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A -- AN/SPQ-9B RADAR PROGRAM SOL N00024-98-R-5219 POC Contact Person, Contracting Officer, G. Michael Dodd, SEA 02522, (703) 602-8000 Ext 568 The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) intends modify Contract N00024-94-C-5441 with Northrop Grumman Norden Systems, Inc. (NGNS) of 65 Marcus Drive, Melville, NY 11747, to add scope to the existing development contract. The contract currently stipulates that APG-68 Transmitters, which were originally developed and produced by NGNS (formerly Westinghouse), are to be provided as Government Furnished Property (GFP) for incorporation into the AN/SPQ-9B Radar System. During installation and testing of the AN/SPQ-9B Radar System, cooling and reliability problems with the APG-68 Transmitters surfaced which may be attributable to changing the application of these transmitters from the environment of an airplane at thirty thousand feet to that of a combatant surface ship. NGNS is the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and the sole producer of the APG-68 Transmitter for the USAF. Therefore, no other firm possesses the technical expertise required to analyze and design a modification to this GFP, which will correct the application/reliability problems that currently exist. This new scope change order modification will be issued pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1). "Only one or a limited number of responsible sources and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements". See Numbered Note(s): 22. Posted 07/22/98 (W-SN226923). (0203)

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