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A -- AERIAL COMMON SENSOR Due 021593. POC Mrs Leach, Commander, US Army Communications-Electronic Command, Attn: AMSEL-AC-SB-BT, Fort Monmouth NJ 07703-5008. A draft of the Army's Operational Requirements Documen (ORD) for Aerial Common Sensor will be available approximately 30 January 1995 for a sixty-day period. This draft document, classified SECRET-NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS, will be made available to United States industry for comments and recommendations which may be useful in refining requirements. Aerial Common Sensor will be the Army's corps-level aerial system for collection, analysis and dissemination of signals imagery and measurement/signature intelligence and targeting data. To be fielded in 2005, it will be the successor to Guardrail/Common Sensor and Airborne Reconnaissance-Low. Aerial Common Sensor will consist of an airborne platform subsystem, an airborne mission equipment subsystem, and a ground exploitation station subsystem. The system will be rapidly self-deployable and will be capable of immediate operations upon arrival in a theater of operations of its first two airborne platforms. The airborne platform subsystem will carry optional on board analysts and may be capable of remote as well as on board piloting. The mission equipment subsystem will be capable of on board processing, will feature tailorable payloads and will use satellite communications to its optionally deployable ground station. It will be capable of operations other than war through full scale war. ACS will feature non-developmental and commercial off-the-shelf design and will feature open technology architecture. The US Army Intelligence Center is the overall proponent and proponent for the mission equipment and ground station subsystems. The US Army Aviation Center is the proponent for the airborne platform. Members of the United States industrial community who desire a copy of the draft ORD for review should provide a written request, no later than 15 February 1995, to Commander, US Army Communications-Electronic Command, Attn: AMSEL-AC-SB-BT (Mrs Leach), Fort Monmouth NJ 07703-5008. The request will conform to the export control laws, contain a current or recent DoD contract number and the name and telephone number of the DoD contract monitor. Failure to respond to this announcement by 15 February 1995 herein waives any obligation by the government to subsequently provide this document until after approval of the document is obtained. This is not a request for proposal. No collect calls will be accepted. (023)

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