Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Code 210000D, 1 Administration Circle, China Lake, CA 93555-6100

A -- BEAMFORMER/MULTIPLEXER SOL N68936- 99-R-0167 DUE 092699 POC Peggy Richter, Contract Specialist (760) 939-4272 The Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA, is seeking sources with the capability to design the product, and document the manufacturing process, for high density packaging of a microwave antenna beamformer/multiplexer network and associeted MEMS (Micro Minature Electronics) RF switches in a 2.30 inch diameter by approximately.310 inch deep package. RF inputs from the antenna elements are "Fuzz Buttons" (trademark of Teknit Interconnection Products), while the output is a Gilbert GPPO RF interface. Functional elements of this unit will include 8 baluns, 4 quadrature hybrids, a four-channel multiplexer, and MEMS polarity selection switching with a power-off, default state. Sources responding must have the capability to manufacture the units in production quantity, while meeting quite stringent performance unit-to-unit uniformity, reliability and environmental requiremetns. The operating environment is MIL-E-5400 Class II, airborne, uninhabited. NO resulting contract is contemplated at this time. MEMS is a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) initiative under MAFET III (Microwave and Analog Front End Technology). Ferro-Pill is a trademark of MaCom. There are currently five (5) commercial sources in the United States actively participating in the RF switch portion of the initiative, all of whom have successfully built and demonstrated working switches. Some companies are now reported to now be sampling MEMS switches. The technical contact is Mr. Phelps Terheun, (760) 939-2320. Contracts contact point is P. Richter (760) 939-4272. Posted 08/27/99 (I-SN373572). (0239)

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