U.S. Army CECOM Acquisition Center, Contract Operations - VHFS, ATTN: AMSEL-AC-CC-B-AC, Vint Hill Farms Station, Warrenton, VA 22186-5172

58 -- COMMUNICATIONS HIGH ACCURACY AIRBORNE LOCATION SYSTEM (CHAALS) SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENTS POC Lauris Eek, (540)349-5692 or FAX (540)349-5693 or Contracting Officer Patricia A. Otto, (540)349-5694. Based on the single response to the Market Survey published October 17, 1995 and approved Justification and Approval #96-047, and as requested by the Army, Program Executive for Intelligence Electronics Warfare and the Project Manager Signals Warfare, the CECOM Acquisition Center - Vint Hill, issues this procurement announcement intending to request a proposal from Loral Federal Systems - Owego, NY to provide a precision location capability for the Guardrail Common Sensor (GR/CS) System Ground Tethered Satellite Relay (GTSR). The hardware and software developed under this effort will perform precision location and navigation processing on downlink data from the existing airborne CHAALS Signal Conditioners. The hardware and software will interface with the Tactical Relay Facility (TRF) FDDI Local Area Network, the GR/CS Airborne Relay Facility (ARF) via the GR/CS datalink, the Main System Computer in the Integrated Processing Facility (IPF) via the satellite link. A tasking, monitoring, and report analysis capability, to include spectral display is required for the remote IPF and the forward TRF. The hardware and software will be provided to the GR/CS System-1 integrator as Government Furnished Property for integration into the GTSR environment. The period of performance for this effort is estimated to be two years. It is intended to award this effort under an existing contract pursuant to FAR 6.502-1, Only One Responsible Source. No solicitation will be issued. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0061)

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