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

16 -- E- 6 AIRCRAFT CRYPTOGRAPHIC IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM SOL N00019-98-C-0022 POC Sherry A. Bonaiuto, Phone (301) 757-4011, Air-2.3.1.4 E-MAIL: bonaiutosa.jfk@navair.navy.mil, bonaiutosa.jfk@navair.navy.mil. 17. DESCRIPTION: The Naval Air Systems Command intends to issue a contract modification to Contract N00019-98-C-0022 with Raytheon E-Systems for a new Cryptographic Improvement Program for the Navy E-6B aircraft. The program will integrate two additional KG-84's, and two Advanced Narrowband Digital Voice Terminals (ANDVTs) Cryptographic equipment with MELP voice encoding into the mission avionics suite to meet current communications requirements. The program will be required to interface with multiple onboard avionics systems including the Mission Computer System and the Digital Airborne Intercommunication System (DAISS). The DAISS system internal software architecture is utilized to transfer information to the program's additional ANDVT cryptographic equipment. DAISS is Raytheon E-System's proprietary data. This modification will be awarded on a sole source basis to Raytheon E-Systems, Airborne Systems Division, Waco Operation, P.O. Box 154580, Waco, Texas 76715, the designer of the DAISS utilized on the E-6B aircraft. (0125)

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