EHF MEDIUM DATA RATE (MDR) SATELLITE DATA LINK STANDARD (SDLS) REVIEW DUE 042895. POC: Mr. Angelo Battistuz, (908) 532-7719. US Army CECOM, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Electronic Warfare (C4IEW) Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey 07703-5008. EHF Medium Data Rate (MDR) Satellite Data Link Standard (SDLS) Review. DOD is soliciting interested industry participants for the review of the draft MIL-STD-188-136, the MDR SDLS, which is based on validated Joint Staff interoperability requirements. This draft standard describes common waveforms, signal processing, and data formats for military systems requiring space/ground communications links operating in 44/20 Ghz bands for uplinks and downlinks respectively, at data rates from 4.8 kbs to 1.544 Mbps(T1), with extensions to 30+ Mbps. Industry organizations interested in participating in this review must be a prime contractor or subcontractor on an active government contract for EHF MILSATCOM equipment, and must demonstrate a need to know to obtain the classified MIL-STD-188-136. All potential reviewers must provide the following information to Mr. Angelo Battistuz, DISA Center For Standards, Squier Hall, Bldg 283, Ft. Monmouth, NJ 07703-5613 NLT 28 April 1995: (a.) Contract Number and name and phone number of contracting officer and COR. (b.) The CAGE Code of the facility where document will be stored. (c.) Name, phone number and security clearance of proposed custodian of document. Additionally, the security clearance must be verified by the individual's Facility Security Officer and forwarded to the address above. A unification meeting will be held at Logicon Corp., Reston, VA in mid August to adjudicate received industry comments. Details pertaining to this meeting will be provided to industry reviewers in a separate letter. All information provide by industry participants shall be nonproprietary and furnished at no cost to the government. Organizations participating in this effort will do so at their own expense. This announcement alone will not obligate DISA/JIEO/CFS or any other government organization to reimburse any participants' expense. Only written responses to this announcement will be considered. Mr. Battistuz' FAX number is (908) 532-7883.

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