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A -- TO MAINTAIN ESSENTIAL CAPABIILTIES IN THE AREAS OF SONAR, ANTI- SUBMARINE WARFARE, MINE COUNTERMEASURES, ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS, EXPLODERS AND FUSES. SOL N00039-96-R-0061(S) POC Bette Monaco, 02-21, 703-602-1115. Synopsis No. 29. This acquisition will enable the Navy to maintain essential engineering, and research capabilities at the applied research laboratories as follows: (1) Fundamental research to understand the physics of ocean processes and the dynamics of oceanic motions. (2) Determination of the effects of the ocean environment, its surface (including the Arctic ice cover), bottom and volume, on acoustic propagation, and the implications for operation and performance of Navy systems. (3) Development of specialized underwater instrumentation and equipment for undersea warfare, mine countermeasures, and general data acquisition, environmental effects, field measurements, and environmental characterizations. (4) Corrosion studies to improve the reliability of submarine and surface ship sonar systems, and bottom fixed and rapidly deployable surveillance systems. (5) Design and development of acoustic, systems for intelligence collection, self noise integrity, ship/submarine systems monitoring, and acoustic systems for reconnaissance. (6) Development of simulations, advanced signal and image processing techniques, and specialized processing systems for automatic target recognition, decision tree classifiers, morphological signal processing, and low-intensity and obscured-image extraction. (7) Design and development of exploders and fuses for torpedoes and countermeasures. Potential offerors must possess a TOP SECRET clearance.--Quantity: 1,536,000 STAFF HOURS. SPAWAR plans to award a sole source contract to: The Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 1013 Northeast 40th Street, Seattle, Washington 98105. As provided in FAR 5.202(a)(10), synopsis of this effort is not required. However, this effort is being publicized in order to promote subcontracting opportunities and explore the feasibility of future competition. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0059)

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