U.S. Army Garrison, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Directorate of Contracting, ATTN: STEAP-PR-R, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5001

58 -- SECURE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS Contact Contracting Officer, John Loux, 410-278-3399 The Government intends to solicit and negotiate a sole-source contract with Qualcomm, Inc. for the acquisition of a Secure Personal Communications (SPC) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD). The objective of the SPC ACTD is to field a deployable secure digital cellular telephone system within eighteen (18) months after contract award. The SPC ACTD system will be based on the Cellular STU-III (CSTU) telephone and its supporting service standards, both of which are currently under development by QUALCOMM. The SPC ACTD will support all CSTU modes of operation except for the analog Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS). As the CSTU will be product enhancement of the existing QUALCOMM QCP-800 mobile unit, which utilizes the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) form of digital wireless communication, the SPC ACTD will also be required to utilize this technology. The supported services will include secure and non-secure wireless/wireline telephone, secure and non-secure data, soft handoffs, paging, emergency access, and the Virtual Land Mobile Radio (VLMR) Net mode. The SPC ACTD system will consist of CDMA base station, three cell sites, ``backhaul'' equipment allowing remote operation of two of the cell sites, and 250 CSTU mobile units. Technical documentation, training, spares, and other logistics support services will also be procured. Note 22 Applies. (240)

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