US Army CECOM, Product Integrity & Production Engineering Directorate, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5000

58 -- ENCRYPTION DEVICES WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES FOR THE TAIWAN MADS PROGRAM DUE 031795 POC R. Grudzinski, Electronics Engineer, AMSEL-LC-ED-MX. This is a Market Survey to locate additional sources of supply for various quantities of encryption devices, all their associated ancillary equipment (e.g. installation kits, keyfill devices, management systems, tools, test equipment, etc.), spare printed circuit boards, spare components, spare encryption devices, appropriate training, one week technical support at a U.S. location, and one week technical support in country. The only device that is currently known to be qualified for this application is Technical Communications Corporation's DSD 72A-SP and all its associated ancillary equipment, services, etc. Detailed technical data for the manufacture, test, and item acceptance of these items is not available from the Government. Sources must be capable of supplying all the above items under one procurement action to ensure proper interface. Items will be used in a modified Raytheon PATRIOT weapons system (a MICOM managed system). The above items must be able to be fully and successfully integrated into the weapons system, which must interface with an AN/GRC-103 Radio and TD-5064 Multiplexer. The source must have been qualified and approved by both the Systems Engineering Office of the PATRIOT Project Office and NSA for use in this application. Source must be able to deliver all harware to location by July 1996. The qualification process requires approximately one year with final approval by the Systems Engineering Office of the PATRIOT Project Office. Suppliers capable of furnishing these items must so indicate by writing to: Commander CECOM, ATTN: AMSEL-LC-ED-MX (R. Grudzinski), Fort Monmouth, New Jersey 07703-5023. The response must include documentation (e.g. test results, copy of purchase order (if the supplier was a vendor to a previously known source (TCC)), or a statement from the previous source that the supplier can, in fact, supply the items that will be form, fit, physically, and functionally interchangeable with the items from the previously known supplier (TCC) for these items.) Successful supplier will be required to warrant that the items supplied will satisfactorily perform when used for the purpose intended by the Government and be delivered on time. The deadline for response to this notice is 17 March 1995. (0059)

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