Commander, Naval Air Systems Command (Code 2.2), 47123 Buse Road, Bldg 2272, Patuxent River, MD 20670-1547

14 -- HARM HARDWARE/SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENT SOL n/a POC Andre Sheppard, Phone (301) 757-7068 E-MAIL: shepparda.jfk@navair.navy.mil, shepparda.jfk@navair.navy.mil. The Naval Air Systems Command intends to award a contract to Alenia Difensa, a Finmeccania company (Rome, Italy), for the procurement of AGM-88B High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) hardware and software guidance enhancements, functional improvements, modification, validations, testing and documentation. This effort is the results of an international agreement with Germany and Italy to co-develop these enhancements. Alenia Difensa is the only known Italian firm with unique HARM experience that is required to mitigate risk of successful integration of the precision Inertial Navigation System (INS) that will take place at Raytheon TI Systems, 2501 South Highway 121, Lewisville, Texas 75067. See Note 22 -- NAVAIR Synopsis No. 20060-98. (0014)

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