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58 -- NATO TENDER: OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION TO INVITE BIDS TO UPGRADE MEDIUM POWER RADARS (MPR) AND IFF/SIF EQUIPMENTS SOL: DMKLU/132/96/8801/12-001 due 110395. Contact Point: Alexis Kemper 202/482-1512. The Royal Netherlands Airforce is requesting nominations from qualified and certified companies to bid to replace all receiver and video extractor equipment between the analogue 30 MHZ Radar signals from the 12 beams and side lobe blanking (SLB) and the CRC computer system. Furthermore, the IFF/SIF interrogator and decoder and mode 4 evaluator have to be replaced. Via a digital network, the radar data will be presented to the radar integration controller (RIC) of the current CRC-system. In parallel, all data has to be presented on local and remote maintenance and control stations (MCS). The video extractor is required to: (A) perform signal processing, (B) extract 3-dimensional primary radar plots, (C) extract secondary radar plots, (D) perform correlation of the primary and secondary plots. A security clearance of NATO Confidential is required for performance of this contract. The ``cahier des charges'' will be released by the end of November. All applicants must be certified to compete in NATO ICB by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Telecommunications. Submit all nomination requests to Alexis Kemper (fax: 202/482-5834) by COB 3 November 1995. (303)

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