN353845). (0195)

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