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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 14,1998 PSA#2136Commander, Naval Air Systems Command (Code 2.4), 47123 Buse Road,
Building 2272, Patuxent River, MD 20670-1547 A -- TECHNICAL AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT TO TACTICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
PROGRAM POC Mary Lee Schuck,, Phone (301) 757-5919 17. The Office of
Secretary of Defense (OSD) established an initiative to provide Joint
war-fighting commanders with interoperable and scaleable command,
control, communications and data dissemination systems for the family
of present and future MAE and tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
In response to this initiative the Program Executive Office for Cruise
Missiles and Joint UAVs [PEO(CU)] has established a UAV Tactical
Control System (TCS) acquisition program with a three phase acquisition
strategy. Procurement of the TCS is an urgent requirement based on the
need to provide UAV systems to operators supporting current military
operations. The TCS program supports the war-fighter requirements in
the Operational Requirements Document (ORD) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle --
Tactical Control System dated 17 January 1997, validated by Joint
Requirements Oversight Council Memorandum (JROCM) 011-97 dated 3
February 1997. Acquisition of the TCS will be conducted in three
phases; Phase I is defined as Program Definition and Risk Reduction.
Phase II is defined as Engineering and Manufacturing Development which
will include Low Rate Initial Production. Phase III is defined as
Production, Deployment and Operational Support. Phase I will produce a
design that will define the LRIP baseline. Phase II will produce LRIP
systems for DT/OT and identify design fixes and upgrades as required.
Substantial changes to the LRIP baseline will require a Preliminary
Design Review (PDR) and a Critical Design Review (CDR) in order to
establish a production baseline. During Phase II, a Systems Integration
contractor will become responsible for the system development and
conduct the CDR with the support of the existing IPT structure. Phase
III will include a Pre-Planned Product Improvement effort to support
the addition of air vehicles, C4I interface evolution and increased
functionality as required and funded. These improvements will be
managed by the creation of future block designs each with a PDR and
CDR. Accordingly, the Naval Air Systems Command intends to negotiate a
sole-source contract with General Atomics (GA), and if necessary,
their associate contractors, to support Predator air vehicle, sensor,
data link integration and demonstration with TCS during Phase II.. This
effort will span 12 month period to include integration and
demonstration as part of the overall program engineering and
manufacturing development phase. GA and their associate contractors
will provide the necessary hardware, software, technical support,
operations and maintenance support required to integrate, operate and
maintain Predator hardware and software to command and control the air
vehicle and sensors with the TCS, support systems integration,
laboratory technical interface and user simulation efforts and support
developmental and operational test with TCS systems. GA is the
original developer of the Predator system and is the only company with
access to Predator specification, data and technology due to limited
data rights. Therefore, GA is the only source capable of meeting the
Government needs. See Notes 12 and 22. Posted 07/10/98. (0191) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0008 19980714\A-0008.SOL)
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