Commander, Naval Air Systems Command (Code 2.3), Patuxent Naval Air Station, Bldg 2272, Lexington Park, MD 20670

15 -- PREDATOR UAV SYSTEM PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT POC Richard Fraser, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 757-5901 17. The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) intends to contract with General Atomics, Aeronautical System, Inc. (GA-ASI) of San Diego,CA for the design, development, integration, test, and demonstration of the following capabilities in the Predator UAV System: Common Automatic Recovery System, theater deployable communications, secure voice communications, Air Force mission support system and Data Exploitation Management Planning Center (DEMPC) integration, synthetic aperature radar and DEMPC integration, relief on station, ku-band tuning, reliability and maintainability improvements study, system accuracy, and nuclear biological chemical analysis. As the sole designer, developer, and manufacturer of the predator uav system, GA-ASI is the only source with the technical expertise and data to develop and integrate these capabilities for the Predator UAV system. See numbered Note 22. (0281)

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