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A -- TECHNICAL AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT TO TACTICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS PROGRAM POC Mary Lee Schuck, Phone (301) 757-5919 17. -- TACTICAL CONTROL SYSTEM POC Contact, Mary Lee Schuck, Phone (301)757-5919. 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, the 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 contract with Alliant Techsystems (ATK), and if necessary, their associate contractors, to support Outrider air vehicle, sensor, data link integration and demonstration 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. ATK and their associate contractors will provide the necessary hardware, software, technical support, operations and maintenance support required to integrate, operate and maintain Outrider 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. ATK is the original developer of the Outrider system and is the only company with access to Outrider specification, data and technology due to limited data rights. Therefore, ATK is the only source capable of meeting the Government needs. See Notes 12 and 22. Synopsis No. Posted 07/10/98. (0191)

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