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A -- RECONNAISSANCE, SURVEILLANCE, TARGETING VEHICLE SOL MDA972-97-R-0002 DUE 091597 POC John Ablard, FAX (703) 696-2208 WEB: http://www.darpa.mil/asto/asto.htm, http://www.darpa.mil/asto/asto.htm. The United States Marine Corps (Marine Corps Systems Command/NSWC-CD), in a joint effort with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), are issuing the final solicitation on the Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Targeting Vehicle (RST-V) Advanced Technology Demonstrator (ATD). The objective of this ATD is to design, fabricate, test, and demonstrate platforms with advanced mobility (all terrain, highly agile, hybrid electric drive, exceeds HMMWV capabilities), survivability (suppression of all signatures, camouflage/concealment treatment, and silent operation), sensor suite (on-board, extended range, multi-spectral imaging and sensing, target acquisition, target designation), and command and control (long range, secure, positioning/navigating, cooperative engagement tactics) capabilities. The resulting vehicles must be capable of internal transport via a V-22 aircraft. The vehicles must be durable with extended sustainability and will be utilized for quick insertion, tactical and deep reconnaissance, and special forces operations. It is planned that the ATD will deliver at least two platforms before the end of fiscal year 2000 for testing and maturation. The RST-V solicitation is available for downloading from the RST-V DARPA Homepage at (http://www.darpa.mil/asto/asto.htm) and the Marine Corps RST-V Homepage (http://www.usmc-awt.brtrc.com/rstv.htm). All documents will be in WordPerfect 6.1. Qualified prime contractors/integrators must have the experience and capability to support highly classified survivability technology. This will be a five year Other Transactions for Prototypes (Section 845/804 agreements) award. (0196)

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