SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- ALQ-99 TACTICAL JAMMING SYSTEMS (TJS) LOW BAND CONSOLIDATED (LBC) AND IMPROVED UNIVERSAL EXCITER UPGRADE (iUEU) PROTOTYPE PROJECT
- Notice Date
- 2/19/2021 9:26:41 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541715
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NSWC CRANE CRANE IN 47522-5001 USA
- ZIP Code
- 47522-5001
- Solicitation Number
- N0016421SNB41
- Response Due
- 3/24/2021 1:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 04/08/2021
- Point of Contact
- Jordan Black, Phone: 8128542662, Donal Davis, Phone: 8128543709
- E-Mail Address
-
Jordan.C.Black@navy.mil, donal.davis@navy.mil
(Jordan.C.Black@navy.mil, donal.davis@navy.mil)
- Description
- Special Notice N0016421SNB41 Agency:� Department of the Navy Office:� Naval Sea Systems Command Location:� NSWC Crane Division Classification Code:� AJ13 � General Science & Technology, R&D Services; General Science & Technology; Experimental Development NAICS Code:� 541715 � Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) Response Due Date: 3/24/2021 Request for Solutions: ALQ-99 TACTICAL JAMMING SYSTEMS (TJS) LOW BAND CONSOLIDATED (LBC) AND IMPROVED UNIVERSAL EXCITER UPGRADE (iUEU) PROTOTYPE PROJECT This Request for Solutions (RFS) is issued to seek prototype support to address redesign and obsolescence issues for modular transmitters onboard the EA-18G Growler (AN/ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System). One of those modular transmitters is the Low Band Transmitter (LBT).� The LBT replaced AN/ALQ-99 TJS Bands 1, 2, and 2/3.� The LBT expanded the capability to effectively jam hostile, low frequency radar and communications signals in a tactical environment, and was at the time a Reliability & Maintainability (R&M) upgrade to the current AN/ALQ-99 TJS.� The Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) authorizing the LBT program into Full Rate Production (FRP) was approved 18 April 2008.� The Low Band Consolidation (LBC) is needed to address current shortfalls in meeting Band 4 Fleet readiness. Increases in EA-18G inventory have increased Band 4 transmitter requirements beyond the current inventory level.� Given that Band 4 has been out of production for over 20 years, LBC is needed to replace this aging transmitter and increase inventory of Band 4 capability to meet current Fleet requirements.� The LBC program implements an engineering change that will expand the current LBT frequency coverage to include Band 4.� This engineering change is not an increase or change in the overall power and capability of the ALQ-99 TJS, but rather is intended to address LBT and Band 4 Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) and mitigate existing Band 4 inventory shortages. � Another modular component of AN/ALQ-99 TJS is the Universal Exciter Upgrade (UEU).� The UEU was the result of an Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) to update the Universal Exciter (UE).� The UEU ECP was fielded in June of 1998.� It increased reliability and maintainability, added improved modulation wave forms for low frequency radar and communications, command and control jamming, and provisions for coherent and performance countermeasures capabilities. Since the 1998 fielding of the UEU there have only been 4 ECPs to address DMSMS issues within the existing Shop Repairable Assemblies (SRAs).� The UEU requires obsolescence upgrades to address scarce component shortages and replacement of aged technology. BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY S2MARTS Vendors interested in responding to this RFS must be members of the Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS) consortium. Interested parties may visit S2MARTS.org for membership information. This project will be managed by a Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division Project Manager. � PROJECT OVERVIEW The Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division�s primary objective is to determine if a company is capable of designing, engineering, testing and manufacturing a LBC with Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology and/or an improved Universal Excited Upgrade (iUEU) addressing obsolescence with Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) functionality prototypes. The LBC w/GaN Tech will implement LBT frequency coverage to include Band 4 frequencies and consolidate to one transmitter.� This change will also address obsolescence within LBT and Band 4 transmitters as well as updating technology such as the use of GaN material for semiconductor power devices.� This change will not increase the power outputs for the ALQ-99 TJS but rather address Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) issues and mitigate Band 4 hardware inventory shortages. The iUEU will address obsolescence with Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) functionality, enhance current UEU capabilities and encompass technology upgrades that will bring exciters to be electronically equivalent to Next Generation Jammer and support with common JATO libraries. Please visit the S2MARTS website at https://s2marts.org/ to review the full RFS. Contracting Office Address: 300 Hwy 361 Crane, IN 47522 United States Primary Point of Contact.: Jordan Black jordan.c.black@navy.mil Phone: 812-345-3535 Secondary Point of Contact: Don Davis donal.davis@navy.mil Phone: 812-854-3709
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