US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000

13 -- RIGGED FOAM SAFE AND HANDLING COVER FOR THE XM97 WIDE AREA MUNITION COLLECTIVE TRAINING DEVICE SOL DAAE30-98-R-0110 DUE 010597 POC Shelley R. Czapkewicz, Contract Specialist, (973) 724-3985 WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network, http://procnet.pica.army.mil/procacts.htm. E-MAIL: Shelley R. Czapkewicz, sczapkew@pica.army.mil. The US Army TACOM-ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal seeks sources for the production of 1,900 ridged foam Safe and Handling Covers for use with the XM97 Wide Area Munition (WAM) Collective Training Device. The Collective Trainer is a totally inert training device which will be used to "train" personnel in a collective environment on all the operations required to properly arm, emplace and deploy the tactical Hand Emplaced Wide Area Munition, XM93. All external colors, dimensions, weight, center of gravity, and materials of the Collective Trainer shall be representative of the Tactical HE-WAM. The foam cover is to be removed and replaced on the Collective Trainer thousands of times in different environments at various test sites. The dimensions for the foam cover are 8.1 x 8.1 x 1.8 inches. The material is self skinning poly-ether-urethane foam water blown molding with a durometer of 55-65A. Drawings are available for review. A mold is required for fabrication. One sample will be delivered to TACOM-ARDEC for review and approval prior to production. This is currently planned as a one time buy. The anticipated award date is GFY98. See Numbered Notes 25 and 26. (0343)

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