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C -- FY 97 - FY 98 HELLFIRE II AND LONGBOW HELLFIRE MISSILE ENGINEERING SERVICES SOL DAAH01-96-R-0212 DUE 083096 POC Bertha Mathews, Contract Specialist, AMSMI-AC-CBH, 205-876-2697, Sarah Kerry, Contracting Officer, AMSMI-AC-CBH, 205-876-6277 (PCB) Synopsis No. 0273-96. The U.S. Army Missile Command has a requirement for a sole source acquisition for additional FY 97 - FY 98 HELLFIRE II and Longbow HELLFIRE Missile Engineering Services from Longbow Limited Liability Company which is a Joint Venture composed of Lockheed Martin Corporation and Northrop Grumman Tactical Systems. The modification to the existing contract will contain a total of 71,821 manhours for FY 97 & FY 98 and two years of options totaling an additional 17,955 manhours. The engineering services will include program management, engineering, product assurance, logistic, configuration management and test/evaluation effort relative to investigating the feasibility of utilizing commercially available plastic encapsulated microcircuits (PEMs) on the HELLFIRE II and Longbow HELLFIRE Missile Systems. The basic periods of performance for FY 97 and FY 98 are 1 Dec 96 through 30 Nov 97 and 1 Dec 97 through 31 Jul 98, respectively, with options for two additional levels of effort in FY 97 and FY 98. (0180)

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