Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Code 210000E, 521 N. 9th Street, Point Mugu, CA 93042-5001

L -- ENGINEERING SUPPORT FOR THE DIGITAL SIGNAL DATA CONVERTER (DCDC) SOL N68936-98-R-0007 POC Sherri Trask, Contract Specialist, Code 215000E, (805) 989-8514 or Hank Kelley, Contracting Officer, Code 215000E, (805) 989-1943 The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Point Mugu intends to issue and award a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) using other than full and open competition to GEC Marconi Avionics, Incorporated, Norcross, Georgia. The requirement is to provide production, repair, and modification support for systems and subsystems designed and developed by GEC Marconi. Specifically, the systems to be supported by the BOA are the Digital Signal Data Converter (DSDC), both the -03 and -04 configurations. GEC Marconi is the sole designer, developer, manufacturer and supplier of the DSDC. Specific software design specifications, algorithms, source code, hardware components, expertise and production processes are proprietary to GEC Marconi. As the developer of these systems and support equipment, GEC Marconi has proprietary information unavailable to other contractors. See Note(s): 22. (0289)

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